vostro

Catalan

Alternative forms

• vostre (standard)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈbo̞s.tɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvɔs.tɾo]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɔs.tɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [ˈbɔs.tɾo]

Pronoun

vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostros, feminine plural vostres)

1. (Eastern dialectal, Balearic, Alghero) your, yours (plural)

Usage notes

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

This form is found within Balearic, Algherese and some additional Eastern dialects.

Declension

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-.

References

• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “vostro”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin voster, vostrum.

Adjective

vostro m sg (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

1. your (plural)

Pronoun

vostro

1. your, yours (plural)

Related terms

• nostro

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vostrum, which is the accusative of voster, which derives from the older form vester, from Proto-Italic *westeros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔs.tro/
• Rhymes: -ɔstro
• Hyphenation: vò‧stro

• Audio:

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Determiner

vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

1. your; plural and polite forms

   i vostri figli ― your children

   le vostre macchine ― your cars

   casa vostra ― your house

   vostro padre ― your father

Pronoun

vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

1. yours

   Sono i vostri ― They are yours.

Usage notes

• The use or non-use of the definite article in conjunction with the determiner and possessive pronoun is the same as for mio; see the usage note there.

See also

Italian possessives

possessor			possessee
no.	person		m sg.	f sg.	m pl.	f pl.
sg.	1st		mio	mia	miei	mie
	2nd	familiar	tuo	tua	tuoi	tue
		polite	Suo	Sua	Suoi	Sue
	3rd		suo	sua	suoi	sue
pl.	1st		nostro	nostra	nostri	nostre
	2nd	familiar	vostro	vostra	vostri	vostre
		polite	Loro
	3rd		loro

Latin

Pronoun

vostrō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of voster