vos
Spanish, pronoun/ˈbos/
vos is spelled V-O-S (3 letters) and appears 174 times per million words in written Spanish, the 481st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Vos is a Spanish pronoun meaning “you, familiar form of the second-person singular pronoun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Pronombre personal familiar de la segunda persona del singular en caso nominativo y preposicional”.
What does vos mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
you, familiar form of the second-person singular pronoun
¿Cómo te va? Bien, ¿y vos?
pronoun
- 1
archaican elevated form of you, either singular or plural
Vos, doña Juana, sois caritativa.
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. Pronombre personal formal y hoy arcaico de la segunda persona del singular y del plural; el paradigma verbal está plenamente asimilado al de vosotros. 2. Pronombre personal familiar de la segunda persona del singular en caso nominativo y preposicional.
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 vos
- te oblique
- pronoun possessive
- postposed possessive
- standalone possessive determiner tuyo possessive
- vo alternative Chile pronunciation-spelling
- vuestro determiner possessive pronoun
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce vos?
- /ˈbos/
- [ˈbos]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is vos in Spanish?
vos appears 174 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).