ons
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Afrikaans [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
- onse (archaic, possessive only)
Etymology [edit]
From Dutch ons.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ɔns/
Pronoun [edit]
ons
- we (first-person plural subject pronoun)
- us (first-person plural object pronoun)
- our, ours (first-person plural possessive pronoun)
See also [edit]
Afrikaans personal pronouns
| subjective | objective | possessive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | 1st | ek | my | |||
| 2nd | jy | jou | ||||
| 2nd, formal | u | |||||
| 3rd, masc | hy | hom | sy | |||
| 3rd, fem | sy | haar | ||||
| 3rd, neut | dit | sy | ||||
| plural | 1st | ons | ||||
| 2nd | julle | julle / jul1 | ||||
| 3rd | hulle | hulle / hul1 | ||||
| 1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous. | ||||||
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Middle Dutch ons, from Old Dutch uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz.
Pronoun [edit]
ons (personal)
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Old Dutch *unsa, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz.
Determiner [edit]
ons (dependent possessive, independent possessive onze, inflected form onze)
- our (indicates that the noun that follows belongs to '(US)')
- Geef ons heden ons dagelijks brood — Give us our daily bread.
Declension [edit]
| subject | object | possessive | reflexive | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | |
| 1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me |
| 2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je |
| 2nd person dialectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u |
| 2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich |
| 3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich |
| 3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | 'r1, d'r1 | haar | 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich |
| 3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich |
| plural | ||||||||
| 1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons |
| 2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je |
| 2nd person dialectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u |
| 2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich |
| 3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich |
| 1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. |
3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). |
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Etymology 3 [edit]
Noun [edit]
ons n (plural onsen or onzen, ??? please provide the diminutive!)
- metric ounce (100 grams)
Usage notes [edit]
Prior to the law of 1820 that introduced the metric system in what then united both the Netherlands and Belgium a variety of measures ranging around ca 30 grams were known by this name. The law of 1820 attributed the name to the hectogram of 100 grams. In 1937 the IJkwet of the Netherlands officially abolished the term, but it is still commonly used.
Swedish [edit]
Noun [edit]
ons
- indefinite genitive plural of o
Turkish [edit]
Noun [edit]
ons
Volapük [edit]
Pronoun [edit]
ons
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- Afrikaans terms derived from Dutch
- Afrikaans pronouns
- Dutch terms derived from Middle Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch
- Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Dutch pronouns
- Dutch determiners
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with multiple plurals
- Dutch personal pronouns
- Dutch possessive determiners
- nl:Units of measure
- Swedish noun forms
- Turkish nouns
- Volapük pronoun forms