your

your · determiner

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Definitions

determiner

  1. 1.

    Belonging to or associated with the person or people that the speaker is addressing.

  2. 2.

    Belonging to or associated with any person in general.

  3. 3.

    (Informal) Used in certain familiar expressions.

Related words

See also: my, you, yours, yourself

Etymology

From Old English "eower," genitive of "ge" (you, plural). Like "you," the possessive "your" was originally plural but came to be used for both singular and plural as "thou/thy" fell out of use in standard English.