jeres

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse yðvarr, from Proto-Germanic *izweraz, possessive of *jūz (“you (all)”) (see I). Cognate of Norwegian Bokmål deres, Swedish er, English your and German euer.

In most Germanic languages, it is an inflected adjective, but in modern Danish (and Norwegian), it is uninflected. In archaizing poetry, one may meet the possessive jer (jert, jere), which is probably reintroduced analogically to vor (“our”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈjɛɒ̽s]

Pronoun

jeres (nominative I, objective jer)

1. your (2nd person plural, possessive case)

See also

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	mig	min	mit	mine
	Second	modern / informal	du	dig	din	dit	dine
		formal (uncommon)	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common (noun)	den		dens
		neuter (noun)	det		dets
		indefinite	man	en	ens
		reflexive	–	sig	sin	sit	sine
Plural	First	modern	vi	os	vores
		archaic / formal			vor	vort	vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	sig