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yer

/jə(ɹ)/ · adverb

Meaning

  1. Pronunciation spelling of yeah, yes.
  2. (object pronoun) The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
  3. (reflexive pronoun) (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
  4. (object pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
  5. (subject pronoun) The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
  6. (subject pronoun) The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
  7. (indefinite personal pronoun) Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
  8. Either of the letters ъ and ь in Cyrillic alphabets, which originally represented phonemically the ultra-short vowels in Slavic languages.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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