us

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[edit] English

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n-sme- (“us”). Cognate with West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).

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[edit] Pronoun

us

  1. (personal) me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
  2. (colloquial) me
    Give us a look at your paper.
    Give us your wallet!
[edit] Quotations
  • 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1
    Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
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objective case of "we"
colloquial: me
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[edit] Determiner

us

  1. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
    It's not good enough for us teachers.
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[edit] Etymology 2

Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.

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us

  1. Alternative spelling of µs.

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[edit] Pronoun

us (proclitic and contracted enclitic, enclitic vos)

  1. you (plural, direct or indirect object)
  2. Contraction of vos.

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Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi2 em, m' -me, 'm em, m' -me, 'm meu
2nd person tu et, t' -te, 't et, t' -te, 't teu
2nd person formal4 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person  very formal1 vostè el, l' -lo, 'l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l' -lo, 'l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l'3 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s' -se, 's es, s' -se, 's seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, 'ns ens -nos, 'ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal1 vostès els -los, 'ls els -los, 'ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, 'ls els -los, 'ls seu
3rd person feminine elles les -les els -los, 'ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s' -se, 's es, s' -se, 's seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive en, n' -ne, 'n
locative hi -hi
1) Behaves grammatically as third person.
2) Only as object of a preposition.		 3) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.
4) Behaves grammatically as second person plural.

[edit] French

[edit] Etymology

Old French us, from Latin usus

[edit] Noun

us m. pl.

  1. (plurale tantum) customs; traditions

[edit] Usage notes

only used in Modern French as us et coutumes (traditions and customs)

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us

  1. Romanization of 𐌿𐍃

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[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥s, *nes. Cognates include Old Frisian ūs (West Frisian ús), Old Saxon ūs (Dutch ons), Old High German uns (German uns), Old Norse oss (Swedish oss), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃 (uns). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin nos.

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ūs (personal pronoun)

  1. us: accusative or dative plural form of iċ

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Latin usus

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us m. (oblique plural us, nominative singular us, nominative plural us)

  1. tradition or custom

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us

  1. fly (insect)

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us

  1. there

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us

  1. Alternative form of ús.
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