eu

See also Eu, EU, .eu, eu-, and eü

French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *habutus (Classical Latin habitus). Compare Italian avuto, Catalan hagut, Old Spanish avudo, Romanian avut, Sicilian avutu, Venetian avudo.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /y/

Verb

eu m (feminine eue, masculine plural eus, feminine plural eues)

1. Past participle of avoir

Usage notes

• Eu is pronounced /y/, despite the fact that the digraph -eu- is pronounced /œ/ when in another word.

Anagrams

• UE

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Galician

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Pronoun

eu nominative (oblique min, dative me, accusative me)

1. I (singular first-person personal pronoun)

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns
• comigo
• me
• meu
• min

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Manx

Pronoun

eu (emphatic form euish)

1. 2nd person plural/formal of ec

   at you/ye

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Old Provençal

Alternative forms

• ie (before enclitic)
• ieu

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɛw/

Pronoun

eu

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

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Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• giu
• iu

Etymology

See iu.

Pronoun

eū

1. you (accusative)

Declension

Old Saxon personal pronoun declensions

Personal pronouns
Singular	1.	2.	3. m	3. f	3. n
Nominative	ik	thū	hē	sīu	it
Accusative	mī, mik	thī, thik	ina	sīa
Dative	mī	thī	imu	iru	it
Genitive	mīn	thīn	is	ira	is
Dual	1.	2.	-	-	-
Nominative	wit	git	-	-	-
Accusative	unk	ink	-	-	-
Dative
Genitive	unkaro	inka	-	-	-
Plural	1.	2.	3. m	3. f	3. n
Nominative	wī	gī	sīa	sīa	sīu
Accusative	ūs	īu, gīu
Dative			im
Genitive	ūsar	īuwar, gīuwar	iro

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese eu, from Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈew/, X-SAMPA: /ew/
• Hyphenation: eu

Pronoun

eu

1. I
   • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, page 184:

     Eu estava na esperança de encontrá-lo antes do jantar!

     I was hoping to meet you before dinner!

Derived terms

• eu lírico

Related terms

• ego

See also

Portuguese personal pronouns (edit)
Number	Person	Nominative (subject)		Objective (direct object)		Objective (indirect object)	Reflexive	Prepositional		Prepositional with com		Non-declining
		m	f	m	f	m and f	m and f	m	f	m	f	m	f
Singular	First	eu		me				mim		comigo
	Second	tu		te				ti		contigo		você
												o senhor	a senhora
	Third	ele	ela	o (lo, no)	a (la, na)	lhe	se	ele	ela	com ele	com ela
								si (reflexive)		consigo (reflexive)
Plural	First	nós		nos				nós		conosco		a gente
	Second	vós		vos				vós		convosco		vocês
												os senhores	as senhoras
	Third	eles	elas	os (los, nos)	as (las, nas)	lhes	se	eles	elas	com eles	com elas
								si (reflexive)		consigo (reflexive)
Impersonal							se	si		consigo

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Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [jew], [jo]

Pronoun

eu (first-person singular)

1. I

Declension

Nominative
eu
Accusative
stressed		unstressed
mine		mă
Genitive
Singular		Plural
m & n	f	m	f & n
meu	mea	mei	mele
Dative
stressed		unstressed
mie		îmi
Reflexive
Accusative		Dative
stressed	unstressed	stressed	unstressed
mă	mine	mie	îmi

See also

Romanian personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		eu	noi
2nd person	familiar	tu	voi
	polite	dumneata	dumneavoastră
	formal	dumneavoastră
3rd person familiar	m	el	ei
	f	ea	ele
3rd person polite	m	dumnealui	dumnealor
	f	dumneaei

Noun

eu n (plural euri)

1. ego

Declension

declension of eu

	singular		plural
gender n	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un eu	eul	niște euri	eurile
genitive/dative	unui eu	eului	unor euri	eurilor

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun) jau
• (Sursilvan) jeu
• (Sutsilvan) jou
• (Surmiran) ia
• (Puter) eau

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eo, attested from the 6th century in Romance, from Latin ego.; akin to Greek εγώ, Sanskrit aham, all from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronoun

eu

1. (Vallader) I

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• i (after vowels)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /i/, /əi/

Usage notes

The pronunciation IPA: /əi/ is found mainly in careful speech. Because eu is homonymic with ei (“his, her”).

Pronoun

eu

1. their (plural)

Usage notes

nhw is often added after the noun.