your
Meaning
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- Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
- Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
- A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
- That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
Synonyms
𐐷𐐬𐑉
your own
your honour’s
you two
yr.
to you
many times
of you
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/jɔː/
Etymology
From Middle English your, youre, ȝour, ȝoure, from Old English ēower, īower (“your”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jou (“your”), Dutch jouw (“your”), German Low German jo, jos (“your”), German euer (“your”, plural), Danish jeres (“your”).
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