your
See also: Your
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English ēower, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Compare German euer.
Pronunciation
Determiner
your
- Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
- Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience.
- Is this your cat?
- Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
- A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
- Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
- Your Show of Shows
- Your World with Neil Cavuto
- Not Your Average Travel Guide
- Glanvill
- Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron.
- (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
- Your man just bought a new car.
- Have you seen what your one over there is doing?
Translations
belonging to you (singular; one owner)
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belonging to you (plural; more owners)
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Usage notes
- In US English, /jɚ/ is generally the unstressed version of /jɔːɹ/; in many dialects, however, /jɝ/ is frequent even in positions of stress.
- The use of your instead of you're is a common mistake in written English.
See also
English personal pronouns
personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner | |||||
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subjective | objective | reflexive | |||||
first person | singular | I | me | myself | mine | my mine (before vowels, archaic) | |
plural | we | us | ourselves ourself | ours | our | ||
second person | singular | standard | you | you | yourself | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
archaic, informal | thou | thee | thyself theeself | thine | thy thine (before vowels) | ||
plural | standard | you you all ye (archaic) | you you all | yourselves | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your | |
informal / dialectal | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | ||||||
third person | singular | masculine | he | him | himself hisself (archaic) | his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) | his |
feminine | she | her | herself | hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) | her | ||
neuter | it | it | itself | its his (archaic) | its his (archaic) | ||
genderless | they | them | themself, themselves | theirs | their | ||
genderless, nonspecific (formal) |
one | one | oneself | – | one's | ||
plural | they | them | themselves | theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) | their |
Middle English
References
- “your (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.
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