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 (Catalonia): (file)
Homophone: vostra (Central, Balearic)

Pronoun

vostre m (feminine vostra, plural vostres)

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
			strong/subject	proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic	possessive
singular	1st person	standard	jo, mi³	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
	1st person	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
	2nd person	formal²	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
	3rd person	m	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
	3rd person	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
adverbial	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)

(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)

Obsolete spelling of vôtre.

Anagrams

orvets, vôtres

Interlingua

Determiner

vostre

(possessive, in the plural) your

Italian

Determiner

vostre

feminine plural of vostro

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French vostre.

Pronoun

vostre

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

your (plural or polite form)

Declension

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

your (plural or polite form)

Descendants

Occitan: vòstre

Tarantino

Adjective

vostre

feminine singular of vuèstre