teu

See also: TEU, te'u, and tếu

Catalan

Alternative forms

• tou (Alghero)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan teu (feminine tua), from Latin tuum, from Proto-Italic *towos. The original stem was modified by analogy with meu.

The weak form ton is also from Latin tuum in an unstressed (monosyllabic) position.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtew]

Pronoun

teu (feminine teva or teua, masculine plural teus, feminine plural teves or teues)

1. your, yours (singular)

Usage notes

• When preceding a noun, teu is always preceded by the appropriate definite article.

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

			strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
				proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
singular	1st person	standard	jo, mi3	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
		majestic1	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
		formal1	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		very formal2	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
	3rd person	m	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
		f	ella	la, l’4	-la	li	-li	seu
		n		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
plural
	1st person		nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		formal2	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
	3rd person	m	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
		f	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive			si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial	ablative/genitive			en, n’	-ne, ’n
	locative			hi	-hi

¹ Behaves grammatically as plural.   ² Behaves grammatically as third person.
³ Only as object of a preposition.   ⁴ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Derived terms

• el teu

See also

• ton

Drehu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪eu/

Noun

teu

1. moon

References

• Tyron, D.T., Hackman, B. (1983) Solomon Islands languages: An internal classification. Cited in: "Dehu" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "ⁿDe’u" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese teu, from Latin tuus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtew/

Pronoun

teu m (masculine singular teu, masculine plural teus, feminine singular túa, feminine plural túas)

1. (possessive) yours (singular you)

See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns

Further reading

• “teu”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

Istro-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tuus, probably through an intermediate Vulgar Latin *tous or *teus. Compare to Catalan el teu and Daco-Romanian tău.

Adjective

teu m (feminine te, masculine plural teľ, feminine plural tele)

1. your

   nomelu teu

   your name

Japanese

Romanization

teu

1. Rōmaji transcription of てう

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin tuus, from Proto-Italic *towos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tøː/

Adjective

teu (invariable)

1. your (singular)

Pronoun

teu (invariable)

1. (possessive) yours (singular)

Synonyms

• tò

See also

• mæ
• seu, sò
• nòstro
• vòstro

Nias

Noun

teu (mutated form deu)

1. rain

References

• Sundermann, Heinrich. 1905. Niassisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Moers: Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, p. 208.

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese tou, from Latin tuus, from Proto-Italic *towos.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /tew/ [teʊ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tew/

• Hyphenation: teu

Pronoun

teu (feminine tua)

1. Second-person singular possessive pronoun.
   1. your; yours

See also

Portuguese possessive pronouns

			singular possessum		plural possessum
			masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
singular possessor	first person		meu	minha	meus	minhas
	second person		teu	tua	teus	tuas
	third person	any	seu	sua	seus	suas
		m	dele
		f	dela
plural possessor	first person		nosso	nossa	nossos	nossas
	second person		vosso	vossa	vossos	vossas
	third person	any	seu	sua	seus	suas
		m	deles
		f	delas

Etymology 2

From meu (“hey, dude”), in analogy with the eu/meu and tu/teu pronominal pairs.

Interjection

teu!

2. (Rio Grande do Sul, slang) hey; oi (used vocatively to draw someone’s attention)
4. (Rio Grande do Sul, slang) dude, mate

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French té.

Noun

teu n (plural teuri)

1. T-square

Declension

Declension of teu

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	teu	teul		teuri	teurile
genitive-dative	teu	teului		teuri	teurilor
vocative	teule			teurilor

Tarairiú

Noun

teu

1. water

Further reading

• Juvandi de Souza Santos, Cariri e Tarairiú?: culturas tapuais nos sertões da Paraíba (2009)

Zou

Verb

teu

1. dig

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf