we

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[edit] English

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From Middle English, from Old English wē (“we”), from Proto-Germanic *wīz, *wiz (“we”), from Proto-Indo-European *wéy, *we- (“first person dual and plural pronoun”). Cognate with West Frisian wy (“we”), Low German wi (“we”), Dutch we, wij (“we”), German wir (“we”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian vi (“we”), Icelandic vér, við (“we”).

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we first person plural, nominative case (objective case us, reflexive ourselves, possessive our, possessive noun ours)

  1. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
  2. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (The use of we in the singular is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.)

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the speaker/writer and at least one other person

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we

  1. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
    We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.

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we (personal pronoun)

  1. we

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Dutch personal pronouns
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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we

  1. The hiragana syllable ゐ (we) or the katakana syllable ヱ (we) in Hepburn romanization.

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we (using Raguileo Alphabet)

  1. new, recent

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  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small mapudungun-spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.


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From Proto-Germanic *wiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wes-, *wei-. Cognate with Old Frisian wi, Old Saxon wī (Dutch wij; Low German wi), Old High German wir (German wir), Old Norse vér (Swedish vi), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 (weis).

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wē (personal pronoun)

  1. we (nominative plural form of iċ)

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From Proto-Slavic *vъ(n), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁en

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we (before words that begin with awkward consonant clusters)

  1. at, in, into

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From Proto-Indo-European *dwóy(h₁).

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we f.

  1. (cardinal) two
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