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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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Inherited from Dutch vos, from Middle Dutch vos, from Old Dutch fus, vus, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fɔs/
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Noun

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vos (plural vosse, diminutive vossie)

  1. fox, carnivore of the tribe Vulpini

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Aragonese

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Etymology

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From Latin vos. Cognate to Catalan us, Spanish os and French vous.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /bos/
  • Rhymes: -os
  • Syllabification: vos

Pronoun

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vos

  1. you (second-person plural direct pronoun)
  2. (to) you (second-person plural indirect pronoun)

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Catalan

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin vōs.

    Pronunciation

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    Pronoun

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    vos (enclitic, contracted us, proclitic us)

    1. you (plural, direct or indirect object)

    Usage notes

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    • -vos is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs ending with a consonant or ⟨u⟩.
      Heu de quedar-vos aquí. ― You must stay here.

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    Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
    number person nominative proclitic enclitic possessive
    accusative dative accusative dative
    singular 1st standard jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m meu
    majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns nostre
    2nd standard tu et, t’ -te, ’t teu
    formal1 vós us -vos, -us vostre
    very formal2 vostè el, l’ li -lo, ’l -li seu
    3rd m ell el, l’ li -lo, ’l -li seu
    f ella la, l’4 li -la -li seu
    n ― ho li -ho -li seu
    plural
    1st nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns nostre
    2nd standard vosaltres us -vos, -us vostre
    formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls seu
    3rd m ells els -los, ’ls seu
    f elles les els -les -los, ’ls seu
    3rd reflexive si 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-.

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    Chavacano

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    Alternative forms

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    • bo (common)

    Etymology

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    Inherited from Spanish vos.

    Pronunciation

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    IPA(key): /bo/ [bo] (colloquial or Ternateño)

    Pronoun

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    vos

    1. you (singular)

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    Czech

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    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    vos f

    1. genitive plural of vosa

    Danish

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    Pronoun

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    vos

    1. (dialectal) pronunciation spelling of os
      • 1926, Adolph Stender, Skovtrold, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
        Næ, la' vos bare inte skave vos! (...) men saa øver vi vos imens! Naar han ser vos gennem Vindvet, kommer han nok herud ...
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      • 1973, Bent Rying, Alice Kennebo, København og Københavns amt:
        Han har sæl brunget desse ur te vos; ...
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)
      • 1906, Maglekilde fortæller: humoristiske fortællinger:
        Jeg ka' kons mindes een eneste Gang a' han roste vos, – de' var en Da' da han ha'de trukket vos rigtig igjennem i Geveereksersis; — — der var inte en tør Trevl paa vos, saatten ha'de vi maattet hænge i en tre, fire Timmer i et Slav.
        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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    Een vos met een prooi. — A fox with a prey.
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    Pronunciation

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    Etymology 1

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    Inherited from Middle Dutch vos, from Old Dutch fus, vus, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz.

    Noun

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    vos m (plural vossen, diminutive vosje n, female equivalent vossin)

    1. fox, carnivore of the tribe Vulpini
    2. (particularly) red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
      Synonyms: gewone vos, rode vos
    3. fox fur
    4. a crafty, ingenious person
      Koen is een lepe vos, die laat zich niet in de luren leggen.
      Conrad is a sly fox who does not allow himself to be hoodwinked.
    5. horse with red or red-brown fur
    6. a tortoiseshell (any of various similar nymphalid butterflies)
      Hyponyms: kleine vos, grote vos
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    Descendants
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    • Afrikaans: vos
    • Jersey Dutch: vośe
    • Negerhollands: vos

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    vos

    1. inflection of vossen:
      1. first-person singular present indicative
      2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
      3. imperative

    Further reading

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    • “vos” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

    Fala

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    Etymology

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      Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese vos, from Latin vōs.

      Pronoun

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      vos m pl or f pl

      1. Second person plural nominative pronoun; you
      2. (Mañegu) First person plural dative and accusative pronoun; you

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      • In Mañegu voshotrus and voshotras are more commonly used as subject pronouns.
      • Takes the form -vus when used as an object pronoun suffixed to an impersonal verb form.

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      Fala personal pronouns
      nominative dative accusative disjunctive
      singular first person ei me, -mi mi
      second person tú te, -ti ti
      third
      person
      m el le, -li uLV, oM el
      f ela a ela
      plural first
      person
      common nos musL
      nusLV
      nos, -nusM
      nos
      m noshotrusM noshotrusM
      f noshotrasM noshotrasM
      second
      person
      common vos vusLV
      vos, -vusM
      vos
      m voshotrusM voshotrusM
      f voshotrasM voshotrasM
      third
      person
      m elis le, -li usLV, osM elis
      f elas as elas
      third person reflexive — se, -si sí

      Dialects:  L Lagarteiru   M Mañegu   V Valverdeñu

      References

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      • Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 284

      Franco-Provençal

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      Etymology

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      Inherited from Latin vōs (nominative or accusative).

      Pronoun

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      vos (postpositive -vos) (ORB, broad)

      1. you (second-person plural nominative, accusative, dative, or tonic)

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      Franco-Provençal personal pronouns
      nominative accusative dative tonic1 possessive2
      singular 1st person jo mè min
      2nd person te tè tin
      3rd person masculine il lo / le lui sin
      feminine el la lyé
      neuter o y —
      reflexive — sè
      plural 1st person nos noutro
      2nd person vos voutro
      3rd person masculine ils los / les lor lor
      feminine els les lor / lyés
      reflexive — sè

      1 Disjunctive or object of a preposition.   2 Generally preceded by a definite article.

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      • vous in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
      • vos in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

      French

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      Etymology

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      Inherited from Old French vos, from Latin vostros (“your, plural accusative”).

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      Determiner

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      vos pl

      1. plural of votre; your (plural or formal you)
        Vos parents sont très gentils.
        Your parents are very nice.
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      French possessive determiners
      possessee
      singular plural
      m f
      possessor singular 1st mon1 ma mes
      2nd ton1 ta tes
      3rd son1 sa ses
      plural 1st notre nos
      2nd votre2 vos2
      3rd leur leurs
      1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
      2 Also used as the polite singular form.
      For the singular persons there are gender-neutral neologisms man, tan, san. These are extremely rare.

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      Galician

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      Pronoun

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      vos

      1. inflection of vós:
        1. accusative/dative
        2. reflexive

      Icelandic

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      Etymology

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      Inherited from Old Norse vás, which is related to vaska (“to wash”).

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      Noun

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      vos n (genitive singular voss, nominative plural vos)

      1. wetness, toil, fatigue (from storm, sea, frost, bad weather)

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      Declension of vos (neuter)
      singular plural
      indefinite definite indefinite definite
      nominative vos vosið vos vosin
      accusative vos vosið vos vosin
      dative vosi vosinu vosum vosunum
      genitive voss vossins vosa vosanna

      References

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      • Mallet, P. H. (1847). Northern Antiquities, Or, an Historical Account of the Manners, Customs, Religion, and Laws, Maritime Expeditions and Discoveries, Language and Literature of the Ancient Scandinavians ... with a Translation of the Prose Edda from the Original Old Norse Text ... to which is Added, an Abstract of the Eyrbyggja Saga. United Kingdom: Bohn, p. 509

      Interlingua

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      Etymology

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      From Latin vōs (“you, plural”).

      Pronoun

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      vos

      1. you (plural)

      Ladino

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      Etymology

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      From Old Spanish vosotros.

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      vos (Hebrew spelling בﬞוס)

      1. you (formal singular, nominative and accusative)
      2. accusative of vozotros
      3. accusative of vozotras

      Latin

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      Etymology

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        From Proto-Italic *wōs, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *yúHs.

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        Pronoun

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        vōs

        1. you, ye, you all; nominative/accusative/vocative plural of tū
          • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.200–202:
            “Vōs et Scyllaeam rabiem penitusque sonantīs
            accestis scopulōs, vōs et Cyclōpea saxa
            expertī [...].”
            “You neared mad Scylla and heard the howls within her cliffs, and you experienced the rocks of the Cyclops.”
            (Note: “accestis” is a syncopated form of “accessistis.” The “vos et … vos et” repetition exemplifies anaphora.)

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        The functions that would be carried out by the genitive case of a noun are divided among multiple forms:

        • vester is a possessive adjective, used attributively or predicatively with a noun. It is inflected to agree in case and number with the associated noun.
        • vestrī (the neuter singular genitive form of vester) is used as the object of a word that governs the genitive case (such as a verb, often in the gerund or gerundive, or an adjective).
        • vestrum (the short-form masculine genitive plural of vester) is used in partitive constructions: e.g. nēmō vestrum "none of you". Anteclassically, the long forms vostrōrum (masculine; an old form of vestrōrum) and vostrārum (feminine; an old form of vestrārum) were also used with this function.

