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You is the second person singular and plural pronoun in English. Register a free subdomain of conr free domain name! No ads, plus free URL
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In modern standard English, you serves as both the nominative and oblique case. The corresponding possessive adjective is your, and the independent possessive pronoun is yours.

Etymology

It is descended from Old English ge or �e (both pronounced roughly like Modern English yea), which was the old nominative case form of the pronoun, and eow, which was the old accusative case form of the pronoun. In Middle English the nominative case became ye, and the oblique case (formed by the merger of the accusative case and the former dative case) was you. In early Modern English either the nominative or the accusative forms have been generalized in most dialects. Blogthings - How Happy Are You?. Most generalized you; some dialects in the north of England and Scotland generalized ye, or use ye as a clipped or clitic form of the pronoun.

Ye and you are cognate with Dutch jij and jou, German ihr, Gothic jus and Old Norse ér. (Modern Icelandic þér is a variant form due to alteration of phrases like háfiþ ér (you have) into háfi þér etc. ) The specific form of this pronoun is unique to the Germanic languages, but the Germanic forms ultimately do relate to the general Indo-European forms represented by Latin vos.

Note that in the early days of the printing press, the letter y was used in place of the þ, so many modern instances of ye (such as in "Ye Olde Shoppe") are in fact examples of the and not of you. You Software is a developer of Mac OS X software designed to make the software you use every day View the rating of the currently playing song in the menu bar.