You, the Glossary
In Modern English, the word "you" is the second-person pronoun.[1]
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87 relations: Abaco Islands, Accusative case, Adjective phrase, Adjunct (grammar), Adverbial phrase, African-American Vernacular English, Agreement (linguistics), Appalachian English, Australian English, Barbados, Belize, British English, Canada, Canadian English, Cape Breton Island, Caribbean English, Carriacou, Cayman Islands English, Complement (linguistics), Dative case, Definiteness, Demonstrative, Determiner, Early Modern English, English personal pronouns, English pronouns, Ewe, Falkland Islands English, Generic you, Genitive case, Geordie, Grammatical modifier, Grammatical number, Grammatical person, Grenada, Guyana, Hiberno-English, Imperative mood, Indefinite pronoun, Intrapersonal communication, Jamaican English, Middle English, Midwestern United States, Modern English, Morphology (linguistics), New York City English, New Zealand English, Nominative case, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Noun phrase, ... Expand index (37 more) »
- English pronouns
- Modern English personal pronouns
- Second-person plural pronouns in English
Abaco Islands
The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas, about 193 miles (167.7 nautical miles or 310.6 km) east of Miami, Florida.
Accusative case
In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb.
Adjective phrase
An adjective phrase (or adjectival phrase) is a phrase whose head is an adjective.
Adjunct (grammar)
In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase that, if removed or discarded, will not structurally affect the remainder of the sentence.
Adverbial phrase
In linguistics, an adverbial phrase ("AdvP") is a multi-word expression operating adverbially: its syntactic function is to modify other expressions, including verbs, adjectives, adverbs, adverbials, and sentences.
African-American Vernacular English
African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians.
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Agreement (linguistics)
In linguistics, agreement or concord (abbreviated) occurs when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.
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Appalachian English
Appalachian English is American English native to the Appalachian mountain region of the Eastern United States.
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Australian English
Australian English (AusE, AusEng, AuE, AuEng, en-AU) is the set of varieties of the English language native to Australia.
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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.
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Belize
Belize (Bileez) is a country on the north-eastern coast of Central America.
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British English
British English is the set of varieties of the English language native to the island of Great Britain.
Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
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Canadian English
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada.
Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (île du Cap-Breton, formerly île Royale; Ceap Breatainn or Eilean Cheap Bhreatainn; Unamaꞌki) is a rugged and irregularly shaped island on the Atlantic coast of North America and part of the province of Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Caribbean English
Caribbean English (CE, CarE) is a set of dialects of the English language which are spoken in the Caribbean and most countries on the Caribbean coasts of Central America and South America.
Carriacou
Carriacou is an island of the Grenadine Islands.
Cayman Islands English
Cayman Islands English, also called Caymanian Creole English or Caymanian Patwah, is a semi-creolised form of English spoken in the Cayman Islands.
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Complement (linguistics)
In grammar, a complement is a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression.
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Dative case
In grammar, the dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, as in "", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".
Definiteness
In linguistics, definiteness is a semantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context (definite noun phrases) and those that are not (indefinite noun phrases).
Demonstrative
Demonstratives (abbreviated) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others.
Determiner
Determiner, also called determinative (abbreviated), is a term used in some models of grammatical description to describe a word or affix belonging to a class of noun modifiers.
Early Modern English
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModEFor example, or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
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English personal pronouns
The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. You and English personal pronouns are English pronouns and modern English personal pronouns.
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English pronouns
The English pronouns form a relatively small category of words in Modern English whose primary semantic function is that of a pro-form for a noun phrase. You and English pronouns are English words.
Ewe
A ewe is a female sheep.
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Falkland Islands English
Falkland Islands English is the dialect of the English language spoken in the Falkland Islands.
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Generic you
In English grammar, the personal pronoun you can often be used in the place of one, the singular impersonal pronoun, in colloquial speech. You and Generic you are modern English personal pronouns.
Genitive case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.
Geordie
Geordie is an English dialect spoken in the Tyneside area of North East England, especially connected with Newcastle upon Tyne, and sometimes known in linguistics as Tyneside English or Newcastle English.
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Grammatical modifier
In linguistics, a modifier is an optional element in phrase structure or clause structure which modifies the meaning of another element in the structure.
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Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").
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Grammatical person
In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).
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Grenada
Grenada (Grenadian Creole French: Gwenad) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea.
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Guyana
Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.
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Hiberno-English
Hiberno-English or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of English dialects native to Ireland, here including the whole island: both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Imperative mood
The imperative mood is a grammatical mood that forms a command or request.
Indefinite pronoun
An indefinite pronoun is a pronoun which does not have a specific, familiar referent.
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Intrapersonal communication
Intrapersonal communication (also known as autocommunication or inner speech) is communication with oneself or self-to-self communication.
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Jamaican English
Jamaican English, including Jamaican Standard English, is a variety of English native to Jamaica and is the official language of the country.
Middle English
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.
Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.
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Modern English
Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language that has been spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, which began in the late 14th century and was completed by the 17th century.
Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.
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New York City English
New York City English, or Metropolitan New York English, is a regional dialect of American English spoken primarily in New York City and some of its surrounding metropolitan area.
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New Zealand English
New Zealand English (NZE) is the variant of the English language spoken and written by most English-speaking New Zealanders.
