You

You

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).

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Famous quotes containing the word you:

    “Really, friend, I can’t let you. You may need them.”
    “Not till I shrink, when they’ll be out of style.”
    “But really I——I have so many collars.”
    “I don’t know who I rather would have have them.
    They’re only turning yellow where they are.
    But you’re the doctor, as the saying is.
    I’ll put the light out. Don’t you wait for me....”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,—thinner than the paper on which it is printed,—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967)