votre
See also: vôtre
French
Alternative forms
- vôtre (archaic or literary)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French vostre, from Old French vostre, from Latin voster (alongside the 'proper' vester).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vɔtʁ/
- (informal before a consonant) IPA(key): /vɔt/
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Determiner
votre sg
- (possessive) your, belonging to you (plural or formal)
- Monsieur, c’est votre portefeuille ?
- Sir, is this your wallet?
- S’il vous plaît, donnez-moi votre adresse.
- Please give me your address.
Derived terms
Related terms
| Possessee | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||||
| Masculine | Feminine | |||||
| Possessor | Singular | First person | mon1 | ma | mes | |
| Second person | ton1 | ta | tes | |||
| Third person | son1 | sa | ses | |||
| Plural | First person | notre | nos | |||
| Second person | votre2 | vos2 | ||||
| Third person | leur | leurs | ||||
- 1 Also used before feminine adjectives and nouns beginning with a vowel or mute h.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
Further reading
- “votre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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