fui

See also: fúi, fuí, fuî, and fu'i

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Fulfulde, Bagirmi.

Symbol

fui

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bagirmi Fulfulde.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bagirmi Fulfulde terms

Asturian

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser
2. (Western Asturias) alternative form of foi

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfuj]
• Rhymes: -uj

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser
2. first-person singular preterite indicative of ésser

Chibcha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βui/

Noun

fui

1. alternative form of boi

References

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɥi/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɥi

Participle

fui (feminine fuie, masculine plural fuis, feminine plural fuies)

1. past participle of fuir

Galician

Verb

fui

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ser
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fuī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfu.i/
• Rhymes: -ui
• Hyphenation: fù‧i

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular past historic of essere

Japanese

Romanization

fui

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふい

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fefuai, aorist of *fuiō (“I become”) (whence fīō), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfu.iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.i]

Verb

fuī

1. first-person singular perfect active indicative of sum
   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi:

     Haud istuc rogo. Fuistine liber? - Fui.

     That isn’t what I’m asking about. Were you a freeman? - I was.

   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:19

     et aut ego indigna fui illis aut illi mihi forsitan digni non fuerunt quia forsitan viro alio conservasti me

     And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man

Descendants

• Asturian: fui
• French: fus
• Galician: fun
• Italian: fui
• Portuguese: fui
• Romanian: fui
• Sicilian: fui
• Spanish: fui

References

• “fui”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Lithuanian

Interjection

fui

1. ew
2. stop (regarding disgusting action)

References

• “fui”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025

Mirandese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuj/ [ˈfuj] (Central)
• IPA^(key): /ˈfuj/ [ˈfɨwj] (Sendinese)
• Rhymes: -uj
• Syllabification: fui

Verb

fui

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of ir
2. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of ser

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fuy (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfuj/ [ˈfuɪ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfuj/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uj
• Hyphenation: fui

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ir
2. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser

Interjection

fui!

1. (Brazil, colloquial) a farewell

Romanian

Alternative forms

• фуй (fui) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fuj/

Verb

fui

1. (informal) first-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi

Synonyms

• fusei (formal)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfwi/ [ˈfwi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: fui

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ir
2. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser