vu
Dalmatian edit
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vu
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Fijian edit
Noun edit
vu
French edit
Etymology edit
Past participle of voir. Inherited from Old French veü, from earlier vedüt. Compare Italian veduto, Romanian văzut.
Pronunciation edit
Participle edit
vu (feminine vue, masculine plural vus, feminine plural vues)
- past participle of voir
- J’ai vu ce film.
- I’ve seen this film.
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Preposition edit
vu
- given (based on)
- Vu le nombre de personnes ici, il vaut mieux partir !
- Given the number of people here, we're better off leaving!
Usage notes edit
As a preposition, vu is invariable, never agreeing with the element it precedes.
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Further reading edit
- “vu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French vous, Italian voi, Spanish vos, Russian вы (vy), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yū́, with the Ido ending + -u.
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vu (plural vi)
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- tu (informal)
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Personal pronouns in Ido
Singular | Plural | ||||||
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Nominative | Possessive | Nominative | Possessive | ||||
Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | ||||
First person | me | mea | mei | ni | nia | nii | |
Second person | Formal | vu | vua | vui | vi | via | vii |
Familiar | tu | tua | tui | ||||
Third person | Masculine | ilu, il | ilua | ilui | ili | ilia | ilii |
Feminine | elu, el | elua | elui | eli | elia | elii | |
Neuter | olu, ol | olua | olui | oli | olia | olii | |
Common | lu | lua | lui | li | lia | lii | |
Reflexive | su | sua | sui | su | sua | sui | |
Indefinite | onu, on | onua | onui | onu, on | onua | onui | |
Notes | |||||||
The possessive plurals are seldom used. | |||||||
The shortened forms are preferred. | |||||||
The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios. |
Italian edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin ū (the name of the letter V).
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Noun edit
vu f (invariable)
- The name of the Latin-script letter V.; vee
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Japanese edit
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vu
Lolopo edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Loloish *ʔu¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꃶ (vu), Burmese အူ (u).
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vu
- (Yao'an) intestines
Miji edit
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vu
- (Western or Eastern) water
References edit
- Roger Blench, Mark Post, (De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (2011); see also Roger Blench, The Mijiic languages: distribution, dialects, wordlist and classification (2015)
- ASJP
Serbo-Croatian edit
Preposition edit
vu (Cyrillic spelling ву)
- (Kajkavian) (+ locative case) in, at
- (Kajkavian) (+ accusative case) to, into
- (Kajkavian) (+ accusative case) on, in, at, during (in expressions concerning time)
- (Kajkavian) (+ locative case) in, during (in expressions concerning time)
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Vietnamese edit
Etymology edit
Sino-Vietnamese word from 誣.
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vu
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