você

Meaning

  1. (by-personal-gender,feminine,formal,informal,masculine) second-person singular personal pronoun; you
  2. (by-personal-gender,feminine,masculine) indefinite pronoun; you; one

Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
vo‧cê
Gender
♂️ Masculine
Pronounced as (IPA)
/voˈse/
Etymology

Syncope of vosmecê, elision of vossemecê, contraction of Old Galician-Portuguese vossa mercee (literally “your mercy”) (today's mercê) from Latin vostra + mercēs. Compare with Spanish usted (from vuestra merced (literally “your mercy”)) and Catalan vostè.

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