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🫵 Belonging to you 🧑‍🎤 Typical of you ✉️ Letter closing
yours

yours

22 1.0
It shows that something belongs to the person or people you are speaking to
  • pronoun
  • /jʊrz/
translation icon : tuyo
  • If you need a ride, let me know; the car is yours to use.
  • they're yours
  • yours and mine
  • friends of yours

It's like what is yours will be yours.

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Examples

  • This blog is here for your comfort and release; it's YOURS.

    Blog text (27)

  • It's your business, your business and yours alone.

    Tom Ferry

  • It's like what is yours will be yours.

    André Duqum

  • It's YOUR choice, and the consequences will be YOURS to deal with.

    Blog text (25)

  • The writing and content you build on your website is YOURS and no one else's!

    Blog text (7)

  • My point is that it is YOURS, not someone else's, because you think the job has gotten too difficult.

    Blog text (10)

  • THE CHOICES YOU MAKE ABOUT WHO YOU ARE NOW ARE YOURS.

    The Demolitionist (1995)

  • AND LET'S JUST SEE WHAT'S IN THAT LEFT HAND OF YOURS.

    The Tracker (1988)

  • CONSIDER IT YOURS IF YOU'D LIKE SOME AIR.

    The Sea of Grass (1947)

  • IT'S YOURS!

    Blog text (12)

Synonyms

thine
vsyours
  • Archaic
54 9.9

Yours in old English showing something belongs to you

is the modern everyday form rather than the archaic usage
yourn
vsyours
  • Archaic
9.9

An old or local word that shows something belongs to you

is the modern standard form used for the same possession meaning

Idioms

yours truly
  • Formal
8 5.5

A polite closing you write before your name at the end of a letter or email

sincerely yours
  • Formal
3 2.1

A polite way to end a formal letter when you know the person's name

Surface Forms

yours possessive determiner
yours possessive pronoun
yours subject case

Morphology

yours = your (transparent) = your + s

Formed from the possessive base 'your' with the productive suffix '-s' to create the independent possessive pronoun 'yours'.

Etymology

Yours comes from the old idea behind you and your and literally means 'of you' or 'belonging to you'. So when you ask 'Is this yours?' you are asking if it belongs to the person you speak to.