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All 4 letters words made out of your

your oyur yuor uyor ouyr uoyr yoru oyru yrou ryou oryu royu yuro uyro yruo ryuo uryo ruyo oury uory oruy rouy uroy ruoy

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word your. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in your.

Definitions and meaning of your

your

Alternative forms

• ur (informal, Internet, text messaging)
• ya, yer, yr (informal)
• yo, yo' (African American Vernacular)

Etymology

From Middle English your, youre, ȝour, ȝoure, from Old English ēower, īower (“your”, plural), from Proto-West Germanic *iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jou (“your”), Dutch jouw (“your”), German Low German jo, jos (“your”), German euer (“your”, plural), Danish jeres (“your”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /jɔː/, /jʊə/, (unstressed) /jə/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• (US) enPR: yôr, IPA^(key): /jɔɹ/, /jʊɚ/, /jɝ/, (unstressed) /jɚ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: yōr, IPA^(key): /jo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /joə/
• (non-rhotic, show-sure merger, AAVE) IPA^(key): /joʊ/
• Homophone: you're
• Homophone: yore (accents with the pour–poor merger)
• Homophone: yaw (non-rhotic accents with the paw-poor merger)
• Homophone: yo (non-rhotic accents with the show-sure merger)

• Rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ), -ɔː(ɹ)
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) (some rhotic dialects)
• In US English, /jɚ/ is generally the unstressed version of /jɔɹ/; in many dialects, however, /jɝ/ is frequent even in positions of stress.

Determiner

your

1. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

2. Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
3. A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.

4. (Ireland) That; the specified (usually used with a human referent)

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Translations

Contraction

your

1. Misspelling of you're.

Usage notes

• The use of your instead of you're is a common mistake in written English.

See also

Cameroon Pidgin

Alternative forms

• ya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ja/

Determiner

your

1. 2nd person singular possessive determiner

See also

Middle English

Alternative forms

• (common) youre, yowr, yowre, ȝour, ȝoure
• yowyr, yowur, yor, yur, yure, yeur, yhure, yhour, yhoure, ȝowyr, ȝowur, ȝor, ȝore, ȝur, ȝure, ȝiore, ȝhour, ȝhoure, ȝaure, ȝiure, ȝiwer, ȝeur, ȝeure, ȝeuer, ȝeuwer, ȝewer, ȝewere, gur, gure, giur, giure, giuor, giuer, giuwer, giwer, ihore, ihoire, iure, eour, eoure, eouer, eouwer, eouwere, eower, eowwer, eore, eur, eure, euwer, euwere, our, oure, or, ore, ouer, ouwer, ouwere, ower, owur, hour, æure

Etymology

From Old English ēower, from Proto-West Germanic *iuwar, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz. Initial /j/ is by analogy with ye.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːr/, /jiu̯r/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /jur/

Determiner

your (nominative pronoun ye)

1. Second-person plural genitive determiner: your (plural)
2. (formal) Second-person singular genitive determiner: your (singular).

Pronoun

your (nominative ye)

1. Second-person plural possessive pronoun: yours, of you (plural)

Descendants

• English: your (ya, yer, yo)
• Scots: your (yer)
• Yola: yer, ye

See also

References

• “your, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.