fui

See also: fúi, fuî, and fu'i

Asturian

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfuj/
• Rhymes: -uj

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular preterite indicative form of ser

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɥi/
• Rhymes: -ɥi

Verb

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

1. past participle of fuir

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Italian

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular past historic of essere

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Japanese

Romanization

fui

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふい

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.iː/, [ˈfʊ.iː]

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

• French: fus
• Italian: fui
• Portuguese: fui
• Romanian: fi
• Spanish: fui

References

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

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fuy (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuj/

Verb

fui

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

Interjection

fui!

1. (slang) a farewell

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fuj]

Verb

fui

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

Synonyms

• fusei (formal)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fwi/

Verb

fui

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of ir.

fui

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of ser.