tu

tu

1. Pronunciation spelling of to, representing African-American Vernacular English.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu/

tú f 

1. thing

• ím

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “tu”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu (Kana spelling トゥ)

1. two

Unknown.

tu ?

1. may

From Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

tu

1. you (singular)

• tini/tine
• ti

• io/iou, mini
• el/elu, nãs
• noi
• voi
• nãsh, elj

Compare tru.

tu

1. in
2. into

• tru, ãn

From Latin tū.

tu

1. you (singular)

From English two.

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu (Bengali script তু)

1. two

• ni
• rongni
• do

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 2.

tu

1. forest; thicket

tu

1. to spit (out)

Borrowed from Indonesian tua.

tu

1. old

• Daigle (2015). Cited in: "Batuley" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu

1. give

   patu pai ani = Give him a yam!

• Big Nambas Grammar Pacific Linguistics - G.J. Fox

From English two.

tu

1. two

From English too.

tu

1. too

tu

1. to go

tu m

1. side

From Old Catalan tu, from Latin tū.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtu/

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• Rhymes: -u

tu

1. you (singular); thou
2. one (singular, impersonal)

• vostè, vós (plural or polite)
• vosaltres (plural)

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

tu

1. water

• Eung-Do Cook (2013) A Tsilhqút'ín Grammar

From Proto-Athabaskan [Term?]; cognate with Hän chuu, Ahtna tuu, Deg Xinag te, Navajo tó, Gwich'in chųų, etc.

tu

1. water

• Eung-Do Cook (2004) A grammar of Dëne Sųłiné (Chipewyan), page 350

tu

1. one

• SIL Zapotec Basic Vocabulary, page 52

tu

1. Hard mutation of du.
2. Mixed mutation of du.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu]

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From Old Czech tu, from Proto-Slavic *tu.

tu

1. (informal or dialectal) here

   Synonyms: zde, tady

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tu

1. feminine accusative singular of ten

• tu in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• tu in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• tu in Internetová jazyková příručka

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-tawŋ.

tu

1. thousand

• Ross Perlin (2019) A Grammar of Trung‎, Santa Barbara: University of California

tu (plural tuwo)

1. gun

tu

1. to build
2. to close
3. to crush
4. to grind
5. to meet
6. to untie

Borrowed from English two.

tu

1. two

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu

1. to stand
2. to be (only in situations regarding posture or position)

• IPA^(key): /ty/

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• (Quebec) IPA^(key): [t͡sy], [t͡sʏ]
• (Louisiana) IPA^(key): [ti], [t͡ʃy]
• Homophones: tue, tues, tuent, tus, tut, tût
• Rhymes: -y

From Old French tu, from Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

Cognates with the exact same usage are the Italian tu, as well as du in German or ты in Russian.

tu (second person informal singular, plural vous, object te, emphatic toi, possessive determiner ton)

1. you (singular); thou

• When more pronouns are included in the same sentence, it is considered somewhat impolite to say the pronoun moi first, etiquette says it must be the last one, and toi must be said after a third person:
  • Rose, toi et moi irons là-bas., “Rose, you and I will go there.”
• "Tu" is used to address one person in an informal situation. Older people tend to exclusively use it with familiar people, and do not use it with unfamiliar adults unless invited to; but younger people use this pronoun much more, using it together in any informal situation, even if they don't know each other. Using "vous" in this context will be seen as old-fashioned and distant.
• "Tu" is not typically used in formal settings such as business meetings and never in court, regardless of the relationship between the speaker and the listener.
• Using "vous" when "tu" would be more appropriate will come across as rigid and awkward; however, using "tu" when "vous" would be more appropriate could come over as deliberate disrespect. For this reason, as a rule of thumb, it is advised to use "vous" if in doubt, as it is "all-encompassing".
• Children are always addressed using "tu" – vous would come over as comical. In elementary, middle, and high schools, teachers address students using "tu", but students address teachers using vous. In higher education usage of vous becomes more common in both directions when in a formal context – though it's not as much of a deal as in, say, a court.
• In formal written communication to any adult, use vous. Not doing so may come over as unprofessional at best, deliberately disrespectful at worst.

