nostre

See also: nôtre

Catalan

Alternative forms

• nostro (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan nostre, from Latin noster, from Proto-Italic *nosteros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈnɔs.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈnɔs.tɾe]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Pronoun

nostre m or f (plural nostres)

1. our, ours

Usage notes

• When preceding a noun, the pronoun nostre is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

			strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
				proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
singular	1st person	standard	jo, mi3	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
		majestic1	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
		formal1	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		very formal2	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
	3rd person	m	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
		f	ella	la, l’4	-la	li	-li	seu
		n		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
plural
	1st person		nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		formal2	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
	3rd person	m	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
		f	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive			si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial	ablative/genitive			en, n’	-ne, ’n
	locative			hi	-hi

¹ Behaves grammatically as plural.   ² Behaves grammatically as third person.
³ Only as object of a preposition.   ⁴ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Determiner

nostre m or f (plural nostres)

1. (archaic, dialectal) our

Usage notes

• The use of nostre and the other possessive determiners is mostly archaic in the majority of dialects, with articulated possessive pronouns (e.g. el meu) mostly being used in their stead. However, mon, ton, and son are still widely used before certain nouns referring to family members and some affective nouns, such as amic, casa, and vida. Which nouns actually find use with the possessive determiners depends greatly on the locale.

References

• “nostre”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
• “nostre”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “nostre” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nostre” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Alternative forms

• nôtre, notre

Determiner

nostre (plural nostres)

1. obsolete spelling of nôtre

Anagrams

• nôtres, seront, ténors, toners, trônes

Interlingua

Determiner

nostre

1. (possessive) our

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin nostrās, accusative feminine plural of noster, also used as the nominative in Proto-Romance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔs.tre/
• Rhymes: -ɔstre
• Hyphenation: nò‧stre

Pronoun

nostre f pl

1. feminine plural of nostro

Anagrams

• sterno

Old French

Etymology

From Latin noster, nostrum, nostra(m).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɔstɾə/

Pronoun

nostre (singular, plural noz or nos)

1. our

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	nostres	nostre	nostre
	oblique	nostre			nostre	nostre
plural	subject	nostre	nostres, noz or nos		nostre
	oblique	nostres, noz or nos			nostres, noz or nos	nostre

Descendants

• French: notre, nôtre

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin noster, nostrum.

Pronoun

nostre m (feminine nostra, apocopic form nostr')

1. our

Descendants

• Occitan: nòstre

Tarantino

Pronoun

nostre (possessive)

1. feminine singular of nuestre