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See also: Appendix:Variations of "toi"
'Are'are
[edit]Noun
[edit]toi
References
[edit]- Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)
Asturian
[edit]Verb
[edit]toi
Dalmatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]toi
Related terms
[edit]Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Proto-Finnic *too. -i is probably from the plural form noi.
Pronoun
[edit]toi (colloquial)
- Synonym of tuo (“that”).
Usage notes
[edit]- Not used in written text, except within quotations.
Declension
[edit]This word could be considered to belong to declension type 19 (suo), except that the singular and plural forms come from different sources, so the declension can be called irregular. The forms in brackets are never or very rarely used.
Declension of toi (type 19/suo)
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Further reading
[edit]- “toi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]toi
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- toé (Quebec, colloquial)
Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French toi, tei, from Old French tei, te, from Latin tē.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /twa/
- (Quebec, informal) IPA(key): /twe/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: toit, toits, toua, touas, touât
Pronoun
[edit]toi
- you (informal second-person singular personal pronoun)
- J’ai besoin de toi. ― I need you
- Et toi, ça va comment ?
- And you, how are you?
- Souviens-toi de ce qui est vraiment important.
- Remember what is really important.
- Attends, tu m’as dit qu’il y a dans cette maison plus de deux-cents livres. Est-ce qu’ils sont tous à toi ?
- Wait, you told me that there are more than two hundred books in this house. Are they all yours?
- Toi, t’es quelque chose de différent.
- You are something different.
- Psalm 71:5:
- Car tu es mon espérance, Seigneur Éternel! En toi je me confie dès ma jeunesse.
- For you are my hope, Eternal Lord! In you I entrust myself since my youth.
- 1996, Herman Melville, translated by Lucien Jacques, Joan Smith, and Jean Giono, Moby Dick, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 722:
- Oh, Achab, cria Starbuck, il n’est pas trop tard, même maintenant, le troisième jour, pour renoncer. Vois, Moby Dick ne te cherche pas. C’est toi, toi qui la cherches follement.
- "Oh, Ahab," cried Starbuck, "it's not too late, even now, on the third day, to give up. See, Moby Dick isn't looking for you. It is you, you who seeks her madly."
Synonyms
[edit]- tézigue (argot)
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]French personal pronouns
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | |
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | ||
Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||||
Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | — | — | soi4 | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | |
Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | — | — | vous2 | ||
Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | y | en | eux3 | |
Feminine | elles | elles |
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
Further reading
[edit]- “toi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Verb
[edit]toi
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Romanization
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Middle French
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]toi
- Alternative form of toy
Nefamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]toi (plural tohot)
- (singular; very familiar, inferior) you
Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]toi
Usage notes
[edit]- Similar in terms of usage to modern French toi except it may be used as a personal object pronoun where modern French would use te
- Ore ai aperte occasion De toi querre une question (modern French uses te poser une question).
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوی (toy).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]toi n (plural toiuri)
- (in the singular, of an action or event) the culminating point
- (colloquial) center, heart
- scuffle, struggle, scramble
- (uncountable) a flock of birds
Declension
[edit]Declension of toi
References
[edit]- toi in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Samoan Plantation Pidgin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]toi
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76
Sassarese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]toi
Pronoun
[edit]toi
Veps
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]toi
Inflection
[edit]Inflection of toi (inflection type 7/pedai) | |||
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nominative sing. | toi | ||
genitive sing. | tojan | ||
partitive sing. | tojad | ||
partitive plur. | tojid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | toi | tojad | |
accusative | tojan | tojad | |
genitive | tojan | tojiden | |
partitive | tojad | tojid | |
essive-instructive | tojan | tojin | |
translative | tojaks | tojikš | |
inessive | tojas | tojiš | |
elative | tojaspäi | tojišpäi | |
illative | tojaha | tojihe | |
adessive | tojal | tojil | |
ablative | tojalpäi | tojilpäi | |
allative | tojale | tojile | |
abessive | tojata | tojita | |
comitative | tojanke | tojidenke | |
prolative | tojadme | tojidme | |
approximative I | tojanno | tojidenno | |
approximative II | tojannoks | tojidennoks | |
egressive | tojannopäi | tojidennopäi | |
terminative I | tojahasai | tojihesai | |
terminative II | tojalesai | tojilesai | |
terminative III | tojassai | — | |
additive I | tojahapäi | tojihepäi | |
additive II | tojalepäi | tojilepäi |
References
[edit]- Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “поставщик”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary][2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
Vietnamese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 災 (“disaster”, SV: tai).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- (of domestic animals) to die in epidemic
- (colloquial) to die
- (colloquial, of money, efforts, etc.) to be lost; to go to waste
West Makian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]toi
References
[edit]- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[3], Pacific linguistics
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- Rhymes:Finnish/oi
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