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zu.

Second-person singular personal pronoun; you

2 characters1 syllables approx.Euskara language

Meaning & usage

pron/s̻u/[s̻u]/s̻u/dialectal[s̻u]dialectal
  1. Second-person singular personal pronoun; you

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Proto-Basque *zu, originally a second-person plural pronoun. Over time, it came to be used as a polite second-person singular pronoun; while hi went from being a general second-person singular pronoun to a strictly informal one. In all the written record it appears as a singular pronoun, but it might have survived as a plural pronoun up to the nineteenth century in parts of Biscay.

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