Yours

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.2.1 Homophones 1.3 Possessive pronoun 1.3.1 Translations 1.3.2 See also

English

Etymology

From your + ’s.

Pronunciation

• RP: IPA: jɔːz
• US: AHD: yôrz, IPA: /jɔːrz/, SAMPA: /jO:rz/

Homophones

• yaws (non-rhotic accents)

yours

Possessive pronoun

1. That which belongs to you; the possessive case of you, used without a following noun.

   If this edit is mine, the other must be yours.

   Their encyclopedia is good, but yours is even better.

   It's all yours.

2. (Written at the end of a letter, before the signature) Yours sincerely, Yours faithfully, Yours, Sincerely yours. NB: In British English the adverb almost invariably follows the word yours; in American English it usually precedes it. As a general rule, sincerely is only employed if the name of the recipient is already known to the writer; a letter begun with Dear Sir or Dear Madam finishes with faithfully. Yours on its own and yours ever are less formal than the other forms.

Translations

• Dutch: het jouwe sing, de jouwe sing, het uwe pl, de uwe pl, van jou sing, van jullie pl
• Finnish: sinun (1), terveisin (2)
• French:

	m sing	f sing	m pl	f pl
Informal and belonging to one person	le tien	la tienne	les tiens	les tiennes
Formal or belonging to more than one person	le vôtre	la vôtre	les vôtres	les vôtres

Note: In French, the gender of this pronoun agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner.

• Interlingua: tue sing, vostre pl
• Italian:

	m sing	f sing	m pl	f pl
Belonging to one person; informal	il tuo	la tua	i tuoi	le tue
Belonging to one person; formal	il Suo or il vostro	la Sua or la vostra	i Suoi or i vostri	le Sue or le vostre
Belonging to more than one person; informal	il vostro	la vostra	i vostri	le vostre
Belonging to more than one person; formal	il vostro or il Loro	la vostra or la Lora	i vostri or i Lori	le vostre or le Lore

Note: In Italian, the gender of this pronoun agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner.

• Old English: þīn sg, inċer dual, ēower pl
• Spanish: tuyo sing, vuestro pl, suyo formal
• Swedish: din sing, er pl

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See also

• thine
• you
• your

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