Words that start with Y

You is a single person being addressed. When you talk about yourself you usually say I or me. When you talk about someone else and you are talking to them, you say you. For example, you are reading this page.

Something is young if it hasn't grown up and become an adult yet. Babies and children are young. The opposite of young is old. The boy in the picture is young.

Yuck is a sound you make when you think something is disgusting. Children often say yuck about food they don't like to eat.

A yurt is a building made by people in Mongolia and nearby areas in central Asia. It is a round building with no central support inside, with the walls held together by tensioned rope and the walls covered by felt.