your
determinercontractiontop 100 in film dialogue
- //jɔː(ɹ)//
- //jʊə(ɹ)//
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
determiner
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Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience.
Is this your cat?
Everyone always asks what my advice is, and my advice is don’t overintellectualize your art.
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Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
Then Ieſus ſaid vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.
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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
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That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)
Your man just bought a new car.
Have you seen what your one over there is doing?
Etymology
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
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Variant of you'reMisspelling of you're.
In a possible case of nominative determinism, [Harry] Styles clearly demonstrated his penchant for grammar at a 2015 show, adding an apostrophe and an E to a Philadelphia fan’s sign so it said “You’re so nice” rather than “your so nice” (he then wrote “thank you – love, Harry” and gave it back, in case there was any doubt about the sign’s message).
your · Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
yours · That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person…yourself · Your own self (singular).yourselves · You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group…