Voi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "voi"

English

Proper noun

Voi

  1. A town in Taita-Taveta County, southern Kenya.

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Italian

Etymology 1

See voi.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvo.i/
  • Homophone: voi
  • Rhymes: -oi
  • Hyphenation: Vó‧i

Pronoun

Voi

  1. (uncommon, very formal or polite, chiefly southern Italy) you (in the singular)
    Synonyms: Lei, (archaic) Ella
  2. (formal) you (in the plural, courtesy form), commonly understood as plural of Ella and Lei, grammatically plural of Tu.
    Synonym: (archaic) Loro
See also
Italian personal pronouns
singular plural
first second second formal / polite5 third first second second formal / polite5 third
m or f m f m or f m f
nominative io tu Lei, Ella8 lui, egli8, ello8, elli3, 8, esso8 lei, ella8, essa8 noi voi, Voi7 Loro loro
elli3, 8, ellino4, 8, eglino4, 8, essi8 elle3, 8, elleno4, 8, esse8
atonic (clitic)11 accusative / dative-reflexive mi, m', -mi, me9 ti, t', -ti, te9 ― si6, s', -si, se9 ci, c', -ci, ce9 vi, Vi7, v', V'7, -vi, -Vi7, ve9 ― si, s', -si, se9
accusative La, -La, L' lo, l', -lo, il4 la, l', -la Le, -Le li, -li le, -le
dative Le, -Le glie9 Loro10 loro10, gli2, -gli2, glie9
gli, -gli le, -le, gli2, -gli2
locative ― ci, c',
vi1, v'1 		― ci, c',
vi1, v'1
partitive ne, n' ne, n'
tonic12 prepositional-reflexive ― sé ― sé
oblique me te Lei lui, esso8 lei, essa8 noi voi, Voi7 Loro loro,
essi8 elle8, esse8
1 Formal.
2 Informal.
3 Archaic.
4 Obsolete.
5 Grammatically third person forms used semantically in the second person as a formal or polite way of addressing someone (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
6 Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
7 Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).
8 Traditional grammars still indicate the forms egli (animate), ello / ella (animate), esso / essa and their plurals as the nominative forms of the third person pronouns; outside of very formal or archaizing contexts, all such forms have been replaced by the obliques lui, lei, loro.
9 Forms used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
10 Used after verbs.
11 Unstressed forms, stand alone forms are found proclitically (except dative loro / Loro), others enclitically (-mi, -ti, etc.).
12 Disjunctive, emphatic oblique forms used as direct objects placed after verbs, in exclamations, along prepositions (prepositional) and some adverbs (come, quanto, etc.); also used with a to create alternative emphatic dative forms.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈvɔ.i/[1][2]
  • Rhymes: -ɔi
  • Hyphenation: Vò‧i

Proper noun

Voi m or f by sense

  1. a surname

Further reading

References

  1. ^ voi in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
  2. ^ Voi in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025

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