uwe
See also: Uwe
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
uwe
- non-attributive form of uw (English: yours)
- Normally used in conjunction with the definite article de or het depending on the gender of what is being referred to.
- Die auto is de uwe. — That car is your one. That car is yours.
- Dat huis is het uwe. — That house is your one. That house is yours.
- Dat is de/het uwe. — That is your one. That is yours.
- Normally used in conjunction with the definite article de or het depending on the gender of what is being referred to.
- (archaic) inflected form of uw
InflectionEdit
subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner, mijns |
2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer, jouws |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer, haars |
3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
plural | |||||||||
1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer, onzes |
2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner, huns |
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). |
5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural. |
EsmeraldaEdit
NounEdit
uwe
- Alternative form of uvve
ReferencesEdit
- Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz, Contribuciones a las lenguas y culturas de los Andes (2005), page 241: "uwi o uwe en esmeraldeño"
Middle DutchEdit
DeterminerEdit
uwe
- inflection of u:
SwahiliEdit
VerbEdit
uwe
- inflection of -wa:
Tukang Besi NorthEdit
NounEdit
uwe
ReferencesEdit
- Mark Donohue, A Grammar of Tukang Besi (1999, →ISBN
Tukang Besi SouthEdit
NounEdit
uwe
ReferencesEdit
- Mark Donohue, A Grammar of Tukang Besi (1999, →ISBN
WolioEdit
NounEdit
uwe
ReferencesEdit
- Johannes Cornelis Anceaux, The Wolio Language: Outline of Grammatical Description and Texts
- Morfologi kata kerja bahasa Wolio (1986)
YorubaEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Cognate with Yoruba ìwé. Possibly from ù- (“nominalizing prefix”) + wé (“to bind, to wrap”), literally “That which can be bound”. Compare with ewé and fi wé
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
ùwé
Etymology 2Edit
Cognates with Yoruba iwe, Ifẹ̀ Yoruba ighe
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
uwe
ZazakiEdit
NounEdit
uwe
SynonymsEdit
- aw (Dimli)
ReferencesEdit
- Ludwig Paul, Zazaki: Grammatik und Versuch einer Dialektologie (1998)