one's

See also: ones and -ones

English

Alternative forms

• ones (obsolete)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ones, equivalent to one +‎ -'s.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wʌnz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌnz
• Homophone: ones

Determiner

one's

1. Belonging to one.

Usage notes

• Unlike most other possessive determiners (my, your etc., except for his and its), one’s has a word-final s, but unlike possessive pronouns (yours, hers, theirs), it is spelled with an apostrophe.

Translations

belonging to one

• Belarusian: свой m (svoj)
• Bulgarian: свой m (svoj)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自己的 (zh) (zìjǐ de)

• Czech: svůj (cs) m
• Dutch: zijn (nl)
• Esperanto: onia (eo)
• Finnish: -nsa (fi), -nsä (fi), -an (fi), -än (fi)
• French: son (fr) m, sa (fr) f, ses (fr) pl
• Georgian: ვისიმე (visime), ვისამე (visame), ვინმესი (vinmesi)
• German: sein (de) m, seine (de) f
• Hindi: अपना (hi) (apnā)
• Hungarian: -a (hu), -e (hu), -ja, -je
• Italian: proprio (it), suo (it) (informal)
• Japanese: 自分の (ja) (じぶんの, jibun no)
• Korean: 자신의 (ko) (jasin-ui)
• Macedonian: свој m (svoj)
• Malayalam: ഒരാളുടെ (orāḷuṭe)
• Polish: swój (pl) m
• Portuguese: seu (pt), de alguém
• Romanian: său (ro) m, sa f, săi m pl, sale (ro) f pl
• Russian: свой (ru) m (svoj), своя́ (ru) f (svojá), своё (ru) n (svojó), свои́ (ru) pl (svoí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: свој m

  Roman: svoj (sh) m

• Slovak: svoj m
• Slovene: svój
• Spanish: su (es) m, suyo (es) m, suya (es) f, sus (es) m pl, suyos (es) m pl, suyas (es) f pl
• Swedish: sin (sv) c, sitt (sv) n, sina (sv) pl, ens (sv)
• Tamil: தன் (ta) (taṉ)
• Ukrainian: свій (uk) m (svij), своя́ f (svojá), своє́ n (svojé), свої́ (uk) pl (svojí)
• Urdu: اپنا (ur) (apnā)

Etymology 2

Contraction of one is, equivalent to one + 's.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /wʌns/, /wʌnz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌns, -ʌnz
• Homophone: once, ones

Contraction

one's

1. Contraction of one is.

   This one's for you.

Anagrams

• ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, SONE, Sone, eons, neos, noes, nose, sone