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teu

See also: TEU, te'u, and tếu

Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan teu (feminine tua), from Latin tuum, from Proto-Italic *towos. The original stem was modified by analogy with meu.

The weak form ton is also from Latin tuum in an unstressed (monosyllabic) position.

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Pronoun

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teu (feminine teva or teua, masculine plural teus, feminine plural teves or teues)

  1. your, yours (singular)

Usage notes

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  • When preceding a noun, teu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

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-.

Derived terms

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Drehu

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Noun

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teu

  1. moon

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Galician

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Etymology

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From Old Galician-Portuguese teu, from Latin tuus.

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Pronoun

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teu m (masculine singular teu, masculine plural teus, feminine singular túa, feminine plural túas)

  1. (possessive) yours (singular you)

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Istro-Romanian

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Etymology

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From Latin tuus, probably through an intermediate Vulgar Latin *tous or *teus. Compare to Catalan el teu and Daco-Romanian tău.

Adjective

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teu m (feminine te, masculine plural teľ, feminine plural tele)

  1. your
    nomelu teu
    your name

Japanese

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Romanization

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teu

  1. Rōmaji transcription of てう

Ligurian

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Etymology

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From Latin tuus, from Proto-Italic *towos.

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Adjective

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teu (invariable)

  1. your (singular)

Pronoun

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teu (invariable)

  1. (possessive) yours (singular)

Synonyms

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Nias

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Noun

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teu (mutated form deu)

  1. rain

References

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  • Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 208.

Palauan

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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teu

  1. width

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  • meteu (“(of multiple objects) to be wide”)

References

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  • teu in Palauan Language Online: Palauan-English Dictionary, at tekinged.com.
  • teu in Palauan-English Dictionary, at trussel2.com.
  • teu in Lewis S. Josephs, Edwin G. McManus, Masa-aki Emesiochel (1977) Palauan-English Dictionary, University Press of Hawaii, →ISBN, page 326.

Portuguese

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Etymology 1

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From Old Galician-Portuguese tou, from Latin tuus, from Proto-Italic *towos.

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Pronoun

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teu (feminine tua)

  1. Second-person singular possessive pronoun.
    1. your; yours
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Portuguese possessives
singular possessum plural possessum
masculine feminine masculine feminine
singular
possessor 		first person meu minha meus minhas
second person teu tua teus tuas
third person any seu sua seus suas
m dele
f dela
plural
possessor 		first person nosso nossa nossos nossas
second person vosso vossa vossos vossas
third person any seu sua seus suas
m deles
f delas

Etymology 2

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From meu (“hey, dude”), in analogy with the eu/meu and tu/teu pronominal pairs.

Interjection

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teu!

  2. (Rio Grande do Sul, slang) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
  4. (Rio Grande do Sul, slang) dude, mate

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French té.

Noun

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teu n (plural teuri)

  1. T-square

Declension

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Declension of teu
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative teu teul teuri teurile
genitive-dative teu teului teuri teurilor
vocative teule teurilor

Tarairiú

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Noun

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teu

  1. water

Further reading

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  • Juvandi de Souza Santos, Cariri e Tarairiú?: culturas tapuais nos sertões da Paraíba (2009)

Zou

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Verb

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teu

  1. dig

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