Dictionary Entry

you

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/jʉː/Used In Literature ↓

To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for “you”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

I hear you, I will come.

Oh, God will save her, fear you not:
Be you the men you've been,

To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,

Come you home a hero,
Or come not home at all,

And you till trump of doomsday
On lands of morn may lie,

Oh, noisy bells, be dumb;
I hear you, I will come.

Oh, why did you come here, oh, snowman, oh, snowman?
And will you now a friend be, or will you be a foe?

Oh lad, I fear that yon's the sea
Where they fished for you and me,
And there, from whence we both were ta'en,

And reach your friends your hand,
And go, and luck go with you
While Ludlow tower shall stand.

'O young man, O my slayer,
To-morrow you shall die.'