you
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /ju/
ipa: /jə/
ipa: /jɪ/
ipa: /jə/
enpr: yə
ipa: /jə/
ipa: /juː/
ipa: /jy/
ipa: /iː/
ipa: /jʉ/
enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /ju/
ipa: [jʉː]
ipa: [jɪu̯]
enpr: yo͞o
ipa: /jʉː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: ewe
homophone: u
homophone: yew
homophone: yu
homophone: hew
homophone: hue
homophone: Hugh (h-dropping)
other: /t/
other: /d/
other: /s/
other: /z/
other: /j/
other: /tʃ/
other: /dʒ/
other: /ʃ/
other: /ʒ/
Forms: form: your
form: yours
form: yourself
form: yourselves
form: ye
form: ya
form: yah
form: yer
form: yeh
form: y'
form: yo
form: yu
form: yuh
form: yoo
form: yew
form: -cha
raw_tags: after /t/
form: -ja
raw_tags: after /d/
form: u
form: yuo
form: youe
form: yow
form: yowe
Etymology: From Middle English you, yow, ȝow (object case of ye), from Old English ēow (“you”, dative case of ġē), from Proto-West Germanic *iwwi (“you”, dative case of *jiʀ), from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz (“you”, dative case of *jīz), the Western form of Proto-Germanic *izwiz (“you”, dative case of *jūz), from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs (“you”, plural).
Cognate with Scots you (“you”), Saterland Frisian jou (“you”), West Frisian jo (“you”), Low German jo, joe and oe (“you”), Dutch jou and u (“you”), German euch (“you”), Middle High German eu, iu (“you”, object pronoun), Latin vōs (“you”), Avestan 𐬬𐬋 (vō, “you”), Ashkun yë̃ (“you”), Kamkata-viri šo (“you”), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, “you”).
See usage notes. Ye, you and your are cognate with Dutch jij/je, jou, jouw; Low German ji, jo/ju, jug and German ihr, euch and euer respectively. Ye is also cognate with Danish I and archaic Swedish I.
Senses: examples: text: Both of you should get ready now.
text: And Ioſeph ſaid vnto them, That is it that I ſpake vnto you, ſaying, Ye are ſpies.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 42:14, column 1:
qualifier: object pronoun
glosses: The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
examples: text: If I may counsaile you, some day or two / Your Highnesse shall repose you at the Tower [...].
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis XIX::
text: 'Draw near, and wash you in the living flames, and take their virtue into your poor frames in all its virgin strength[.]'
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: ‘Pull you up a chair,’ she offered.
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
text: You'd better get you a gun and kill him before he kills you or somebody.
ref: 1975, Joseph Nazel, Death for Hire:
glosses: (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
examples: text: I charge you, as ye woll have my love, that ye warne your kynnesmen that ye woll beare that day the slyve of golde uppon your helmet.
ref: c. 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VIII:
qualifier: object pronoun
glosses: The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
examples: text: You are all supposed to do as I tell you.
text: Are you excited? ― Yes, I am excited!
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
examples: text: You are right, Fanny, to protest against such an office, but you need not be afraid.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 208:
glosses: The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
examples: text: I get that you're from Southeast Michigan, but I'm still surprised that you're a Detroit Lions fan. You have been on the receiving end of losing seasons for a while now.
qualifier: object pronoun
glosses: A person's favorite sports team.
examples: text: The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 18:
text: You can't choose your family, your lovers are difficult and volatile, but, oh, you can choose your friends - so doesn't it make much more sense to live and holiday with them instead?
ref: 2001 May 5, Polly Vernon, The Guardian:
glosses: Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
examples: text: You get a lot of rude people in London.
text: It was one of those small-town dive bars you often read about.
text: You find a lot of 'life' in the city but much of it is an act people are putting on.
ref: 1973, Soldiers:
text: You get some terrible bullies in Spanish villages too , and they'll doubtless grow up to be complete oafs.
ref: 2018 October 4, Javier Marías, Berta Isla, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: You often hear about athletes having the jitters before a game, or having butterflies in their stomach.
ref: 2018 January 16, Rick Wolff, Secrets of Sports Psychology Revealed: Proven Techniques to Elevate Your Performance, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: A dummy pronoun used in certain constructions, usually with verbs of receiving (such as get or find) or sensing (such as see or hear), typically stating the existence or typicality of something.
Synonyms: sense: subject pronoun: person spoken/written to
word: yer
sense: subject pronoun: person spoken/written to
word: plus the alternative forms and at Appendix:English personal pronouns
sense: subject pronoun: persons spoken/written to; plural
word: y'all
sense: object pronoun: person spoken/written to
word: thee
word: ye
word: to you
word: to thee
word: to ye
sense: object pronoun: persons spoken/written to
word: ye
word: to you all
sense: one
word: one
sense: one
word: people
sense: one
word: they
sense: one
word: them
word: thou
word: all y'all
word: allyou
word: oonuh
word: wunna
word: yeens
word: yens
word: y'ins
word: yins
word: yinz
word: yis
word: yiz
word: yoons
word: you
word: you [number]
word: you all
word: you guys (Australia
word: New Zealand
word: North America (United States
word: Canada)
word: Britain)
word: you lot
word: you man
word: you people
word: you-uns
word: you'uns
word: yous
word: youse
word: youz
word: y'uns
word: yuns
word: yunz
Hyponyms: word: Addressing multiple women:
word: you gals
Derived terms: as you go
as you sow, so shall you reap
because you touch yourself at night
believe you me
can you not
check you out
damn you
damn you all to hell
funk you
generic you
get a dog up you
get away with you
get you gone
go back to where you came from
how are you
how are you keeping
how you get them is how you lose them
I fuck you not
if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
I gotta love you and leave you
I know you are but what am I?
I like to see you try
I'm not telling you
I must love you and leave you
IOU
I shit you not
is you is or is you ain't
it is not just you
let crazy stick its dick in you
let me tell you
makes you think
may God damn you
mind you
nice knowing you
nice to meet you
nice work if you can get it
no soup for you
pay what you want
put-you-up
say you swear
you in the funny papers
you later
see-you-next-Tuesday
you round
shame upon you
smell you later
thank you
the more you know
told you
told-you-so
what can I tell you
what did I tell you
what do you say
whatever helps you sleep at night
whatever you do
whatever you say
what say you
you are the doctor
you can't make this up
you can't outrun your fork
you can't polish shit
you can't turn a hoe into a housewife
you'd
you don't know where it's been
you don't want to know
you had me at
you hear what I'm saying
you kiss your father with that mouth
you kiss your grandfather with that mouth
you know
you'll
you never know what you've got till it's gone
you OK
you-pick
you're
you've
you want a piece of me
you will own nothing and be happy
Related terms: word: Ime
word: me
word: myselfmemysen
word: mine
word: mymineme
word: we
word: us
word: ourselvesourselfoursen
word: oursourn
word: our
word: yourselfyoursen
word: yoursyourn
word: your
word: thou
word: thee
word: thyselftheeselfthysen
word: thine
word: thythine
word: youye
word: yourselves
word: you ally'all you guys
word: y'allselves
word: all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
word: all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
word: he
word: him
word: himselfhisselfhissen
word: hishisn
word: his
word: she
word: her
word: herselfhersen
word: hershern
word: ithit
word: itselfhitself
word: itshis
word: itshishits
word: they
word: them
word: themself
word: themselves
word: theirs
word: their
word: one
word: oneself
word: –
word: one's
word: themhem
word: 'em
word: themselvestheirsen
word: theirstheirn
word: The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
word: including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
word: archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
word: Appendix:English personal pronouns
word: :Category:English second person pronouns