As a final note: These come as natural to a person who grew up in a French-speaking country, but not necessarily for outsiders. If you are obviously a foreigner, people will normally be forgiving of such mistakes.

• Nominative: tu
• Emphatic: toi
• Oblique: te
• t' (proclitic form, colloquial)

• vous (plural form and polite singular form)

tu (feminine tue, masculine plural tus, feminine plural tues)

1. past participle of taire

From t-il.

tu

1. (Quebec, informal) question marker

   C'est-tu possible ? ― Is it possible?

• “tu”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ut

From Latin tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

tu

1. you

From Proto-Celtic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

tū (plural suīs)

1. you (singular); thou

• Nominative: tū
• Accusative: ti/te
• Dative: toi

• Václav Blažek (2008), “Gaulish Language”, in Sborník prací filozofické fakulty brněnské univerzity / Studia minora facultatis philosophicae universitatis brunensis‎, page 59

• IPA^(key): /tuː/

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• Rhymes: -uː

tu

1. singular imperative of tun

• IPA^(key): /tuʔ/
• Rhymes: -tu

tu

1. this (what is being indicated)

tu

1. this

• hari tu

Borrowed from English thou, French tu, German du, Italian tu, Spanish tú, Russian ты (ty), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ with +‎ -u.

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu (second person singular)

1. (informal, familiar) you (singular), thou

   Synonym: (formal) vu

From Latin and common Romance tu.

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu (second person singular)

1. you (singular); thou

tu

1. (possessive) your

From Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu/^*

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• (most parts of Latium) IPA^(key): /ˈtu/^°
• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: tù

tu (second person singular)

1. you (singular); thou

• Italian being a pro-drop language, subject pronouns are mostly omitted, both in the written and spoken language, as the inflected verb is conjugated by person. An example would be: Mangi una mela, which is much more common than Tu mangi una mela, where the subject can be inferred from the inflected form mangi ; similarly È carina instead of Lei è carina. The explicit usage of personal pronouns may sound redundant to a native speaker, except when it is used in order to emphasize the subject. (Tu mangi una mela could be interpreted as You are eating an apple and I am not)..
• The second-person pronoun in particular can sound confidential and, in some cases, even impolite.

• tu in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

tu

1. Rōmaji transcription of とぅ
2. Rōmaji transcription of トゥ

tu

1. you (2nd-person personal pronoun)

From Romani tu, from Sanskrit त्वम् (tvam), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

tu

1. you (singular)

• “tu” in Finnish Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

From Proto-Kuki-Chin [Term?], from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tu. Cognates include Burmese တူ (tu) and Chinese 錘 (chuí).

• IPA^(key): /tu˩/

tu

1. hammer

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎, Payap University, page 48

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu (Latin spelling)

1. (informal) you (singular)

• vozotros (masculine plural)
• vozotras (feminine plural)
• vos (formal singular)

tu (Latin spelling)

1. your

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tū, Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Cognates include Latvian tu and Lithuanian tu.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu]
• Hyphenation: tu

tu

1. thou, you (singular)
2. (in reported speech) he, she (that is addressed)

• A. Andronov; L. Leikuma (2008) Latgalīšu-Latvīšu-Krīvu sarunu vuordineica, Lvava, →ISBN, page 10
• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 35

From Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ or *tū.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tuː/, [t̪uː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tu/, [t̪uː]

tū (second person singular, possessive adjective tuus)

1. you (singular); thou

   Mē tuī pudet.

   I am ashamed of you.

When used in the plural genitive, vestrī 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).

• Plautus sometimes has sg. gen. tis.
• Tēd is an early form of tē.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:tu.

