tu
Spanish, determiner
tu is spelled T-U (2 letters) and appears 1,660 times per million words in written Spanish, the 46th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tu is a Spanish determiner meaning “apocopic form of tuyo, your” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, tú is a different word: “you (second-person singular pronoun)”. With a capital, TU is a different word: “initialism of Tren Urbano, the metro system used in San Juan, Puerto…”.
What does tu mean in English?
determiner
- 1
apocopic form of tuyo, your
pronoun
- 1
informalyou (second-person singular pronoun)
interjection
- 1
Spainexpletive
noun
- 1
masculineinitialism of Tren Urbano, the metro system used in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. Nominativo y vocativo del pronombre personal de la segunda persona del singular.
adjective: 1. Variante de tuyo.
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 tu
- of singular possessive second-person singular
- ti disjunctive
- te oblique
- contigo comitative
- pronoun possessive
- postposed possessive
- standalone possessive determiner tuyo possessive
- tus plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tu in Spanish?
tu appears 1,660 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).