your
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
your /jɔː, jʊə/
▶possessive determiner
- 1 belonging to or associated with the person or people that the speaker is addressing.
- 2 belonging to or associated with any person in general.
- 3 (Your) used when addressing the holder of certain titles.
usage: Do not confuse the possessive your meaning ‘belonging to you’ (as in what is your name?) with the contraction you're, which is short for ‘you are’ (as in you're looking well). Note also that neither your nor yours should be written with an apostrophe.
'your' also found in these Oxford entries:
ball
- beatitude
- beeswax
- beg
- blasted
- Bob
- bottom
- bring
- BYOB
- case
- ciao
- crave
- declutter
- eminence
- end
- excellency
- father
- funeral
- FYI
- grace
- guarantee
- hair
- head
- highness
- holiness
- honour
- hyphen
- instant
- in-your-face
- ladyship
- lend
- life
- like
- lordship
- magnificence
- majesty
- mark
- mend
- midst
- mind
- mud
- nelly
- nil desperandum
- Nunc Dimittis
- otaku
- pardon
- park
- pecker
- penny
- pipe
