vous — meaning in English
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English meaning
- you pronoun The person or people being spoken or written to.
- yourself pronoun Refers back to the person being spoken to, when they are both the doer and the receiver of an action.
- yourselves pron You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed.
Senses
vous is used for these senses in English:
- you The individual or group spoken or written to.
- you (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.) [from 13th c.]
- yourself (reflexive pronoun) Your own self (singular).
- yourselves (reflexive pronoun) Inflection of you (plural) used as the object of a verb or non-locative preposition in a clause whose subject is the same (the people addressed).
- yourselves (emphatic) You (plural), used to intensify the subject as the group addressed.
you — full definition
- pronoun The person or people being spoken or written to.
- pronoun Used informally to mean "anyone" or "one" in general statements.
yourself — full definition
- pronoun Refers back to the person being spoken to, when they are both the doer and the receiver of an action.
- pronoun Used for emphasis, to stress that the person did something alone or personally.