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What is the purpose of Ihr?
At school we never learn about Ihr when we write up our verb tables. I've never learnt it and so I don't see the point in it. Would somebody be kind enough to explain it to me?
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@gnarlie This is all true, but I think that Emily is asking about the 2nd person plural (you all - or yinz if you are from Pittsburgh) -- rather than saying "a group of friends that you would individually call 'du'"
I would just think of it as the plural you - when you are speaking to a group of peers (or at least a group of people that you wouldn't call Mr. or Mrs.
'ihr' or 'Ihr'? 'ihr' with the lower case 'i' is a pronoun to refer to a group of friends, a group of people who individually, you would call 'du'. It's also the dative form of 'sie' singular: 'Ich gebe ihr das Buch', 'I give her the book'. It's also the possessive pronoun for feminine singular: 'ihr Rock', 'her skirt'. With the capital I, it's the possessive from the formal you, 'Sie': 'Ihr Buch', 'your book'.
When we learnt our verb tables we would go like this; to have ~ haben Ich habe ~ I have Du hast ~ You have Er/sie/es hat ~ He/she/it has Wir Haben ~ we have Sie haben ~ you have sie haben ~ they have I'm just curious as to what Ihr is (with the capital). We sometimes use it but I've never really known what it means.