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+Hidden categories are those that have been tagged with the magic word  '''<nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki>'''.
-{{otheruses}}
-{{redirect|Your|words with various spellings pronounced the same|Ure}}
-{{Wiktionary|you}}
-'''''You''''' ({{IPAEng|ju}}) is the [[grammatical person|second-person]]
-[[personal pronoun]] ([[Nominative case|subject case]]) in [[Modern English]].
-{{Modern English personal pronouns (table)}}
-==Usage of you==
+At present there are no guidelines for how this feature should be used.  There is discussion about using this on maintenance categories and intersection categories at [[Wikipedia talk:Categorization]].  Use of the  '''<nowiki>__HIDDENCAT__</nowiki>''' feature without community consensus (other than for experimentation) is probably not a good idea.
-{{Wiktionary|yours}}
-{{Wiktionary|your}}
-{{Wiktionary|you're}}
-In standard [[English language|English]], ''you'' is both singular and plural; it always takes a [[verb]] form that originally marked the word as plural, such as ''you [[Copula|are]]''. This was not always so.
-Early Modern English distinguished between the plural ''you'' and the singular ''[[thou]]''. This distinction was lost in modern English due to the importation from France of a [[Romance languages|Romance]] linguistic feature which is commonly called the [[T-V distinction]]. This distinction made the plural forms more respectful and deferential; they were used to address strangers and social superiors.  This distinction ultimately led to familiar ''thou'' becoming obsolete in standard English (and [[Dutch language|Dutch]]), although this did not happen in other languages such as [[French language|French]]. [[irony|Ironically]], the fact that ''thou'' is now seen primarily in [[literature|literary]] sources such as [[King James Version|King James Bible]] (often as words from [[God]]) or [[Shakespeare]] (often in [[drama]]tic dialogs, e.g. "Wherefore art thou [[Romeo and Juliet|Romeo]]?") has led many modern anglophones to erroneously perceive it as more ''formal'', not familiar (case in point: in ''[[Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back|Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back]]'', [[Darth Vader]] addresses [[Emperor Palpatine|the Emperor]] saying, "What is thy bidding, my master?").
+Hidden categories do not appear listed on articles.  If you are wondering why the category you have added to an article has not appeared, check to see if the category is hidden.  Previewing a page will list hidden categories at the bottom of the page, below the list of templates used.
-Because ''you'' is both singular and plural, various English [[dialect]]s have attempted to revive the distinction between a singular and plural ''you'' to avoid confusion between the two uses. This is typically done by adding a new plural form; examples of new plurals sometimes seen and heard are ''[[y'all]]''/''you-all'' (primarily in the southern [[United States]] and [[African American Vernacular English]]), ''you guys'' (in the U.S., particularly in Midwest, Northeast, and West Coast, and in Australia), ''you lot'' (in the UK), ''youse'' (Scotland, Northern England, Australia, New Zealand) ''youse guys'' (New York City region, Philadelphia, Michigan's Upper Peninsula; also spelt without the E), and ''you-uns''/''[[Yinz|yinz]]'' (Western Pennsylvania, The Appalachians).  English spoken in [[Ireland]], known as [[Hiberno-English]], uses the word ''ye'' as the plural form, or ''yous''. Although these plurals are useful in daily speech, they are generally not found in [[Standard English]]. Among them, ''you guys'' is considered most neutral in the U.S.<ref>{{cite journal
- | last = Jochnowitz
- | first = George
- | year = 1983
- | title = Another View of You Guys
- | journal = American Speech
- | volume = 58
- | issue = 1
- | pages = 68-70
- | doi = 10.2307/454759
- | accessdate = 2007-03-30
- }}</ref>  It is the most common plural form of ''you'' in the U.S. except in the dialects with ''y'all'', and has been used even in the [[White House]].<ref>{{cite news
-  | last = Rios
-  | first = Delia M.
-  | title = 'You-guys': It riles Miss Manners and other purists, but for most it adds color to language landscape
-  | publisher = [[The Seattle Times]]
-  | date = 2004-06-01
-  | url = http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=youguys01&date=20040601
-  | accessdate = 2007-03-30 }}</ref>
+Hidden categories are not hidden on category pages.
-''You'' is also unusual in that, being both singular and plural, it has two [[reflexive pronoun|reflexive]] forms, ''yourself'' and ''yourselves.'' However, in recent years singular ''themself'' is sometimes seen: see ''[[singular they]]''.
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-==Etymology==
-''You'' is derived from [[Old English language|Old English]] ''ge'' or ''{{unicode|ȝe}}'' (both pronounced roughly like [[Modern English]] ''yea''), which was the old nominative case form of the pronoun, and ''eow'', which was the old [[accusative case]] form of the pronoun. In [[Middle English]] the nominative case became ''ye'', and the oblique case (formed by the merger of the accusative case and the former [[dative case]]) was ''you''. In early [[Modern English]] either the nominative or the accusative forms have been generalized in most [[dialect]]s. Most generalized ''you''; some dialects in the north of [[England]] and [[Scotland]] generalized ''ye'', or use ''ye'' as a clipped or [[clitic]] form of the pronoun.
