vous
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[edit] Czech
[edit] Noun
vous m.
[edit] See also
- knír m.
[edit] French
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Pronoun
vous (formal singular, and plural)
- The plural personal pronoun in the second person:
- You, to you (indirect object pronoun).
- Je vous donne mon adresse - I give you my address or I give my address to you.
[edit] Usage notes
- Vous is used to address more than one person or to address one person formally.
[edit] Related terms
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 | |||||||
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Middle French
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Pronoun
vous
- you (plural or polite form)
[edit] Old French
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Pronoun
vous
- you (plural or polite form)