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vostro

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Catalan

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Pronoun

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vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostros, feminine plural vostres)

  1. (Eastern dialectal, Balearic, Alghero) your, yours (plural)

Usage notes

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

This form is found within Balearic, Algherese and some additional Eastern dialects.

Declension

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References

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  • “vostro” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Istriot

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Etymology

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From Latin voster, vostrum.

Adjective

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vostro m sg (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

  1. your (plural)

Pronoun

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vostro

  1. your, yours (plural)
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Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin vostrum, which is the accusative of voster, which derives from the older form vester, from Proto-Italic *westeros.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔ.stro/
  • Rhymes: -ɔstro
  • Hyphenation: vò‧stro
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Determiner

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vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

  1. your; plural and polite forms
    i vostri figliyour children
    le vostre macchineyour cars
    casa vostrayour house
    vostro padreyour father

Pronoun

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vostro (feminine vostra, masculine plural vostri, feminine plural vostre)

  1. yours
    Sono i vostriThey are yours.

Usage notes

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  • The use or non-use of the definite article in conjunction with the determiner and possessive pronoun is the same as for mio; see the usage note there.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Patota, Giuseppe (2002) Lineamenti di grammatica storica dell'italiano (in Italian), Bologna: il Mulino, →ISBN, page 134

Latin

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Pronoun

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vostrō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of voster