você

Etymology
Syncope of, elision of , contraction of (today's ) from  +. Compare with 🇨🇬 (from ) and 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1)   ; you
 * 2)  ; you; one
 * 1)  ; you; one
 * 1)  ; you; one

Usage notes

 * In Portugal and some parts of Brazil, você represents an intermediate degree of formality between (familiar) and  (very formal). It should be used in situations of little intimacy, but almost always omitted, otherwise it might be taken as being offensive or demeaning. There is no perfect analog in Portuguese to the Spanish, whose role is filled by o senhor in Brazil and o senhor and você in Portugal.
 * In most parts of Brazil (especially in the Southeast, with the exception of some cities), você has replaced as the informal second person singular pronoun, and  is relegated to archaic, poetic and religious usages, much like the English . In Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Catarina, Brasília and most Northeastern States,  is used in very informal situations, though it usually uses the third-person singular conjugation of verbs, similar to many Spanish-speaking countries with.
 * ,, and to a lesser extent and , are widely used alongside você in Brazilian dialects that don’t use tu.
 * Its plural form,, is rarely used in general Portuguese and is now mostly confined to some of the northernmost rural dialects of European Portuguese and poetry.
 * Você and, despite being 2nd-person pronouns, always take 3rd-person verbs.

Synonyms

 * reflexive third-person pronouns