onu

See also: Onu, ONU, önu, önü, and øṉu

onu - Apalaí

Noun

onu

onu - Azerbaijani

Pronoun

onu

accusative of o

onu - Buol

Noun

onu

onu - Estonian

Noun

onu (genitive onu, partitive onu)

uncle

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	onu	onud
genitive	onu	onude
partitive	onu	onusid
illative	onusse	onudesse
inessive	onus	onudes
elative	onust	onudest
allative	onule	onudele
adessive	onul	onudel
ablative	onult	onudelt
translative	onuks	onudeks
terminative	onuni	onudeni
essive	onuna	onudena
abessive	onuta	onudeta
comitative	onuga	onudega

Coordinate terms

tädi

onu - Gun

Pronunciation

IPA: /ò.nũ̀/

Noun

ònù

mouth

onu - Ido

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈonu/

Pronoun

onu

one, someone, they (indefinite personal pronoun)
- Onu povas vidar la steli en la nokto. ― One can see the stars in the night.

Usage notes

Used more extensively than the English one, used in a lot of places where English would use you (general you).

onu - Polish

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈɔ.nu/
Syllabification: o‧nu

Pronoun

onu (plural: ony)

they (nonstandard, third-person singular nominative, non-binary pronoun)

Declension

	singular
nominative	onu
genitive	jenu/nu/ony
dative	wu
accusative	nu
instrumental	num
locative	num
vocative	—

Related terms

onu - Turkish

Pronoun

onu

him, her, it (definite accusative of o)

onu - Wauja

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈɨ.nu/

Noun

onu (plural onunaun)

his wife
- Wajamani oputapai paowa onupei, Apaipua onupei, paitsupalu. "Nowan, pinyupei katouhan," Yumekeju wiu, umapai Wajamani. Apaipua iya oukala ja onaatsiu, Yehinaku outsa!! Oukaka onupei, oukaka taunapai Wauja oputankan sekunya.
  - Wajamani gave as a wife to his nephew — as a wife to [his nephew] Apaipua — his own daughter. "My nephew, take this one as your wife," Wajamani said, referring to Yumekeju. [So] Apaipua went to fetch her from there, from the Mehinaku village! That's how [she] became his wife, and that's how she came to stay in the Wauja village long ago.
- Kitsimain iya panupei sukuti yiu. Omalanyaintsa, iya kalahan, kuyekuyeju...
- Irixulakume eu whun, a-MU-naun wiu. A-MU-naun whun. Iyawi yiu. Itsa kala onu katouhan.
- Mepiaunwaun onu?
- Mepiaunwaun onu.
  - [Storyteller:] First he took as his wife Sukuti (Green Parakeet Woman). After that, he took that one, Kuyekuyeju (Dusky Parrot Woman)…
  - That was Irixulakuma (Blue Cotinga Bird). [He] was a chief, [he] was. Chief [of his village]. He took them [in marriage]. [So] his wives were this many [holds up fingers].
  - [Audience member:] Two wives?
  - [Storyteller:] Two wives.

Usage notes

-nu is a bound morpheme and must always have a possessive prefix, answering the question "whose wife"? In other words, this noun is obligatorily possessed, and must show possession by someone. In the Wauja way of thinking, a wife is always somebody's wife (just as a husband is always somebody's husband).

Inflection

	singular	plural
first person	ninyu	—
second person	pinyu	yinyu
third person	onu	onu

onu - West Makian

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈo.n̪u/

Noun

onu

spider