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Nominative case
In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.
Northeastern Pennsylvania
Northeastern Pennsylvania (N.E.P.A. or sometimes called Nepa) is a region of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that includes the Pocono Mountains, the Endless Mountains, and the industrial cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Hazleton, Nanticoke, and Carbondale.
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Noun phrase
A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun.
Object (grammar)
In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments.
Oblique case
In grammar, an oblique (abbreviated; from casus obliquus) or objective case (abbr.) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative.
Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
One (pronoun)
One is an English language, gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly, "a person". You and One (pronoun) are English words and modern English personal pronouns.
Ozarks
The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas.
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Palmerston Island
Palmerston Island is a coral atoll in the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean about northwest of Rarotonga.
Person
A person (people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.
Philadelphia English
Philadelphia English or Delaware Valley English is a variety or dialect of American English native to Philadelphia and extending into Philadelphia's metropolitan area throughout the Delaware Valley, including southeastern Pennsylvania, all of South Jersey, counties of northern Delaware (especially New Castle and Kent), and the northern Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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Proto-Germanic language
Proto-Germanic (abbreviated PGmc; also called Common Germanic) is the reconstructed proto-language of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Proto-Indo-European language
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family.
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Reflexive pronoun
A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers to another noun or pronoun (its antecedent) within the same sentence.
Relative clause
A relative clause is a clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative clause refers to the noun or noun phrase.
Saban English
Saban English is the local dialect of English spoken on Saba, an island in the Dutch Caribbean.
Saint Helena
Saint Helena is one of the three constituent parts of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, a remote British overseas territory.
San Salvador Island
San Salvador Island, previously Watling's Island, is an island and district of the Bahamas, famed for being the probable location of Christopher Columbus's first landing of the Americas on 12 October 1492 during his first voyage.
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Scouse
Scouse, more formally known as Liverpool English or Merseyside English, is an accent and dialect of English associated with the city of Liverpool and the surrounding Liverpool City Region.
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Southern American English
Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, though concentrated increasingly in more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners.
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Specificity (linguistics)
In linguistics, specificity is a semantic feature of noun phrases (NPs) that distinguishes between entities/nouns/referents that are unique in a given context and those that are not.
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Standard English
In an English-speaking country, Standard English (SE) is the variety of English that has undergone codification to the point of being socially perceived as the standard language, associated with formal schooling, language assessment, and official print publications, such as public service announcements and newspapers of record, etc.
Subject (grammar)
A subject is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the predicate, which modifies the subject).
T–V distinction
The T–V distinction is the contextual use of different pronouns that exists in some languages and serves to convey formality or familiarity.
The Bahamas
The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.
Thou
The word thou is a second-person singular pronoun in English. You and thou are English words.
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Trinidadian and Tobagonian English
Trinidadian and Tobagonian English (TE) or Trinidadian and Tobagonian Standard English is a dialect of English used in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha, colloquially Tristan, is a remote group of volcanic islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
U
U, or u, is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.
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Upper Peninsula of Michigan
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan—also known as Upper Michigan or colloquially the U.P.—is the northern and more elevated of the two major landmasses that make up the U.S. state of Michigan; it is separated from the Lower Peninsula by the Straits of Mackinac.
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Ure
Ure or URE may refer to.
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Utila
Utila (Isla de Utila) is the smallest of Honduras' major Bay Islands, after Roatán and Guanaja, in a region that marks the south end of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System, the second-largest in the world.
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Verb
A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
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Western Pennsylvania English
Western Pennsylvania English, known more narrowly as Pittsburgh English or popularly as Pittsburghese, is a dialect of American English native primarily to the western half of Pennsylvania, centered on the city of Pittsburgh, but potentially appearing in some speakers as far north as Erie County, as far west as Youngstown, Ohio, and as far south as Clarksburg, West Virginia.
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Y'all
Y'all (pronounced) is a contraction of you and all, sometimes combined as you-all. You and Y'all are modern English personal pronouns and second-person plural pronouns in English.
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Ye (pronoun)
Ye is a second-person, plural, personal pronoun (nominative), spelled in Old English as "ge". You and Ye (pronoun) are modern English personal pronouns and second-person plural pronouns in English.
Yew
Yew is a common name given to various species of trees.
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Yinz
Yinz (see below for other spellings) is a second-person plural pronoun used mainly in Western Pennsylvania English. You and Yinz are modern English personal pronouns and second-person plural pronouns in English.
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See also
English pronouns
- English personal pronouns
- English pronouns
- I (pronoun)
- Inanimate whose
- Spivak pronoun
- Who (pronoun)
- You
Modern English personal pronouns
- English personal pronouns
- Gender neutrality in languages with gendered third-person pronouns
- Generic you
- He (pronoun)
- I (pronoun)
- It (pronoun)
- Neopronoun
- One (pronoun)
- Preferred gender pronoun
- She (pronoun)
- Singular they
- Subject complement
- Them
- They
- We
- Y'all
- Ye (pronoun)
- Yinz
- You
Second-person plural pronouns in English
- Y'all
- Ye (pronoun)
- Yinz
- You
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You
Also known as Plural of you, You (pronoun), You (word), You guys, You lot, You're, Youns, Your, Youre, Yous, Youse, Youuns.
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