Meaning

1 senses

  1. (informal)To use the pronoun "y'all" (to).

Examples

44 sentences

  1. Are y'all homeless?

    Ви бездомні? — deniko

    deSeid ihr obdachlos? — bzvbzy

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  2. Y'all children are nutheads.

    Всі ви, дітлахи, божевільні. — deniko

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  3. Y'all like white wine?

    Вам подобається біле вино? — deniko

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  4. Ezra, will y'all come over tonight?

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  5. I invited y'all for a meal.

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Origin

Contraction of you all, and/or from Scots ye aw. Attested since at least 1631.

Contraction of you all, and/or from Scots ye aw. Attested since at least 1631.

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Forms

y'alls, y'alling, y'alled, y'alled
Base formy'all · to y'all
3rd person singulary'alls
Present participley'alling
Past simpley'alled
Past participley'alled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyy'all
he, she, ity'alls

Past simpleLesson

all personsy'alled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave y'alled
he, she, ithas y'alled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill y'all

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
xeroxxiaoxylophoneya

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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