Define:Tu
Albanie
eeditEtymology
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Noun
eeditTu ?
Aromanian
eeditEtymology 1
eeditFrae Laitin tū, frae Proto-Italic *tū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronoon
eeditTu
- (seicont-person seengular) ye (seengular)
Relatit terms
eeditSee also
eeditEtymology 2
eeditCompare tru.
Preposeetion
eeditTu
Synonyms
eeditAsturian
eeditEtymology
eeditPronoon
eeditTu
- ye (seengular)
Bambara
eeditNoun
eeditTu
Verb
eeditTu
- tae spit (oot)
Breton
eeditNoun
eeditTu m
Catalan
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Old Provençal tu, frae Laitin tū, frae Proto-Italic *tū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation
eeditPronoun
eeditTu
Declension
eeditSee also
eeditChipewyan
eeditNoun
eeditTu
References
eedit- Eung-Do Cook, A grammar of Dëne Sųłiné (Chipewyan) (2004), page 350
Coatecas Altas Zapotec
eeditNumeral
eeditTu
References
eedit- SIL Zapotec Basic Vocabulary, page 52
Cornish
eeditAdjective
eeditTu
Czech
eeditPronunciation
eeditAdverb
eeditTu
Synonyms
eeditPronoun
eeditTu
- Feminine accusative seengular o ten
Further reading
eedit- Tu in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- Tu in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Ewe
eeditNoun
eeditTu (plural tuwo)
Verb
eeditTu
French
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Auld French tu, frae Laitin tū, frae Proto-Italic *tū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation
eedit- IPA(key): /ty/
- (Quebec) [t͡sy]
- (Louisiana) [ti]
- Audio (France) (help·info)
- Template:Homophones
- (deprecatit uise o
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parameter) Rhymes: -y
Pronoon
eeditTu (seicont person informal seengular, possessive determiner ton)
Inflection
eeditUissage notes
eedit- When mair pronoons are includit in the same sentence, it is conseedert impolite tae say the pronoon je first, it maun be the last ane, an tu maun be said efter a third person (this applies an aa for toi an moi):
- Rose, toi et moi irons là-bas., “Rose, you and I will go there.”
Relatit terms
eeditNummer | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | ||
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | |||
Third | Masculine | il | se, s’ | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | ||||||
— | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
Seicont | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
Third | Masculine | ils | se, s’ | les | leur | y | en | eux | |
Feminine | elles | elles |
See an aa
eeditVerb
eeditTu m (feminine Tue, masculine plural Tus, feminine plural Tues)
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Pairticle
eeditTu
- (Quebec, informal) quaisten merker
- C'est-tu possible ?
- Is it possible?
Anagrams
eeditFurther readin
eedit- “Tu” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Friulian
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Laitin tū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronoon
eeditTu
See an aa
eeditGaulish
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Proto-Celtic *tū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronoon
eedittū
Inflection
eeditNummer | Seengular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | tū | suīs |
Accusative | te | suīs |
Genitive | tou | suesron |
Dative | toi | umē |
Ablative | te | ume |
Instrumental | toi | ? |
Locative | toi | umē |
German
eeditPronunciation
eedit- /tuː/
- (deprecatit uise o
|lang=
parameter) Rhymes: -uː
Verb
eeditTu
- Imperative seengular o tun.
Ido
eeditEtymology
eeditTemplate:Bor, Template:Bor, Template:Bor, Template:Bor, Template:Bor, Template:Bor, aw ultimately frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ wi + -u.
Pronunciation
eedit- /tu/
Pronoun
eeditTu (seicont-person seengular)
Synonyms
eedit- vu (formal)
Derived terms
eeditInterlingua
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Laitin an common Romance tu.
