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 to contract.
Understanding the Context
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. You're and your are easy to confuse. You're means you are. Your means belonging to you.
Key Insights
You're is a contraction, and your is a possessive determiner. 'you're welcome' means you are welcome. Definition of your determiner in oxford advanced learner's dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
