OXFORD 9000
📚 det • entry_id 1295

you

/ju/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tú • usted • ustedes • vos
The individual or group spoken or written to.
Have you gentlemen come to see the lady who fell backwards off a bus?
so
Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
'You genius!' I shouted in Aretta's ear. 'You absolute genius! Why didn't you tell us you were so good?'
You idiot!
Phrases
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📚 prep • entry_id 13422

ere

/ɛə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
antes
Before; sooner than.
The hill-tops rejoicing will ere long be at their ruddiest, and blush Good-night.
Phrases
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Word forms
📚 pron • entry_id 1294

you

/ju/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
tú • usted • vos
The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
You are right, Fanny, to protest against such an office, but you need not be afraid.
se • una • uno
Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.
You can't choose your family, your lovers are difficult and volatile, but, oh, you can choose your friends - so doesn't it make much more sense to live and holiday with them instea…
(leísmo) les • las • les • los • os • ustedes • vosotras • vosotros
A dummy pronoun used in certain constructions, usually with verbs of receiving (such as get or find) or sensing (such as see or hear), typically stating the existence or typicality of something.
It was one of those small-town dive bars you often read about.
You get a lot of rude people in London.
📚 verb • entry_id 1296

you

/ju/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
ustedear • vosear
To address (a person) using the pronoun you (in the past, especially to use you rather than thou, when you was considered more formal).
Now even Princess Anne had dropped it. Sarah had heard her youing away on television the other night just like the inhabitants of her mother’s dominions beyond the seas.
Youing consists in relating everything in the conversation to the person you wish to flatter, and introducing the word “you” into your speech as often as possible.
Phrases
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