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u

characternompronomadjectifcourant dans les dialogues

  • Australie//a//
  • //ˈjuː//
  • //ɪʊ̯//

The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, called u and written in the Latin script.

character

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    The twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, called u and written in the Latin script.

    I prefer the u in Arial to the one in Times New Roman.

Étymologie

From Middle English lower case letter v (also written u), from Old English lower case u, from 7th century replacement by lower case u of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚢ (u, ur), derived from Raetic letter u. Before the 1700s, the pointed form v was written at the beginning of a word, while a rounded form u was used elsewhere, regardless of sound. So whereas valor and excuse appeared as in modern printing, have and upon were printed haue and vpon. Eventually, in the 1700s, to differentiate between the consonant and vowel sounds, the v form was used to represent the consonant, and u the vowel sound. v then preceded u in the alphabet, but the order has since reversed.

nom

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    The name of the Latin script letter U/u.

  2. 2

    A thing in the shape of the letter U.

pronom

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    Variante de youAbbreviation of you.

    t8k me w u

    "(W)ho knows I wanted her dead? cuz i only told u and (D.B.) so unless u told someone ..."

    What r u doing? Jacquie texted Opal. She put her phone on the bed and went to her suitcase to get her swimsuit.

adjectif

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    Variante de underwaterAbbreviation of underwater.

Formes

pluriel
us, u's, ues, urselves
singulier
urself
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).