        Declension

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        Latin personal and reflexive pronouns
        singular plural
        first second third reflexive first second third reflexive
        m f n m f n
        nominative egō̆ tū is ea id — nōs vōs eī
        iī
        eae ea —
        genitive objective meī
        mīs1
        tuī
        tīs1
        eius suī nostrī vestrī
        vostrī1
        eōrum
        eum
        eārum eōrum
        eum
        suī
        partitive nostrum vestrum
        vostrum1
        dative mihī̆
        mī
        tibī̆ eī sibī̆ nōbīs vōbīs eīs sibī̆
        accusative mē
        mēmē2+3
        mēd1
        tē
        tētē2+3
        tēd1
        eum eam id sē
        sēsē2
        nōs vōs eōs eās ea sē
        sēsē2
        ablative mē
        mēmē2+3
        mēd1
        tē
        tētē2+3
        tēd1
        eō eā eō sē
        sēsē2
        nōbīs vōbīs eīs sē
        sēsē2
        vocative egō̆ tū — nōs vōs —
        1. Pre-classical.
        2. Emphatic.
        3. Rare.

        References

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        • “vos”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
        • “vos”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
        • "vos", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
        • “vos”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
        • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
          • picture to yourselves the circumstances: ante oculos vestros (not vobis) res gestas proponite
          • not to be prolix: ne diutius vos demorer

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        Etymology

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        Cognate with Proto-Slavic *edъva (“barely”); see there for more.[1]

        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): [²ˈʋoːs]
        • Rhymes: -oːs
        • Syllabification: võs

        Adverb

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        võs (not comparable)

        1. hardly, barely

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        References

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        1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “vos”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 510

        Middle Dutch

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        Etymology

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        From Old Dutch fus, vus, from Proto-West Germanic *fuhs.

        Noun

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        vos m

        1. fox, red fox

        Inflection

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        Strong masculine noun
        singular plural
        nominative vos vosse
        accusative vos vosse
        genitive vos vosse
        dative vosse vossen

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        Further reading

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        • “vos”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
        • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “vos”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

        Occitan

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        Etymology

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        From Old Occitan vos, from Latin vōs (“you, plural”).

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        Pronoun

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        vos

        1. to you (second-person plural indirect object pronoun)
        2. yourselves (second-person plural reflexive pronoun)

        Old French

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        Alternative forms

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        Etymology

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          From Latin vōs (“you, plural”).

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          Pronoun

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          vos

          1. you, ye (second-person plural or second-person singular polite subject pronoun)
          2. your (second-person plural or second-person singular polite possessive pronoun)
          3. yourself (second-person plural or second-person singular polite reflexive pronoun)
          4. you (second-person plural or second-person singular polite object pronoun)

          Descendants

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          • Middle French: vous
            • French: vous
              • Haitian Creole: ou
              • Louisiana Creole: vou
          • Walloon: vos

          Old Occitan

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          Etymology

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          From Latin vōs (“you, plural”).

          Pronoun

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          vos

          1. you (plural or polite form)

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          Piedmontese

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          Alternative forms

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          Etymology

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          From Latin vōx.

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          Noun

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          vos f (plural vos)

          1. voice

          Portuguese

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          Etymology

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            Inherited from Latin vōs.

            Pronunciation

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            Pronoun

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            vos

            1. objective of vós
              É por isso que vos digo que...
              That is why I tell you (all) that...

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            Portuguese personal pronouns
            number person nominative prepositional accusative dative prepositional
            with com
            non-declining
            singular 1st eu mim me comigo —
            2nd tu ti te contigo você
            o senhor m
            a senhora f
            3rd m ele o (lo, no) lhe com ele o mesmo
            f ela a (la, na) com ela a mesma
            plural 1st nós nos connosco (Portugal)
            conosco (Brazil)
            a gente
            2nd vós vos convosco
            com vós
            vocês
            os senhores m
            as senhoras f
            3rd m eles os (los, nos) lhes com eles os mesmos
            f elas as (las, nas) com elas as mesmas
            reflexive 3rd /
            indefinite
            — si se consigo o mesmo etc. (reflexive)

            Sardinian

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            Alternative forms

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            Etymology

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            From Latin vōs, from Proto-Italic *wōs, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *yúHs (“you”).

            Pronunciation

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            • IPA(key): /bos/, /vos/ (in certain Nuorese towns)

            Pronoun

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            vos (possessive vostru)

            1. you (plural), ye
              Synonyms: vois, vosateros

            Slovene

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            Etymology

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            Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ. First attested in the 18th century.

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            Noun

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            vọ̑s m inan

            1. (obsolete) hair
            2. (obsolete) moustache

            Further reading

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            • “vos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

            Spanish

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            Alternative forms

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            Etymology

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              Inherited from Latin vōs (“you (plural)”), from Proto-Italic *wōs, from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs.

