Meaning of you | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
   nominative, objective, plural, second-person, singular
2. Honorific alternative letter-case form of you, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
   alt-of, honorific
3. apocopic form of tuyo, your
4. (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
   US, colloquial, nominative, objective, plural, pronoun, reflexive, second-person, singular
5. Used to refer to the one or ones being addressed: I'll lend you the book. You shouldn't work so hard. See Note at y'all, you-uns.
6. The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
   nominative, objective, plural, second-person, singular
7. Used to refer to an indefinitely specified person; one: You can't win them all.
8. The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
   nominative, objective, plural, pronoun, second-person, singular, subjective
9. Nonstandard Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb: You might want to get you another pair of shoes. See Note at me.
   Nonstandard
10. The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
    nominative, objective, plural, pronoun, second-person, singular, subjective
11. refers to the person addressed or to more than one person including the person or persons addressed but not including the speaker: you know better; the culprit is among you.
12. Also: one refers to an unspecified person or people in general: you can't tell the boys from the girls.
13. A person's favorite sports team.
    colloquial, nominative, objective, plural, pronoun, second-person, singular, subjective
14. chiefly US a dialect word for yourself or yourselves: you should get you a wife now. See yourself
    chiefly
15. Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
    indefinite, nominative, objective, personal, plural, pronoun, second-person, singular
16. informal the personality of the person being addressed or something that expresses it: that hat isn't really you.
    informal
17. 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.
    indefinite, nominative, objective, personal, plural, pronoun, second-person, singular
18. you know what you know who a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify
19. the pronoun of the second person singular or plural, used of the person or persons being addressed, in the nominative or objective case: You are the highest bidder. We can't help you.
20. one; anyone; people in general: a tiny animal you can't even see.

Equivalents

Examples

“Both of you should get ready now.”

“And Ioſeph ſaid vnto them, That is it that I ſpake vnto you, ſaying, Ye are ſpies.”

“If I may counsaile you, some day or two / Your Highnesse shall repose you at the Tower [...].”

“And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city.”

“'Draw near, and wash you in the living flames, and take their virtue into your poor frames in all its virgin strength[.]'”

“‘Pull you up a chair,’ she offered.”

“You'd better get you a gun and kill him before he kills you or somebody.”

“I charge you, as ye woll have my love, that ye warne your kynnesmen that ye woll beare that day the slyve of golde uppon your helmet.”

“You are all supposed to do as I tell you.”

“Are you excited? ― Yes, I am excited!”

“You are right, Fanny, to protest against such an office, but you need not be afraid.”

“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.”

“The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.”

“You can't choose your family, your lovers are difficult and volatile, but, oh, you can choose your friends - so doesn't it make much more sense to live and holiday with them instead?”

“You get a lot of rude people in London.”

“It was one of those small-town dive bars you often read about.”

“You find a lot of 'life' in the city but much of it is an act people are putting on.”

“You get some terrible bullies in Spanish villages too , and they'll doubtless grow up to be complete oafs.”

“You often hear about athletes having the jitters before a game, or having butterflies in their stomach.”

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