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vostro

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Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostros, feminine plural vostres)

  1. (Eastern dialectal, Balearic, Alghero) your, yours (plural)

Usage notes

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  • 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

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

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  • “vostro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Istriot

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Etymology

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From Latin voster, vostrum.

Adjective

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vostro m sg (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

  1. your (plural)

Pronoun

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vostro

  1. your, yours (plural)
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Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin vostrum, which is the accusative of voster, which derives from the older form vester, from Proto-Italic *westeros.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔ.stro/
  • Rhymes: -ɔstro
  • Hyphenation: vò‧stro
  • Audio:(file)

Determiner

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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

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vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

  1. yours
    Sono i vostri ― They are yours.

Usage notes

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  • 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

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References

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

Latin

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Pronoun

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vostrō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of voster
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