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you

/jə/

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What does you mean?

pronoun

  1. The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
  2. (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
  3. The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
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pronoun

  1. The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
  2. The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
  3. A person's favorite sports team.
  4. Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
  5. A dummy pronoun used in certain constructions, usually with verbs of receiving (such as get or find) or sensing (such as see or hear), typically stating the existence or typicality of something.
  6. Honorific alternative letter-case form of you, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

determiner

  1. The individual or group spoken or written to.
  2. Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
  3. Your.

verb

  1. To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).

noun

  1. The name of the Latin script letter U/u.

proper noun

  1. A surname from Chinese
  2. Synonym of Youzhou, one of the Nine Provinces of Chinese legend.
  3. (historical) A former prefecture of China.
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IPA pronunciation

/jə/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/jɪ//ju/
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In the pages of books

See this word in context.

“You might just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I eat what I see’!”
Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in WonderlandProject Gutenberg ebook #11
“Oh, mummy,” cried the first twin, “you mean that there is a lady also, don’t you? She is not dead, is she?”
J. M. (James Matthew) BarriePeter Pan : $b [Peter and Wendy]Project Gutenberg ebook #16
More book examples (3)
And were it not that I must speak unto you concerning a grosser crime, my heart would rejoice exceedingly because of you.
Joseph, Jr. Smith; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe Book of Mormon : $b an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of NephiProject Gutenberg ebook #17
“Don’t they ever teach you in your history classes that you’d all be heathen Turks if it hadn’t been for the Bohemians?”
Willa CatherO Pioneers!Project Gutenberg ebook #24
“Nothing now,” she answered, “since you are not dead. It was a wonder you were not suffocated in this hut of yours.”
Thomas HardyFar from the Madding CrowdProject Gutenberg ebook #27