Pronunciation
eedit- /tu/
Pronoun
eeditTu (second person singular)
Inflection
eeditsubject | tu |
---|---|
object | te |
reflexive | te |
possessive | tu, tue |
Determiner
eeditTu
- (possessive) yer
Italian
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Laitin tū, frae Proto-Italic *tū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation
eedit- /t̪u/
- Audio (help·info)
- (deprecatit uise o
|lang=
parameter) Rhymes: -u
Pronoun
eeditTu (seicont person seengular)
Inflection
eeditnominative | tu |
---|---|
prepositional | te |
object, reflexive | ti |
possessive | il tuo, la tua, i tuoi, le tue; tuo, tua, tuoi, tue (see your for maur information) |
See also
eeditKalasha
eeditDeterminer
eeditTu
- ye (seengular)
Pronoon
eeditTu
- ye (seengular)
Verb
eeditTu
- ye (seengular)
Coordinate terms
eeditKurdish
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Proto-Iranian [Term?], frae Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?], frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Compare Persie تو (to), Pashto ته (tə), Avestan 𐬙𐬏𐬨 (tūm).
Pronoun
eeditTu (seucont person seengular)
Relatit terms
eeditSee an aa
eeditLaitin
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Proto-Italic *tū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ or *tū. Cognates include Auncient Greek σύ (sú), Sanskrit त्वम् (tvám), Auld Inglis þū, Auld Persie 𐎬𐎺𐎶 (tuvam).
Pronunciation
eeditPronoun
eedittū (seicont person seengular, possessive adjective tuus)
Quotations
eeditInflection
eeditPersonal pronoon declension.
Seengular | First-person | Seicont-person | Reflexive |
---|---|---|---|
nominative | ego/egō | tū | — |
genitive | meī | tuī | suī |
dative | mihi/mihī, mī | tibi | sibi |
accusative | mē | tē | sē, sēsē |
ablative | mē | tē | sē, sēsē |
vocative | egō | tū | — |
possessive | meus | tuus | suus |
Plural | First-person | Seicont-person | Reflexive |
nominative | nōs | vōs | — |
genitive | nostrī, nostrum | vestrī, vestrum | suī |
dative | nōbīs | vōbīs | sibi |
accusative | nōs | vōs | sē, sēsē |
ablative | nōbīs | vōbīs | sē, sēsē |
vocative | nōs | vōs | — |
possessive | noster | vester, voster | suus |
Uissage notes
eeditWhen uised in the plural genitive, vestrī is uised when it is the object o an action, especially whan uised wi a gerund or gerundive. Whan uised in sic a construction, the gerund or gerundive taks on the masculine genitive seengular. Vestrum is uised as a pairtitive genitive, uised in constructions sic as (ane o ye).
See an aa
eeditNummer | Person | Gender | Nominative | Genitive | Dative | Accusative | Ablative | Possessive |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | ego | meī | mihi | mē | meus, -a, -um | |
Seicont | — | tū | tuī | tibi | tē | tuus, -a, -um | ||
Reflexive Third | — | — | suī | sibi | sē, sēsē | suus, -a, -um | ||
Third | Masculine | is | eius | eī | eum | eō | eius | |
Feminine | ea | eam | eā | |||||
Neuter | id | id | eō | |||||
Plural | First | — | nōs | nostrī, nostrum | nōbīs | nōs | nōbīs | noster, -tra, -trum |
Seicondt | vōs | vestrī, vestrum | vōbīs | vōs | vōbīs | vester, -tra, -trum | ||
Reflexive Third | — | — | suī | sibi | sē, sēsē | suus, -a, -um | ||
Third | Masculine | eī, iī | eōrum | eīs | eōs | eīs | eōrum | |
Feminine | eae | eārum | eās | eārum | ||||
Neuter | ea | eōrum | ea | eōrum |
Derived terms
eeditDescendants
eedit
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References
eedit- Tu in Charlton T. Lewis an Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Tu in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
