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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”).

• ur (informal, Internet, text messaging)
• ya, yer, yr (informal)
• yo, yo' (African American Vernacular)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɔː/, /jʊə/, (unstressed) /jə/

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• (General American) enPR: yôr, IPA^(key): /jɔɹ/, /jʊɹ/, /jɝ/, (unstressed form) /jɚ/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /jʊəɹ/, /jɜ(ː)ɹ/, (unstressed form) /jɚ/
  • (Dialectal) IPA^(key): /jɪʊɹ/, /jɪəɹ/, (unstressed form) /jəɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: yōr, IPA^(key): /jo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /joə/
• (non-rhotic, show–sure merger, African-American Vernacular) IPA^(key): /joʊ/
• Homophone: you're
• Homophone: yore (pour–poor merger or dialectal)
• Homophone: yaw (non-rhotic, paw–poor merger or dialectal)
• Homophone: yo (non-rhotic, show–sure merger)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ), -ʊə(ɹ), -ɜː(ɹ)

your

1. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

   Let’s meet tomorrow at your convenience.

   Is this your cat?

2. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 6:7, column 1:

     Then Ieſus ſaid vnto them, My time is not yet come: but your time is alway ready.

3. 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

4. (Ireland) 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?

your

1. Misspelling of you're.

• The use of your instead of you're is a common mistake in written English.

• ya

• IPA^(key): /ja/

your

1. 2nd person singular possessive determiner

• (common) youre, yowr, yowre, ȝour, ȝoure
• yowyr, yowur, yor, yur, yure, yeur, yhure, yhour, yhoure, ȝowyr, ȝowur, ȝor, ȝore, ȝur, ȝure, ȝiore, ȝhour, ȝhoure, ȝaure, ȝiure, ȝiwer, ȝeur, ȝeure, ȝeuer, ȝeuwer, ȝewer, ȝewere, gur, gure, giur, giure, giuor, giuer, giuwer, giwer, ihore, ihoire, iure, eour, eoure, eouer, eouwer, eouwere, eower, eowwer, eore, eur, eure, euwer, euwere, our, oure, or, ore, ouer, ouwer, ouwere, ower, owur, hour, æure

From Old English ēower, from Proto-West Germanic *iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Initial /j/ is by analogy with ye.

• IPA^(key): /juːr/, /jiu̯r/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /jur/

your (nominative pronoun ye)

1. Second-person plural genitive determiner: your (plural)
2. (formal) Second-person singular genitive determiner: your (singular).

your (nominative ye)

1. Second-person plural possessive pronoun: yours, of you (plural)

• English: your (ya, yer, yo)
• Scots: your (yer)
• Yola: yer, ye

• “your, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.