ihr

See also Ihr

German

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA: /ʔiːɐ̯/

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• Rhymes: -iːɐ̯

• (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA: /ɐ/

Etymology

From Middle High German ir, from Old High German ir, from West Germanic *jīz, variant of Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́. Cognate with Low German ji, jie, Dutch jij, gij, je, English ye, Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐍃 (jūs).

Pronoun

ihr pl

1. (personal) you (pl.).

Inflection

	2nd person plural
nominative	ihr
genitive	euer
dative	euch
accusative	euch

Usage notes

• This form is the plural of du; it is used when addressing a group of people with whom one is fairly intimate, such as family members, friends, and children. The more polite equivalent used when addressing strangers is Sie (which is both singular and plural).
• As with all personal pronouns, the genitive case is very rare. It is used only in archaic speech and in very high registers with verbs such as erinnern and gedenken that take a genitive object. The possessive determiner euer, on the other hand, which is put in front of the nouns it modifies and is inflected to agree with that noun, is perfectly common.

See also

German personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		ich	wir
2nd person	familiar	du	ihr
	polite	Sie
3rd person	m	er	sie
	f	sie
	n	es

Pronoun

ihr dative

1. (personal) dative of sie, her, to her (indirect object).

Pronoun

ihr m, ihr n, ihre f, ihre pl

1. (possessive) her.
2. (possessive) its (when the owning object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine (die)).
3. (possessive) their.

Inflection

	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative	ihr	ihre	ihr	ihre
genitive	ihres	ihrer	ihres	ihrer
dative	ihrem	ihrer	ihrem	ihren
accusative	ihren	ihre	ihr	ihre