“yourself” is a form of
you
UK /ju/ · US /jə/ pronoun, determiner, verb, noun, proper noun
Forms your yours yourself yourselves yous youing youed ye ya yah yer yeh y' yo yu yuh
- pronoun (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object. “Both of you should get ready now.”
- pronoun (reflexive pronoun, now US colloquial) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
- pronoun (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
- pronoun (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.) “You are all supposed to do as I tell you.”
- pronoun (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
- pronoun (subject pronoun, colloquial) A person's favorite sports team. “I get that you're from Southeast Michigan, but I'm still surprised that you're a Detroit Lions fan. You have been on the receiving end of losing seasons for a while now.”
- pronoun (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
- pronoun (indefinite personal pronoun) A dummy pronoun used in certain constructions, usually with verbs of receiving (such as get or find) or sensing (such as see or hear), typically stating the existence or typicality of something. “You get a lot of rude people in London.”
- determiner The individual or group spoken or written to. “Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?”
- determiner Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis. “You idiot!”
- determiner (nonstandard) Your.
- verb (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).
- noun The name of the Latin script letter U/u.
- proper noun (countable) A surname from Chinese
- proper noun (historical) A former prefecture of China.
- proper noun (Chinese mythology) Synonym of Youzhou, one of the Nine Provinces of Chinese legend.
Synonyms
one people they them y'all ye yer thee to you to thee to ye to you all thou your ass Your Maj all y'all allyou oonuh wunna yeens
Etymology
From Middle English you, yow, ȝow (object case of ye), from Old English ēow (“you”, dative case of ġē), from Proto-West Germanic *iwwi (“you”, dative case of *jiʀ), from Proto-Germanic *iwwiz (“you”, dative case of *jīz), the Western form of Proto-Germanic *izwiz (“you”, dative case of *jūz), from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs (“you”, plural).
Cognate with Scots you (“you”), Saterland Frisian jou (“you”), West Frisian jo (“you”), Low German jo, joe and oe (“you”), Dutch jou and u (“you”), German euch (“you”), Middle High German eu, iu (“you”, object pronoun), Latin vōs (“you”), Avestan 𐬬𐬋 (vō, “you”), Ashkun yë̃ (“you”), Kamkata-viri šo (“you”), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, “you”).
See usage notes. Ye, you and your are cognate with Dutch jij/je, jou, jouw; Low German ji, jo/ju, jug and German ihr, euch and euer respectively. Ye is also cognate with Danish I and archaic Swedish I. Compare the shift to the second-person singular informal Spanish vos, historically a formal pronoun.
From irregular, Wade–Giles, and Hanyu Pinyin romanizations of the Mandarin pronunciations of various Chinese characters, including 余, 于, 由 (yóu), 魚 /鱼 (yú) / 鱼 (yú), 漁 /渔 (yú), 渔 (yú), 楀 (yǔ), 俞, 喻, 兪, 於 /于, 遇 (yù), 虞 (yú), 郁 (yù), 尉, 禹 (yǔ), 游 (yóu), 尤 (yóu), 庾 (yǔ), 娛 /娱, 娱, 茹, 幽 (Yōu).
Capitalization of you.
Webster’s 1913
- pronoun The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye.
Etymology [OE. you, eou, eow, dat. & acc., AS. eów, used as dat. & acc. of ge, g, ye; akin to OFries. iu, io, D. u, G. euch, OHG. iu, dat., iuwih, acc., Icel. y, dat. & acc., Goth. izwis; of uncertain origin. sq. root189. Cf. Your.]
Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “you”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details