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your

Pronunciation: /juːr/

“your” is a Middle English word. Its 3 meanings in English:

determiner

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

pronoun

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

Etymology

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

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