vostro

Catalan

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
1st person majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
2nd person formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person feminine 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)

  1. your (plural)

Pronoun

vostro

  1. your, yours (plural)

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): /ˈvɔ.stro/
  • Rhymes: -ɔstro
  • Hyphenation: vò‧stro
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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

References
  1. Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 134

Latin

Pronoun

vostrō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of voster
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