y'

See also: у, ყ, ⴘ, and Appendix:Variations of "y"

English

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /jə/

Pronoun

y'

(informal, dialectal, subject pronoun) you; ye.
- 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:
  Y' are brave, but the most uncrafty lad that I can think upon!
- 1946, Katharine Susannah Prichard, The roaring nineties: a story of the goldfields of Western Australia:
  Y'r can turn out the place, boys, if y' think Monty or me had anything to do with his blasted wallet.
- 1986, Robert Herring, McCampbell's war:
  "Then what y'reckon y'gon' do?" the other repeated.

Derived terms

y'all
y'know

Translations

informal second-person pronoun

French: t' (fr)

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