vous autres

French

Alternative forms

vous-autres

Etymology

See vous and autre. Compare Asturian vosotros, Catalan vosaltres, Galician vosoutros, Italian voialtri, Occitan vosautres, Spanish vosotros, all of identical meanings.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vu.z‿otʁ/
(Louisiana) IPA^(key): [vu.zɔt]

Pronoun

vous autres

you; ye: second-person plural pronoun

Usage notes

In Louisiana French and Quebec French, where the use of vous is generally very restricted, this is the usual form of the second-person plural pronoun, corresponding to Southern American English y'all.

In Louisiana, despite being always plural in meaning, vous-autres is used with third-person singular forms of the verb to form statements and questions:

Vous-autres est trop de bonne heure. ― Y'all are too early.

Vous-autres veut boire du pop ou quelque chose? ― Do y'all want to drink some pop or something?

In commands, the verb takes the same endings as for vous and the reflexive pronoun is vous-autres:

Coupez vous-autres pas! ― Don't cut yourselves!

Otherwise (with singular verbs), the reflexive pronoun se is used:

Vous-autres se rappelle de ça? ― Do y'all remember that?

Descendants

Louisiana Creole: vouzòt