Contracted form of 'you are', combining the second person pronoun with the present tense of the verb 'to be'.
Contraction of 'you' (Old English ēow, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *yu-) and 'are' (Old English eart, from 'to be'). The apostrophe indicates the omitted letter 'a' from 'are'.
This simple contraction represents one of English's most common grammatical shortcuts, yet it's frequently confused with the possessive 'your' in writing. The apostrophe catastrophe of you're/your confusion has become a modern literacy shibboleth, instantly revealing careful writers from careless ones.
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