yours in English: The thing or things that belong to the person or people you are talking to. (pronoun)

Translation

The thing or things that belong to the person or people you are talking to.

Word origin

From Old English eower, meaning of you, with an s added in Middle English to mark ownership.

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"Yours" means the bag belongs to you.

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"Yours" stands for "your room", so you do not say the noun again.

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"Yours" is used on its own, never before a noun.

your

Belonging to the person or people you are talking to.

you

The word a speaker uses for the person or people they are talking to.

my

Belonging to the person who is speaking.

his

Shows that something belongs to a man or boy already mentioned.

our

Belonging to us, the speaker together with one or more other people.

ours

The thing or things that belong to us.

hers

Belonging to a woman or girl already mentioned; used alone, without a noun after it.

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