# ye

> English word · Pronoun · IPA /jiː/ · frequency rank #4,729

## Definitions
1. You (the people being addressed).
2. You (the singular person being addressed).

## Etymology
From Middle English ye, ȝe, from Old English ġē (“ye”), the nominative case of the second-person plural personal pronoun, from Proto-West Germanic *jiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, a North-West variant of Proto-Germanic *jūz (“ye”), from Proto-Indo-European *yúHs (“ye”), plural of *túh₂. Cognate with Scots ye (“ye”), Saterland Frisian jie, Dutch gij, ge, jij, je (“ye”), Low German ji, jie (“ye”), German ihr (“ye”), Danish and Swedish I (“ye”), Icelandic ér (“ye”), Latvian jūs (“ye”), Sanskrit यूयम् (yūyám, “ye”). See also you.

## Easily confused with
- **yo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yo)
- **yu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yu)
- **yr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yr)
- **Yi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yi)
- **yt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yt)
- **Ys** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-ys)
- **YG** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yg)
- **YP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yp)
- **you** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-you)
- **yet** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yet)
- **yes** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yes)
- **yep** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yep)
- **yea** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yea)
- **yup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yup)
- **yen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yen)
- **yrs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yrs)
- **yoo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yoo)
- **yum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yum)
- **yer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yer)
- **yin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ye-vs-yin)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/ye