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SWEDISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

er.

you (plural objective case)

2 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

pron/eːr/

  1. you (plural objective case)

    common-gender
    Ni två är här, så jag ser er
    Det är en ära att få träffa er båda

  2. your, yours (possessed by the multiple individuals addressed, of one common-gender thing (or possessed by the single individual addressed if used as a polite pronoun – see (sense 3)))

    common-gender · possessive
    Är det här er(an) boll, pojkar?
    Scenen är er, pojkar!

  3. you (second-person singular objective formal) (capitalized Er, rare in contemporary Swedish – see the notes at ni, which mostly also apply here)

    common-gender
    Jag hör er inte, kapten

  4. reflexive of ni; compare yourselves

    common-gender · form-of · pronoun · reflexive
    Identifiera er, pojkar!
    Ta hand om er, pojkar!
Where this word comes from

Contraction of earlier eder, from Old Swedish iþer, idher, from Old Norse iðʀ, from Proto-Germanic *izwiz, dative/accusative of *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs.

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