zou

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• Rhymes: -ɑu̯
• IPA^(key): /zɑu̯/

zou

1. singular past indicative of zullen

• IPA^(key): /zu/

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• Rhymes: -u

zou

1. shoo

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

From Middle High German zuo, from Old High German zuo, from Proto-Germanic *tō.

All monosyllabic function words in -éi, -ou (déi, méi, wéi, sou, wou, zwou) have an unstressed pronunciation in [i], [u]. These are normally not reflected in the spelling. The forms zou (adverb) and zu (preposition) are an exception, probably because of the contractions zum, zur, and the corresponding German zu.

• IPA^(key): /tseu̯/, [t͡səʊ̯]

  Rhymes: -əʊ

zou

1. adverbial form of the preposition zu (“in, at”)
2. closed, shut

• zoumaachen
• zouweisen

• ze
• zu

zou

1. Nonstandard spelling of zōu.
2. Nonstandard spelling of zǒu.
3. Nonstandard spelling of zòu.
4. Nonstandard spelling of zóu.

• 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.