# во
## Chechen
### Adjective

во • (vo)
* bad

## Ingush
### Adjective

во • (vo)
* bad

## Komi-Permyak
### Etymology

From Proto-Permic *wo, from Proto-Uralic *ëde. Cognates include Finnish vuosi and Estonian voos

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋo/, [ˈʋo̞]
* Rhymes: -o
* Hyphenation: во

### Noun

во • (vo)
* year

#### Declension

Possessive declension of во :

### References

* R. M. Batalova, A. S. Krivoshchekova-Gantman (1985) Коми-пермяцко-русский словарь [Komi-Permyak-Russian dictionary]‎, Moscow: Русский язык

## Komi-Zyrian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋo/, [ˈʋo̞]
* Rhymes: -o
* Hyphenation: во

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Permic *wo, from Proto-Uralic *ëde. Cognates include Finnish vuosi and Northern Khanty оԓ (oł).

#### Noun

во • (vo)
* year

##### Declension

Possessive declension of во :

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

во • (vo)
* inflection of воны (vony):
** imperative singular
** connegative singular

### References

* Bubrikh, Dmitry V. (1949) Грамматика литературного коми языка [Grammar of the literary Komi language] (in Russian), Leningrad: Zhdanov Leningrad State University, page 40
* L. M. Beznosikova, E. A. Ajbabina, R. I. Kosnyreva (2000) Коми-русский словарь [Komi-Russian dictionary], →ISBN, page 103

## Macedonian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъ(n).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [vɔ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔ

### Preposition

во • (vo)
* in
    Што правиш во мојата соба?Što praviš vo mojata soba?What are you doing in my room?

## Nivkh
### Alternative forms

* (West Sakhalin, North Sakhalin, South Sakhalin, East Sakhalin) ўо (wo)

### Etymology

Proto-Nivkh *wo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vo/

### Noun

во (vo)(West Sakhalin, Amur)
* nomadic camp
* village, settlement, town

#### Derived terms

* вонӈ (vonŋ, “villager”)
* вофиӈ (vofiŋ, “villager”)

#### References

* Hidetoshi Shiraishi (2000) “Nivkh consonant alternation does not involve hardening”, in Journal of Chiba University Eurasian Society, (3): 89-119
* Chuner Taksami (1983) Нивхско-русский и русско-нивхский словарь, 20-21

## Russian
### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* в (v)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [və]
* IPA: [vɐ] (before a stressed syllable)
* IPA: [ˈvo] (when stressed)
* Audio (stressed):(file)
* Audio (stressed):(file)

#### Preposition

во • (vo) [(depending on meaning) with prepositional or accusative or nominative]
* Alternative form of в (v): in, at, on; to, into; etc.
    во второ́м ― vo vtoróm ― in the latter/second
    во вто́рник ― vo vtórnik ― on Tuesday
    во Флори́де ― vo Floríde ― in Florida

##### Usage notes

* This is a variant of в (v) which is sometimes used before words beginning with certain consonant clusters such as вс- (vs-), вш- (vš-), вт- (vt-), льв- (lʹv-), льд- (lʹd-), льн- (lʹn-), лб- (lb-), лж- (lž-), мн- (mn-), мх- (mx-), рв- (rv-), рт- (rt-), рж- (rž-), сн- (sn-), фл- (fl-) and others.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈvo]
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

#### Particle

во • (vo)
* (colloquial) Clipping of вот (vot).
** 1982, Сергей Донатович Довлатов (Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov), Зона (Записки надзирателя); translated as Anne Frydman, transl., The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story, A.A. Knopf, 1985, page 74:— Во мужи́к, гоноре́и не зна́ет! Да трипа́к же, трипа́к!— Vo mužík, gonoréi ne znájet! Da tripák že, tripák!"That's a peasant for you, doesn't know what gonorrhoea is! It's the clap, the clap!"

## Serbo-Croatian
### Alternative forms

* во̑л (Croatia)

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *volъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋôː/

### Noun

во̑ m (Latin spelling vȏ)
* (Bosnia, Serbia) ox

#### Declension
### References

* “во”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025