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English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishyour,youre,ȝour,ȝoure, fromOld Englishēower,īower(your,plural), fromProto-West Germanic*iuwar, fromProto-Germanic*izweraz. Cognate withSaterland Frisianjou(your),Dutchjouw(your),German Low Germanjo,jos(your),Germaneuer(your,plural),Danishjeres(your).

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Determiner

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your

  1. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
    Let’s meet tomorrow atyour convenience.
    Is thisyour cat?
    • 2022 October 14, Justin Curto, “The 1975’s Matty Healy Prefers Writing Lyrics He’s Afraid Of”, inVulture[1], archived fromthe original on18 October 2022:
      Everyone always asks what my advice is, and my advice is don’t overintellectualizeyour art.
  2. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
  3. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
    Notyour average Tom, Dick and Harry.
    Your Show of Shows
    Your World with Neil Cavuto
    NotYour Average Travel Guide
  4. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
    Your man just bought a new car.
    Have you seen whatyour one over there is doing?
Derived terms
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Translations
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belonging to you (singular; one owner)
belonging to you (plural; more owners)
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English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are initalics.

personal pronounpossessive
pronoun
possessive
determiner
subjectiveobjectivereflexive
first
person
singularI
me (colloquial)
memyself
me
mysen
minemy
mine(before vowels, archaic)
me
pluralweusourselves
ourself
oursen
ours
ourn(obsolete outside dialects)
our
second
person
singularstandard
(historically
formal)
youyouyourself
yoursen
yours
yourn(obsolete outside dialects)
your
archaic
(historically
informal)
thoutheethyself
theeself
thysen
thinethy
thine(before vowels)
pluralstandardyou
ye(archaic)
youyourselvesyours
yourn(obsolete outside dialects)
your
colloquialyou all
y'all
you guys
you all
y'all
you guys
y'allselvesall yours
y'all's
you guys'
your guys'
all your
y'all's
your all's(nonstandard)
you guys'
your guys'
informal /
dialectal
(see list of dialectal forms atyou and inflected forms in those entries)
third
person
singularmasculinehehimhimself
hisself(archaic)
hissen
his
hisn(obsolete outside dialects)
his
femininesheherherself
hersen
hers
hern(obsolete outside dialects)
her
neuterit
hit
it
hit
itself
hitself
its
his(archaic)
its
his(archaic)
hits
genderless1theythemthemself,themselvestheirstheir
nonspecific
(formal)
oneoneoneselfone's
pluraltheythem
hem,'em
themselves
theirsen
theirs
theirn(obsolete outside dialects)
their

Etymology 2

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Contraction

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your

  1. Misspelling ofyou're.
Usage notes
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  • The use ofyour instead ofyou're is a common mistake in written English.

Cameroon Pidgin

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Determiner

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your

  1. 2nd person singularpossessive determiner

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Cameroon Pidgin possessive determiners
singularplural
1st personmywe
2nd personyourwuna
3rd personyidia

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishēower, fromProto-West Germanic*iuwar, fromProto-Germanic*izweraz. Initial/j/ is by analogy withye.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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your (nominative pronounye)

  1. Second-person plural genitive determiner:your(plural)
  2. (formal)Second-person singular genitive determiner:your(singular).

Pronoun

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your (nominative ye)

  1. Second-person plural possessive pronoun:yours, ofyou(plural)

Descendants

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Middle English personal pronouns
nominativeaccusativedativegenitivepossessive
singular1st personI,ich,ikmemin
mi1
min
2nd personþouþeþin
þi1
þin
3rd personmhehim
hine2
himhishis
hisen
fsche,heohire
heo
hirehire
hires,hiren
nhithit
him2
his,hit
dual31st personwitunkunker
2nd personȝitincinker
plural1st personweus,ousoureoure
oures,ouren
2nd person4yeyowyouryour
youres,youren
3rd personinh.hehem
he2
hemherehere
heres,heren
bor.þeiþem,þeimþeirþeir
þeires,þeiren
1 Used preconsonantally or beforeh.
2 Early or dialectal.
3Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

References

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