vous autres

== French == === Alternative forms === vous-autres (especially Louisiana) === Etymology === See vous and autre. Compare Asturian vosotros, Catalan vosaltres, Galician vosoutros, Italian voialtri, Occitan vosautres, Spanish vosotros, all of identical meanings. Compare also French nous autres (“we”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vu.z‿otʁ/ (Louisiana) IPA(key): [vu.zɔt] === Pronoun === vous autres m pl or f pl (especially Louisiana, Quebec) you, y'all, ye (second-person plural pronoun) Synonym: vous ==== Usage notes ==== In Louisiana French and Quebec French, where the use of vous is generally very restricted, this is the usual form of the second-person plural pronoun. In Louisiana, despite being always plural in meaning, vous-autres is used with third-person singular forms of the verb to form statements and questions: Vous-autres est trop de bonne heure. ― Y'all are too early. Vous-autres veut boire du pop ou quèque chose? ― Do y'all want to drink some pop or something? Vous-autres avait pas appris à-rien à l'école! ― Y'all had not learned anything at school! In commands, the verb takes the same endings as for vous, and the reflexive pronoun is vous-autres: Coupez vous-autres pas! ― Don't cut y'allselves! Otherwise, the reflexive pronoun se is used: Vous-autres se rappelle de ça? ― Do y'all remember that? ==== Descendants ==== Louisiana Creole: vouzòt, ouzòt, zòt, zo === Further reading === Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)