lu
See also: Variations of "lu"
lu - Translingual
Symbol
lu
- (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Luba-Katanga.
lu - English
Noun
lu (uncountable)
- Archaic form of loo (“card game”).
Verb
lu (third-person singular simple present lus, present participle luing, simple past and past participle lued)
- Archaic form of loo (“beat at card game”).
Noun
lu (usually uncountable, plural lus)
Anagrams
lu - Aiwoo
Noun
lu
lu - Asturian
Pronoun
lu - Basque
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lu/, [lu]
Noun
lu inan
Declension
Declension of lu (inanimate, ending in vowel) | |||
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indefinite | singular | plural | |
absolutive | lu | lua | luak |
ergative | luk | luak | luek |
dative | luri | luari | luei |
genitive | luren | luaren | luen |
comitative | lurekin | luarekin | luekin |
causative | lurengatik | luarengatik | luengatik |
benefactive | lurentzat | luarentzat | luentzat |
instrumental | luz | luaz | luez |
inessive | lutan | luan | luetan |
locative | lutako | luko | luetako |
allative | lutara | lura | luetara |
terminative | lutaraino | luraino | luetaraino |
directive | lutarantz | lurantz | luetarantz |
destinative | lutarako | lurako | luetarako |
ablative | lutatik | lutik | luetatik |
partitive | lurik | — | — |
prolative | lutzat | — | — |
lu - Chinese
For pronunciation and definitions of lu – see 嚕 (“Cantonese particle”). (This character, lu, is a variant form of 嚕.) |
lu - Corsican
Article
lu
- Archaic form of u.
Pronoun
lu
- Archaic form of u.
lu - Danish
Verb
lu
- imperative of lue
lu - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ly/
Participle
lu (feminine lue, masculine plural lus, feminine plural lues)
- past participle of lire
lu - Friulian
Pronoun
lu (third person masculine direct object)
Related terms
lu - Hausa
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lûː/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [lûː]
Ideophone
lû
- swinging motion
lu - Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lu/
Pronoun
lu (plural li)
- Third-person singular pronoun for referents of any gender; he/him, she/her, it or that
- Me ne savas ka lu es viro o muliero.
- I don't know if he/she is a man or a woman.
- Me ne savas ka lu es viro o muliero.
Usage notes
Lu is widely used in Ido, and not exclusively when a gendered possessive determiner is inappropriate, but also in order to avoid repetition depending on the user's preferences.
Derived terms
Related terms
lu - Indonesian
Pronoun
lu
Synonyms
Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:
- anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
- antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
- coen (slang, East Java)
- ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
- kamu (intimate)
- ko, kowe (informal, Java)
- kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
- lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
- mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)
lu - Japanese
Romanization
lu
lu - Jingpho
Verb
lu
lu - Mandarin
Romanization
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 氌/氇
lu
- Nonstandard spelling of lū.
- Nonstandard spelling of lú.
- Nonstandard spelling of lǔ.
- Nonstandard spelling of lù.
- Nonstandard spelling of lǖ.
- Nonstandard spelling of lǘ.
- Nonstandard spelling of lǚ.
- Nonstandard spelling of lǜ.
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.
lu - Muong
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lu¹/
Noun
lu
lu - Neapolitan
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lu/
Pronoun
lu
- Alternative form of 'u
lu - Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
lu m
- (dialectal) alternative form of lur (“lur, trumpet”)
lu - Old French
Alternative forms
Noun
lu m (oblique plural lus, nominative singular lus, nominative plural lu)
lu - Sassarese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lu/
Article
lu m sg (plural li, feminine la)
- the (masculine singular)
Usage notes
- Becomes l' before a vowel.
Pronoun
- (followed by chi) that
- Di curori vi ni so umbè. Ca è lu chi tu priferi?
- There are lots of colors. Which one do you prefer?
- (literally, “Of colors there are a lot. Which one is that which you prefer?”)
- him (accusative)
- Lu cunnosci? ― Do you know him?
- it (accusative)
- Abà ti lu diggu ― Now I'll tell you (literally, “Now I tell it to you”)
lu - Sicilian
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lu/ (stressed)
- IPA: /lʊ/ (unstressed)
Article
Usage notes
- This article is nowadays an obsolete variant, unlike its illiquid counterpart u. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
- Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
- Its use is however almost undisputed before nouns (or nominalized forms of other parts of speech, most often adjectives) that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic l'. Otherwise, illiquid definite articles are phonetically absorbed by the following noun. I.e: l'arancinu (liquid) and ârancinu (illiquid).
Inflection
Sicilian articles | ||||
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Masculine singular definite article | Feminine singular definite article | Masculine and feminine plural definite article | ||
Definite articles (liquid) | lu | la | li | |
Definite articles (illiquid) | u | a | i | |
Definite articles | nu (also: un,'n) | na |
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lu/ (stressed)
- IPA: /lʊ/ (unstressed)
Pronoun
lu m sg (plural li, female la)
- (accusative) him
- Lu canusci? ― Do you know him?
- Synonym: u
- (accusative) it, this or that thing
- Synonym: u
- Quannu ti lu desi. ― When I gave it to you.
Usage notes
- This pronoun is now an obsolete variant. It is currently used only in some restricted areas where it is still withheld in conversational communications.
- Today it is mostly used in crystallized contexts, such as singing, poetry or sayings and proverbs. In all these cases this definite article is more euphonetic than the variants, now predominant, which have undergone the lenition of the initial liquid consonant.
- Its use is however almost undisputed before words that begin with vowels. In this case the form is an apocopic l'.
lu - Tocharian A
Noun
lu
lu - Veps
Noun
lu
Inflection
Inflection of lu (inflection type 13/ma) | |||
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nominative sing. | lu | ||
genitive sing. | lun | ||
partitive sing. | lud | ||
partitive plur. | luid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | lu | lud | |
accusative | lun | lud | |
genitive | lun | luiden | |
partitive | lud | luid | |
essive-instructive | lun | luin | |
translative | luks | luikš | |
inessive | lus | luiš | |
elative | luspäi | luišpäi | |
illative | luhu | luihe | |
adessive | lul | luil | |
ablative | lulpäi | luilpäi | |
allative | lule | luile | |
abessive | luta | luita | |
comitative | lunke | luidenke | |
prolative | ludme | luidme | |
approximative I | lunno | luidenno | |
approximative II | lunnoks | luidennoks | |
egressive | lunnopäi | luidennopäi | |
terminative I | luhusai | luihesai | |
terminative II | lulesai | luilesai | |
terminative III | lussai | — | |
additive I | luhupäi | luihepäi | |
additive II | lulepäi | luilepäi |
Derived terms
- hambazlu
- kül'glu
- melalu
- rindazlu
- ristlu
lu - Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA: [lu˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA: [lʊw˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA: [lʊw˧˧]
Noun
(classifier cái) lu
lu - Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA: /lɨː/
- (South Wales) IPA: /liː/
Noun
lu
- Soft mutation of llu.
Mutation
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
llu | lu | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
lu - Zazaki
Alternative forms
Noun
lu
lu - Zou
Pronunciation
- IPA: /lu˧/
Noun
lu