🗣️ Informal 'your' 🔤 A Slavic letter

yer

1 9.9

An informal way to say your in some dialects of English

pronoun

: tu

Yer big sister will listen to ya later.

Examples

"Yer opinion matters a lot to me during this project."
"I think yer idea is brilliant and should be implemented right away."
Yer'll be most popular then, the folk do love to be physicked.

Wesley (2009)
"Yer mustachioed friend," the waterman said, jerking a thumb toward his cargo, "got detained 'mongst the keels an' anchor ropes of the upstream shipping."

Fiction book (1990)
"Yer laughter always brightens my day when I feel down."

Synonyms

vsyer

Texting

9.8

A short informal written form of your used in messages

is a dialectal spelling reflecting pronunciation in informal speech and writing

Idioms

to get on yer bike

Offensive

9.9

Tell someone to go away in a rude way

Compounds

back yer

Specialized

9.9

A Cyrillic letter written as Ъ or ъ that shows a hard consonant sound

front yer

Specialized

9.9

A small Cyrillic letter that shows a consonant is soft

strong yer

Specialized

9.9

An old short vowel that later becomes a full vowel in modern Slavic languages

weak yer

Specialized

9.9

A very short vowel sound in old Slavic that often disappeared

Surface Forms

yer subject case

Etymology

Yer is an informal spelling of the common word your, written the way many people say 'your' in casual speech. So yer simply means the same as 'your' and is used in relaxed or dialect writing.