ihr

Etymology 1
From.

Determiner

 * 1)  her

Etymology 2
From,.

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) you, ye

Usage notes

 * This form is the plural of, which is used chiefly towards people with whom one is privately acquainted (see there). One uses ihr towards a group of people if one would address every individual in that group with du. However, the plural ihr is somewhat less familiar than the singular du, meaning that it can sometimes be used in semi-formal situations where du towards an individual would not be appropriate. Learners should still, in any case of doubt, use in order to be on the safe side.
 * The form (capitalized in writing) was formerly the polite second-person form for both singular and plural (compare French vous and Early Modern English you) and was used instead of contemporary . Such usage still survives dialectally in some areas, and is encountered in historical contexts (e.g. fiction taking place in the distant past), but is otherwise rarely heard in standard German.
 * The genitive pronouns are very rare. They are used only in literary and formal style as a genitive object for certain adjectives, prepositions, or verbs which govern the genitive, such as and.
 * In the late 18th century and in the first half of the 19th century, the genitive was also instead of, e.g. ich erinnere mich eurer instead of ich erinnere mich euer.

Declension
In older language the genitive is also written and the accusative and dative sometimes.

Etymology 2
From,.

Etymology 3
From.

Determiner

 * 1) her
 * 2) its
 * 1) its
 * 1) its

Etymology 4
From.

Determiner

 * 1) their

Pronoun

 * 1) ; all of them

Usage notes
Like other remote plural pronouns, ihr is rare. It is used to refer to a large group of people who are not present.