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jou
jou
See also: jo'u
Afrikaans
Pronoun
jou (subject jy)
- you (singular, object)
See also
Afrikaans personal pronouns
| subjective | objective | possessive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | 1st | ek | my | my | ||
| 2nd | jy | jou | jou | |||
| 2nd, formal | u | u | ||||
| 3rd, masc | hy | hom | sy | |||
| 3rd, fem | sy | haar | haar | |||
| 3rd, neut | dit | sy | ||||
| plural | 1st | ons | ons | |||
| 2nd | julle | julle / jul1 | ||||
| 3rd | hulle | hulle / hul1 | ||||
| 1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous. | ||||||
Etymology 2
Determiner
jou
- your (singular)
See also
Afrikaans personal pronouns
| subjective | objective | possessive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | 1st | ek | my | my | ||
| 2nd | jy | jou | jou | |||
| 2nd, formal | u | u | ||||
| 3rd, masc | hy | hom | sy | |||
| 3rd, fem | sy | haar | haar | |||
| 3rd, neut | dit | sy | ||||
| plural | 1st | ons | ons | |||
| 2nd | julle | julle / jul1 | ||||
| 3rd | hulle | hulle / hul1 | ||||
| 1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous. | ||||||
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin jugum, iugum, from Proto-Italic *jugom, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.
Noun
jou m (plural jous)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɑu̯/
- Homophone: jouw
Etymology
From Middle Dutch jou, from Old Dutch *jū, a northern (Frisian?) variant of *iu, from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz, a West Germanic variant of *izwiz. Doublet of u.
Pronoun
jou
- Second-person singular, objective: you.
- Ik zal dit wel even doen voor jou. — I'll do this for you.
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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Verb
jou
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
Pronoun
jou
Romansch
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *eo, from Latin ego, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
Pronoun
jou