Aromanian - Etymology 1

From Latin tū.

Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular)

Related terms

• tine/tini

See also

• io/iou, mine
• el/elu, nãs
• noi
• voi
• nãsh, elj

Aromanian - Etymology 2

Compare tru.

Preposition

tu

1. in
2. into

Synonyms

• tru, ãn

Asturian - Etymology

From Latin tū.

Asturian - Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular)

Bambara - Noun

tu

1. forest; thicket

Bambara - Verb

tu

1. to spit (out)

Breton - Noun

tu m

1. side

Catalan - Etymology

From Latin tū.

Catalan - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/
• Rhymes: -u

Catalan - Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular); thou
2. one (singular) (impersonal)

Declension

Catalan - See Also

• vostè, vós (plural or polite)
• vosaltres (plural)

Czech - Adverb

tu

1. (informal) here

Synonyms

• zde, tady

Czech - Pronoun

tu

1. Feminine accusative singular of ten

Czech - External Links

• tu in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tu in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Ewe - Noun

tu (plural tuwo)

1. gun

Ewe - Verb

tu

1. to build
2. to close
3. to crush
4. to grind
5. to meet
6. to untie

French - Etymology

From Old French tu, from Latin tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

French - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /tsy/
• Homophones: tue, tues, tuent, tus, tut, tût
• Rhymes: -y

French - Pronoun

tu (second person singular, possessive adjective ton)

1. you (singular); thou

Inflection

• Nominative: tu
• Emphatic: toi
• Oblique: te

Usage notes

• When more pronouns are included in the same sentence, it is considered impolite to say the pronoun je first, it must be the last one, and tu must be said after a third person (this applies also for toi and moi):
  • Nous irons, Rose, toi et moi, "Rose, you and I will go".

Related terms

• tutoyer

French - See Also

• vous (plural form and polite singular form)
• t' (proclitic form)

French - Verb

tu m (feminine tue, masculine plural tus, feminine plural tues)

1. past participle of taire

French - Particle

tu

1. (Quebec, informal) question marker

   C'est-tu possible ?

   Is it possible ?

French - Anagrams

• ut

French - External Links

• “tu” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Friulian - Etymology

From Latin tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Friulian - Pronoun

tu

1. you

See also

Gaulish - Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Gaulish - Pronoun

tū

1. you (singular); thou

Inflection

German - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuː/
• Rhymes: -uː

German - Verb

tu

1. Imperative singular of tun.

Ido - Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular, informal), thou

Interlingua - Etymology

Latin and common Romance tu.

Interlingua - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/

Interlingua - Pronoun

tu (second person singular)

1. you (singular); thou

Inflection

Interlingua - Determiner

tu

1. (possessive) your

Italian - Etymology

From Latin tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Italian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪u/
• Rhymes: -u

Italian - Pronoun

tu (second person singular)

1. you (singular); thou

Inflection

Italian - See Also

• Lei (polite singular form)
• Loro (polite plural form)
• voi (plural and polite singular form)

Kurdish - Etymology

From Proto-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Compare Persian تو (to), Pashto ته (tə), Avestan

Kurdish - Pronoun

tu (second person singular)

1. you (singular); thou

Related forms

• te

See also

• hûn

Latin - Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ or *tū. Cognates include Ancient Greek σύ (sú), Sanskrit त्वम् (tvám), Old English þū, Old Persian

Latin - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuː/

Latin - Pronoun

tū (second person singular, possessive adjective tuus)

1. you (singular); thou

   Mē tuī pudet.

   I am ashamed of you.

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Inflection

Personal pronoun declension.

Usage notes

When used in the plural genitive, vestrī is used when it is the object of an action, especially when used with a gerund or gerundive. When used in such a construction, the gerund or gerundive takes on the masculine genitive singular. Vestrum is used as a partitive genitive, used in constructions such as (one of you).

See also

Derived terms

• tecum
• tute
• tutemet
• tutimet
• tepte
• tete
• quid tibi est?

Descendants

Latvian - Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *tū, Proto-Indo-European *túh₂, *tū, *tu, genitive *tewe, dative *toy, *tebʰ(y)e, accusative *t(w)e. The Latvian tevis comes from *tevens, with an -en-increased form showing an additional s by analogy with other genitive plurals. The dative form was originally closer to Old Prussian tebbei; the current form tev has v due to influence from other declension forms, and the ending was reduced. The accusative tevi comes from *teven, with n by analogy to the accusative form of other words. The locative tevī was formed by analogy with i-stem nouns. Cognates include Lithuanian tù, Old Prussian tū, thu, toū, thou, tau, Sudovian tu, Old Church Slavonic, Russian, Belarusian ты (ty), Ukrainian, Bulgarian ти (ti),Czech, Polish ty, Gothic

Latvian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tu]

Latvian - Pronoun

tu (personal, 2nd person singular)

1. (informal in the singular) you; (dated) thou; second person pronoun, referring to the addressee

   vai tu nāksi man līdzi? — are you coming with me?

   pieder tautai, tad tauta piederēs tev! — belong to the people, and then the people will belong to you!

   būt uz tu ar kādu — to be on intimate terms (lit. to be on thou) with someone

2. (in the expression “ak tu...”) used to strengthen the meaning of a word or expression

   “ak tu to skaļo gaiļa rīkli!” māte priecājas — “oh you loud rooster throat!” mother said happily

   ak tu mūžs! cūka izlauzusies no aizgalda! — ah (you) life! the pig escaped from the pen!

Declension

Usage notes

The form tavs is a possessive pronoun ('your'), while tevis is a true genitive form ('of you'). The dative form tevim is used only optionally, with prepositions.

Related terms

• tavējs

See also

• vietniekvārds

• Personal pronouns (personu vietniekvārdi):
  es - tu - viņš - viņa - mēs - jūs - viņi - viņas

Latvian - References

1. ^ “tu” in Konstantīns Karulis (1992, 2001), Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca, in 2 vols, Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN: 9984-700-12-7

Lithuanian - Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Lithuanian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʊ]

Lithuanian - Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular)

Declension

Lojban - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/

Lojban - Cmavo

tu (rafsi tuf, selma'o KOhA)

1. that over there; something distant from both speaker and listener

Related terms

• ta
• ti

Lower Sorbian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tu]

Lower Sorbian - Determiner

tu

1. accusative feminine singular of ten

Malay - Etymology

Shortened form of itu, from Proto-Malayic *(i)tu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)tu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)Cu.

Malay - Alternative Forms

• itu
• ايت
• تو

Malay - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/
• Rhymes: -tu, -u

Malay - Determiner

tu

1. that (what is being indicated)

Malay - Pronoun

tu

1. that (that thing)

Mandarin - Romanization

tu

1. Nonstandard spelling of tū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tù.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Neapolitan - Etymology

From Latin tū.

Neapolitan - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪u/

Neapolitan - Pronoun

tu

1. you

Nigerian Pidgin - Etymology 1

From English too.

Adverb

tu

1. too
2. very

Nigerian Pidgin - Etymology 2

From English two.

Numeral

tu

1. two

Novial - Particle

tu

1. to

Usage notes

• Put in front of a verb to make it infinitive.

Novial - Pronoun

tu (accusative tum)

1. (demonstrative) that (which is genderless)

Related terms

• ta
• to
• te

Occitan - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty/

Occitan - Etymology

From Latin tū.

Occitan - Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular)

Old English - Etymology

From Proto-Germanic. Etymon of Modern English two and cognate with Swedish två. Also related to the Romance cognates: French deux, Spanish dos and Latin duo; the Hellenic: Greek δύο (dýo); and the Slavic: Russian два (dva).

Old English - Cardinal Number

tu

1. neuter of tweġen

Old Portuguese - Etymology

From Latin tū (“you”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you”).

Old Portuguese - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu/

Old Portuguese - Pronoun

tu

1. thou, you (singular second person pronoun)
   • 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 149 (facsimile):

     eu te rogo / ſeñor que me tu leues Deſta carcer eſcura / E que ueia no Ceo a ta face velida.

     Lady, I beg you, please take me out of this dark prison and let me see your beautiful face in Heaven.

