vôtre

See also: votre and vostre

French

Alternative forms

• vostre (obsolete)
• votre (modern)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin voster.

Pronunciation

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

Determiner

vôtre (plural vôtres)

1. (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• This form has mostly been replaced by votre; however, it is still in common use in the pronoun le vôtre (“yours”).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