su
Spanish, determiner/su/
su is spelled S-U (2 letters) and appears 6,026 times per million words in written Spanish, the 20th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Su is a Spanish determiner meaning “apocopic form of suyo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does su mean in English?
determiner
- 1
apocopic form of suyo
Vino con su amigo.
- 2
used to express an approximate number: about, approximately
Pesa sus dos kilogramos.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Adjetivo posesivo de la tercera persona; de él, de ella, de ellos, de ellas. 2. Adjetivo posesivo formal de usted o ustedes.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of su
- of singular possessive third-person
- sus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce su?
- /su/
- [su]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to su
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is su in Spanish?
su appears 6,026 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).