-''Ye'' and ''you'' are [[cognate]] with [[Dutch language|Dutch]] ''jij'' and ''jou'', [[German language|German]] ''ihr'', [[Gothic language|Gothic]] ''jus'' and [[Old Norse]] ''ér''. (Modern [[Icelandic (language)|Icelandic]] þér is a variant form due to alteration of phrases like ''háfiþ ér'' (you have) into ''háfi þér'' etc.) The specific form of this pronoun is unique to the [[Germanic languages]], but the Germanic forms ultimately do relate to the general [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] forms represented by [[Latin]] ''vos''.
-Note that in the early days of the [[printing press]], the letter ''[[y]]'' was used in place of the [[thorn (letter)|thorn]] (''þ''), so many modern instances of ''ye'' (such as in "Ye Olde Shoppe") are in fact examples of ''[[the]]'' and not of ''you''.
-=== Plural forms in other European languages ===
-Similar to English, ''u'' in [[Dutch language|Dutch]] is taken as a polite form for both plural and singular, while ''jij'' (singular) and ''jullie'' (plural) are considered informal. (Dutch lost its original ''thou'' form, ''du'', just like English did; the forms ''U'', ''jij'', and ''jullie'' are more analogous to English ''you'', ''ye'', and ''y'all'' respectively). However, Dutch society traditionally values equality, making the use of ''u'' come across as somewhat distant and uncomfortable.  [[French language|French]] has kept the system intact. ''Vous'' is still used as formal and plural, while ''tu'' is used for informal singular. [[Russian language|Russian]] uses this system also: ''vy'' (вы) is formal/plural and ''ty'' (ты) is informal singular. This kind of system is also found in other languages, like Finnish and [[Swedish language|Swedish]]. In modern Swedish though, the term ''ni'' (plural for you) is rarely used to address a single person, not even in formal circumstances. The term used is ''du'' (you, singular).
-While English, Dutch, French and Russian use or have used the plural forms as the polite forms, other European languages use forms deriving from the [[grammatical person|third person]]. [[German language|German]], for example, uses the third person plural pronoun ''sie'', capitalized ''Sie'', as its formal pronoun (in other words, ''Sie'' is grammatically identical to ''They''). [[Danish language|Danish]] and [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] languages similarly use ''De''. [[Italian language|Italian]] has separate forms for singular (''Lei'') and plural (''Loro''), which are derived from the Italian words for ''she'' and ''they'' respectively; a partial similarity to the German system (especially since the German word for ''she'' is '''also''' ''sie'', but conjugates differently from ''Sie''). However, sometimes the French system is also used in Italy, using the plural pronoun ''voi'' as singular. In [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]], ''te'' is informal, while there are different, synonymous words for formal (''ön'' and ''maga'' being the two most commonly used).
-[[Spanish language|Spanish]] and [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] use pronouns derived from third person phrases which originally meant ''your mercy'', ''sir'' or ''madam'', along with their plural forms. For Spanish, they are ''usted'' (pl. ''ustedes''), and for Portuguese, ''você'' (pl. ''vocês''), ''o senhor'' (pl. ''os senhores'') and ''a senhora'' (pl. ''as senhoras''). ''Você'' is often employed informally in Brazil, though the original singular pronoun ''tu'' is more commonly used in the South, the Northeast and some rural regions (this may be due to foreign influence in some locations), but ''o senhor'', ''a senhora'' and their plurals are still used and always formal. In some Spanish speaking areas (especially in Latin America), the original second person singular pronoun ''tú'' has been dropped entirely, thus erasing the distinction between formal and informal address. In others, it was replaced with an old form of the second person plural pronoun, ''vos'', now used as an informal counterpart to ''usted''. See [[voseo]]. Modified versions of ''vos'', ''vosotros'' and ''vosotras'', are still used in Spain as informal second person plural pronouns, while the singular there is still ''tú'', used informally. Portuguese has moved farther away from the original paradigm; the plural pronoun ''vós'' has disappeared in [[Brazil]] and is no longer used in ordinary speech in [[Portugal]].
-==References==
-{{reflist}}
-==See also==
-*[[English personal pronouns]]
-*[[Thou]]
-*[[Generic you]]
-*[[Y'all]]
-*[[Yinz]]
-*'''"[[You (Time Magazine Person of the Year 2006)|You]]"''', (i.e the ordinary member of the public) were awarded the [[Person of the Year]] award for 2006 by the United States (U.S.) newsmagazine ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''.
-{{Modern English personal pronouns}}
-[[Category:Modern English personal pronouns]]
-[[ce:Хьо]]
-[[de:Du]]
-[[es:Tuteo (gramática)]]
-[[nl:Jij]]
-[[ja:あなた]]
-[[ru:Вы]]
-[[simple:You]]