u

Significado

1. (personal,second-person,singular,subjective) you (polite)
2. (objective,personal,second-person,singular) you (polite)
3. (objective,personal,second-person,singular) thee (dialectal)
4. (personal,plural,second-person,subjective) you (polite)
5. (objective,personal,plural,second-person) you (polite)
6. (reflexive,second-person,singular) thyself (dialectal)
7. (plural,reflexive,second-person) yourselves (dialectal)

Frecuencia

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/y/

Etimología

Originally the dative and accusative form of jij/gij, from Middle Dutch u, from Old Dutch iu, from Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz, from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz, West Germanic variant of *izwiz, dative/accusative of *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́. Doublet of jou. The use as a nominative form is linked to the polite address uwe edelheid (“your nobility, your gentility”), which was shortened to U E. in writing and at times accordingly pronounced /yˈ(w)eː/. It is debated, however, whether this was the actual cause of the development or whether it merely reinforced it. Compare English you, which was originally an object form, as well as Afrikaans ons and nonstandard Dutch hun. Cognate with West Frisian jo, Low German jo, ju, English you, German euch.