su

See also: Appendix:Variations of "su"

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Sundanese, from Sundanese ᮞᮥᮔ᮪ᮓ (sunda).

Symbol

su

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Sundanese.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sundanese terms

English

Etymology

See xu.

Noun

su (plural su)

1. Alternative form of xu (“former Vietnamese currency”).
   • 1970, Bernard John Hurren, Airports of the World, page 105:

     100 su = 1 Vietnam dong

   • 2015, Kim Huynh, Vietnam as if...: Tales of youth, love and destiny, page 4:

     Old people pine for the days when a serving of rice cost a 100 su coin.

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• ŝchu

Etymology

From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz. Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.

Noun

su m

1. (Issime, Formazza) son

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Aromanian

Preposition

su

1. alternative form of sum

Awa-Cuaiquer

Noun

su

1. land, earth, ground

References

• Caracterización del pueblo Awa - Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		су
Arabic		سو

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [su]

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

su (definite accusative suyu, plural sular) (countable, uncountable)

1. water

   stəkana su tökmək ― to pour water into a glass

   Bəzi ölkərdə əhalinin təmiz içməli suyu yoxdur.

   In some countries, the population doesn't have clean drinking water.

2. juice

   armud suyu ― pear juice.

   Pomidorun suyu buxarlanıb yalnız “əti” qalmalıdır. ― The juice of the tomato should vaporize and only the "meat" remain.

Declension

The words nə, su and mənşə (and sometimes mövqe) are the only ones in Azerbaijani to take a y in the singular accusative, genitive, and dative cases, and in the singular possessive forms.

Declension of su

	singular	plural
nominative	su	sular
definite accusative	suyu	suları
dative	suya	sulara
locative	suda	sularda
ablative	sudan	sulardan
definite genitive	suyun	suların

Possessive forms of su

	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyum	sularım
sənin (“your”)	suyun	suların
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyu	suları
bizim (“our”)	suyumuz	sularımız
sizin (“your”)	suyunuz	sularınız
onların (“their”)	suyu or suları	suları
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyumu	sularımı
sənin (“your”)	suyunu	sularını
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyunu	sularını
bizim (“our”)	suyumuzu	sularımızı
sizin (“your”)	suyunuzu	sularınızı
onların (“their”)	suyunu or sularını	sularını
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyuma	sularıma
sənin (“your”)	suyuna	sularına
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyuna	sularına
bizim (“our”)	suyumuza	sularımıza
sizin (“your”)	suyunuza	sularınıza
onların (“their”)	suyuna or sularına	sularına
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyumda	sularımda
sənin (“your”)	suyunda	sularında
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyunda	sularında
bizim (“our”)	suyumuzda	sularımızda
sizin (“your”)	suyunuzda	sularınızda
onların (“their”)	suyunda or sularında	sularında
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyumdan	sularımdan
sənin (“your”)	suyundan	sularından
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyundan	sularından
bizim (“our”)	suyumuzdan	sularımızdan
sizin (“your”)	suyunuzdan	sularınızdan
onların (“their”)	suyundan or sularından	sularından
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	suyumun	sularımın
sənin (“your”)	suyunun	sularının
onun (“his/her/its”)	suyunun	sularının
bizim (“our”)	suyumuzun	sularımızın
sizin (“your”)	suyunuzun	sularınızın
onların (“their”)	suyunun or sularının	sularının

Derived terms

• sulu (“watery, juicy”)
• susuz (“waterless”)
  • susuzluq (“drought”)
• sulamaq (“to water”)

Basque

Basque Wikipedia has an article on:

su

Wikipedia ^eu

Alternative forms

• sü (Soule)

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *su.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s̺u/ [s̺u]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -u
• Hyphenation: su

Noun

su inan

1. fire

Declension

Declension of su (inan V-stem)

	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	su	sua	suak	suok
ergative	suk	suak	suek	suok
dative	suri	suari	suei	suoi
genitive	suren	suaren	suen	suon
comitative	surekin	suarekin	suekin	suokin
causative	surengatik	suarengatik	suengatik	suongatik
benefactive	surentzat	suarentzat	suentzat	suontzat
instrumental	suz	suaz	suez	suotaz
innesive	sutan	suan	suetan	suotan
locative	sutako	suko	suetako	suotako
allative	sutara	sura	suetara	suotara
terminative	sutaraino	suraino	suetaraino	suotaraino
directive	sutarantz	surantz	suetarantz	suotarantz
destinative	sutarako	surako	suetarako	suotarako
ablative	sutatik	sutik	suetatik	suotatik
partitive	surik	—	—	—
prolative	sutzat	—	—	—

Derived terms

• sukalde

Descendants

• Catalan: socarrat
  • Spanish: socarrat

Further reading

• “su”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “su”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu/ [ˈsu]

Article

su

1. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) direct marker placed before common nouns

   Synonym: si

   Kinua ko na su pakete.

   I already got the package

See also

• an

Chuukese

Verb

su

1. to depart (on a journey)
2. to go

Czech

Alternative forms

• jsu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsu]

Verb

su

1. (dialect, Moravia) first-person singular present of být

Usage notes

• Only used in grammatical contexts where být (“to be”) is used as a main verb; where it is an auxiliary verb the standard form jsem is used. The same speaker would, for example, say "su doma" (= I'm at home) but "dorazil jsem" (= I (have) arrived).

Synonyms

• jsem

Estonian

Pronoun

su

1. genitive singular of sa

Usage notes

• Used unstressed in a sentence. When the pronoun is stressed, sinu (genitive of sina) is used.

Fala

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu/
• Rhymes: -u
• Syllabification: su

Determiner

su f sg

1. (Lagarteiru) apocopic form of súa (“his, her, its, their”)

Usage notes

• Used in Lagarteiru before a feminine singular noun as part of a noun phrase.

See also

Fala possessive determiners and pronouns

			possessee
			singular		plural
			masculine	feminine	masculine	feminine
possessor	first person	singular	mei	miña	meis	miñas
		plural	nosu	nosa	nosus	nosas
	second person	singular	tei	túa, tu1	teis	túas, tus1
		plural	vosu	vosa	vosus	vosas
	third person		sei	súa, su1	seis	súas, sus1

¹ Determiner forms used in Lagarteiru before a noun.

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 256

Finnish

Noun

su

1. abbreviation of sunnuntai (“Sunday”)

Anagrams

• -us, us.

French

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French sceu, from Old French seu, from Late Latin *sapūtum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: sue, suent, sues, sus, sut, sût
• Rhymes: -y

Participle

su (feminine sue, masculine plural sus, feminine plural sues)

1. past participle of savoir: known

   J'avais su qu'elle mentait.

   I had known that she was lying.

Related terms

• insu m

Etymology 2

contraction of sur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy/

Contraction

su

1. (colloquial, Quebec) sur

Related terms

• s'a
• su'l

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• us