tu
French, pronoun/ty/
tu is spelled T-U (2 letters) and appears 3,162 times per million words in written French, the 42nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tu is a French pronoun meaning “you (singular)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a past participle of taire. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pronom personnel sujet de la deuxième personne du singulier”.
What does tu mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
informalyou (singular)
particle
- 1
Quebecinformalquestion marker
C'est-tu possible ?
verb
- 1
past participle of taire
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. Pronom personnel sujet de la deuxième personne du singulier. 2. On, un humain indéfini en général.
particle: 1. Marqueur interrogatif ajouté après un verbe. Est-ce que. 2. Marqueur exclamatif ajouté après un verbe pour intensifier l'adjectif se trouvant après.
interjection: 1. Interjection pour attirer l'attention ou pour montrer que le locuteur avait raison.
noun: 1. Temps universel.
noun: 1. Test unitaire.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tu
- vous plural
- toi emphatic
- ton determiner possessive
- tue feminine
- tus masculine plural
- tues feminine plural
- T’as de beaux yeux, tu sais.
- T’es plus bête que la moyenne.
- ti
- te slang
- tsu
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tu?
- /ty/
- [t͡ʃy]
- Quebec [t͡sy]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tu in French?
tu appears 3,162 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).