vostre

See also: vôtre

Catalan

Alternative forms

• vostro (dialectal)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan vostre, from Latin vostrum, variant of vestrum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbɔs.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvɔs.tɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvɔs.tɾe]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Homophone: vostra (Central, Balearic)

Pronoun

vostre m (feminine vostra, plural vostres)

1. your, yours (plural)

   Esteu a casa vostra? ― Are you at home? (literally, “Are you at your house?”)

Usage notes

• When preceding a noun, the pronoun vostre 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-.

Determiner

vostre m (feminine vostra, plural vostres)

1. (archaic, dialectal) your (plural)

Usage notes

• The use of vostre and the other possessive determiners is mostly archaic in the majority of dialects, with articulated possessive pronouns (e.g. el meu) mostly being used in their stead. However, mon, ton, and son are still widely used before certain nouns referring to family members and some affective nouns, such as amic, casa, and vida. Which nouns actually find use with the possessive determiners depends greatly on the locale.

French

Alternative forms

• vôtre, votre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔstʁ/

Determiner

vostre (plural vostres)

1. obsolete spelling of vôtre

Anagrams

• orvets, vôtres

Interlingua

Determiner

vostre

1. (possessive, in the plural) your

Italian

Determiner

vostre

1. feminine plural of vostro

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French vostre.

Pronoun

vostre

1. your (second-person plural or polite possessive pronoun)

Usage notes

• As with vous, vostre is either plural or polite

Descendants

• French: votre

Old French

Etymology

From Latin voster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔstɾə/

Pronoun

vostre

1. your (plural or polite form)

Declension

	Case	masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	subject	vostres	vostre	vostre
	oblique	vostre			vostre	vostre
plural	subject	vostre	vostres, voz or vos		vostre
	oblique	vostres, voz or vos			vostres, voz or vos	vostre

Descendants

• Middle French: vostre
  • French: votre, vôtre

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin voster, vostrum (older vester).

Pronoun

vostre m (feminine vostra, apocopic form vostr')

1. your (plural or polite form)

Descendants

• Occitan: vòstre

Tarantino

Adjective

vostre

1. feminine singular of vuèstre