vosso

Macanese

Determiner

vosso

1. alternative form of vôsso: our

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.su/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.su/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.so/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.su/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.su/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.su/

• Hyphenation: vos‧so

Determiner

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

1. (archaic or religious in Brazil) your (plural) (belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of you)

   Peguem os vossos cadernos. ― Grab your notebooks.

   Vocês não receberam as vossas indenizações?

   Haven't you guys received your compensation?

   Os vossos pais virão aqui. ― Your parents are going to come here.

   Devolvam os vossos livros para a biblioteca agora!

   Take your books back to the library now!

   • 2009, Bíblia Sagrada, edition Almeida Revista e Corrigida, Brazilian Bible Society, Deuteronômio 29:10–11

   Vós todos estais hoje perante o Senhor, vosso Deus: os cabeças de vossas tribos, vossos anciãos, os vossos oficiais, todo o homem de Israel, os vossos meninos, as vossas mulheres e o estrangeiro que está no meio do teu arraial; desde o rachador da tua lenha até ao tirador da tua água;

   All of you stand today before the Lord, your God: the leaders of your tribes, your elders, your officers, every man of Israel, your children, your wives, and the foreigner who is in the midst of thy camp; from the cutter of thy wood to the drawer of thy water;

Derived terms

• Vossa Excelência
• Vossa Magnificência
• Vossa Majestade
• Vossa Majestade Imperial
• Vossa Senhoria

Pronoun

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

1. (archaic or religious in Brazil) yours (plural) (that or those belonging to, associated with, related to, or in the possession of you)

   O prémio é vosso! ― The prize is yours!

Noun

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

1. (with the definite article, archaic or religious in Brazil) yours (plural) (used substantively, with an implied noun)

   Foi com sacrifício que construístes o vosso!

   It was with sacrifice that ye have built yours!

Usage notes

In European Portuguese this word 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 determiner vossos is in the second-person plural.

See also

Portuguese possessives

			singular possessum		plural possessum
			masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
singular possessor	first person		meu	minha	meus	minhas
	second person		teu	tua	teus	tuas
	third person	any	seu	sua	seus	suas
		m	dele
		f	dela
plural possessor	first person		nosso	nossa	nossos	nossas
	second person		vosso	vossa	vossos	vossas
	third person	any	seu	sua	seus	suas
		m	deles
		f	delas