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   you

   /juː/

   pronoun

   • 1. used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing: "are you listening?"
   • ▪ used to refer to the person being addressed together with other people regarded in the same class: "you Americans"
   • ▪ used in exclamations to address one or more people: "you fools"
   • ▪ your: West Indian "I didn't know that was you nickname"
   • 2. used to refer to any person in general: "after a while, you get used to it"

   Word Origin Old Englishēow, accusative and dative of gē (see ye1), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch u and German euch. During the 14th century you began to replace ye1, thou1, and thee; by the 17th century it had become the ordinary second person pronoun for any number and case.

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • Y

     4

   • O

     1

   • U

     1

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