The difference between People and You

When used as verbs, people means to stock with people or inhabitants, whereas you means to address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal.

People is also noun with the meaning: .

You is also determiner with the meaning: the individual or group spoken or written to.

You is also pronoun with the meaning: the people spoken, or written to, as an object.

check bellow for the other definitions of People and You

  1. People as a noun:

    ; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.

    Examples:

    "Why do so many people commit suicide?"

  2. People as a noun (countable):

    Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; a community.

  3. People as a noun:

    A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.

  4. People as a noun:

    One's colleagues or employees.

  5. People as a noun:

    A person's ancestors, relatives or family.

    Examples:

    "My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War."

  6. People as a noun:

    The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

  7. People as a noun:

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  1. People as a verb (transitive):

    To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

  2. People as a verb (intransitive):

    To become populous or populated.

  3. People as a verb (transitive):

    To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

  1. You as a pronoun (object pronoun):

    The people spoken, or written to, as an object.

  2. You as a pronoun (reflexive pronoun, now, US, _, colloquial):

    (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.

  3. You as a pronoun (object pronoun):

    The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing ; originally as a mark of respect.)

  4. You as a pronoun (subject pronoun):

    The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing .)

    Examples:

    "Both of you should get ready now."

    "You are all supposed to do as I tell you."

  5. You as a pronoun (subject pronoun):

    The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)

  6. You as a pronoun (indefinite personal pronoun):

    Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).

  1. You as a verb (transitive):

    To address (a person) using the pronoun you, rather than thou, especially historically when you was more formal.

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