Definition of your determiner in oxford advanced learner's dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more. You're and your are easy to confuse.

Your means belonging to you. You're is a contraction, and your is a possessive determiner. 'you're welcome' means you are. The meaning of your is of or relating to you or yourself or yourselves especially as possessor or possessors, agent or agents, or object or objects of an action. In this video, you'll learn more about when to use your and you're correctly in american english. Keep these distinctions in mind, and you'll always be able to tell your and you're apart. If you're ever stuck, just remember that the apostrophe indicates the connecting of two words into one.

In this video, you'll learn more about when to use your and you're correctly in american english. Keep these distinctions in mind, and you'll always be able to tell your and you're apart. If you're ever stuck, just remember that the apostrophe indicates the connecting of two words into one. (a form of the possessive case of you used as an attributive adjective). See examples of your used in a sentence.