y'

See also: у, ყ, ⴘ, and Appendix:Variations of "y"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jə/

Pronoun

y'

1. (informal, dialect, subject pronoun) you; ya; ye.
   • 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:

     Y' are brave, but the most uncrafty lad that I can think upon!

   • 1946, Katharine Susannah Prichard, The roaring nineties: a story of the goldfields of Western Australia:

     Y'r can turn out the place, boys, if y' think Monty or me had anything to do with his blasted wallet.

   • 1986, Robert Herring, McCampbell's war:

     "Then what y'reckon y'gon' do?" the other repeated.

Derived terms

• y'all
• y'know

Translations

informal second-person pronoun

• French: t’ (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}