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you (unstressed object pronoun, 2nd person plural/polite) /ˈvə/

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Also: to you (dative), you (accusative)

Example sentences

Vă mulțumesc.
Thank you.
Cum vă numiți?
What is your name?
Vă rog să așteptați puțin.
Please wait a little.
Eu vă cunosc de mult timp.
I have known you for a long time.
Vă voi suna mâine dimineață.
I will call you tomorrow morning.
Dacă vă amintiți bine, ne-am cunoscut acum câțiva ani, la o conferință.
If you remember well, we met a few years ago, at a conference.

Word family

voiyou (stressed, subject form)vouăto you (stressed dative)
vostru/vostrăyour, yours
dumneavoastrăyou (formal, singular or plural)

Etymology

Vă descends from the Latin second-person plural pronoun vos, worn down through everyday use into a short unstressed clitic. Romanian keeps a fuller dative form, vouă, alongside this reduced one, much as Latin kept vos next to vobis. The result is a small function word that carries a full pronoun's meaning in a single light syllable.

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