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toi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "toi"

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Noun

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toi

  1. penis

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Asturian

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Verb

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toi

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tar

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin tū.

Pronoun

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toi

  1. (second-person singular pronoun, oblique case) you, thee
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Finnish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈtoi̯/, [ˈt̪o̞i̯]
  • Rhymes: -oi
  • Hyphenation(key): toi

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Finnic *too. -i is probably from the plural form noi.

Pronoun

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toi (colloquial)

  1. Synonym of tuo (“that”).
Usage notes
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  • Not used in written text, except within quotations.
Declension
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This word could be considered to belong to declension type 19 (suo), except that the singular and plural forms come from different sources, so the declension can be called irregular. The forms in brackets are never or very rarely used.

Declension of toi (type 19/suo)
noun case singular pluraladverbial form singular plural
nominative toi noisuperessive – –
genitive ton noiden
noitten		delative – –
partitive tota noitasublative tonne –
accusative ton noilative – –
inessive tossa noissatemporal tollon
tolloin		 –
elative tosta noistacausative – –
illative tohon noihinmultiplicative – –
adessive tolla noilladistributive – –
ablative tolta noiltatemp. dist. – –
allative tolle noilleprolative – –
essive tona noinasituative – –
translative toksi noiksioppositive – –
abessive (totta) (noitta)
instructive – noin
comitative – noine

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Etymology 2

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Verb

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toi

  1. third-person singular past indicative of tuoda

French

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French toi, tei, from Old French tei, te, from Latin tē.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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toi

  1. you (informal second-person singular personal pronoun)
    J’ai besoin de toi. ― I need you
    Et toi, ça va comment ?
    And you, how are you?
    Souviens-toi de ce qui est vraiment important.
    Remember what is really important.
    Attends, tu m’as dit qu’il y a dans cette maison plus de deux-cents livres. Est-ce qu’ils sont tous à toi ?
    Wait, you told me that there are more than two hundred books in this house. Are they all yours?
    Toi, t’es quelque chose de différent.
    You are something different.
    • Psalm 71:5:
      Car tu es mon espérance, Seigneur Éternel! En toi je me confie dès ma jeunesse.
      For you are my hope, Eternal Lord! In you I entrust myself since my youth.
    • 1996, Herman Melville, translated by Lucien Jacques, Joan Smith, and Jean Giono, Moby Dick, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 722:
      Oh, Achab, cria Starbuck, il n’est pas trop tard, même maintenant, le troisième jour, pour renoncer. Vois, Moby Dick ne te cherche pas. C’est toi, toi qui la cherches follement.
      "Oh, Ahab," cried Starbuck, "it's not too late, even now, on the third day, to give up. See, Moby Dick isn't looking for you. It is you, you who seeks her madly."

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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French personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Nominative
(subject) 		Accusative
(direct complement) 		Dative
(indirect complement) 		Locative
(at) 		Genitive
(of) 		Disjunctive
(tonic)
Singular First — je, j’ me, m’ — — moi
Second — tu te, t’ — — toi
Third Masculine il le, l’ lui y en lui
Feminine elle la, l’ elle
Indeterminate on1 — — — — —
Reflexive — se, s’4 — — soi4
Plural First — nous nous — — nous
Second — vous2 vous2,3 — — vous2
Third Masculine ils3 les leur y en eux3
Feminine elles elles
1 Also used as the first person plural.
2 Also used as the polite singular form.
3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.

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Anagrams

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Italian

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Verb

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toi

  1. (archaic) second-person singular present indicative of togliere

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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to'

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Japanese

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Romanization

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toi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of とい

Middle French

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Pronoun

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toi

  1. Alternative form of toy

Nefamese

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Etymology

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From Assamese তই (toi)

Pronoun

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toi (plural tohot)

  1. (singular; very familiar, inferior) you

Old French

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Alternative forms

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  • tei (Anglo-Norman)
  • toy (Anglo-Norman or late Old French)

Pronoun

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toi

  1. you

Usage notes

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  • Similar in terms of usage to modern French toi except it may be used as a personal object pronoun where modern French would use te
    Ore ai aperte occasion De toi querre une question (modern French uses te poser une question).

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوی (toy).

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Noun

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toi n (plural toiuri)

  1. (in the singular, of an action or event) the culminating point
  2. (colloquial) center, heart
  3. scuffle, struggle, scramble
  4. (uncountable) a flock of birds

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative toi toiul toiuri toiurile
genitive-dative toi toiului toiuri toiurilor
vocative toiule toiurilor

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Samoan Plantation Pidgin

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Etymology

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From Samoan toʻi.

Noun

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toi

  1. axe

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  • Peter, Mühlhäusler (1983) “Samoan Plantation Pidgin English and the origin of New Guinea Pidgin”, in Ellen Woolford and William Washabaugh, editors, The Social Context of Creolization, Ann Arbor: Karoma, pages 28-76

Sassarese

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Adjective

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toi

  1. masculine/feminine plural of tóiu

Pronoun

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toi

  1. masculine/feminine plural of tóiu

Veps

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Etymology

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From toda +‎ -i.

Noun

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toi

  1. supplier, provider
  2. caterer

Inflection

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Inflection of toi (inflection type 7/pedai)
nominative sing. toi
genitive sing. tojan
partitive sing. tojad
partitive plur. tojid
singular plural
nominative toi tojad
accusative tojan tojad
genitive tojan tojiden
partitive tojad tojid
essive-instructive tojan tojin
translative tojaks tojikš
inessive tojas tojiš
elative tojaspäi tojišpäi
illative tojaha tojihe
adessive tojal tojil
ablative tojalpäi tojilpäi
allative tojale tojile
abessive tojata tojita
comitative tojanke tojidenke
prolative tojadme tojidme
approximative I tojanno tojidenno
approximative II tojannoks tojidennoks
egressive tojannopäi tojidennopäi
terminative I tojahasai tojihesai
terminative II tojalesai tojilesai
terminative III tojassai —
additive I tojahapäi tojihepäi
additive II tojalepäi tojilepäi

References

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  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “поставщик”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[2], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

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Etymology

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 災 (“disaster”, SV: tai).

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Verb

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toi • (𡳥, 𣩸, 𤻒, 𬆜)

  1. (of domestic animals) to die in epidemic
  2. (colloquial) to die
  3. (colloquial, of money, efforts, etc.) to be lost; to go to waste

West Makian

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Conjunction

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toi

  1. if
    Synonyms: coba, kalau
    toi ipongi, ma tasagal yo ― if it rains, then I won't go

References

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  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[3], Pacific linguistics
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