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)

  1. lazy
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[edit] Etymology 2

Short form of luiden, a dialectal variant of lieden.[2]

[edit] Noun

lui pl. (has no singular; diminutive (plural): luitjes)

  1. 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
  2. in compounds, -lui and -lieden are used as the plural of -man

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  • Notes:
  1. ^ de Vries / de Tollenaere, "Etymologisch Woordenboek", Utrecht 1986 (14de druk), ISBN 90-274-3459-X; article lui 2
  2. ^ de Vries / de Tollenaere, "Etymologisch Woordenboek", Utrecht 1986 (14de druk), ISBN 90-274-3459-X; article lieden

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[edit] Verb

lui (present luas, past luis, future luos, conditional luus, jussive luu)

  1. (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.

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lui

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
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    French personal pronouns
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:
  1. ^ Dauzat, Albert; Jean Dubois, Henri Mitterand (1964). “il”, Nouveau dictionnaire étymologique (in French). Paris: Librairie Larousse.

[edit] Italian

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[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

  1. he
  2. him (indirect form of lui used after a preposition)

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[edit] References

  • Notes:
  1. ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002). Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), p. 130, Bologna: il Mulino. ISBN 88-15-08638-2.

[edit] Romanian

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[edit] Pronoun

lui (genitive form of el)

  1. his
    Au ceasul lui?
    Do they have his watch?

[edit] Declension

singular & plural
masculine, feminine & neuter
lui

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[edit] Pronoun

lui (stressed dative form of el)

  1. to him

[edit] Synonyms

  • îi (unstressed form)
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