yuh
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjʌ/
- Rhymes: -ʌ
Audio (US): (file)
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
- ya (also nonstandard)
Pronoun
yuh
Etymology 2
Interjection
yuh
- (slang) Alternative form of yeah.
See also
Gullah
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jə/
Determiner
yuh
- (second-person singular) your
Pronoun
yuh
- (second-person singular) you
- usage note: used in all contexts, including subject and object
Inflection
| Number | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| puss'n | subject | object-oblique | subject | object-oblique |
| fus | Uh, A1 |
me | we | |
| sekint | yuh, ya1 | oonuh, oona1 | ||
| tud | e, i1 |
um | dey | dem |
1 alternate spelling
Usage notes
- Gullah Geechee distinguishes between singular and plural oonuh.
References
- Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)
- Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)
- Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery Association. Afro-Seminole Creole Wikitongues Language Class
- David B. Frank. Gullah Grammar Sketch
Jamaican Creole
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjʌ/, /ˈjʊ/
- Hyphenation: yuh
Pronoun
yuh
- (in the singular) you
- Yuh nuh have nuh sense. ― You're silly.
- 1998, Kevin O'Brien Chang, Wayne Chen, Reggae Routes: The Story of Jamaican Music (in English), →ISBN, page 66:
- “Meck me get it straight Mass Charlie
For me no quite undastan,
Yuh gwine kill all English dialect
Or jus Jamaica one? […] ”- Let me get it straight Mr. Charlie
Because I don't quite understand,
Are you going to kill all English dialects?
Or just Jamaica's? […]
- Let me get it straight Mr. Charlie
- (in the singular) your
- Keep yuh hands a yuh side. ― Keep your hands by your side.
- 2017, Marcia Layne, Off Camera (in Jamaican Creole), →ISBN:
- “PASSION: Yu wud trus me wid yuh wheels?
RAS SIMI: Boss, me wud trus yu wid me life. […] ”- PASSION: Would you trust me with your wheels?
RAS SIMI: Boss, I'd trust you with my life. […]
- PASSION: Would you trust me with your wheels?
Usage notes
- Jamaican Creole marks a distinction between singular yuh and plural unnu.
Related terms
Further reading
- Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 621
- yuh – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary
Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /juh/
Interjection
yuh
- (vulgar) Interjection expressing surprise