Descendants

Polish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t̪u]

Polish - Pronoun

tu

1. here

Synonyms

• tutaj

Polish - External Links

• “tu” in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/
• Hyphenation: tu

Portuguese - Etymology

From Old Portuguese tu, from Latin tū (“you”), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you”).

Portuguese - Pronoun

tu (second person singular, possessive adjective of masculine teu, possessive adjective of feminine tua)

1. (Portugal, informal) you (singular second person pronoun)
2. (Brazil, archaic, ,, literary or regional) you (singular second person pronoun)

Usage notes

• tu has fallen out of use in various regions of Brazil, including most of the Southeast and the Center-west, where “você” has taken its place. It’s still very commonly used in various regions of the country though, such as most of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, parts of Paraná, Rio de Janeiro city and most of of the Northeast and North regions. It should be noted that, in Rio de Janeiro, the pronoun is frequently employed interchangeably with você. Despite the media's preference for "você", the usage of "tu" seems to have been gaining ground throughout the last few decades ine Rio (see [1], a linguistic research on the topic in Portuguese), being most frequent among youngsters.
• According to grammars, tu should always take second person singular verbs, as is the case in Portugal and some parts of Brazil. However, in many Brazilian dialects which employ tu, it now takes third person singular verbs, like você.

Synonyms

• (second person singular pronoun): o senhor (Brazil, formal), você (formal in Portugal, informal in Brazil), vossa mercê (formal, archaic), vosmecê (formal, obsolete)

Romani - Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Romani - Pronoun

tu (personal)

1. you (singular)

Romanian - Etymology

From Latin tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Romanian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/

Romanian - Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular), thou

Declension

Synonyms

• dumneata (semi-polite form)
• dumneavoastră (polite form)

See also

Scottish Gaelic - Etymology

From Old Irish tú.

Scottish Gaelic - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪u/

Scottish Gaelic - Pronoun

tu

1. you (singular, informal)

Synonyms

• thu

Usage notes

• The more usual form today is thu, while tu is the form used in certain constructions, for instance in the conditional tense.

Derived terms

• tusa

See also

• sibh

Serbo-Croatian - Adverb

tu (Cyrillic spelling ту)

1. there
2. here

Related terms

• ovdje, tamo

Synonyms

• (Croatia) tuj

Sicilian - Alternative Forms

• tuni

Sicilian - Etymology

From Latin tū.

Sicilian - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/

Sicilian - Pronoun

tu (second person singular)

1. you (informal); thou

Inflection

Slovene - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtú/
• Tonal orthography: tȕ

Slovene - Adverb

tù

1. here, in this place

Synonyms

• túkaj

Spanish - Etymology

From Latin tuum.

Spanish - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu/
• Homophones: tú (“you”)
• Rhymes: -u

Spanish - Adjective

tu (second person singular possessive of singular, of plural tus)

1. (before the noun) apocopic form of tuyo your

Usage notes

The forms tu and tus are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of tuyo is used instead:

Son tus libros. ― [They] are your books.

Son los libros tuyos. ― [They] are your books. (“...the books of yours.”)

Synonyms

• (parts of Central and South America) su

Related terms

Spanish - See Also

• tú
• vos

Sranan Tongo - Number

tu

1. (cardinal) two

Swahili - Adverb

tu

1. only

Swedish - Numeral

tu

1. (archaic, cardinal) two

Synonyms

• två

Related terms

• ett, tu, tre
• itu
• på tu man hand

Tocharian A - Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Cognate with Tocharian B tuwe.

Tocharian A - Pronoun

tu

1. you

Tok Pisin - Etymology 1

From English two.

Numeral

tu

1. two

Usage notes

Used when counting; see also tupela.

Tok Pisin - Etymology 2

From English too

Adverb

tu

1. too; also; as well
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:15 (translation here):

     God i mekim kamap tupela bikpela lait. Bikpela em san bilong givim lait long de, na liklik em mun bilong givim lait long nait. Na God i mekim kamap ol sta tu.

Vietnamese - Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tū/

Vietnamese - Noun

tu

1. Title of nobility

Vietnamese - Verb

tu

1. to meditate

Vietnamese - Related Terms

• nhà tu
• đi tu

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