'o

See also: Appendix:Variations of "o" and ʻo

Neapolitan

From Old Neapolitan lo, from Vulgar Latin *illu, from Latin illum < ille. Compare Italian lo.

IPA^(key): /o/

'o m

'o m (accusative)

Number	Person	Nominative	Accusative	Dative	Reflexive	Possessive	Prepositional
singular	first-person	io (i')	me			mìo, mìa, mieje, meje	me, méne
	second-person, familiar	tu	te			tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje	te, téne
	second-person, formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	'i, 'e (li, le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	ìsso
	third-person, feminine	éssa	'a (la)	'e (le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	éssa
plural	first-person	nuje	ce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second-person, plural	vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsse	'i, 'e (li, le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro
	third-person, feminine	llòro	'e (le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro

'o

Placed at the beginning of nominative phrases to signify that they are declarative

'o

Used in front of proper nouns or pronouns; or common nouns with the article te ('o te).

By exception, it is used emphatically before the pronoun 'oe ('o 'oe).

Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
“'o” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

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