lui
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[edit] Dutch
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch loy, leuy. Cognate with the Old Norse adjective lúinn “exhausted”, the Latin noun luēs (“‘epidemy’”) and the Ancient Greek verb λύω “I untie”.[1]
[edit] Adjective
lui, luie (comparative luier, luiere; superlative luist, luiste)
[edit] Derived terms
- luiaard m.
- luierik m. etc.
- luiheid
- luilak m.
- luilekker, luilekkerland
- luiwammes m.
- liever lui dan moe
[edit] Etymology 2
Short form of luiden, a dialectal variant of lieden.[2]
[edit] Noun
lui pl. (has no singular; diminutive (plural): luitjes)
- An alternative form of lieden (men, persons), which got a derogatory connotation; used to mean people considered as a number of individuals (cognate with Latin liber 'free'!) rather than a collective group
- in compounds, -lui and -lieden are used as the plural of -man
[edit] References
- Notes:
- ^ de Vries / de Tollenaere, "Etymologisch Woordenboek", Utrecht 1986 (14de druk), ISBN 90-274-3459-X; article lui 2
- ^ de Vries / de Tollenaere, "Etymologisch Woordenboek", Utrecht 1986 (14de druk), ISBN 90-274-3459-X; article lieden
[edit] Esperanto
[edit] Verb
lui (present luas, past luis, future luos, conditional luus, jussive luu)
- (transitive) To rent (something from someone)
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
From Vulgar Latin illui, which is a Vulgar Latin dative of Classical Latin ille. The -ui ending in Vulgar Latin illui is due to the influence of cui.[1]
Cognate with Italian lui.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Pronoun
lui
- him, he; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when disjoined from a sentence, or as a stressed subject.
- J'habitais avec lui.
- I was living with him.
- C'est lui qui a dit cela.
- It's he who said that.
- Lui, il n'en sait rien.
- He doesn't know anything about it.
- (A date for this quote is being sought): Alphonse Daudet, “La Dernière Classe” (“The Last Class”),
- Je crois aussi que je n'avais jamais si bien écouté, et que lui non plus n'avait jamais mis autant de patience à ses explications.
- I believe also that I had never listened so well, and that neither had he ever put so much patience into his explanations.
- Je crois aussi que je n'avais jamais si bien écouté, et que lui non plus n'avait jamais mis autant de patience à ses explications.
- J'habitais avec lui.
- Him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object.
- Je lui ai donné le livre.
- I gave the book to him/her.
- Je lui ai donné le livre.
[edit] Related terms
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | je, j' | me, m' | — | — | moi | ||
| Second | — | tu, t' | te, t' | — | — | toi | |||
| Third | Masculine | il | se, s' | le, l' | lui | y | en | lui | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l' | elle | ||||||
| — | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
| Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
| Third | Masculine | ils | se, s' | les | leur | y | en | eux | |
| Feminine | elles | elles | |||||||
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[edit] References
- Notes:
- ^ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964). “il”, Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French). Paris: Librairie Larousse.
[edit] Italian
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈlui]
[edit] Etymology
From Vulgar Latin illūi, which is a Vulgar Latin form of illī (dative singular of ille). The ūi in illūi is modelled under influence of Vulgar Latin cūi (see Classical Latin cui).[1]
[edit] Pronoun
lui
[edit] Related terms
[edit] References
- Notes:
- ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002). Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), p. 130, Bologna: il Mulino. ISBN 88-15-08638-2.
[edit] Romanian
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /luj/
[edit] Pronoun
lui (genitive form of el)
[edit] Declension
| singular & plural |
|---|
| masculine, feminine & neuter |
| lui |
[edit] Synonyms
[edit] Pronoun
lui (stressed dative form of el)
- to him
[edit] Synonyms
- îi (unstressed form)