yours
pronunciation
How to pronounce yours in British English:
UK [jɔːz]
How to pronounce yours in American English:
US [jərz]
Word Origin
- yours (pron.)
- absolutive form of your, c. 1300, on model of his, ours, etc. Yours truly "myself" is from 1833, from the common subscription of letters. It is difficult to say what will succeed, and still more to pronounce what will not. I am at this moment in that uncertainty (on our own score,) and it is no small proof of the author's powers to be able to charm and fix a mind's attention on similar subjects and climates in such a predicament. That he may have the same effect upon all his readers is very sincerely the wish, and hardly the doubt, of yours truly, "B." [Lord Byron to John Murray, Dec. 4, 1813]
Example
- 1. Their situation is different from yours .
- 2. If she brushes her knee against yours , she likes you .
- 3. Indeed , yours may already have done so .
- 4. I suspect he is one of yours .
- 5. If yours is high , chocolate may help .