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tu

See also: TU, ես, and Appendix:Variations of "tu"

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AlbanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unknown.

NounEdit

tu ?

  1. pant leg

AromanianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

PronounEdit

tu

  1. (second-person singular) you (singular)
Related termsEdit
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Compare tru.

PrepositionEdit

tu

  1. in
  2. into
SynonymsEdit

AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tū.

PronounEdit

tu

  1. you (singular)

BambaraEdit

NounEdit

tu

  1. forest; thicket

VerbEdit

tu

  1. to spit (out)

BatuleyEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Indonesian tua.

AdjectiveEdit

tu

  1. old

ReferencesEdit

BretonEdit

NounEdit

tu m

  1. side

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Occitan tu, from Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu

  1. you (singular); thou
  2. one (singular) (impersonal)

DeclensionEdit

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
1st person majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
2nd person formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person feminine 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-.

See alsoEdit

ChilcotinEdit

NounEdit

tu

  1. water

Further readingEdit

  • Eung-Do Cook, A Tsilhqút'ín Grammar (2013)

ChipewyanEdit

NounEdit

tu

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Eung-Do Cook, A grammar of Dëne Sųłiné (Chipewyan) (2004), page 350

Coatecas Altas ZapotecEdit

NumeralEdit

tu

  1. one

ReferencesEdit

CornishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

tu

  1. Hard mutation of du.
  2. Mixed mutation of du.

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /tu/
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AdverbEdit

tu

  1. (informal or dialectal) here

SynonymsEdit

PronounEdit

tu

  1. Feminine accusative singular of ten

Further readingEdit

  • tu in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • tu in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

EweEdit

NounEdit

tu (plural tuwo)

  1. gun

VerbEdit

tu

  1. to build
  2. to close
  3. to crush
  4. to grind
  5. to meet
  6. to untie

FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old French tu, from Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

PronounEdit

tu (second person informal singular, possessive determiner ton)

  1. you (singular); thou
Usage notesEdit
  • When more pronouns are included in the same sentence, it is considered impolite to say the pronoun moi first, it must be the last one, and toi must be said after a third person:
    • Rose, toi et moi irons là-bas., “Rose, you and I will go there.”
InflectionEdit
  • Nominative: tu
  • Emphatic: toi
  • Oblique: te
  • t' (proclitic form, colloquial)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
  • vous (plural form and polite singular form)
French personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative
(subject) 		Reflexive Accusative
(direct complement) 		Dative
(indirect complement) 		Locative
(at) 		Genitive
(of) 		Disjunctive
(tonic)
Singular First — je, j’ me, m’ — — moi
Second — tu te, t’ — — toi
Third Masculine il se, s’ le, l’ lui y en lui, soi
Feminine elle la, l’ elle, soi
— on — — — — soi
Plural First — nous nous — — nous
Second — vous vous — — vous
Third Masculine ils se, s’ les leur y en eux, soi
Feminine elles elles, soi

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

tu m (feminine singular tue, masculine plural tus, feminine plural tues)

  1. past participle of taire

Etymology 3Edit

From t-il.

ParticleEdit

tu

  1. (Quebec, informal) question marker
    C'est-tu possible ?
    Is it possible?

Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

FriulianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

PronounEdit

tu

  1. you

See alsoEdit

Friulian personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person jo nô
2nd person familiar tu vô
polite lui, jê lôr
3rd person m lui, lôr
f jê lôr

GaulishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Celtic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

PronounEdit

tū

  1. you (singular); thou

InflectionEdit

Number Singular Plural
Nominative tū suīs
Accusative te suīs
Genitive tou suesron
Dative toi umē
Ablative te ume
Instrumental toi ?
Locative toi umē

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

tu

  1. Imperative singular of tun.

IdoEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English thou, French tu, German du, Italian tu, Spanish tú, Russian ты (ty), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ with +‎ -u.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu (second-person singular)

  1. (informal, familiar) you (singular), thou

SynonymsEdit

  • vu (formal)

Derived termsEdit

  • tua (“thy, thine, your”)
  • tuo (“something belonging to you”)

See alsoEdit

    Personal pronouns in Ido
  Singular Plural
Nominative Possessive Nominative Possessive
Singular Plural Singular Plural
First person  me  mea  mei  ni  nia  nii
Second person Formal  vu  vua  vui  vi  via  vii
Familiar  tu  tua  tui
Third person Masculine  ilu, il  ilua  ilui  ili  ilia  ilii
Feminine  elu, el  elua  elui  eli  elia  elii
Neuter  olu, ol  olua  olui  oli  olia  olii
Pangender  lu  lua  lui  li  lia  lii
Reflexive  su  sua  sui  su  sua  sui
Indefinite  onu, on  onua  onui  onu, on  onua  onui
Notes
The possessive plurals are seldom used.
The shortened forms are preferred.
The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios.

InterlinguaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin and common Romance tu.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu (second person singular)

  1. you (singular); thou

InflectionEdit

subject tu
object te
reflexive te
possessive tu, tue

DeterminerEdit

tu

  1. (possessive) your

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu (second person singular)

  1. you (singular); thou

See alsoEdit

Italian personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative Reflexive Accusative Dative Locative Genitive Disjunctive
Singular first — io mi, m', -mi — me
second — tu ti, t', -ti te
third m lui si2, s', -si lo, l', -lo gli, -gli ci, c',
vi, v' (formal) 		ne, n' lui, sé
f 1 lei, Lei1 la, l', La1, -la le3, Le1, -le lei, Lei1, sé
Plural first — noi ci, c', -ci — noi
second —1 voi, Voi1 vi, v', -vi, Vi1 voi, Voi1
third m loro, Loro1 si, s', -si li, -li gli, -gli, loro (formal),
Loro1		 ci, c',
vi, v' (formal) 		ne, n' loro, Loro1, sé
f 1 le, -le
1 The feminine gender third person forms and second plural person forms are also used as formal terms of address referring to second singular person subjects, sometimes capitalised as Lei, Vi, Loro etc. to distinguish them.
2 Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3 In informal speech sometimes replaced with gli (nonstandard).

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

tu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とぅ
  2. Rōmaji transcription of トゥ

KalashaEdit

PronounEdit

tu

  1. you (2nd-person personal pronoun)

See alsoEdit

Kalasha personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person a ábi
2nd person tu ábi
3rd person (near) ía émi
3rd person (far) ása éḷi
3rd person (absent) se te

KurdishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Compare Persian تو‎ (to), Pashto ته‎ (tə), Avestan 𐬙𐬏𐬨‎ (tūm).

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu (second person singular)

  1. you (singular); thou

Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ or *tū. Cognates include Ancient Greek σύ (sú), Russian ты (ty), Sanskrit त्वम् (tvám), Old English þū, Old Persian 𐎬𐎺𐎶 (tuvam).

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tū (second person singular, possessive adjective tuus)

  1. you (singular); thou
    Mē tuī pudet.
    I am ashamed of you.

Usage notesEdit

When used in the plural genitive, vestrī is used when it is the object of an action, especially when used with a gerund or gerundive. When used in such a construction, the gerund or gerundive takes on the masculine genitive singular. Vestrum is used as a partitive genitive, used in constructions such as (one of you).

InflectionEdit

Personal pronoun declension.

Singular First-person Second-person Reflexive
nominative ego/egō tū —
genitive meī tuī suī
dative mihi/mihī, mī tibi sibi
accusative mē tē sē, sēsē
ablative mē tē sē, sēsē
vocative egō tū —
possessive meus tuus suus
Plural First-person Second-person Reflexive
nominative nōs vōs —
genitive nostrī, nostrum vestrī, vestrum suī
dative nōbīs vōbīs sibi
accusative nōs vōs sē, sēsē
ablative nōbīs vōbīs sē, sēsē
vocative nōs vōs —
possessive noster vester, voster suus

QuotationsEdit

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

descendants
  • Aromanian: tu
  • Corsican: tù
  • Dalmatian: te
  • Friulian: tu
  • Istro-Romanian: tú
  • Italian: tu
  • Ladin: tu
  • Megleno-Romanian: tu
  • Mozarabic: طو‎ (tu)
  • Navarro-Aragonese: tu
    • Aragonese: tu
  • Neapolitan: tu
  • Old French: tu
    • Gallo: tu
    • Middle French:
      • French: tu
    • Norman: tu, tu (Guernésiais)
    • Picard: tu
    • Walloon: tu
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: tu
    • Leonese: tu
    • Mirandese: tu
  • Old Portuguese: tu
    • Fala: tu
    • Galician: tu
    • Portuguese: tu
  • Old Occitan: tu
    • Occitan: tu
    • Old Catalan: tu
      • Catalan: tu
  • Old Spanish: tu
    • Extremaduran: tú
    • Ladino: tu
    • Spanish: tú
      • Chavacano: tu
  • Romanian: tu
  • Romansch: tu, tü
  • Sardinian: tue
  • Sicilian: tu
  • Venetian: ti

