toi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "toi"

Languages (20)

Translingual

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'Are'are • Asturian • Dalmatian • Finnish • French • Italian • Japanese • Māori • Middle French • Nefamese • Old French • Romanian • Samoan Plantation Pidgin • Sassarese • Spanish • Veps • Vietnamese • Welsh • West Makian

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Translingual

Symbol

toi

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tonga (Zambia).

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tonga (Zambia) terms

'Are'are

Noun

toi

1. penis

References

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Asturian

Verb

toi

1. first-person singular present indicative of tar

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin tū.

Pronoun

toi

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

Related terms

• te

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Pronoun

toi (colloquial)

1. synonym of tuo (“that”)

Usage notes

• Not used in written text, except within quotations.

Declension

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 plural adverbial form singular plural nominative toi noi superessive – – genitive ton noiden noitten delative – – partitive tota noita sublative tonne – accusative ton noi lative – – inessive tossa noissa temporal tollon tolloin – elative tosta noista causative – – illative tohon noihin multiplicative – – adessive tolla noilla distributive – – ablative tolta noilta temp. dist. – – allative tolle noille prolative – – essive tona noina situative – – translative toksi noiksi oppositive – – abessive (totta) (noitta) instructive – noin comitative – noine

Further reading

• “toi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

Etymology 2

Verb

toi

1. third-person singular past indicative of tuoda

French

Alternative forms

• toé (Quebec, colloquial)
• oit, wat (Verlan, slang)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /twa/
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /twe/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio (France):

  (file)

• Homophones: toit, toits, toua, touas, touât

Pronoun

toi m or f

1. you (informal second-person singular personal pronoun, disjunctive)

   J'ai besoin de toi. ― I need you

   Et toi, ça va comment ?

   And you, how are you?

   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."

2. yourself (reflexive object pronoun of imperative verbs)

   Souviens-toi de ce qui est vraiment important.

   Remember what is really important.

Usage notes

• See usage notes at moi.

Synonyms

• tézigue (argot)

Derived terms

• après toi

Related terms

French personal pronouns

number	person	gender	nominative (subject)	accusative (direct complement)	dative (indirect complement)	locative (at)	genitive (of)	disjunctive (tonic)1	emphatic reflexive
singular	first	—	je, j’	me, m’		—	—	moi	moi-même
	second	—	tu	te, t’		—	—	toi	toi-même
	third	masculine	il2	le, l’	lui	y	en	lui	lui-même
		feminine	elle	la, l’				elle	elle-même
		indeterminate	on3, l’on (formal), ce4, c’, ça	—	—	—	—	—	—
		reflexive	—	se, s’5		—	—	soi	soi-même
plural	first	—	nous	nous		—	—	nous	nous-mêmes
	second6	—	vous	vous		—	—	vous	vous-mêmes, vous-même6
	third	masculine	ils7	les	leur	y	en	eux7	eux-mêmes7
		feminine	elles					elles	elles-mêmes

¹ The disjunctive (tonic) forms are also used after an explicit preposition (de/d’, à, pour, chez, dans, vers, sur, sous, ...), instead the accusative, dative, genitive, locative, or reflexive forms, where a preposition is implied.
² Il is also used as an impersonal nominative-only pronoun.
³ On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
⁴ The nominal indeterminate form ce (demonstrative) can also be used with the auxiliary verb être as a plural, instead of the proximal or distal gendered forms.
⁵ The reflexive third person singular forms (se or s’) for accusative or dative are also used as third person plural reflexive.
⁶ Vous is also used as the polite singular form, in which case the plural disjunctive tonic vous-mêmes becomes singular vous-même.
⁷ Ils, eux and eux-mêmes are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• oit

Italian

Verb

toi

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

Synonyms

• togli

Derived terms

to'

Anagrams

• -ito, tio-

Japanese

Romanization

toi

1. Rōmaji transcription of とい

Māori

Etymology 1

From tōihi “to split” with likely influence of tō “stalk”, see also relationship of koi and kōihi

Noun

toi

1. tip, point

   Synonyms: koi, mata

2. finger:

   toinui: thumb

   toiroa: middle finger

   toīti: little finger

   Synonyms: tō, matimati, koro

Etymology 2

Likely related to tuhi meaning “to draw” and “to point at something” (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

toi

1. knowledge, art

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “toi”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, pages 505-6
• “toi” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Middle French

Pronoun

toi

1. alternative form of toy

Nefamese

Etymology

From Assamese তই (toi)

Pronoun

toi (plural tohot)

1. (singular; very familiar, inferior) you

Old French

Alternative forms

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

Pronoun

toi

1. you

Usage notes

• 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

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طوی (toy).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [toj]
• Rhymes: -oj

Noun

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

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

References

• “toi”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

Samoan Plantation Pidgin

Etymology

From Samoan toʻi.

Noun

toi

1. axe

Synonyms

• matau

References

• 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoi/

Adjective

toi

1. masculine/feminine plural of tóiu

Pronoun

toi

1. masculine/feminine plural of tóiu

Spanish

Verb

toi

1. (colloquial) apheretic form of estoy

Veps

Etymology

From toda +‎ -i.

Noun

toi

1. supplier, provider
2. caterer

Inflection

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

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “поставщик”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎^[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Vietnamese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tɔj˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [tɔj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [tɔj˧˧]

Verb

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

Welsh

Etymology 1

to (“roof”) +‎ -i.

Verb

toi (first-person singular present toaf)

1. to roof
2. to cover

   Synonym: gorchuddio

Derived terms

• aildoi (“to reroof”)
• carreg doi, llechen doi (“roofing tile”)
• töwr (“roofer”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English toy.

Verb

toi m or f (plural tois, diminutive toien)

1. toy

Synonyms

• tegan

Mutation

Mutated forms of toi

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
toi	doi	nhoi	thoi

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “toi”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “toi”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪o.i/

Conjunction

toi

1. if

   Synonyms: coba, kalau

   toi ipongi, ma tasagal yo ― if it rains, then I won't go

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics