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your.

Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

det/jɔː(ɹ)//jʊə(ɹ)/archaic/jə(ɹ)/unstressed/jɔɹ/General-American

  1. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

    Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience.
    Is this your cat?

  2. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).

  3. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.

    Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
    Your Show of Shows

  4. That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)

    Ireland
    Your man just bought a new car.
    Have you seen what your one over there is doing?
Where this word comes from

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”).

contraction

  1. Misspelling of you're.

    alt-of · contraction · misspelling
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