Latvie
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Proto-Balto-Slavic *tū, Proto-Indo-European *túh₂, *tū, *tu, genitive *tewe, dative *toy, *tebʰ(y)e, accusative *t(w)e. The Latvian tevis comes frae *tevens, wi an -en-increased form shawin an addeetional s by analogy wi ither genitive plurals. The dative form wis oreeginally closer tae Old Prussian tebbei; the current form tev haes a v due tae influence frae ither declension forms, an the endin wis reduced. The accusative tevi comes frae *teven, wi n bi analogy tae the accusative form o ither wirds. The locative tevī wis formed bi analogy wi i-stem noons. Cognates include Lithuanian tù, Old Prussian tū, thu, toū, thou, tau, Sudovian tu, Auld Kirk Slavonic, Belaroushie, Russian ты (ty), Ukrainian, Bulgarie ти (ti), Czech, Pols ty, Gothic 𐌸𐌿 (þū), Old High German þū, Auld Norse þú, Old English þū, German du, Inglis thou, Old Irish tú, Hittite zik, zikka (frae *tega, frae *te + *egō), -du- (“to you”) (frae *tu), Sanskrit त्वम् (tvám), Avestan 𐬙𐬏 (tū), (Doric) Ancient Greek τύ (tú), (Ionic) σύ (sú), Laitin tū, Tocharian A tu, Tocharian B twe, tuwe, Ossetian ду (du), ды (dy).[1]
Pronunciation
eedit- [tu]
Pronoun
eeditTu (personal)
- (informal in the singular) ye; (dated) thoo; seicont person pronoon, referrin tae the addressee
- vai tu nāksi man līdzi? ― are ye comin wi me?
- pieder tautai, tad tauta piederēs tev! ― belang tae the fowk, an then the fowk will belang tae ye!
- būt uz tu ar kādu ― tae be on intimate terms (lit. tae be on thoo) wi someane
- (in the expression “ak tu...”) uised tae strenthen the meanin o a wird or expression
- “ak tu to skaļo gaiļa rīkli!” māte priecājas ― “oh ye lood rooster thrait!” mither said happily
- ak tu mūžs! cūka izlauzusies no aizgalda! ― ah (ye) life! the pig evitit frae the cruive!
Declension
eeditUissage notes
eeditThe form tavs is a possessive pronoun ('yer'), while tevis is a true genitive form ('o ye'). The dative form tevim is uised anerly optionally, wi prepositions.
Relatit terms
eeditSee an aa
eeditReferences
eedit- ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “Tu”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in ), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7
Lithuanie
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Proto-Balto-Slavic *tuˀ (“you”), compare Latvian tu, Old Prussian tu, toū, Proto-Slavic *ty. Frae Proto-Indo-European *tuH; compare Ancient Greek σύ (sú), Sanskrit त्वम् (tvám), Proto-Germanic *þū. The oblique stem tav- haes been generalised frae the Proto-Indo-European genitive *téwe; compare (Doric) Ancient Greek τέος (téos) < *tewos, Sanskrit तव (táva). For a discussion o the case endins, see àš (“I”).
Pronunciation
eedit- /tʊ/
Pronoun
eedittù
- ye (singular)
Declension
eeditDerived terms
eeditSee an aa
eeditseengular (vienaskaita) | dual (dviskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | reflexive (sangrąžiniai) | ||||||||||||||||
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1st person (pirmasis asmuo) |
2nt person (antrasis asmuo) |
3rd person (trečiasis asmuo) |
1st person | 2nt person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nt person | 3rd person | |||||||||||
m | f | m | f | m | f | m | f | m | f | ||||||||||
nominative (vardininkas) |
àš | tù | jìs, jisaĩ |
jì, jinaĩ |
mùdu | mùdvi | jùdu | jùdvi | juõdu, jiẽdu |
jiẽdvi | mẽs | jū̃s | jiẽ | jõs | - | ||||
genitive (kilmininkas) |
manę̃s | tavę̃s | jõ | jõs | mùdviejų | jùdviejų | jų̃dviejų | mū́sų | jū́sų | jų̃ | savę̃s | ||||||||
