English Explanatory Dictionary

you

English dictionary entry

Meanings

pron
  1. The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
  2. (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. A person's favorite sports team.
  7. Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
  8. 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.
det
  1. The individual or group spoken or written to.
  2. Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
  3. Your.
verb
  1. 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
  1. The name of the Latin script letter U/u.
pron
  1. Honorific alternative letter-case form of you, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
name
  1. A surname from Chinese
  2. A former prefecture of China.
  3. Synonym of Youzhou, one of the Nine Provinces of Chinese legend.

Pronunciation

yo͞o /ju/ /jə/ /jɪ/ yə en-us-you unstressed.ogg /juː/ /jy/ /(j)iː/ /jʉ/ [jʉː] [jɪu̯] [jĭu] /jʉː/ En-uk-you.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-you.wav En-us-you.ogg

Word forms

you your yours yourself yourselves ye ya yah yer yeh y' yo yu yuh yew yoo yow u yuo youe yowe -cha -ja yous youing youed

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.

Synonyms

yer plus the alternative forms and at Appendix:English personal pronouns thee ye to you to thee to ye to you all thou all y'all allyou oonuh wunna yeens yens y'ins yins yinz yis yiz yoons you you [number] you all you guys (Australia New Zealand North America (United States Canada) Britain) you lot you man you people you-uns you'uns yous youse youz y'uns yuns yunz one people they them y'all Yu Youzhou one of the Nine Provinces of Chinese legend

Related words

Ime me myselfmemysen mine mymineme we us ourselvesourselfoursen oursourn our yourselfyoursen yoursyourn your thou thee thyselftheeselfthysen thine thythine youye yourselves you ally'all you guys yous y'allselves all yours y'all's you guys' your guys' all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys' he him himselfhisselfhissen hishisn his she her herselfhersen hershern ithit itselfhitself itshis itshishits they them themself themselves theirs their one oneself – one's themhem 'em themselvestheirsen theirstheirn The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun. Appendix:English personal pronouns :Category:English second person pronouns

Derived words

are you sure you're sure 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 do you need an invitation do you understand funk you generic you get a dog up you get away with you get you gone go-as-you-please go back to where you came from God go with you how are you how are you keeping how you get them is how you lose them if it you please I fuck you not if you know you know 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 life is what you make it listen to you makes you think mind you nice knowing you nice to meet you nice work if you can get it no soup for you no you pay what you want pee-you 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

Translations

Adangme: mo Afrikaans: jou Afrikaans: u Afrikaans: jy Albanian: ty Albanian: të Albanian: ti American Sign Language: 1@InsideChesthigh-RadialUp Arabic: ـكَ Arabic: ـكِ Arabic: إِيَّاكَ Arabic: إِيَّاكِ Arabic: ـك Arabic: أَنْتَ Arabic: أَنْتِ Arabic: حَضْرَتُكَ Arabic: حَضْرَتُكِ Arabic: انت Arabic: انتي Arabic: انتوا Tunisian Arabic: ـكْ Tunisian Arabic: اِنْتِ Aragonese: te Aragonese: tú Aragonese: mercé Aragonese: vusté Aramaic: לך Aramaic: לכי Aramaic: ܠܟ Aramaic: ܠܟܝ Aramaic: אנת Aramaic: אנתי Aramaic: ܐܢܬ Aramaic: ܐܢܬܝ Armenian: քեզ Armenian: Ձեզ Armenian: դու Armenian: դուն Armenian: Դուք Old Armenian: քեզ Old Armenian: դու Assamese: তোক Assamese: তোমাক Assamese: আপোনাক Assamese: তই Assamese: তুমি Assamese: আপুনি Asturian: te Asturian: tu Asturian: usté Azerbaijani: səni Azerbaijani: sən Azerbaijani: siz Bengali: তোকে Bengali: তোমাকে Bengali: আপনাকে Bengali: তুই Bengali: তুমি Bengali: আপনি Central Bikol: ika ka Central Bikol: ika Bouyei: mengz Bulgarian: теб Bulgarian: те Bulgarian: тебе Bulgarian: ти Bulgarian: Вас Bulgarian: Ви Bulgarian: Вам Bulgarian: Ви́е Catalan: tu Catalan: et Catalan: vostè Catalan: vós Chamicuro: pi'ti Chichewa: iwe Chichewa: inu Cornish: 'th Cornish: ty Crimean Tatar: saña Crimean Tatar: sen Czech: tebe Czech: tobě Czech: tě Czech: tebou Czech: ty Czech: vy Dalmatian: toi Dalmatian: te Danish: dig Danish: Dem Danish: du Danish: De Dutch: jou Dutch: je Dutch: u Dutch: jij Dutch: gij Dutch: ge Esperanto: vin Esperanto: cin Esperanto: vi Esperanto: ci Estonian: sind Estonian: sina Estonian: sa Ewe: wò Faroese: teg Faroese: tær Faroese: tú Faroese: tygum Finnish: sinut Finnish: sinua Finnish: teidän Finnish: teitä Finnish: sinä Finnish: sinun Finnish: te French: toi French: vous French: tu West-Frisian: dy West-Frisian: jo West-Frisian: do Galician: te Galician: che Galician: ti Galician: vostede Georgian: შენ Georgian: თქვენ German: dich German: dir German: Euch German: Sie German: Ihnen German: du Greek: εσένα Greek: εσύ Greek: εσείς Hebrew: אותך Hebrew: לך Hebrew: אַתָּה Hebrew: אַתְּ Hindi: तुझ Hindi: तुम Hindi: आप Hindi: तू Hindi: तुइ Hopi: ung Hopi: um
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