você
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Portuguese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Syncope of vosmecê, elision of vossemecê, contraction of Old Portuguese vossa mercee (today's mercê) from Latin vostra and mercēs. Compare with the Spanish usted (from vuestra merced, also literally "your mercy") and Catalan vostè.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
você m or f (plural vocês)
- (formal, semi-formal, or offensive in Portugal, informal or semi-formal in Brazil) second-person singular personal pronoun; you
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 227:
- Pensei que você tivesse dito que ela estava só mandando você escrever!
- I thought that you had said that she was just ordering you to write!
- Pensei que você tivesse dito que ela estava só mandando você escrever!
- 2003, J. K. Rowling, Lya Wyler, Harry Potter e a Ordem da Fênix, Rocco, page 227:
- indefinite personal pronoun; you; one
- Você pode levar um cavalo até a água, mas não pode fazê-lo beber.
- You can take a horse to the water, but you can’t make it drink.
Usage notes[edit]
- In Portugal and some parts of Brazil, você represents an intermediate degree of formality between tu (familiar) and o senhor (very formal). It should be used in situations of little intimacy, but almost always omitted, otherwise it is taken being offensive or demeaning.
- In most parts of Brazil (especially in the Southeast, with the exception of some cities), você has replaced tu as the informal second person singular pronoun, and tu is relegated to archaic, poetic and religious usages. In Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Brasília and most Northeastern States, tu is used in very informal situations, though it usually uses the third-person singular conjugation of verbs.
- Teu, te, and to a lesser extent ti and contigo, are widely used alongside você in Brazilian dialects that don’t use tu.
- Its plural form, vós, is rarely used in general Portuguese and is now mostly confined to some of the northernmost rural dialects of European Portuguese and poetry.
- Você and vocês, despite being 2nd-person pronouns, always take 3rd-person verbs.
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:você.
Alternative forms[edit]
- vossa mercê (archaic)[1]
- vossemecê (archaic)[1]
- vosmecê (archaic, rural areas of Brazil)[1]
- sossemecê (obsolete)[1]
- mecê (rural areas of Brazil)[1]
- vancê (rural areas of Brazil)[1]
- vacê (rural areas of Brazil)[1]
- vossuncê (rural areas of Brazil)[1]
- vassuncê (rural areas of Brazil)[1]
- suncê (rural areas of Brazil)
- ocê (eye dialect, rural areas of Brazil)[1]
- cê (slang, Brazil)
- vc (spelling Internet slang, Brazil)
- c (spelling Internet slang, Brazil)
Synonyms[edit]
- (second-person singular personal pronoun): o senhor, tu
- (indefinite pronoun): reflexive third-person pronouns (se, si, consigo)
See also[edit]
Portuguese personal pronouns (edit) | |||||||||||||
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Number | Person | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct object) |
Dative (indirect object) |
Prepositional | Prepositional with com |
Non-declining | ||||||
m | f | m | f | m and f | m | f | m | f | m | f | |||
Singular | First | eu | me | mim | comigo | ||||||||
Second | tu | te | ti | contigo | você | ||||||||
o senhor | a senhora | ||||||||||||
Third | ele | ela | o (lo, no) |
a (la, na) |
lhe | ele | ela | com ele | com ela | o mesmo | a mesma | ||
se | si | consigo | |||||||||||
Plural | First | nós | nos | nós | connosco (Portugal) conosco (Brazil) |
a gente | |||||||
Second | vós | vos | vós | convosco, com vós | vocês | ||||||||
os senhores | as senhoras | ||||||||||||
Third | eles | elas | os (los, nos) |
as (las, nas) |
lhes | eles | elas | com eles | com elas | os mesmos | as mesmas | ||
se | si | consigo | |||||||||||
Indefinite | se | si | consigo |