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yer

adverbnounpronouncontractiondeterminercommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//jɜː//
  • United States//jɝ//
  • //ˈjɛ(ə)//
  • //jʌ//
  • //jɜː//

Either of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.

adverb

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    Variant of yeahslangPronunciation spelling of yeah (“yes”).

Etymology

Most likely from the intrusive R, between "yeah" (/jəː/) and a non-high vowel (/ə/, /ɪə/, /ɑː/, /ɔː/). For example, "Yeah-r-I know" (/jəɹ ʌɪ nəʊ/).

noun

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    Either of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ер (jer, “ъ”) and ерь (jerʹ, “ь”).

pronoun

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    Variant of youslangPronunciation spelling of you (plural or singular).

    "Thet one in the Formosa Channel was tremenjus. The velocity of the wind tetched a ’undred and forty mile,—so it was computed at Taipei,— arfter which it blew the wind gedge away. Yer need a string to yer ’at in a breeze like thet!"

    'Still, yer got nice looks,' said Ella.

Etymology

From you.

contraction

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    Variant of you'reslangPronunciation spelling of you're (“you are”).

    Yer a lotta nosey parkers.

    ‘Ah, go boil yer heads, both of yeh,’ said Hagrid. ‘Harry – yer a wizard.’

determiner

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    Variant of yourPronunciation spelling of your.

    'Make yer way down to the station,' he said.

    ‘Las’ time I saw you, you was only a baby,’ said the giant. ‘Yeh look a lot like yer dad, but yeh’ve got yer mum’s eyes.’

    Old Lady: 'HOLLER AT THAT FELLER IN THE CHEST DOWNSTAIRS. IF Y'NEED CARDS, HE'S YER MAIN MAN, HEH HEH!'

Forms

plural
yers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).