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"Welcome" or "Welcomed" in British English or American

English Language & Usage Asked by user351683 on December 16, 2020

If I was telling someone “you’re most welcome, and accepted.” should I’ve said most welcomed instead of welcome?

3 Answers

In American English (and British English so far as I know) the idiom is "You're welcome"

you're welcome idiom

used as a response after being thanked by someone

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Saying "You're welcomed" sounds strange and only makes sense if you're describing the actual process of being welcomed to someone in the second person, for example in the sentence: "You are welcomed into the house by your host".


I should say, I've never heard anyone use the additional "and accepted" part of this phrase. In the US, at least, the phrase is just "You're [most/very] welcome".

Answered by divibisan on December 16, 2020

Language, especially the English language, can sound very strange. Further, because something is popular doesn't mean it's correct.

To say "you're welcome" is poor grammar. "You're" is the contracted form of "you are". "You" is the subject and "are" the verb.

Now, in the case of "welcome", the actual verb in "you're welcomed" is "to be welcomed" making "are welcomed" a present participle. "You are welcomed" is, indeed, correct.

One doesn't say "you're honour" or "you're love" or "you're stupid" (?).

Answered by Hazel on December 16, 2020

The answer is no - the way you said it was correct. In the phrase "you're welcome", welcome is an adjective (https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/welcome). Saying "you're welcomed" would be as weird as saying "you're talled" or "you're beautifulled".

Answered by EditingFrank on December 16, 2020

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