"The book is yours."

Translation: O livro é seu.

[Chodarth]

Could I say "O livro é de você" or would this not sound correct.?

[Paulenrique]

No, that wouldnt make sense....

[sduartemantilla]

Sim. Considero que poderia ser "o livro é de você"... "Yours" pode se utilizar para referir-se a você ou vocês.

[Paulenrique]

I've never heard "de você(s)" to mean "your(s)", but teu(s),tua(s),seu(s),sua(s),vosso(s),vossa(s). We do have 2 useful contractions of this type: dele (de+ele) and dela (de+ela). De você(s) seems "about/of you" to me.

[manosdefie]

That's what it "told" me the right answer was, but apparently not, according to Paul Enrique...

[Paulenrique]

Yes, we use de vocês, but de você is never used in Brazil.

[manosdefie]

Um. why is that? "Vocês" in this case is just "you (plural)," right? Why would you use “de“ with one, but not the other? :-S

[Paulenrique]

It is strange, I agree... there might be an explanation lost in time...

[LeahPinho]

I said "O livro e teu"- it said this was correct but reflected the correct answer as "O livro e seu." Are they both correct?

[Paulenrique]

Right too. Just report.

[luisa2579]

Can we say 'O livro e o seu?' or is the'o' wrong? Does it actually change the meaning from ' the book is yours' to 'the book is your one' ? which is similar meaning except the second sentence implies there are more than one books..

[Paulenrique]

You have only one opition here: o livro é seu (or ESTE livro é o seu) (because we don't say "o livro é seu livro", so seu here is still an adjective!)

[luisa2579]

Thank you ! :)