vosso

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese vosso, from Latin voster, vostrum, from earlier vester, from Proto-Italic *westeros.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.su/
• Hyphenation: vos‧so

Pronoun

vosso m (feminine vossa, plural vossos, feminine plural vossas)

1. Second-person plural possessive pronoun.
   1. your; yours

Usage notes

In European Portuguese it is used with the third person plural (vocês), to avoid the ambiguity of seu which denotes both third person singular and plural:

Não se esqueçam de trazer os vossos fatos de banho.

Don't forget to bring your bathing suits.

Here the verb esqueçam is conjugated in the third person plural while the possessive pronoun vossos is in the second person plural.

The other common use is in very official forms of address such as Vossa Excelência (president, ministers of state, judges etc.), Vossa Magnificência (dean of a university) or Vossa Senhoria.

See also

			Possessee
			Singular		Plural
			Masculine	Feminine	Masculine	Feminine
Possessor	Singular	First person	meu	minha	meus	minhas
		Second person	teu	tua	teus	tuas
		Third person	seu	sua	seus	suas
	Plural	First person	nosso	nossa	nossos	nossas
		Second person	vosso	vossa	vossos	vossas
		Third person	seu	sua	seus	suas
See also: Appendix:Possessive#Portuguese