you

Meaning

Pron

1. The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
2. (colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
3. The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
4. The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
5. The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
6. (colloquial) A person's favorite sports team.
7. Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).

Det

1. The individual or group spoken or written to.
2. Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.

Verb

To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).

Noun

The name of the Latin-script letter U/u.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/juː/

Etymology

From Middle English you, yow, ȝow (object case of ye), from Old English ēow (“you”, dative case of ġē), from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz (“you”, dative case of *jīz), Western form of *izwiz (“you”, dative case of *jūz), from Proto-Indo-European *yūs (“you”, plural), *yū́.
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”), Middle High German eu, iu (“you”, object pronoun), Latin vōs (“you”), Avestan 𐬬𐬋 (vō, “you”), Ashkun yë̃́ (“you”), Kamkata-viri šó (“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.

Sentences

Are you in the book ?

What have you done Kevin ?

Are you sure that Joe case is going on next week ?

Fly by night and you waste little time .

Don’t you understand me ?

My daughter , you want to prevent us from working ?

What do you advise ?

Cause you know how politicians are .