su

See also: Su and Appendix:Variations of "su"

Alemannic German

Noun

su

  1. (Issime, Formazza) son

References

  • Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words]. Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien.

Awa-Cuaiquer

Noun

su

  1. land, earth, ground

References


Azerbaijani

Other scripts
Cyrillic су
Roman su
Perso-Arabic سو

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

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

  1. water
    Bəzi ölkərdə əhalinin təmiz içməli suyu yoxdur.
    In some countries, the population doesn't have clean drinking water.
  2. juice
    armud suyupear juice.
    Pomidorun suyu buxarlanıb yalnız “əti” qalmalıdır. [1]The juice of the tomato should vaporize and only the "meat" remain.

Declension

Derived terms

  • susuzluq (drought)
  • sulamaq (to water)

References


Basque

Noun

su

  1. fire

Derived terms


Chuukese

Verb

su

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

Czech

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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


Finnish

Noun

su

  1. Abbreviation of sunnuntai (Sunday).

Anagrams


French

Pronunciation

Verb

su m (feminine singular 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.

Anagrams


Gagauz

Noun

su

  1. water

References

  • İsmail Ulutaş, Relative Clauses in Gagauz Syntax (2004)

Greenlandic

Root

su

  1. Usually has interrogative meaning.

Usage notes

Like pi, su is not used on its own, but must be supplied with affixes or inflectional endings.

Derived terms


Guaraní

Number

su

  1. thousand

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto si, from French se, Italian , Spanish se, ultimately from Latin , from Proto-Indo-European *swé + -u (personal pronoun ending).

Pronunciation

Pronoun

su (reflexive, possessive sua, possessive plural sui)

  1. self, oneself, himself, herself, itself, themselves (reflexive pronoun, 3rd person, singular or plural)
    La soldati defensis su brave.
    The soldiers defended themselves bravely.

See also


Indo-Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese seu, from Latin suus, from Old Latin *sovos, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyos.

Pronoun

su

  1. (Diu) third-person possessive pronoun; his; her; its
    • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:
      Já fallou par su pai aquêl mais piquin, []
      The youngest one told his father []

Interlingua

Determiner

su (possessive)

  1. his
  2. her
  3. its

Usage notes

  • Does not decline on the basis of gender or number.

Italian

Alternative forms

  • (misspelling)

Etymology

From an older form suso, from Vulgar Latin, Late Latin sūsum, which is a variant of Latin sūrsum.[1] Cognate to French sus.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -u

Adverb

su

  1. up, upstairs

Derived terms

Interjection

su!

  1. come on!

Preposition

su

  1. on, upon, onto, on top
    Lezione d'inglese numero 1: Il libro è sulla tavola.
    English lesson number 1: The book is on the table.
  2. over
    L'orologio sul polsino della camicia era il marchio di fabbrica di Gianni Agnelli.
    The watch over the shirt cuff was Gianni Agnelli's trademark.
  3. about, on
    Gli italiani non sono d'accordo su molte cose sul come cucinare la pasta e soprattutto sul condimento.
    Italians don't agree on many things about how to cook pasta and especially on the sauce.
  4. above
    La Paz, che sorge a circa 3600 metri sul livello del mare, è la più alta capitale del mondo.
    La Paz, which lies about 3600 metres above sea level, is the world's highest capital city.
  5. in, out of
    Un europeo su cinque avrà più di 65 anni entro il 2025.
    One in five Europeans will be more than 65 years old by year 2025.

Usage notes

  • When followed by the definite article, su combines with the article to produce the following combined forms:
su + article Combined form
su + il sul
su + lo sullo
su + l' sull'
su + i sui
su + gli sugli
su + la sulla
su + le sulle

Derived terms

References

  1. Angelo Prati, "Vocabolario Etimologico Italiano", Torino, 1951

Japanese

Romanization

su

  1. Rōmaji transcription of
  2. Rōmaji transcription of

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sʊ]

Preposition

(with instrumental)

  1. with

Antonyms


Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [su]

Verb

su

  1. third-person plural present of byś
    • 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, →ISBN, page 20:
      Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.
      Somewhat further on is the Old Market.
    • 2011 September 27, I. Neumannojc, “Sadowe bomy za derjeměśe luźa a natury”, Nowy Casnik:
      Sadowe bomy w burskich gumnach a teke na dwórach su typiske za naš region.
      Fruit trees in farmers’ gardens and even in courtyards are typical for our region.

