Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: 'You' is the second person pronoun. 'You' can refer to one or more people and is used as the subject of a verb or the object of a verb or preposition.
1.
A speaker or writer uses ~ to refer to the person or people that they are talking or writing to. It is possible to use ~ before a noun to make it clear which group of people ~ are talking to.
When I saw ~ across the room I knew I’d met ~ before...
You two seem very different to me...
I could always talk to ~ about anything in the world...
What is alternative health care? What can it do for ~?...
What ~ kids need is more exercise.
PRON
2.
In spoken English and informal written English, ~ is sometimes used to refer to people in general.
Getting good results gives ~ confidence...
In those days ~ did what ~ were told.
PRON