vôtre

See also: votre and vostre

French

Alternative forms

vostre (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin voster.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /votʁ/
Homophones: vautre, vautres, vautrent
Rhymes: -otʁ

Determiner

vôtre (plural vôtres)

(archaic or literary) your; yours

Usage notes

This form has mostly been replaced by votre; however, it is still in common use in the pronoun le vôtre (“yours”).
Predicative use can be encountered in the literary language: cette maison est vôtre, cet enfant est vôtre.

Related terms

vous

See also

nôtre

Further reading

“vôtre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

orvet, torve, voter

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