See alsoEdit

Latin personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative Genitive Dative Accusative Ablative Possessive
Singular First — ego meī mihi mē meus, -a, -um
Second — tū tuī tibi tē tuus, -a, -um
Reflexive third — — suī sibi sē, sēsē suus, -a, -um
Third Masculine is eius eī eum eō eius
Feminine ea eam eā
Neuter id id eō
Plural First — nōs nostrī, nostrum nōbīs nōs nōbīs noster, -tra, -trum
Second — vōs vestrī, vestrum vōbīs vōs vōbīs vester, -tra, -trum
Reflexive third — — suī sibi sē, sēsē suus, -a, -um
Third Masculine eī, iī eōrum eīs eōs eīs eōrum
Feminine eae eārum eās eārum
Neuter ea eōrum ea eōrum

ReferencesEdit

  • tu in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tu in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • I will refuse you nothing: nihil tibi a me postulanti recusabo
    • I wish you all success in the matter: bene id tibi vertat!
    • to be in every one's mouth: in ore omnium or omnibus (hominum or hominibus, but only mihi, tibi, etc.) esse
    • convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point: persuade tibi
    • convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point: velim tibi ita persuadeas
    • (ambiguous) convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point: sic volo te tibi persuadere
    • I put myself at your disposal as regards advice: consilii mei copiam facio tibi
    • what do you mean to do: quid tibi vis?
    • to play the flute: tibiis or tibiā canere
    • what sort of humour are you in: quid tibi animi est?
    • I drink your health: propīno tibi hoc (poculum, salutem)
    • (ambiguous) your health: bene tibi or te!
    • my best wishes for your welfare: tibi plurimam salutem
    • what is your opinion: quid censes? quid tibi videtur?
    • do you think so? are you in earnest: ain tu?
    • (ambiguous) I have not seen you for five years: quinque anni sunt or sextus annus est, cum te non vidi
    • (ambiguous) everything depends on you: in te omnia sunt
    • (ambiguous) the decision of the question rests with you: penes te arbitrium huius rei est
    • (ambiguous) I blame this in you; I censure you for this: hoc in te reprehendo (not ob eam rem)
    • (ambiguous) convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point: sic volo te tibi persuadere
    • (ambiguous) we expect a great deal from a man of your calibre: magna est exspectatio ingenii tui
    • (ambiguous) the matter speaks for itself: res ipsa (pro me apud te) loquitur
    • (ambiguous) be brave: fortem te praebe
    • (ambiguous) your health: bene tibi or te!
    • (ambiguous) a word with you: paucis te volo
    • (ambiguous) a word with you: tribus verbis te volo
    • (ambiguous) I bid you good-bye, take my leave: te valere iubeo
    • (ambiguous) good luck to you: macte virtute (esto or te esse iubeo)

LatvianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tū, Proto-Indo-European *túh₂, *tū, *tu, genitive *tewe, dative *toy, *tebʰ(y)e, accusative *t(w)e. The Latvian tevis comes from *tevens, with an -en-increased form showing an additional s by analogy with other genitive plurals. The dative form was originally closer to Old Prussian tebbei; the current form tev has a v due to influence from other declension forms, and the ending was reduced. The accusative tevi comes from *teven, with n by analogy to the accusative form of other words. The locative tevī was formed by analogy with i-stem nouns. Cognates include Lithuanian tù, Old Prussian tū, thu, toū, thou, tau, Sudovian tu, Old Church Slavonic, Belarusian, Russian ты (ty), Ukrainian, Bulgarian ти (ti), Czech, Polish ty, Gothic 𐌸𐌿 (þū), Old High German þū, Old Norse þú, Old English þū, German du, English thou, Old Irish tú, Hittite zik, zikka (from *tega, from *te + *egō), -du- (“to you”) (from *tu), Sanskrit त्वम् (tvám), Avestan 𐬙𐬏‎ (tū), (Doric) Ancient Greek τύ (tú), (Ionic) σύ (sú), Latin tū, Tocharian A tu, Tocharian B twe, tuwe, Ossetian ду (du), ды (dy).[1]

