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yʊər, yɔr, yoʊr; unstressed yəryour
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Wiktionary
yourpronoun
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
yourpronoun
Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
yourpronoun
A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
Etymology: From eower.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Yourpronoun.
Etymology: eower , Saxon.
Either your unparagoned mistress is dead, or she’s outprized by a trifle. William Shakespeare.
Every true man’s apparel fits your thief: if it be too little for your thief, your true man thinks it big enough. If it be too big for your thief, your thief thinks it little enough; so every true man’s apparel fits your thief. William Shakespeare.
There is a great affinity between coins and poetry, and your medallist and critick are much nearer related than the world imagine. Joseph Addison, on ancient Medals.
A disagreement between these seldom happens, but among your antiquaries and schoolmen. Henry Felton, on the Classicks.
Pray for this man and for his issue,
Whose heavy hand hath bow’d you to the grave,
And beggar’d yours for ever. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.That done, our day of marriage shall be yours,
One feast, one house, one mutual happiness. William Shakespeare.This kiss, if it durst speak,
Would stretch thy spirits up into the air:
Conceive and fare thee well. ——
—— Yours in the ranks of death. ———— William Shakespeare, King Lear.He is forsworn, if e’er those eyes of yours
Behold another day break in the east. William Shakespeare.While the sword this monarchy secures,
’Tis manag’d by an abler hand than yours. Dryden.My wealth, my city and myself are yours. Dryden.
It is my employment to revive the old of past ages to the present, as it is yours to transmit the young of the present to the future. Alexander Pope.
Wikipedia
your
In Modern English, you is the second-person pronoun. It is grammatically plural, and was historically used only for the dative case, but in most modern dialects is used for all cases and numbers.
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your
"Your" is a possessive pronoun used to indicate ownership or association with the person or group being spoken to or referred to. It is usually used to show possession or responsibility for something.
Your
"Your" is a possessive pronoun used to indicate something that belongs to or is associated with the person or people being addressed or referred to. It denotes ownership or possession in relation to the person or group mentioned.
Webster Dictionary
Your
the form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you
Etymology: [OE. your, our, eowr, eower, AS. ewer, originally used as the gen. of ge, g, ye; akin to OFries. iuwer your, OS. iuwar, D. uw, OHG. iuwr, G. euer, Icel. yar, Goth. izwara, izwar, and E. you. 189. See You.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Your
ūr, pron. poss. of you: belonging to you: (Shak.) used to denote a class or species well known, the use implying something of contempt.—Yourn (prov.), yours. [A.S. eówer. Cf. Ye.]
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'your' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #80
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'your' in Written Corpus Frequency: #64
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of your in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of your in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of your in a Sentence
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Is God in a Temple? Is God in a Church? Is God in a Mosque? Continue your Search When you get to the RootYou will Realize the Truth!
As a chef and a cook, I don’t feel good without a stock going. It’s one of my things, we make all our stocks at our restaurants. And I do it all the time at home for me and my wife, Gina. They’re the easiest thing in the world. I’ll roast a whole chicken, we’ll eat what we can, and the rest will go right into the Instant Pot. I did the same thing with the bones from a beef roast last night. I’m no doctor, but I know good food is good for your life.
Theres a lot of things that are out of your control in life and you can either look at it as a negative or you can look at it as a positive, i know that my ability, my work ethic, and many things that I bring to the team, the intangibles I can be playing out there, no doubt. But for whatever reason, coaches have made that decision and I come in and its my job to make something happen.
Stare your fears down and they will eventually disappear.
When Fred Jr. was playing, the worse we ever thought an injury would be would be some major spinal type thing, where Fred Jr.'re carried off in paralysis. That was your worst fear, sitting in the stands. But this ? We didn't know. We didn't see it coming.
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