yours

CEFRA1

/jɔː(ɹ)z/

pronoun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    pronoun

    Something that belongs to the person or people being spoken to.

  2. 02

    pronoun

    Extra detail

    Written at the end of a letter, before the signature.

Examples

  • All the compositions were good except yours.

  • Compared with yours, my car is small.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1
Synonyms
1

Deep Dive

pronoun

Extra meanings

  1. Your house or home.

  2. That or those belonging to you; the possessive second-person singular pronoun used without a following noun.

More examples

In context

  • The church is between my house and yours.

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

  • Their encyclopedia is good, but yours is even better.

Synonyms

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

That backpack is blank because it has your name on it, not mine.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

pronoun

From Middle English youres, ȝoures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to your + -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced yourn in standard speech.