PronunciationEdit

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PronounEdit

tu (personal, 2nd person singular)

  1. (informal in the singular) you; (dated) thou; second person pronoun, referring to the addressee
    vai tu nāksi man līdzi? ― are you coming with me?
    pieder tautai, tad tauta piederēs tev! ― belong to the people, and then the people will belong to you!
    būt uz tu ar kādu ― to be on intimate terms (lit. to be on thou) with someone
  2. (in the expression “ak tu...”) used to strengthen the meaning of a word or expression
    “ak tu to skaļo gaiļa rīkli!” māte priecājas ― “oh you loud rooster throat!” mother said happily
    ak tu mūžs! cūka izlauzusies no aizgalda! ― ah (you) life! the pig escaped from the pen!

Usage notesEdit

The form tavs is a possessive pronoun ('your'), while tevis is a true genitive form ('of you'). The dative form tevim is used only optionally, with prepositions.

DeclensionEdit

declension of tu
nominative (nominatīvs) tu
accusative (akuzatīvs) tevi
genitive (ģenitīvs) tevis (tavs)
dative (datīvs) tev (tevim)
instrumental (instrumentālis) tevi
locative (lokatīvs) tevī

Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “tu”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

LithuanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tuˀ (“you”), compare Latvian tu, Old Prussian tu, toū, Proto-Slavic *ty. From Proto-Indo-European *tuH; compare Ancient Greek σύ (sú), Sanskrit त्वम् (tvám), Proto-Germanic *þū. The oblique stem tav- has been generalized from the Proto-Indo-European genitive *téwe; compare (Doric) Ancient Greek τέος (téos) < *tewos, Sanskrit तव (táva). For a discussion of the case endings, see àš (“I”).

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tù

  1. you (singular)

DeclensionEdit

declension of tu
singular dual plural
nominative tù jùdu m, jùdvi f jū̃s
genitive tavę̃s jùdviejų jū́sų
dative táu jùdviem jùms
accusative tavè jùdu m, jùdvi f jùs
instrumental tavimì, tavim̃ jùdviem jumìs
locative tavyjè, tavỹ jùdviese jumysè

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

Lithuanian personal pronouns
singular (vienaskaita) dual (dviskaita) plural (daugiskaita) reflexive
(sangrąžiniai)
1st person
(pirmasis asmuo) 		2nd person
(antrasis asmuo) 		3rd person
(trečiasis asmuo) 		1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
m f m f m f m f m f
nominative
(vardininkas) 		àš tù jìs,
jisaĩ 		jì,
jinaĩ 		mùdu mùdvi jùdu jùdvi juõdu,
jiẽdu 		jiẽdvi mẽs jū̃s jiẽ jõs -
genitive
(kilmininkas) 		manę̃s tavę̃s jõ jõs mùdviejų jùdviejų jų̃dviejų mū́sų jū́sų jų̃ savę̃s
dative
(naudininkas) 		mán táu jám jái mùdviem jùdviem jõdviem mùms jùms jíems jóms sáu
accusative
(galininkas) 		manè tavè jį̃ ją̃ mùdu mùdvi jùdu jùdvi juõdu jiẽdvi mùs jùs juõs jàs savè
instrumental
(įnagininkas) 		manimì, manim̃ tavimì, tavim̃ juõ jà mùdviem jùdviem jõdviem mumìs jumìs jaĩs jomìs savimì,
savim̃
locative
(vietininkas) 		manyjè, manỹ tavyjè, tavỹ jamè jojè mùdviese jùdviese jiẽdviese mumysè jumysè juosè josè savyjè,
savỹ
possessive
(savybiniai) 		màno tàvo jõ jõs mùdviejų jùdviejų jų̃dviejų mū́sų jū́sų jų̃ sàvo

Lower SorbianEdit

PronunciationEdit

DeterminerEdit

tu

  1. accusative feminine singular of ten

Lower TananaEdit

NounEdit

tu

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • James Kari, Lower Tanana Athabaskan Listening and Writing Exercises (1991)

MalayEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Shortened form of itu, from Proto-Malayic *(i)tu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)tu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)Cu.

