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’t
't
See also: Appendix:Variations of "t"
Catalan
Pronoun
't
- Contraction of te.
Declension
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ət/
Article
't
- Contraction of het.
- Dan houdt 't verhaal op ― Then the story ends.
- Wat ga je in 't weekend doen? ― What are you up to this weekend?
- Waar in 't veld staat hij? ― Where on the pitch is he?
- Also used in names: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (Nobel laureate in chemistry)
Pronoun
't
- Contraction of het.
- Wat dacht je toen je dat voor 't eerst hoorde? ― What did you think when you heard that for the first time?
Inflection
Dutch personal pronouns
| subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
| 1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner |
| 2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer |
| 2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer |
| 2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer |
| 3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner |
| 3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer |
| 3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner |
| plural | |||||||||
| 1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer |
| 2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
| 2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer |
| 2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer |
| 3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner |
| 1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). |
5)Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural. |
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Luxembourgish
Pronoun
't
- unstressed form of et
Declension
Luxembourgish personal pronouns
| nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | |||
| 1st person singular | ech | — | mech | — | mir | mer | mech | |
| 2nd person singular (informal) |
du | de | dech | — | dir | der | dech | |
| 2nd person singular (formal) |
Dir | — | Iech | — | Iech | — | Iech | |
| 3rd person singular (m) | hien | en | en | — | him | em | sech | |
| 3rd person singular (f) | si / hatt | se / et | si / hatt | se / et | hir / him | — / em | sech | |
| 3rd person singular (n) | et | 't | et | 't | him | em | sech | |
| 1st person plural | mir | mer | eis / ons | — | eis / ons | — | eis / ons | |
| 2nd person plural | dir | der | iech | — | iech | — | iech | |
| 3rd person plural | si | — | si | — | hinnen | – | sech | |