toi
'Are'areEdit
NounEdit
toi
ReferencesEdit
- Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)
AsturianEdit
VerbEdit
toi
DalmatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronounEdit
toi
Related termsEdit
FinnishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
toi
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Finnic *too. -i is probably from the plural form noi.
PronounEdit
toi
- (colloquial) Synonym of tuo (“that”).
Usage notesEdit
- Isn't used in written text, except within quotations.
DeclensionEdit
Declension type 19 (suo) is used, except that the singular and plural forms come from different sources, so the declension can be called irregular. The forms in brackets are never or very rarely used.
Declension of toi (type 19/suo)
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FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Inherited from Middle French toi, tei, from Old French tei, te, from Latin tē.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /twa/
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /twe/
audio (file) - Homophones: toit, toits, toua, touas, touât
PronounEdit
toi
- you (informal second-person singular personal pronoun)
- Psalm 71:5:
- Car tu es mon espérance, Seigneur Éternel! En toi je me confie dès ma jeunesse.
- For you are my hope, Eternal Lord! In you I entrust myself since my youth.
- J'ai besoin de toi. ― I need you
- Et toi, ça va comment ?
- And you, how are you?
- Souviens-toi de ce qui est vraiment important.
- Remember what is really important.
- Attends, tu m'as dit qu'il y a dans cette maison plus de deux-cents livres. Est-ce qu'ils sont tous à toi ?
- Wait, you told me that there are more than two hundred books in this house. Are they all yours?
- Toi, t'es quelque chose de différent.
- You are something different.
- Psalm 71:5:
QuotationsEdit
- 1996, Herman Melville, Lucien Jacques, Joan Smith and Jean Giono, transl., Moby Dick, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 722:
- Oh, Achab, cria Starbuck, il n'est pas trop tard, même maintenant, le troisième jour, pour renoncer. Vois, Moby Dick ne te cherche pas. C'est toi, toi qui la cherches follement.
- "Oh, Ahab," cried Starbuck, "it's not too late, even now, on the third day, to give up. See, Moby Dick isn't looking for you. It is you, you who seeks her madly."
SynonymsEdit
- tézigue (argot)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
French personal pronouns
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
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Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | |
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | ||
Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||||
Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | — | — | soi4 | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | |
Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | — | — | vous2 | ||
Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | y | en | eux3 | |
Feminine | elles | elles |
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
Further readingEdit
- “toi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
ItalianEdit
VerbEdit
toi
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AnagramsEdit
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
toi
Middle FrenchEdit
PronounEdit
toi
- Alternative form of toy
NefameseEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronounEdit
toi (plural tohot)
- (singular; very familiar, inferior) you
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronounEdit
toi
Usage notesEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوی (toy).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
toi n (plural toiuri)
- (in the singular, of an action or event) the culminating point
- (colloquial) center, heart
- scuffle, struggle, scramble
- (uncountable) a flock of birds
DeclensionEdit
Declension of toi
ReferencesEdit
- toi in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Samoan Plantation PidginEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
toi
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983), “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76
SassareseEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
toi
PronounEdit
toi
VepsEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
toi
InflectionEdit
Inflection of toi (inflection type 7/pedai) | |||
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nominative sing. | toi | ||
genitive sing. | tojan | ||
partitive sing. | tojad | ||
partitive plur. | tojid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | toi | tojad | |
accusative | tojan | tojad | |
genitive | tojan | tojiden | |
partitive | tojad | tojid | |
essive-instructive | tojan | tojin | |
translative | tojaks | tojikš | |
inessive | tojas | tojiš | |
elative | tojaspäi | tojišpäi | |
illative | tojaha | tojihe | |
adessive | tojal | tojil | |
ablative | tojalpäi | tojilpäi | |
allative | tojale | tojile | |
abessive | tojata | tojita | |
comitative | tojanke | tojidenke | |
prolative | tojadme | tojidme | |
approximative I | tojanno | tojidenno | |
approximative II | tojannoks | tojidennoks | |
egressive | tojannopäi | tojidennopäi | |
terminative I | tojahasai | tojihesai | |
terminative II | tojalesai | tojilesai | |
terminative III | tojassai | — | |
additive I | tojahapäi | tojihepäi | |
additive II | tojalepäi | tojilepäi |
ReferencesEdit
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “поставщик”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
VietnameseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 災 (“disaster”, SV: tai).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
West MakianEdit
PronunciationEdit
ConjunctionEdit
toi
ReferencesEdit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[1], Pacific linguistics