dative (naudininkas) |
mán | táu | jám | jái | mùdviem | jùdviem | jõdviem | mùms | jùms | jíems | jóms | sáu | |||||||
accusative (galininkas) |
manè | tavè | jį̃ | ją̃ | mùdu | mùdvi | jùdu | jùdvi | juõdu | jiẽdvi | mùs | jùs | juõs | jàs | savè | ||||
instrumental (įnagininkas) |
manimì, manim̃ | tavimì, tavim̃ | juõ | jà | mùdviem | jùdviem | jõdviem | mumìs | jumìs | jaĩs | jomìs | savimì, savim̃ | |||||||
locative (vietininkas) |
manyjè, manỹ | tavyjè, tavỹ | jamè | jojè | mùdviese | jùdviese | jiẽdviese | mumysè | jumysè | juosè | josè | savyjè, savỹ | |||||||
possessive (savybiniai) |
màno | tàvo | jõ | jõs | mùdviejų | jùdviejų | jų̃dviejų | mū́sų | jū́sų | jų̃ | sàvo |
Lojban
eeditPronunciation
eedit- /tu/
Cmavo
eeditTu (rafsi tuf, selma'o KOhA KOhA)
- that ower thare; something distant frae baith speaker an listener
Relatit terms
eeditLawer Sorbian
eeditPronunciation
eedit- [tu]
Determiner
eeditTu
Lawer Tanana
eeditNoun
eeditTu
References
eedit- James Kari, Lower Tanana Athabaskan Listening and Writing Exercises (1991)
Malay
eeditEtymology
eeditShortened form o itu, frae Proto-Malayic *(i)tu(ʔ), frae Lua error in Module:Etymology at line 157: Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (poz-pro) is not set as an ancestor of Malay (ms) in Module:languages/data2. The ancestor of Malay is Proto-Malayic (poz-mly-pro).., frae Lua error in Module:Etymology at line 157: Proto-Austronesian (map-pro) is not set as an ancestor of Malay (ms) in Module:languages/data2. The ancestor of Malay is Proto-Malayic (poz-mly-pro)...
Alternative forms
eeditPronunciation
eedit- /tu/
Determiner
eeditTu
- that (whit is being indicatit)
Pronoon
eeditTu
- that (that thing)
Mandarin
eeditRomanization
eeditTu
- Nonstaundart spellin o tū.
- Nonstaundart spellin o tú.
- Nonstaundart spellin o tǔ.
- Nonstaundart spellin o tù.
Usage notes
eeditNeapolitan
eeditEtymology
eeditPronunciation
eedit- /t̪u/
Pronoon
eeditTu
Nigerian Pidgin
eeditEtymology 1
eeditAdverb
eeditTu
Etymology 2
eeditNumeral
eeditTu
North Frisian
eeditPreposition
eeditTu
- (Mooring Dialect) tae
Novial
eeditParticle
eeditTu
Uissage notes
eedit- Put in front o a verb tae mak it infinitive.
Pronoun
eeditTu (accusative tum)
- (demonstrative) that (which is genderless)
Relatit terms
eeditOccitan
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Old Provençal tu, frae Laitin tū.
Pronunciation
eedit- /ty/
Pronoun
eeditTu
- ye (singular)
Auld Inglis
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Proto-Germanic [Term?]. Etymon o Modren Inglis two an cognate wi Swadish två. An aa relatit ae the Romance cognates: French deux, Spaingie dos an Laitin duo; the Hellenic: Greek δύο (dýo); an the Slavic: Roushie два (dva).
Numeral
eeditTu
Auld Portuguese
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Laitin tū (“you”), frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you”).
Pronunciation
eedit- /ˈtu/
Pronoun
eeditTu
- thou, you (seengular seicont person pronoon)
- Template:Roa-opt-cite-cantigas
- eu te rogo / ſeñor que me tu leues Deſta carcer eſcura / E que ueia no Ceo a ta face velida.
- Lady, I beg ye, please tak me oot o this daurk prison an let me see yer beautifu face in Heiven.
- eu te rogo / ſeñor que me tu leues Deſta carcer eſcura / E que ueia no Ceo a ta face velida.
- Template:Roa-opt-cite-cantigas
Descendants
eeditLua error in Module:Etymtree at line 21: Invalid root.
Pols
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Proto-Slavic *tu.
