vostro
Catalan
Alternative forms
- vostre (standard)
Pronunciation
Pronoun
vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostros, feminine plural vostres)
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
| strong/subject | weak (direct object) | weak (indirect object) | possessive | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| proclitic | enclitic | proclitic | enclitic | |||||
| singular | 1st person |
standard | jo, mi3 | em, m’ | -me, ’m | em, m’ | -me, ’m | meu |
| majestic1 | nós | ens | -nos, ’ns | ens | -nos, ’ns | nostre | ||
| 2nd person |
standard | tu | et, t’ | -te, ’t | et, t’ | -te, ’t | teu | |
| formal1 | vós | us | -vos, -us | us | -vos, -us | vostre | ||
| very formal2 | vostè | el, l’ | -lo, ’l | li | -li | seu | ||
| 3rd person |
m | ell | el, l’ | -lo, ’l | li | -li | seu | |
| f | ella | la, l’4 | -la | li | -li | seu | ||
| n | ho | -ho | li | -li | seu | |||
| plural | ||||||||
| 1st person | nosaltres | ens | -nos, ’ns | ens | -nos, ’ns | nostre | ||
| 2nd person |
standard | vosaltres | us | -vos, -us | us | -vos, -us | vostre | |
| formal2 | vostès | els | -los, ’ls | els | -los, ’ls | seu | ||
| 3rd person |
m | ells | els | -los, ’ls | els | -los, ’ls | seu | |
| f | 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-.
References
- “vostro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Istriot
Etymology
From Latin voster, vostrum.
Adjective
vostro m sg (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)
- your (plural)
Pronoun
vostro
Related terms
Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin vostrum, which is the accusative of voster, which derives from the older form vester, from Proto-Italic *westeros.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvɔs.tro/
- Rhymes: -ɔstro
- Hyphenation: vò‧stro
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Determiner
vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)
- 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)
- 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
References
- ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 134
Latin
Pronoun
vostrō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of voster