You (stressed /ˈjuː/, unstressed /jə/) is the second-person personal pronoun, both singular and plural, and both nominative and oblique case, in Modern English. The oblique (objective) form you functioned previously in the roles of both accusative and dative, as well as all instances after a preposition. The possessive forms of you are your (used before a noun) and yours (used in place of a noun). The reflexive forms are yourself (singular) and yourselves (plural).
| Singular | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Object | Possessive determiner | Possessive pronoun | Reflexive | Subject | Object | Possessive determiner | Possessive pronoun | Reflexive | ||
| First | I | me | my | mine | myself | we | us | our | ours | ourselves | |
| Second | you | your | yours | yourself | you | your | yours | yourselves | |||
| Third | Masculine | he | him | his | himself | they | them | their | theirs | themselves | |
| Feminine | she | her | hers | herself | |||||||
| Neuter | it | its | - | itself | |||||||
Famous quotes containing the word you:
“If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.”
—Elie Wiesel (b. 1928)
“Despair,
I don’t like you very well.
You don’t suit my clothes or my cigarettes.
Why do you locate here
as large as a tank,
aiming at one half of a lifetime?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)