Pronunciation
eeditPronoun
eeditTu
Synonyms
eeditFurther reading
eedit- Tu in Pols dictionars at PWN
Portuguese
eeditPronunciation
eedit- (Portugal, Brazil) /tu/
- Hyphenation: tu
- (deprecatit uise o
|lang=
parameter) Rhymes: -u
Etymology 1
eeditFrae Old Portuguese tu, frae Laitin tū (“you”), frae Proto-Italic *tū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you”).
Pronoun
eeditTu (seicont person seengular, masculine possessive adjective teu, feminine possessive adjective tua)
- (informal in Portugal, literary, archaic or regional in Brazil) you; thou (seengular seicont person pronoun)
Synonyms
eedit- (seicont person seengular pronoon): o senhor (Brazil, formal), você (formal in Portugal, informal in Brazil), vossa mercê {Wt/sco/qualifier|formal|archaic}}, vosmecê (formal, archaic), vossemecê (formal, obsolete)
See an aa
eeditPortuguese personal pronoons (edit) | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nummer | Person | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct object) |
Dative (indirect object) |
Oblique | Oblique wi com |
Non-declinin | ||||||
m | f | m | f | m an f | m | f | m | f | m | f | |||
Seengular | First | eu | me | mim | comigo | ||||||||
Seicont | tu | te | ti | contigo | você | ||||||||
o senhor | a senhora | ||||||||||||
Third | ele | ela | o (lo, no) |
a (la, na) |
lhe | ele | ela | com ele | com ela | o mesmo | a mesma | ||
se (reflexive) | si (reflexive) | consigo (reflexive) | |||||||||||
Plural | First | nós | nos | nós | connosco (Portugal) conosco (Brazil) |
a gente | |||||||
Seicont | vós | vos | vós | convosco | vocês | ||||||||
os senhores | as senhoras | ||||||||||||
Third | eles | elas | os (los, nos) |
as (las, nas) |
lhes | eles | elas | com eles | com elas | os mesmos | as mesmas | ||
se (reflexive) | si (reflexive) | consigo (reflexive) | |||||||||||
Indefinite | se (reflexive) | si (reflexive) | consigo (reflexive) |
Etymology 2
eeditInterjection
eeditTu
- (onomatopoeia) the soond produced bi a telephone efter ane o the criers hangs up
Romani
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Hindi तू (tū). Ultimately frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronoon
eeditTu (personal)
- ye (seengular)
Romanie
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Laitin tū, frae Proto-Italic *tū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation
eedit- /tu/
Pronoon
eeditTu
Declension
eeditNominative | |||
---|---|---|---|
tu | |||
Accusative | |||
stressed (pe) | unstressed | ||
tine | te | ||
Genitive | |||
Seengular | Plural | ||
m & n | f | m | f & n |
tău | ta | tăi | tale |
Dative | |||
stressed | unstressed | ||
ție | îți | ||
Reflexive | |||
Accusative | Dative | ||
stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed |
tine | te | ție | îți |
Synonyms
eedit- dumneata (semi-polite form)
- dumneavoastră (polite form)
See also
eeditScots Gaelic
eeditEtymology
eeditPronunciation
eedit- /t̪u/
Pronoun
eeditTu
- ye (seengular, informal)
Synonyms
eeditUisage notes
eedit- The mair uisual form the day is thu, while tu is the form uised in certain constructions, for instance in the condeetional tense.
Derived terms
eeditSee also
eeditSerbo-Croatian
eeditAdverb
eeditRelatit terms
eeditSynonyms
eedit- (Croatie) tuj
Sicilian
eeditAlternative forms
eeditEtymology
eeditPronunciation
eedit- /tu/
Pronoon
eeditTu (seicont person seengular)
Inflection
eeditnominative | tu |
---|---|
prepositional | tia |
object, reflexive | ti |
Slovene
eeditPronunciation
eedit- /ˈtú/
- Tonal: tȕ
Adverb
eedittù
- here, in this place
Synonyms
eeditSooth Slavey
eeditNoun
eeditTu
References
eedit- Eung-Do Cook, Keren D. Rice, Athapaskan Linguistics: Current Perspectives on a Language Family (1989), page 247
Spaingie
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Laitin tuus, tuum, frae Proto-Indo-European *towos.
