yous

8 9.9

A plural form of you used in some areas to talk to more than one person

pronoun

: ustedes

That's what's wrong with yous.
thank yous
love yous
yous and goodbyes

Examples

Do I get to marry yous?

Death of Evil (2009)
Can yous all hear me, eh?

Finger of God 2 (2018)
I miss having yous about the place.

Boys from County Hell (2021)
What's wrong with yous lot, man?

Blue Story (2019)
Yous are all going to die in a few minutes.

Cat Run (2011)
Yous is free to take pictures.

Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
What all yous want?

Project Ithaca (2019)
Okay, all of yous.

Deathrow Gameshow (1987)
Thank yous go out to Shadow Tarber for giving us her sim to hold our party!

Blog text (25)
Can youyous all hear me, eh?

Synonyms

youse

vsyous

12 9.9

A way of saying you when talking to more than one person

has identical meaning but spelled with an s ending

you lot

vsyous

11 8.2

To speak to a group of people in informal British English

is an informal plural used in regional dialects rather than a British group phrase

Surface Forms

yous subject case

yous object case

youse object case

yours possessive determiner

yours possessive pronoun

youse subject case

Morphology

yous = you (transparent) = you + s

Formed by regular plural marking of the pronoun 'you' (dialectal), so the plural meaning is directly recoverable.

Etymology

Yous is an informal plural of you used in some dialects to mean 'you all' or 'you (more than one person)'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of adding the plural -s to you, like making a noun plural, so yous shows you are speaking to several people.