vostro

Catalan

Alternative forms

• vostre (standard)

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔs.tɾo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔs.tɾu/

Pronoun

vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostros, feminine plural vostres)

1. (Eastern dialectal, Balearics, Alghero) your, yours (plural)

Usage notes

When preceding a noun, the pronoun vostro is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

This form is found within Balearic, Algherese and some additional Eastern dialects.

Declension

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-.

References

• “vostro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin voster, vostrum.

Adjective

vostro m sg (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

1. your (plural)

Pronoun

vostro

1. your, yours (plural)

Related terms

• nostro

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vostrum, which is the accusative of voster, which derives from the older form vester, from Proto-Italic *westeros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔ.stro/
• Rhymes: -ɔstro
• Hyphenation: vò‧stro

Determiner

vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

1. your; plural and polite forms

   i vostri figli ― your children

   le vostre macchine ― your cars

   casa vostra ― your house

   vostro padre ― your father

Pronoun

vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

1. yours

   Sono i vostri ― They are yours.

Usage notes

• The use or non-use of the definite article in conjunction with the determiner and possessive pronoun is the same as for mio; see the usage note there.

See also

• loro
• mio
• nostro
• suo
• tuo

Latin

Pronoun

vostrō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of voster