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yous

pronoundeterminernounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//juːz//
  • United Kingdom//jəz//
  • United Kingdom//jɪz//
  • //iːz//

You.

pronoun

  1. 1

    You.

    What are yous up to tonight?

    "How could anyone get hurted so simple as that? I'd be the last in the world to speak of such a thing in that case! But if yous are afraid of doing it..."

  2. 2

    You.

    ‘Dere ain't no use for me dis side, Mr. Chames,’ he said. ‘New York's de spot. Youse don't want none of me, now you're married.’

    ‘Yous will meet us here outside this pub,’ Harry Curniskey said.

    ‘But what I also seen is that youse have never had a real man before, datin' all them boys. Youse have never had anyone who'd stand up to youse.’

    You think yous can live wi'oot money! Few months doon this hell, you'll murder for money!

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *uswé Proto-Indo-European *-(m)is? Proto-Indo-European *uswísder. Proto-Germanic *izwiz Proto-West Germanic *iwwiz Old English ēow Middle English yow English you English -s English yous From you + -s (plural suffix).

determiner

  1. 1

    The group spoken or written to.

    What are yous kids doin?

    "Go and find out who did it, before you come blaming me for it." "It's only youse crowd wot comes makin' a pigsty of the place," said Melons conclusively.

    “Heh, yous kids want a game?” “Dunno, suppose so.” “Dar and I versus yous; that's fair.” “Short kicks Ern, we hang on to the ball and let them do the chasing.” “You watch me take the marks Dar; them blokes won't know what hit them.”

noun

  1. 1

    Also a form of youplural of you

    Most of your life after babyhood has been played out by the several yous.

    There are two yous — the visible you and the real you. The visible you is the you that is known by others.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of youThird-person singular simple present indicative form of you.

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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).