• “tu”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tu”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tū, Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. The Latvian tevis comes from *tevens, with an -en-increased form showing an additional s by analogy with other genitive plurals. The dative form was originally closer to Old Prussian tebbei; the current form tev has a v due to influence from other declension forms, and the ending was reduced. The accusative tevi comes from *teven, with n by analogy to the accusative form of other words. The locative tevī was formed by analogy with i-stem nouns.[1]

• IPA^(key): [tu]

tu (personal, 2nd person singular)

1. (informal in the singular) you; (dated) thou; second person pronoun, referring to the addressee

   vai tu nāksi man līdzi? ― are you coming with me?

   pieder tautai, tad tauta piederēs tev! ― belong to the people, and then the people will belong to you!

   būt uz tu ar kādu ― to be on intimate terms (lit. to be on thou) with someone

2. (in the expression “ak tu...”) used to strengthen the meaning of a word or expression

   "ak tu to skaļo gaiļa rīkli!" māte priecājas ― "oh you loud rooster throat!" mother said happily

   ak tu mūžs! cūka izlauzusies no aizgalda! ― ah (you) life! the pig escaped from the pen!

The dative form tevim is used only optionally, with prepositions.

• tavējs

• vietniekvārds
• Personal pronouns (personu vietniekvārdi):
  es - tu - viņš - viņa - mēs - jūs - viņi - viņas

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tuˀ (“you”), from Proto-Indo-European *tuH. The oblique stem tav- has been generalized from the Proto-Indo-European genitive *téwe. For a discussion of the case endings, see àš (“I”).

• IPA^(key): /tʊ/

tù

1. you (singular)

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu

1. accusative feminine singular of ten

tu

1. water

• James Kari (1991) Lower Tanana Athabaskan Listening and Writing Exercises

• itu, تو‎, ايت‎

Shortened form of itu, from Proto-Malayic *(i)tu(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)tu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)Cu.

• IPA^(key): /tu/
• Rhymes: -tu, -u
• Rhymes: -u

tu

1. (colloquial) that (what is being indicated)

tu

1. (colloquial) that (that thing)

tu

1. Nonstandard spelling of tū.
2. Nonstandard spelling of tú.
3. Nonstandard spelling of tǔ.
4. Nonstandard spelling of tù.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

From Proto-Otomi *dų, from Proto-Otomian [Term?], from Proto-Oto-Pamean *tõ, from Proto-Oto-Manguean *ti(n).

• IPA^(key): /tù/

tu (intransitive)

1. die

• IPA^(key): /tǔ/

tu

1. contain
2. exist

• IPA^(key): /tǔ/

tu

1. owe

tu

1. Alternative form of þou (“thou”)

tu

1. you (the second-person singular pronoun)

From Latin tū.

• IPA^(key): /t̪u/

tu

1. you

From English too.

tu

1. too
2. very

From English two.

tu

1. two

tu

1. (Mooring) to
   • 1867, Kleine Mittheilungen. Zur Sammlung der Sagen, Märchen und Lieder, der Sitten und Gebräuche der Herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg. Nachträge, herausgegeben von Dr. Handelmann in Jahrbücher für die Landeskunde der Herzogthümer Schleswig, Holstein und Lauenburg herausgegeben von der S. H. L. Gesellschaft für vaterländische Geschichte. Band IX., p. 126 (Von der Insel Amrum. Mitgetheilt von Chr. Johansen)

     Gung am tu Sam
     Am an Tram;

From Proto-Iranian *tuHám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *túH, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

• IPA^(key): [tʊ]

tu (second person singular)

1. you (singular); thou

• te

• hûn

• oto, otor, tur, to, tor

tu

1. (dialectal, Trøndelag, Eastern Norway) Nonstandard form of ut or (“out from, out of”).

From Old Occitan tu, from Latin tū.

• IPA^(key): /ty/

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tu

1. you (singular)

From Proto-Germanic *twō, neuter of *twai.

• IPA^(key): /tuː/

tū

1. neuter nominative/accusative of tweġen

tu

1. Alternative spelling of tú

From Latin tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu/

tu

1. thou, you (singular second person pronoun)
   • 13th century CE, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 149 (facsimile):

     eu te rogo / ſeñor que me tu leues Deſta carcer eſcura / E que ueia no Ceo a ta face velida.

     Lady, I beg you, please take me out of this dark prison and let me see your beautiful face in Heaven.

