Masculine
você
Sentences
Meaning
- (by-personal-gender, feminine, formal, informal, masculine) second-person singular personal pronoun; you
- (by-personal-gender, feminine, masculine) indefinite pronoun; you; one
Synonyms
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/voˈse/
Etymology
In summary
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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