our

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Etymology

From Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, ūser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *no-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser (“our”), Danish vor (“our”).

Pronunciation

(UK)

• enPR: ouər, IPA: /ˈaʊə(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"aU@r/ or IPA: /ɑː(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /A:(\r)/
• Homophone: hour or Homophone: are
• Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ) or Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

(US)

• enPR: our, IPA: /ˈaʊɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"aU@`/ or enPR: ar, IPA: /ɑɹ/, [ɑɹ], [ɑ˞], X-SAMPA: /Ar/

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• Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ) or Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

(Australia)

• enPR: ou(ə), IPA: /æɔ(ə)/, X-SAMPA: /{O(@)/
• Rhymes: -aʊ
• Homophone: ow (some dialects)

Pronoun

our possessive pronoun

1. (attributive) Belonging to us.
   • 2008, Mike Knudson & Steve Wilkinson, Raymond and Graham Rule the School

     Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order.

2. Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker.
   • 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page viii

     Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

3. (Northern England, Scotland) used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.

   I'm going to see our Terry for tea.

Translations

belonging to us

• Albanian: ynë, jonë
• American Sign Language: FlatB@IpsiChest-FingerUpPalmAcross RoundHoriz FlatB@ContraChest-FingerUpPalmAside
• Arabic: ـنا (ar) (-naa)

  Egyptian Arabic: ـنا (naa)

  Moroccan Arabic: ـنا (na)

• Armenian: մեր (hy) (mer)
• Basque: gure
• Belarusian: наш (be) (naš)
• Breton: on, or
• Bulgarian: наш (bg) (naš)
• Catalan: nostre
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 我們的 (cmn), 我们的 (cmn) (wǒmen-de)

• Coptic: ⲡⲉⲛ (pen) m, ⲧⲉⲛ (ten) f, ⲛⲉⲛ (nen) m pl and f pl
• Czech: náš (cs) m
• Dalmatian: nuester
• Dutch: ons (nl), onze (nl)
• Egyptian: 𓈖𓏥 (n)
• Esperanto: nia (eo)
• Ewe: míaƒe
• Finnish: (meidän (genitive of me)) + -mme (possessive suffix)
• French: notre (fr), nos (fr)
• Friulian: nestri
• Georgian: ჩვენი (ka) (č'veni)
• German: unser (de), unsere (de) (accusative feminine singular; accusative all plurals)
• Greek: μας (el) (mas)
• Hawaiian: (dual, exclusive) ko māua, kā māua, (dual, inclusive) ko kāua, kā kāua, (plural, exclusive) ko mākou, kā mākou, (plural, inclusive) ko kākou, kā kākou
• Hebrew: -נו (he) (-nu)
• Hindi: हमारा (hi) (hamārā)
• Hungarian: -nk/-unk/-ünk
• Icelandic: okkar (is), vor (is)
• Ido: nia
• Interlingua: nostre (ia)
• Irish: ár (ga)
• Italian: il nostro (it) m, la nostra (it) f, i nostri (it) m pl, le nostre (it) f pl
• Japanese: 私たちの (ja) (わたしたちの, watashitachi-no) (also: 我等の), 我らの (ja) (われらの, warera-no), 我々の (ja) (われわれの, wareware-no)
• Kazakh: біздің (kk) (bizdiñ)
• Korean: 우리의 (ko) (uri-ui)

• Lao: ຂອງພວກເຮົາ (lo) (khööng phöök-hao)
• Latgalian: myusu
• Latin: noster (la) m
• Latvian: mūsu (lv)
• Macedonian: наш (mk) (naš)
• Maltese: tagħna (mt)
• Manchu: (musei inclusive), (meni exclusive)
• Navajo: nihi-
• Norwegian: vår (no)
• Occitan: nòstre (oc)
• Persian: ما (fa) (mâ)
• Pipil: tu
• Polish: nasz (pl)
• Portuguese: nosso (pt)
• Romanian: nostru (ro)
• Romansch: noss (rm), nies (rm), nos (rm)
• Russian: наш (ru) (naš)
• Sardinian: nostru (sc), noltru (sc), nostu (sc)
• Scots: oor, wir
• Scottish Gaelic: ar
• Serbo-Croatian: наш (sh), naš (sh)
• Sicilian: nostru (scn)
• Sinhalese: අපේ (si) (apē)
• Slovak: náš (sk)
• Slovene: nàš (sl)
• Spanish: nuestro (es)
• Swedish: vår (sv)
• Telugu: మా (maa), మన (mana)
• Thai: ของเรา (th) (kŏng rao)
• Tlingit: haa
• Turkish: bizim (tr)
• Ukrainian: наш (uk) (naš)
• Urdu: ہمارا (ur) (hamārā)
• Vietnamese: của chúng tôi (vi)
• Volapük: obsik (vo), obas (vo)
• Walloon: nosse (wa) m and f (singular, before consonant), nost (wa) m (singular, before vowel)
• Welsh: ein (cy)
• West Frisian: ús (fy)
• Zulu: possessive concord + -ithu (zu)

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: do · has · could · #63: our · than · some · other

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) ur

Etymology

From Latin ōra.

Noun

our m (plural ours)

1. (Surmiran) edge, margins