• Fala: tu
• Galician: tu, ti
• Portuguese: tu

From Sanskrit तुवम् (tuvam, “thou”).

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu (personal, Perso-Arabic spelling توۡ)

1. you (2sg nom subject or direct object)

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “tu”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Inherited from Old Polish tu, from Proto-Slavic *tu.

• IPA^(key): /tu/

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• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: tu

tu

1. here

   Synonym: tutaj

• tu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• tu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: tu

From Old Portuguese tu, from Latin tū (“you”), from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you”).

tu

1. (informal in Portugal, literary, archaic or regional in Brazil) you; thou (singular second person pronoun)

   Synonyms: (Brazil, formal) o senhor, (formal in Portugal, informal in Brazil) você, (formal, archaic) vossa mercê, (formal, archaic) vosmecê, (formal, obsolete) vossemecê

2. (Brazil, colloquial, proscribed) second-person singular prepositional pronoun;

   Ela gosta de tu. ― She's into you.

• Tu has fallen out of use in some regions of Brazil, including most of the Southeast and the Centre-West, where “você” has taken its place. It is still very commonly used in various regions of the country though, such as most of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul, parts of Paraná, Rio de Janeiro city and most of the Northeast and North regions. It should be noted that, in Rio de Janeiro, the pronoun is frequently employed interchangeably with você. Despite the media's preference for "você", the usage of "tu" seems to have been gaining ground throughout the last few decades in Rio (see , a linguistic research on the topic in Portuguese), being most frequent among younger speakers.
• According to grammars, tu should always take second person singular verbs, as is the case in Portugal and some parts of Brazil. However, in many Brazilian dialects which employ tu, it now takes third person singular verbs, like você.

tu

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound produced by a telephone after one of the callers hangs up

From Sanskrit त्वम् (tvam), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

tu

1. you (singular)

• Kalo Finnish Romani: tu
• Sinte Romani: tu
• Welsh Romani: tu

From Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu

1. you (singular), thou

   Synonyms: (semi-polite form) dumneata, (polite form) dumneavoastră

From Latin tū, from Proto-Italic *tū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu

1. you (singular)

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

From Sanskrit त्वम् (tvam).

tu

1. you; second-person singular and plural personal pronoun

• Nina Knobloch (2020) A grammar sketch of Sauji: An Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan‎, Stockholm University

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ʰu/

tu

1. Form of of thu (“thou, you”) used after verb forms ending in -n, -s or -dh.

From Proto-Slavic *tu.

tȗ (Cyrillic spelling ту̑)

1. here (in this place)

   Tu nikad nismo bili. ― We have never been here.

2. (proximal) here, over here (in the indicated place nearby)

   Eno ih tu! ― Here they are!

3. over here (to, towards this place)

   Dođi tu! ― Come over here!

• (Croatia) tuj

• (here, over here): óvdje
• (there, over there): tȁmo, ondje

• tuni

From Latin tū.

• IPA^(key): /tu/

tu (second person singular)

1. you (informal); thou

From Romani tu, from Sanskrit त्वम् (tvam), from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

tu

1. you (singular)

• “tu” in Sinte Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.

• IPA^(key): /tú/

tȕ

1. here, in this place

• túkaj

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

• (Jean Marie River) ti

From Proto-Athabaskan *tuˑ. Cognates include Navajo tó and Chipewyan tuu.

• IPA^(key): /tʰù/
• Hyphenation: tu

tu

1. water

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 90

From Latin tuus, from Proto-Indo-European *towos.

• IPA^(key): /tu/ [t̪u]

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• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: tu
• Homophone: tú

tu sg (second person singular possessive of singular, of plural tus)

1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of tuyo, your

   Synonym: (parts of Central and South America) su

The forms tu and tus are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of tuyo is used instead:

Son tus libros. ― They are your books.

Son los libros tuyos. ― They are your books. (literally, “They are the books of yours.”)

Besides being a pronoun, because tu occurs in a noun phrase and expresses reference, it also grammatically classifies as a determiner (specifically a possessive/genitive determiner).