lui

See also: Lui, lúi, luí, luì, -lui, lûi, lụi, ḷúi, and lùi

Translingual

Symbol

lui

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Luiseño.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• a lui

Etymology

From Late Latin illūi, which is a form of Latin illī (dative singular of ille). Compare Romanian lui.

Pronoun

lui m (genitive form of el, feminine equivalent ljei, plural lor)

1. his

Pronoun

lui m ((long/stressed) dative form of el, feminine equivalent ljei, plural lor)

1. to him

Usage notes

It is always preceded by 'a'- "a lui".

Related terms

• ljei (feminine equivalent)
• el/elu (masculine singular nominative and masculine singular accusative- long/stressed form)
• ãlj/ilj/lji (masculine/feminine singular dative- short/unstressed form)
• ãl (masculine singular accusative- short/unstressed form)
• (a) lor (masculine/feminine plural genitive and masculine/feminine plural dative- long/stressed form)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lœy̯/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch loy, from Proto-Germanic *luja-. further etymology unsure. May be cognate with the Old Norse adjective lúinn (“exhausted”). Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off, separate, free”), source of Proto-Germanic *lausaz, Albanian lirë.^[1]

Adjective

lui (comparative luier, superlative luist)

1. lazy

Declension

Declension of lui
uninflected	lui
inflected	luie
comparative	luier
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		lui	luier	het luist het luiste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	luie	luiere	luiste
	n. sing.	lui	luier	luiste
	plural	luie	luiere	luiste
definite		luie	luiere	luiste
partitive		luis	luiers	—

Derived terms

• luiaard
• luierik
• luiheid
• luilak
• luilekker
• luiwammes
• luie stoel
• liever lui dan moe

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: loi
• Negerhollands: lui, loi, looje

Etymology 2

Short form of luiden, a variant of lieden.^[2]

Noun

lui pl (plural only, diminutive luitjes n)

1. Alternative form of lieden

Derived terms

• wijlui, gijlui, zijlui
• jongelui

Descendants

• Petjo: lui, luitjes

References

1. P.A.F. van Veen en N. van der Sijs (1997), Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden, 2e druk, Van Dale Lexicografie, Utrecht/Antwerpen
2. de Vries / de Tollenaere, "Etymologisch Woordenboek", Utrecht 1986 (14de druk), →ISBN; article lieden

Anagrams

• uil

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from French louer. Etymologically related to loko.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlui]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ui
• Hyphenation: lu‧i

Verb

lui (present luas, past luis, future luos, conditional luus, volitive luu)

1. (transitive) to rent (something from someone)

Conjugation

Conjugation of lui

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		luas		luis		luos
active participle		luanta	luantaj	luinta	luintaj	luonta	luontaj
	acc.	luantan	luantajn	luintan	luintajn	luontan	luontajn
passive participle		luata	luataj	luita	luitaj	luota	luotaj
	acc.	luatan	luatajn	luitan	luitajn	luotan	luotajn
nominal active participle		luanto	luantoj	luinto	luintoj	luonto	luontoj
	acc.	luanton	luantojn	luinton	luintojn	luonton	luontojn
nominal passive participle		luato	luatoj	luito	luitoj	luoto	luotoj
	acc.	luaton	luatojn	luiton	luitojn	luoton	luotojn
adverbial active participle		luante		luinte		luonte
adverbial passive participle		luate		luite		luote
		infinitive	lui	imperative	luu	conditional	luus

Derived terms

• luanto
• ludoni
• luebla
• luiganto
• luigi
• luo
• vicluigi

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin illui.

Pronoun

lui m (ORB, broad)

1. him (third-person singular masculine dative or tonic)

See also

singular	nominative	accusative	dative	tonic1	possessive2
1st person	jo	mè			min
2nd person	te	tè			tin
3rd person masculine	il	lo / le	lui		sin
3rd person feminine	el	la	lyé
3rd person neuter	o		y	—
3rd person reflexive	—	sè
plural	nominative	accusative	dative	tonic1	possessive2
1st person	nos				noutro
2nd person	vos				voutro
3rd person masculine	ils	los / les	lor		lor
3rd person feminine	els	les	lor / lyés
3rd person reflexive	—	sè
1 Disjunctive or object of a preposition.		2 Generally preceded by a definite article.

Franco-Provençal personal pronouns

References

• lui in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɥi/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /lwi/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɥi, -wi
• (Belgium) Homophone: Louis

Etymology 1

Inherited from Late Latin illui.

Pronoun

lui m

1. him, he; the third-person masculine singular personal pronoun used after a preposition, or as the predicate of a linking verb, or when disjoined from a sentence, or as a stressed subject

   J’habitais avec lui.

   I was living with him.

   C’est lui qui a dit cela.

   It was him who said that.

