teu

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See also: TEU, te'u, and tếu

Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan teu (feminine tua), from Latin tuum, from Proto-Italic *towos. The original stem was modified by analogy with meu.

The weak form ton is also from Latin tuum in an unstressed (monosyllabic) position.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

teu (feminine teva or teua, masculine plural teus, feminine plural teves or teues)

  1. your, yours (singular)

Usage notes

  • When preceding a noun, teu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

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-.

Derived terms

See also

Drehu

Pronunciation

Noun

teu

  1. moon

References

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese teu, from Latin tuus.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

teu m (masculine singular teu, masculine plural teus, feminine singular túa, feminine plural túas)

  1. (possessive) yours (singular you)

See also

Further reading

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tuus, probably through an intermediate Vulgar Latin *tous or *teus. Compare to Catalan el teu and Daco-Romanian tău.

Adjective

teu m (feminine te, masculine plural teľ, feminine plural tele)

  1. your
    nomelu teu
    your name

Japanese

Romanization

teu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of てう

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin tuus, from Proto-Italic *towos.

Pronunciation

Adjective

teu (invariable)

  1. your (singular)

Pronoun

teu (invariable)

  1. (possessive) yours (singular)

Synonyms

See also

Nias

Noun

teu (mutated form deu)

  1. rain

References

  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 208.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese tou, from Latin tuus, from Proto-Italic *towos.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: teu

Pronoun

teu (feminine tua)

  1. Second-person singular possessive pronoun.
    1. your; yours
See also
Possessee
Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
Possessor Singular First person meu minha meus minhas
Second person teu tua teus tuas
Third person seu sua seus suas
Plural First person nosso nossa nossos nossas
Second person vosso vossa vossos vossas
Third person seu sua seus suas
See also: Appendix:Possessive#Portuguese


Etymology 2

From meu (“hey, dude”), in analogy with the eu/meu and tu/teu pronominal pairs.

Interjection

teu!

  2. (Rio Grande do Sul, slang) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
  4. (Rio Grande do Sul, slang) dude, mate

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French té.

Noun

teu n (plural teuri)

  1. T-square

Declension

singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative teu teul teuri teurile
genitive-dative teu teului teuri teurilor
vocative teule teurilor

Tarairiú

Noun

teu

  1. water

Further reading

  • Juvandi de Souza Santos, Cariri e Tarairiú?: culturas tapuais nos sertões da Paraíba (2009)

Zou

Verb

teu

  1. dig

References

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