autrui

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /o.tʁɥi/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɥi

Pronoun

autrui

  1. (chiefly literary) others; other people; someone else
    • 1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince:
      Il est bien plus difficile de se juger soi-même que de juger autrui.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1994, Yasmina Reza, ‘Art’:
      Yvan. Dès l’instant qu’il n’y a pas de préjudice pour autrui
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    Il ne faut pas faire mal à autrui.
    One should not do harm to others.

Further reading


Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From altre, whence French autre.

Pronoun

autrui

  1. others (other people)

See also