              Pronunciation

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              • IPA(key): /ˈbos/ [ˈbos]
              • Rhymes: -os
              • Syllabification: vos

              Pronoun

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              Voseo in Latin America

              vos (oblique te, preposed possessive determiner tu, possessive pronoun/postposed or standalone possessive determiner tuyo)

              1. (Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Chile, Central America, Chiapas, Zulia, parts of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and the Philippines) you, familiar form of the second-person singular pronoun
                Synonym: tú
                ¿Cómo te va? Bien, ¿y vos? ― How are you? Good, and you?
                Estoy de acuerdo con vos. ― I agree with you.

              Usage notes

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              • The use of this pronoun is called voseo. The use of tú (the second-person pronoun used in other dialects) is called tuteo.
              • Voseo uses different verb forms for the second-person singular present indicative, (in Central America) the second-person singular present subjunctive and the second-person singular affirmative imperative. The indicative form can be formed by taking the infinitive and replacing the final r with an s, adding an accent mark because they're oxytone words. Exceptions include ser, ir and haber, whose voseo forms are sos, vas and has, two of them coinciding with the second person singular (tú). For etymological and phonetic reasons, the diphthong or vowel change is lost in verbs that possess it in their stressed syllable:
                contar: tú cuentas > vos contás.
                tener: tú tienes > vos tenés.
                decir: tú dices > vos decís.

              Like the infinitive form, the subjunctive form (used in Central America) also puts the stress at the end of words, such as in vos seás instead of tú seas for ser, or vos contés instead of tú cuentes for contar.

              • In Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, tú has been almost completely replaced with vos.
              • In the other highlighted countries, the use of vos alternates with tuteo in more formal situations.
              • In Nicaragua, tú is only occasionally used.
              • In Colombia, vos is used in the Paisa region and in the Valle del Cauca, La Guajira, Nariño, southern Cauca, northern Tolima, and northern Cesar departments.
              • In Peru and Venezuela, in Arequipa and Zulia, the use of this pronoun takes verb forms conjugated in the second-person plural—normally corresponding to the subject vosotros—with the exception of the second-person singular imperative, which functions just like the imperative in many regions that use voseo. In the case of Arequipa, it is usually considered a traditional part of Loncca culture.
              • In Ecuador, especially in the capital, Quito, the voseo is used, but with verbs conjugated for the subject tú.
              • In Old Spanish, this was the second-person plural pronoun and also the formal second-person singular pronoun—as in many other Romance languages—using the verb forms that in modern Spanish belong to the subject vosotros.
              • This usage is archaic and survived with the pronoun vosotros in Spain, the latter remaining archaic in Latin America, even with the feminine vosotras, like the pronoun nosotros, differing from the archaic, stressed nos that is practically only used as an unstressed object pronoun in modern Spanish.
              • In regions where voseo is used—such as Rioplatense Spanish—there was a widespread shift from formal to informal voseo regarding possessives, verb conjugations, and object pronouns, involving a morphological transition from the second-person plural to the second-person singular.
              • The form convosco is archaic and obsolete, even in regions where modern voseo is used, like connosco.

              Pronoun

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              vos (oblique vos, possessive pronoun or determiner vuestro)

              1. (archaic, originally formal) an elevated form of you, either singular or plural
                Vos, doña Juana, sois caritativa.
                You, Doña Juana, are charitable.

              Pronoun

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              vos (object pronoun)

              1. obsolete form of os

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              Descendants

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              • Chavacano: (vulgar) vos

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              Spanish personal pronouns
              number person Nominative Disjunctive Dative Accusative Comitative
              singular 1st yo mí me conmigo
              2nd fam. tú1, vos2 ti1, vos2 te contigo
              for. m usted le, se3 lo —
              f la
              3rd m él le, se3 lo
              f ella la
              n ello5 lo
              plural 1st m nosotros nos
              f nosotras
              2nd fam.4 m vosotros os
              f vosotras
              for. m ustedes les, se3 los
              f las
              3rd m ellos les, se3 los
              f ellas las
              Reflexive — sí se consigo
              1. Tuteo
              2. Voseo
              3. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g. se lo dije instead of *le lo dije).
              4. Used primarily in Spain.
              5. Only used in certain circumstances and rarely as a subject pronoun.

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              Walloon

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              Etymology

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              Inherited from Old French vos, from Latin vōs (“you, plural”), from Proto-Italic *wōs.

              Pronunciation

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              Pronoun

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              vos

              1. you (singular)
              2. you (plural)

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