PronunciationEdit

DeterminerEdit

tu

  1. that (what is being indicated)

PronounEdit

tu

  1. that (that thing)

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

tu

  1. Nonstandard spelling of tū.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of tú.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of tǔ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of tù.

Usage notesEdit

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Mezquital OtomiEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Otomi *dų, from Proto-Otomian, from Proto-Oto-Pamean *tõ, from Proto-Oto-Manguean **ti(n).

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

tu (intransitive)

  1. die

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

tu

  1. contain
  2. exist

Etymology 3Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

tu

  1. owe

Middle EnglishEdit

PronounEdit

tu

  1. Alternative form of þou

ReferencesEdit

NeapolitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tū.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu

  1. you

Nigerian PidginEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From English too.

AdverbEdit

tu

  1. too
  2. very

Etymology 2Edit

From English two.

NumeralEdit

tu

  1. two

North FrisianEdit

PrepositionEdit

tu

  1. (Mooring Dialect) to
    • 1867, Kleine Mittheilungen. Zur Sammlung der Sagen, Märchen und Lieder, der Sitten und Gebräuche der Herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg. Nachträge, herausgegeben von Dr. Handelmann in Jahrbücher für die Landeskunde der Herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg herausgegeben von der S. H. L. Gesellschaft für vaterländische Geschichte. Band IX., p. 126 (Von der Insel Amrum. Mitgetheilt von Chr. Johansen)
      Gung am tu Sam
      Am an Tram;

NovialEdit

ParticleEdit

tu

  1. to

Usage notesEdit

  • Put in front of a verb to make it infinitive.

PronounEdit

tu (accusative tum)

  1. (demonstrative) that (which is genderless)

Related termsEdit

OccitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Occitan tu, from Latin tū.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu

  1. you (singular)

Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *twō, neuter of *twai.

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

tū

  1. neuter nominative and accusative of tweġen

Old PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tū (“you”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you”).

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu

  1. thou, you (singular second person pronoun)

DescendantsEdit

  • Fala: tu
  • Galician: tu
  • Portuguese: tu

PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *tu.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu

  1. here

SynonymsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • tu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Portuguese tu, from Latin tū (“you”), from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you”).

PronounEdit

tu (second person singular, masculine possessive adjective teu, feminine possessive adjective tua)

  1. (informal in Portugal, literary, archaic or regional in Brazil) you; thou (singular second person pronoun)
Usage notesEdit
  • tu has fallen out of use in some regions of Brazil, including most of the Southeast and the Center-west, where “você” has taken its place. It’s still very commonly used in various regions of the country though, such as most of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, parts of Paraná, Rio de Janeiro city and most of the Northeast and North regions. It should be noted that, in Rio de Janeiro, the pronoun is frequently employed interchangeably with você. Despite the media's preference for "você", the usage of "tu" seems to have been gaining ground throughout the last few decades in Rio (see [2], a linguistic research on the topic in Portuguese), being most frequent among youngsters.
  • According to grammars, tu should always take second person singular verbs, as is the case in Portugal and some parts of Brazil. However, in many Brazilian dialects which employ tu, it now takes third person singular verbs, like você.
SynonymsEdit

See alsoEdit

Portuguese personal pronouns (edit)
Number Person Nominative
(subject) 		Accusative
(direct object) 		Dative
(indirect object) 		Prepositional Prepositional
with com 		Non-declining
m f m f m and f m f m f m f
Singular First eu me mim comigo
Second tu te ti contigo você
o senhor a senhora
Third ele ela o
(lo, no) 		a
(la, na) 		lhe ele ela com ele com ela o mesmo a mesma
se (reflexive) si (reflexive) consigo (reflexive)
Plural First nós nos nós connosco (Portugal)
conosco (Brazil) 		a gente
Second vós vos vós convosco vocês
os senhores as senhoras
Third eles elas os
(los, nos) 		as
(las, nas) 		lhes eles elas com eles com elas os mesmos as mesmas
se (reflexive) si (reflexive) consigo (reflexive)
Indefinite se (reflexive) si (reflexive) consigo (reflexive)

Etymology 2Edit

InterjectionEdit

tu

  1. (onomatopoeia) the sound produced by a telephone after one of the callers hangs up

RomaniEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Hindi तू (tū). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

PronounEdit

tu (personal)

  1. you (singular)

