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both of yours

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English

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Etymology

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from both of you and yours.

Pronoun

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both of yours

  1. (colloquial) That which belongs to both of you; the possessive second-person pronoun used without a following noun.
    • 2014, Zachary Smith, Esq., We're Getting Divorced: An Insider's Guide Through the Divorce Process:
      That means that the retirement plan you earned during the marriage, or at least the portion of it that was earned during the marriage, is both of yours.
    • 2016, Jennifer Evans, Ciara Meehan, Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century:
      While the child is both of yours, the birth is yours and yours alone.

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English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

personal pronoun possessive
pronoun
possessive
determiner
subjective objective reflexive
first
person
singular I
me (colloquial)
me myself
me
mysen
mine my
mine (before vowels, archaic)
me
plural we us ourselves
ourself
oursen
ours our
second
person
singular standard
(historically
formal)
you you yourself
yoursen
yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)
your
archaic
(historically
informal)
thou thee thyself
theeself
thysen
thine thy
thine (before vowels)
plural standard you
ye (archaic)
you yourselves yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)
your
colloquial you all
y'all
you guys
you all
y'all
you guys
y'allselves y'all's
you guys'
your guys' (proscribed)
y'all's
your all's (nonstandard)
you guys'
your guys' (proscribed)
informal /
dialectal
(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third
person
singular masculine he him himself
hisself (archaic)
hissen
his
hisn (obsolete outside dialects)
his
feminine she her herself
hersen
hers
hern (obsolete outside dialects)
her
neuter it
hit
it
hit
itself
hitself
its
his (archaic)
its
his (archaic)
hits
genderless they them themself, themselves theirs their
nonspecific
(formal)
one one oneself one's
plural they them
hem, 'em
themselves
theirsen
theirs
theirn (obsolete outside dialects)
their