fui

fui

See also: fúi, fuî, and fu'i

Asturian

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfuj/
• Rhymes: -uj

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular preterite indicative form of ser

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Chibcha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /βui/

Noun

fui

1. Alternative form of boi

References

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɥi/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɥi

Participle

fui (feminine fuie, masculine plural fuis, feminine plural fuies)

1. past participle of fuir

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin fuī.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfuj/
• Rhymes: -uj
• Hyphenation: fùi

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular past historic of essere

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Japanese

Romanization

fui

1. Rōmaji transcription of ふい

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *fefuai, aorist of *fuiō (“I become”) (whence fīō), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.iː/, [ˈfuiː]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.i/, [ˈfuːi]

Verb

fuī

1. first-person singular perfect active indicative of sum
   • c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi :

     Haud istuc rogo. Fuistine liber? - Fui.

     That isn’t what I’m asking about. Were you a freeman? - I was.

   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:19

     et aut ego indigna fui illis aut illi mihi forsitan digni non fuerunt quia forsitan viro alio conservasti me (And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy of me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,)

Descendants

• Asturian: fui
• French: fus
• Galician: fun
• Italian: fui
• Portuguese: fui
• Romanian: fi
• Sicilian: fui
• Spanish: fui

References

• “fui”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• fuy (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈfuj/ [ˈfuɪ̯]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈfuj/

• Hyphenation: fui

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ir
2. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser

Interjection

fui!

1. (Brazil, colloquial) a farewell

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fuj]

Verb

fui

1. (informal) first-person singular simple perfect indicative of fi

Synonyms

• fusei (formal)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfwi/ [ˈfwi]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: fui

Verb

fui

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ir
2. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser