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your | yous |

As a determiner your

is belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

As a pronoun yous is

you (plural).

your

English

(wikipedia your)

Determiner

  • 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.

    Usage notes

    * In US English, is frequent even in positions of stress. * The use of your instead of you're is a common mistake in English.

    See also

    (English personal pronouns)

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words

    yous

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (pronoun) youse, youze

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (dialectal, chiefly, AU, NZ, South Africa, New Jersey, Ireland, Scotland) You (plural).
  • (dialectal) You (singular).
  • * 1909 , (PG Wodehouse), The Gem Collector :
  • *:‘Dere ain't no use for me dis side, Mr. Chames,’ he said. ‘New York's de spot. Youse don't want none of me, now you're married.’
  • * 1938 , (Patrick Kavanagh), The Green Fool :
  • *:‘Yous will meet us here outside this pub,’ Harry Curniskey said.
  • * 1988 , (Kathy Lette), Girls' Night Out :
  • *:‘But what I also seen is that youse' have never had a real man before, datin' all them boys. '''Youse''' have never had anyone who'd stand up to ' youse .’
  • * 1992 , (Edward Bond), In the Company of Men :
    • You think yous can live wi'oot money! Few months doon this hell, you'll murder for money!
  • * 1992 , Robert Dubin, Central Life Interests: Creative Individualism in a Complex World , page 10:
    • Most of your life after babyhood has been played out by the several yous .
  • * 2010 , Patrick M Morley, The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face , page 36:
    • There are two yous — the visible you and the real you. The visible you is the you that is known by others.

    Usage notes

    * The term is predominantly used in Scotland and Ireland and throughout Australia, as well as overseas areas of previous Irish emigration e.g. some parts of the US (Boston, MA and Philadelphia, PA) and northern Nova Scotia and Lanark Ontario/Canada and South Auckland, New Zealand. It also occurs in Scouse. * Yous(e)'' as a plural is found in Australia, England, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, parts of the northern United States, and parts of Ontario. ''Yous(e) as a singular is found in Philadelphia, New York, Boston and scattered throughout working class Italian-American communities in the Rust Belt.

    Synonyms

    * see the list of other second-person pronouns in (m) English second person pronouns