Mandarin

Romanization

su

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .

Usage notes

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /syː/

Pronoun

sü̂

  1. Alternative form of (she).

Verb

sü̂

  1. Imperative singular of sên (to see).

Norman

Etymology 1

From Old French sud, su (south), from Old English sūþ, from Proto-Germanic *sunþrą.

Noun

su m (uncountable)

  1. (France) south
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

From Old French sur (sour, bitter), from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *sūraz (sour, acidic, salty, damp), from Proto-Indo-European *sūro- (sour, salty, bitter).

Adjective

su

  1. (Jersey) sour

Northern Sami

Pronoun

su

  1. accusative and genitive of son

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sūz, from Proto-Indo-European *suH-. Germanic cognates include Old Saxon , Old High German (whence German Sau), Old Norse sýr (whence Swedish so). Other Indo-European cognates: Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Latin sus, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suː/

Noun

 f

  1. sow (female pig)

See also


Spanish

Etymology

From Latin suus, suum, from Proto-Italic *sowos, from Proto-Indo-European *sewos, from *swé.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /su/
  • Rhymes: -u

Adjective

su (third person possessive of singular, plural sus)

  1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of suyo His, her, its, one's, their.
    Vino con su amigo.
    He came with his friend.
    Habló a sus hijas.
    He spoke to his daughters.
  2. (before the noun, formal) Apocopic form of suyo Your.

Usage notes

The forms su and sus are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of suyo is used instead:

Son sus libros. — “[They] are his books.”
Son los libros suyos. — “[They] are his books.” (“...the books of him.”)
Son los suyos. — "[They] are his."

Adverb

su

  1. About, approximately.
    pesa sus dos kilogramos = it weighs about two kilograms.

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English shoe.

Noun

su

  1. shoe

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish صو (su), from earlier *suv, from Proto-Turkic *sɨb, *sub (water). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰽𐰆𐰉 (sub).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsu]
  • Hyphenation: su

Noun

su (definite accusative suyu, plural sular)

  1. water
  2. juice

Declension

Note. The declension of su is irregular. Although the table below shows sunun as the genitive form of the singular, the correct form is suyun.

Inflection
Nominative su
Definite accusative suyu
Singular Plural
Nominative su sular
Definite accusative suyu suları
Dative suya sulara
Locative suda sularda
Ablative sudan sulardan
Genitive sunun suların

Derived terms

Further reading

  • su in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *suu.

Noun

su

  1. mouth

Inflection

Inflection of su
nominative sing. su
genitive sing. sun
partitive sing. sud
partitive plur. suid
singular plural
nominative su sud
accusative sun sud
genitive sun suiden
partitive sud suid
essive-instructive sun suin
translative suks suikš
inessive sus suiš
elative suspäi suišpäi
illative ? suihe
adessive sul suil
ablative sulpäi suilpäi
allative sule suile
abessive suta suita
comitative sunke suidenke
prolative sudme suidme
approximative I sunno suidenno
approximative II sunnoks suidennoks
egressive sunnopäi suidennopäi
terminative I ? suihesai
terminative II sulesai suilesai
terminative III sussai
additive I ? suihepäi
additive II sulepäi suilepäi

Derived terms

  • azegensu
  • avoinsu
  • hijamsu
  • magedsu
  • oružjsu
  • sulagi
  • sunkibu

References

  • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), пасть, рот, устье”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Vinh) IPA(key): /ʂuː˧˥/

Adjective

su

  1. Eye dialect spelling of sâu, representing Nghệ An dialect, Hà Tĩnh dialect, Quảng Bình dialect, and Quảng Trị dialect Vietnamese.

Western Yugur

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sub, compare Turkish su.

Noun

su

  1. water

Reference

  • Léi Xuănchūn, Xībù Yùgù-Hàn Cídiăn, Chéngdŭ, Sichuan Minzu Chubanshe, 1992
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.