su

/su/ · A1 · det

apocopic form of suyo

su = suyo cut short: the clipped form used before a noun

Spanish trims suyo to su when it sits in front of a noun: el libro suyo becomes su libro. It covers his, her, its, their and formal your. Same Latin root (suus) as the sui in sui generis, meaning of its own kind.

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