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu

  1. you (singular), thou

DeclensionEdit

Declension
Nominative
tu
Accusative
stressed (pe) unstressed
tine te
Genitive
Singular Plural
m & n f m f & n
tău ta tăi tale
Dative
stressed unstressed
ție îți
Reflexive
Accusative Dative
stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
tine te ție îți

SynonymsEdit

See alsoEdit

Romanian personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person eu noi
2nd person plain tu voi
semi-polite dumneata dumneavoastră
polite dumneavoastră
3rd person
familiar 		m el ei
f ea ele
3rd person
polite 		m dumnealui dumnealor
f dumneaei

Scottish GaelicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish tú.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu

  1. you (singular, informal)

Usage notesEdit

  • The more usual form today is thu, while tu is the form used in certain constructions, for instance in the conditional tense.

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *tu.

AdverbEdit

tȗ (Cyrillic spelling ту̑)

  1. there, here, in the said place

SynonymsEdit

Related termsEdit

SicilianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tū.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

tu (second person singular)

  1. you (informal); thou

InflectionEdit

nominative tu
prepositional tia
object, reflexive ti

SloveneEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

tù

  1. here, in this place

SynonymsEdit

South SlaveyEdit

NounEdit

tu

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Eung-Do Cook, Keren D. Rice, Athapaskan Linguistics: Current Perspectives on a Language Family (1989), page 247

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tuus, from Proto-Indo-European *towos.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

tu (second person singular possessive of singular, of plural tus)

  1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of tuyo your

Usage notesEdit

The forms tu and tus are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of tuyo is used instead:

Son tus libros. ― [They] are your books.
Son los libros tuyos. ― [They] are your books.
(“...the books of yours.”)

SynonymsEdit

  • (parts of Central and South America) su

Related termsEdit

    Spanish possessive adjectives
possessor preposed postposed or standalone
possessee possessee
singular plural singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
First person: singular: mi mis mío mía míos mías
plural: (same as postposed/standalone) nuestro nuestra nuestros nuestras
Second person
(informal): 		singular: tu tus tuyo tuya tuyos tuyas
plural: (same as postposed/standalone) vuestro vuestra vuestros vuestras
Third person: su sus suyo suya suyos suyas

See alsoEdit

Sranan TongoEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English two.

NumberEdit

tu

  1. (cardinal) two

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English too.

AdverbEdit

tu

  1. too, also, as well
    Synonym: owktu

SwahiliEdit

AdverbEdit

tu

  1. only

PrefixEdit

tu

  1. Marks a verb's object as 1st person plural.
    ninatuona
    I see us

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NumeralEdit

tu

  1. (archaic, cardinal) two

SynonymsEdit

Related termsEdit

TanacrossEdit

NounEdit

tu

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Jeff Leer, Proto-Athabaskan verb stem variation (1979), page 83

Tejalapan ZapotecEdit

NumeralEdit

tu

  1. one

ReferencesEdit

TimbeEdit

NounEdit

tu

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

Tocharian AEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Tocharian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Cognate with Tocharian B tuwe.

PronounEdit

tu

  1. you

Tok PisinEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From English two.

NumeralEdit

tu

  1. two
Usage notesEdit

Used when counting; see also tupela.

Etymology 2Edit

From English too

AdverbEdit

tu

  1. too; also; as well
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 1:15:
    • 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics‎[3], →ISBN, page 433:
      Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
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Upper KuskokwimEdit

NounEdit

tu

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Raymond L. Collins, Betty Petruska, Dinak'i (our Words): Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan Junior Dictionary (1979)

VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Sino-Vietnamese word from 修.

VerbEdit

tu

  1. (intransitive) to isolate oneself from other people to follow rules in a philosophy or religion
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

tu

  1. (transitive) to drink directly from a bottle by holding bottle mouth in one's mouth

VolapükEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English too.

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

tu

  1. (degree) too, excessively.

Derived termsEdit

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Brythonic *tʉβ, from Proto-Celtic *toibos, whence also Old Irish táeb and Irish taobh. Cognate with Breton tu, Cornish tu.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

tu m (uncountable)

  1. side

Derived termsEdit

PrepositionEdit

tu

  1. beside, next to

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
tu du nhu thu
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further readingEdit

  • “tu”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies, 2014

YaleEdit

NounEdit

tu

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

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