vous
French
pron
Definitions
- The plural personal pronoun in the second person:
- You, to you indirect object pronoun.
- (formal) plural or singular personal pronoun in the second person
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French vous inherited from Old French vos inherited from Latin vōs (you, plural, you all, you g, ye, p) inherited from Proto-Italic *wōs.
Origin
Proto-Italic
*wōs
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- tū Latin
- vos Latin
- vosmet Latin
- voster, vostros Latin
- vōs Latin
- tu Italian
- voi Italian
- vousvoyeren Dutch, Flemish
- vos French
- vouvoiement French
- vouvoyer French
- вы Russian
- выкать Russian
- ты Russian
- tutear Spanish, Castilian
- tú Spanish, Castilian
- vos Spanish, Castilian
- vosotros Spanish, Castilian
- *wōs Proto-Indo-European
- *yū́ Proto-Indo-European
- vos Portuguese
- *vy Proto-Slavic
- vos Old French
- vous Old French
- vus Old French
- vi Esperanto
- vos Catalan, Valencian
- vós Catalan, Valencian
- vosa Galician
- vosas Galician
- vosos Galician
- voi Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- vi Ido
- vu Ido
- vous Middle French
- vos Old Portuguese
- voi Aromanian
- *wōs Proto-Italic
- vus Romansh
- vós Asturian
- vô Friulian
- vos Old Occitan
- voî Ligurian
- voi Dalmatian
- vu Dalmatian
- *wah Proto-Iranian
- ou Haitian, Haitian Creole
- ou Mauritian Creole
- oumem Mauritian Creole
- vos Walloon
- vuje Neapolitan
- voi Corsican
- vōs Old Latin
- bos Aragonese
- vos Interlingua
- ئێوە Central Kurdish
- vuēter Emilian
- vuētri Emilian
- بُشوطْرِسْ Mozarabic
- 𐌖𐌄𐌔 Faliscan