us

See also Appendix:Variations of "us"

English

Wikipedia

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”).

Pronunciation

• (stressed) enPR: ŭs, IPA: /ʌs/, X-SAMPA: /Vs/
• (unstressed) IPA: /əs/, X-SAMPA: /@s/

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• Rhymes: -ʌs

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!

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...

Translations

objective case of "we"

• American Sign Language: 1^o-f@IpsiChest-FingerBack RoundHoriz 1^o-f@ContraChest-FingerBack
• Arabic: ـنا (ar) (-naa)

  Egyptian Arabic: ـنا (-naa)

• Armenian: մեզ (mez)

  Old Armenian: մեզ (mez)

• Bislama: yumi, yumitupela (dual inclusive); yumitripela (trial inclusive); yumipela (plural inclusive); mitupela (dual exclusive); mitripela (trial exclusive); mipela (plural exclusive)
• Burmese: ကျုပ်တို့ (my) (kyokto.), တို့ (my) (do.)
• Chamicuro: a'ti
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 我們 (cmn), 我们 (cmn) (wǒmen)

  Min Nan: 阮 (nan) (góan, gún), 咱 (nan) (lán), 咱人 (nan) (lán-lâng)

• Czech: nás (cs), nám (cs)
• Dalmatian: noi
• Dutch: ons (nl)
• Eshtehardi: چَما (ĉamā)
• Esperanto: nin (eo)
• Ewe: míawo
• Finnish: meidät (fi), meitä (fi)
• French: nous (fr), à nous
• Georgian: ჩვენს (ka) (Ch’vens)
• German: uns (de)
• Greek: μας (el) (mas)
• Hopi: itamuy
• Hungarian: minket (hu), bennünket (hu)
• Ido: ni
• Interlingua: nos (ia)
• Irish: sinn (ga) pl

  Old Irish: n-, don-, -unn

• Italian: noi (it), a noi, ci (it)

• Japanese: wata (私達) or tachi (私達)
• Kazakh: бізді (kk) (bizdi)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئێمه‌

• Latin: (acc) nos (la), (dative) nobis (la), (ablative) nobis (la)
• Macedonian: ни (mk) (ni), нас (mk) (nas), нам (mk) (nam)
• Malay:

  inclusive: kita (ms) pl

  exclusive: kami (ms) pl

• Ngarrindjeri: ngatjagha
• Norn: vus
• Norwegian: oss (no)
• Old English: unc (dual), ūs/ūsiċ (plural)
• Persian: ما (fa) (mā)
• Pipil: tech-
• Polish: nas (pl), nam (pl), nami (pl)
• Portuguese: nos (pt)
• Romanian: ne (unstressed dative and accusative), nouă (stressed dative), (pe) noi (stressed accusative)
• Russian: нас (ru) (nas) pl, нам (ru) (nam) pl, нами (ru) (námi) pl
• Serbo-Croatian: nas (sh)
• Slovene: midva (‘us two’), midve (‘us two women’), mi (three or more), me (three or more women)
• Spanish: nos (es), nosotros (es), nosotras (es)
• Swedish: oss (sv)
• Ukrainian: нас (uk) (nas)
• Volapük: obis (vo)
• Welsh: ni (cy)
• West Frisian: ús (fy)
• Zulu: thina (zu)

colloquial: me

• German: uns (de)

See also

• we
• our
• ours

Determiner

us

1. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.

   It's not good enough for us teachers.

See also

• we

Etymology 2

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

Symbol

us

1. Alternative spelling of µs.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: must · these · two · #89: us · before · see · over

Anagrams

• SU, Su

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Catalan

Pronoun

us (proclitic and contracted enclitic, enclitic vos)

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

Declension

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.

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French

Etymology

Old French us, from Latin usus

Noun

us m pl

1. (plural only) customs; traditions

Usage notes

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

Anagrams

• su

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Gothic

Romanization

us

1. See 𐌿𐍃

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥s, *nes. Cognates include Old Frisian ūs (West Frisian ús), Old Saxon ūs (Low German os, ons), 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.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /uːs/

Pronoun

ūs (personal pronoun)

1. us: accusative or dative plural form of iċ

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Old French

Etymology

Latin usus

Noun

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

1. tradition or custom

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Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz.

Pronoun

ūs

1. Accusative and dative form of wī

Declension

Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions

	singular					plural
	1st	2nd	3rd m	3rd f	3rd n	1st	2nd	3rd
nominative	ik	thū	hī	hiū, hiō	hit	wī	jī	hiā
accusative	mī	thī	hine	hiā	hit	ūs	jū, jō	hiā
dative	mī	thī	him	hire, hiāre	him	ūs	jū, jō	him, hirem, hiārem
genitive	mīn	thīn	sīn	hire, hiāre	sīn	ūser	jūwer	hira, hiāra

Descendants

• West Frisian: ús

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Turkish

Noun

us (definite accusative usa, plural uslar)

1. Synonym of akıl.

Derived terms

• usa vurma metodu

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Tz'utujil

Noun

us

1. fly (insect)

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Volapük

Adverb

us

1. there

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West Frisian

Pronoun

us

1. Alternative form of ús.