• • (RP) enPR: yo͞o, IPA: En-uk-you.ogg
  • (GA) enPR: yo͞o, IPA: En-us-you.ogg
  • (Aus) enPR: yo͞o, IPA: /jʉː/
  • (RP) enPR: yo͞o, IPA: /ju/
  • (GA, Aus) enPR: yə, IPA: en-us-you unstressed.ogg

1. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. [from 9th c.]
   • 1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version. Genesis XLII:

     And Joseph said unto them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies [...].

2. (reflexive pronoun, now, US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself. [from 9th c.]
   • circa 1591 William Shakespeare, Richard III:

     If I may counsaile you, some day or two / Your Highnesse shall repose you at the Tower [...].

   • 1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version. Genesis XIX:

     And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city.

   • 1970, Donald Harington (writer), Lightning Bug:

     ‘Pull you up a chair,’ she offered.

3. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]
   • circa 1485 Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VIII:

     I charge you, as ye woll have my love, that ye warne your kynnesmen that ye woll beare that day the slyve of golde uppon your helmet.

4. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) [from 14th c.]

   Both of you should get ready now.

   You are all supposed to do as I tell you.

   • 2016, [https://web.archive.org/web/20171023035740/https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/lets-learn-english-lesson-7-what-are-you-doing/3240468.html VOA Learning English] (public domain)

     Are you excited? ― Yes, I am excited!

5. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.) [from 15th c.]
   • circa 1395 Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Clerk's Tale", Canterbury Tales, Ellesmere manuscript (c. 1410):

     certes lord / so wel vs liketh yow / And al youre werk / and euere han doon / þat we / Ne koude nat vs self deuysen how / We myghte lyuen / in moore felicitee [...].

   • 1814 July, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Printed for T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224 ↗, page 208 ↗:

     You are right, Fanny, to protest against such an office, but you need not be afraid.

6. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object). [from 16th c.]
   • 2001, Polly Vernon, The Guardian, 5 May 2001:

     You can't choose your family, your lovers are difficult and volatile, but, oh, you can choose your friends - so doesn't it make much more sense to live and holiday with them instead?

• (subject pronoun: person spoken/written to)

  yer (UK eye dialect)

  plus the alternative forms listed above and at ''

• (subject pronoun: persons spoken/written to; plural) seeSynonyms en
• (object pronoun: person spoken/written to) thee (singular, archaic), ye, to you, to thee, to ye
• (object pronoun: persons spoken/written to) ye, to you, to ye, to you all
• (one) one, people, they, them

1. The individual or group spoken or written to.

   Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?

2. Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.

   You idiot!

   • 2015, Judi Curtin, Only Eva, The O'Brien Press (ISBN 9781847177506):

     'You genius!' I shouted in Aretta's ear. 'You absolute genius! Why didn't you tell us you were so good?'

you (yous, present participle youing; past and past participle youed)

1. (transitive) To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).
   • 1930, Barrington Hall, Modern Conversation, Brewer & Warren, page 239:

     Youing consists in relating everything in the conversation to the person you wish to flatter, and introducing the word “you” into your speech as often as possible.

   • 1992, Barbara Anderson (writer), Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, Victoria University Press, page 272:

     Now even Princess Anne had dropped it. Sarah had heard her youing away on television the other night just like the inhabitants of her mother’s dominions beyond the seas.

   • 2004, Ellen Sue Miller, Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books, "Practicing":

     But even having my very own personal pronoun was risky, because it’s pretty tough to keep stopped-hope stopped up when you are getting all youed up, when someone you really like keeps promising you scary, fun, exciting stuff—and even tougher for the of that moment to remain securely devoid of hope, to make smart, self-denying decisions with Dad youing me—the long ooo of it broad and extended, like a hand.

1. Honorific alternative letter-case form of you, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

1. Surname of Chinese origin.

• (surname) Yu