   Lui, il n’en sait rien.

   He doesn't know anything about it.

   • 1873, Alphonse Daudet, Contes du Lundi, La Dernière Classe:

     Je crois aussi que je n’avais jamais si bien écouté, et que lui non plus n’avait jamais mis autant de patience à ses explications.

     I believe also that I had never listened so well, and that neither had he ever put so much patience into his explanations.

2. him, her; the third-person singular personal pronoun used as an indirect object

   Je lui ai donné le livre.

   I gave the book to him/her.

Synonyms

• cézigue (argot)

Derived terms

• lui-même

Related terms

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

French personal pronouns

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.

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: li

Etymology 2

see the verb luire

Participle

lui (intransitive, hence invariable)

1. past participle of luire

References

• “lui”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin illui.

Pronoun

lui

1. he
2. you (formal)

See also

Friulian personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		jo	nô
2nd person	familiar	tu	vô
	polite	lui, jê	lôr
3rd person	m	lui,	lôr
	f	jê	lôr

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin illui.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluj/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uj
• Hyphenation: lùi

Pronoun

lui (plural loro, feminine lei)

1. he

   Synonym: egli

2. (disjunctive) him
3. it
   • 1472, Giusto de’ Conti, La bella mano, Giannalberto Tumermani (1750), page 122:

     Il cor meco s’adira, ed io con lui.

     My heart gets angry with me, and I with it.

   • 2000, Gianfranco Liori, Come un fumetto giapponese, Giunti, published 2008, page 64:

     Cercai il mio portafogli dentro lo zaino, ma era sparito anche lui e tutti i soldi che c’erano dentro.

     I looked for my wallet in the backpack, but it had disappeared as well, along with all the money inside.

See also

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Combined	Disjunctive	Locative	Partitive
Singular	first	—	io	mi, m', -mi			me	me	—
	second	—	tu	ti, t', -ti			te	te
	third	m	lui	si2, s', -si	lo, l', -lo	gli, -gli	glie, se2	lui, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f	lei, Lei1		la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1	le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1		lei, Lei1, sé
Plural	first	—	noi	ci, c', -ci			ce	noi	—
	second	—	voi, Voi4	vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4			ve	voi, Voi4
	third	m	loro, Loro1	si, s', -si	li, Li1, -li, -Li1	gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1	glie, se	loro, Loro1, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f			le, Le1, -le, -Le1
1	Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
2	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3	Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language.
4	Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).

Italian personal pronouns

References

• lui in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• ulì

Kambera

Verb

lui

1. (intransitive) to melt
2. (intransitive) to dissolve

Derived terms

• palui

References

• Marian Klamer (1998) A Grammar of Kambera, Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 179

Latin

Noun

luī

1. dative singular of luēs

Pronoun

lui (Early Medieval Latin)

1. Alternative form of illui

Verb

luī

1. first-person singular perfect active indicative of luō

References

• lui in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *luuy, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *lwi(y).

Noun

lui

1. river

References

• Grammar and Dictionary of the Lushai Language by J.H. Lorrain, Shillong 1898

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin illūi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luj/

• Audio:

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Pronoun

lui m (genitive form of el, feminine equivalent ei, plural lor)

1. his

   Synonym: său

   Au ceasul lui?

   Do they have his watch?

Declension

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	lui		lui	lui	lui
	definite	—		—	—	—
genitive/ dative	indefinite	lui		lui	lui	lui
	definite	—		—	—	—

declension of lui

Pronoun

lui m (stressed dative form of el, feminine equivalent ei, plural lor)

1. (indirect object, third-person singular) to him

   Synonym: (unstressed form) îi

Article

lui

2. genitive/dative article for proper names designating people that morphologically don't permit a suffix

   Casa lui Carmen.

   Carmen's house.

   Asta nu-i place lui Bogdan.

   Bogdan doesn't like this.

Usage notes

Whereas singular masculine proper names always form the genitive and dative using the preposed lui, feminine ones only do so when the specific name doesn't have a genitive/dative form itself: casa lui Carmen but casa Mariei. This rule is ignored by many in informal situations and lui is used with feminine names either way.

Alternative forms

• lu' — informal

Related terms

• -lui

Spanish

Verb

lui

1. inflection of luir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person singular voseo imperative

Uneapa

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *ruyuŋ with irregular l, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *duyuŋ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lui/

Noun

lui

1. dugong

Further reading

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*duyuŋ₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [luj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [luj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [luj˧˧]

Verb

lui • (𫩍 - 𨙝, 𬰉, 𨆢)

1. to step back; to recede; to move backward; to retreat
2. to (fall, look, think) back
3. (of disease, anger, etc.) to abate; to decrease
4. (rare) Synonym of lùi (“to postpone”)

Related terms

• lùi

See also

• lui tới
• rút lui