You, You, and Yours.

Question

Hello! I am going through Spanish in school, and I had a test the other day in which I had to complete several sentences using "Tú, tu, or tus". I couldn't look those up right then of course, so I went ahead and took the test, but I missed several of those problems. Later, I got on a translator, and typed in "Tú, tu, tus", but all I got was "You, You, Yours". I knew that "Tu" meant "you", and "tus" meant "yours", but I don't really get what difference the "ú" makes in these two words. Can anyone help me to understand this, please? Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Hi, Melton.

Tú (with the accent) = you

Tu (no accent) = your (singular) "Tu casa"

Tus = yours (plural) "Tus gatos"

Answer 2

tu

It should have been you, your and yours.

tu is the singular form of tus (use tus when the noun you are indicating possession of is plural and tu when the noun is singular).

Answer 3

Tú is the pronoun that comes before the verb, tú estudias, tu is the possesive pronoun tu bufanda, tus is the plural possesive tus bufandas

Answer 4

Thank you all! That makes much more sense now.

I appreciate it!!!

Thanks!!