different between votre vs vos

French

Alternative forms

• vôtre (archaic or literary)

Etymology

From Middle French vostre, from Old French vostre, from Latin voster, vostrum, vostra(m), from earlier vester, from Proto-Italic *westeros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?t?/

Determiner

votre sg

1. (possessive) Your, belonging to you (plural).

Derived terms

• votredit

Related terms

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

Further reading

• “votre” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• orvet, torve, voter

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vos, from Middle Dutch vos, from Old Dutch fus, vus, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?s/

Noun

vos (plural vosse, diminutive vossie)

1. fox, carnivore of the tribe Vulpini

Derived terms

• skoolvos

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin v?s.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /vus/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bus/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /vos/

Pronoun

vos (enclitic, contracted us, proclitic us)

1. you (plural, direct or indirect object)

Declension

Danish

Pronoun

vos

1. (dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of os.
   • 1926, Adolph Stender, Skovtrold, Lindhardt og Ringhof (?ISBN)

     Næ, la' vos bare inte skave vos! (...) men saa øver vi vos imens! Naar han ser vos gennem Vindvet, kommer han nok herud ...

   • 1973, Bent Rying, Alice Kennebo, København og Københavns amt

     Han har sæl brunget desse ur te vos; ...

   • 1906, Maglekilde fortæller: humoristiske fortællinger

     Jeg ka' kons mindes een eneste Gang a' han roste vos, – de' var en Da' da han ha'de trukket vos rigtig igjennem i Geveereksersis; — — der var inte en tør Trevl paa vos, saatten ha'de vi maattet hænge i en tre, fire Timmer i et Slav.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?s/
• Hyphenation: vos
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch vos, from Old Dutch fus, vus, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz.

Noun

vos m (plural vossen, diminutive vosje n, feminine vossin)

1. fox, carnivore of the tribe Vulpini
2. red fox specifically, Vulpes vulpes

   Synonyms: gewone vos, rode vos

3. fox fur
4. a crafty, ingenious person

5. horse with red or red-brown fur

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: vos

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vos

1. first-person singular present indicative of vossen
2. imperative of vossen

French

Etymology

From Old French vos, probably from Latin vostros (“your, plural accusative”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vo/
• Rhymes: -o
• Homophones: veau, veaux

Determiner

vos pl

1. plural of votre

Related terms

¹ Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

Further reading

• “vos” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Pronoun

vos

1. inflection of vós:
   1. accusative/dative
   2. reflexive

Interlingua

Etymology

From Latin v?s (“you, plural”).

Pronoun

vos

1. you (plural)

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish vosotros.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vos/

Pronoun

vos (Latin spelling)

1. you (formal singular, nominative and accusative)
2. accusative of vozotros
3. accusative of vozotras

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *w?s, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *y??.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?o?s/, [u?o?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vos/, [v?s]

Pronoun

v?s

1. you, ye, you all; nominative plural of t?
2. you, ye, you all; accusative plural of t?

Usage notes

When used in the plural genitive, vestr? is used when it is the object of an action, especially when used with a gerund or gerundive. When used in such a construction, the gerund or gerundive takes on the masculine genitive singular. Vestrum is used as a partitive genitive, used in constructions such as (one of you).

Declension

1st and 2nd person personal pronouns declension together with the possessive and reflexive pronouns.
is, ea, id (“he, she, it”) is not included here.

Derived terms

• vobiscum

Descendants

See also

References

• vos in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vos in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vos in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vos in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Lithuanian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vos]

Adverb

vos (not comparable)

1. hardly

Derived terms

• vos vos
• vos tik

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch fus, vus, from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz.

Noun

vos m

1. fox, red fox

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• vossinne

Descendants

• Dutch: vos
  • Afrikaans: vos
• Limburgish: vósj

Further reading

• “vos”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “vos”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Occitan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vus/

Etymology

From Old Occitan vos, from Latin v?s (“you, plural”).

Pronoun

vos

1. to you (second-person plural indirect object pronoun)
2. yourselves (second-person plural reflexive pronoun)

Old French

Alternative forms

• vous
• vus

Etymology

From Latin v?s (“you, plural”).

Pronoun

vos

1. you (second-person plural or second-person singular polite subject pronoun)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     Que vos puissiez cest blasme estaindre

     That you may be able to get rid of this blame

2. your (second-person plural or second-person singular polite possessive pronoun)
3. yourself (second-person plural or second-person singular polite reflexive pronoun)
4. you (second-person plural or second-person singular polite object pronoun)

Descendants

• Middle French: vous
  • French: vous
• Walloon: vos

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin v?s (“you, plural”).

Pronoun

vos

1. you (plural or polite form)

Descendants

• Catalan: vós
• Occitan: vos

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• vus

Etymology

From Latin v?x.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vus/

Noun

vos f (plural vos)

1. voice

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin v?s.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vu?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /vus/
• Hyphenation: vos

Pronoun

vos

1. 2^nd person plural objective pronoun

See also

Sardinian

Alternative forms

• bos

Etymology

From Latin v?s, from Proto-Italic *w?s, from the oblique case forms of Proto-Indo-European *y?? (“you”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?s/

Pronoun

vos (possessive vostru)

1. you (plural), ye

   Synonym: vois, vosateros

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *?s?.

Noun

v??s m inan

1. (obsolete) hair
2. (obsolete) moustache

Further reading

• “vos”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin v?s (“you, plural”), from Old Latin v?s, from Proto-Italic *w?s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bos/, [?bos]

Pronoun

vos

1. (archaic) an elevated form of you, either singular or plural
2. (parts of Latin America, Chavacano-speaking areas in the Philippines) a form of you, singular

   Synonym: tú

Derived terms

• vosear
• voseo

See also

Further reading

• “vos” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French vos, from Latin v?s (“you, plural”), from Proto-Italic *w?s.

Pronoun

vos

1. you (singular)
2. you (plural)

Synonyms

• (plural): vozôtes