'o

See also: Appendix:Variations of "o" and ʻo

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• o (apostrophe-free orthography)

Etymology

From Old Neapolitan lo, from Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum < ille. Compare Italian lo.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /o/

Article

'o m

1. the

Pronoun

'o m (accusative)

1. him
2. it

Coordinate terms

Number	Person	Nominative	Accusative	Dative	Reflexive	Possessive	Prepositional
singular	first-person	io (i')	me			mìo, mìa, mieje, meje	me, méne
	second-person, familiar	tu	te			tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje	te, téne
	second-person, formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	'i, 'e (li, le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	ìsso
	third-person, feminine	éssa	'a (la)	'e (le)			éssa
plural	first-person	nuje	ce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second-person, plural	vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsse	'i, 'e (li, le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro
	third-person, feminine	llòro	'e (le)

See also

• 'a
• 'e
• ll'
• ô

O'odham

Verb

'o

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of 'o

See also

O'odham Auxiliary

		singular			plural
		imperfective	perfective	future	imperfective	perfective	future
first person	long	'añ	'añt	o	'c	'att	o
	short	ñ	ñt		c	tt
second person	long	'ap	'apt		'am	'amt
	short	a	pt		m	mt
third person	long	'o			'at	'o
	short				t

Samoan

Particle

'o

1. Placed at the beginning of nominative phrases to signify that they are declarative

Tahitian

Article

'o

1. it is
2. the (before proper nouns used as subjects)

Usage notes

Used in front of proper nouns or pronouns; or common nouns with the article te ('o te).

By exception, it is used emphatically before the pronoun 'oe ('o 'oe).

See also

• 'e

References

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “'o” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.