Pronunciation
eedit- /tu/
- Homophones: tú (“you”)
- (deprecatit uise o
|lang=
parameter) Rhymes: -u
Adjective
eeditTu (seicont person seengular possessive o seengular, o plural tus)
Usage notes
eeditThe forms tu an tus are anerly uised afore an within the noon phrase o the modifee'd noon. In ither poseetions, a form o tuyo is uised insteid:
- Son tus libros. ― [Thay] are yer beuks.
- Son los libros tuyos. ― [Thay] are yer beuks.(“...the beuks o yers.”)
Synonyms
eedit- (pairts o Central an Sooth Americae) su
Relatit terms
eeditpossessor | preponed | postponed or standalone | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
possessee | possessee | ||||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||||
masculine | feminine | masculine | feminine | ||||
First person: | singular: | mi | mis | mío|mío | mía | míos | mías |
plural: | (same as postposed/standalone) | nuestro | nuestra | nuestros | nuestras | ||
Second person (informal): |
singular: | tu | tus | tuyo | tuya | tuyos | tuyas |
plural: | (same as postposed/standalone) | vuestro | vuestra | vuestros | vuestras | ||
Third person: | su | sus | suyo | suya | suyos | suyas |
See an aa
eeditSranan Tongo
eeditNumber
eeditTu
Swahili
eeditAdverb
eeditTu
Swadish
eeditPronunciation
eedit- (deprecatit uise o
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parameter) Rhymes: -ʉː
Numeral
eeditTu
Synonyms
eeditRelatit terms
eeditTanacross
eeditNoun
eeditTu
References
eedit- Jeff Leer, Proto-Athabaskan verb stem variation (1979), page 83
Tejalapan Zapotec
eeditNumeral
eeditTu
References
eedit- SIL Zapotec Basic Vocabulary, page 53
Timbe
eeditNoun
eeditTu
References
eedit- Michael Foster, Timbe grammar sketch - cohesion in Timbe texts (1981, online 2009), page 10
Tocharian A
eeditEtymology
eeditFrae Proto-Tocharian [Term?], frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Cognate wi Tocharian B tuwe.
Pronoun
eeditTu
Tok Pisin
eeditEtymology 1
eeditNumeral
eeditTu
Uissage notes
eeditUised when coontin; see an aa tupela.
Etymology 2
eeditAdverb
eeditTu
- too; an aa; as weel
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society o Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:15 (translation here):
- God i mekim kamap tupela bikpela lait. Bikpela em san bilong givim lait long de, na liklik em mun bilong givim lait long nait. Na God i mekim kamap ol sta tu.
- 1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics[2], ISBN 0-8248-1672-2, page 433:
- Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society o Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:15 (translation here):
Upper Kuskokwim
eeditNoun
eeditTu
References
eedit- Raymond L. Collins, Betty Petruska, Dinak'i (our Words): Upper Kuskokwim Athabaskan Junior Dictionary (1979)
Vietnamese
eeditPronunciation
eeditNoun
eeditTu
- Teetle o nobility
Verb
eeditTu
- tae meditate
Related terms
eeditVolapük
eeditPronunciation
eedit- /tu/
Etymology
eeditAdverb
eeditTu
- (degree) too, excessively.
Derived terms
eeditWelsh
eeditEtymology
eeditCognate wi Breton tu, Cornish tu.
Pronunciation
eedit- (North Wales) /tɨː/
- (South Wales) /tiː/
Noun
eeditTu m
Derived terms
eeditMutation
eeditWelsh mutation | |||
---|---|---|---|
radical | saft | nasal | aspirate |
Tu | Du | Nhu | Thu |
Note: Some o thir forms mey be hypothetical. Nae ivery possible mutatit form o ivery wird actually occurs. |
Yale
eeditNoun
eeditTu
References
eedit- Carl Campbell, Jody Campbell, Yade Grammar Essentials (1987), page 4