oss

See also: OSS, OSs, óss, òss, öss, -ošs, and -ôs

Translingual

Symbol

oss

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Ossetian.

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English

Noun

oss (plural osses)

1. Alternative spelling of 'oss.

Anagrams

• S.O.S., SOS, SOs, SSO, so's, sos

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Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse oss.

Pronoun

oss

1. accusative and dative form of the word vér.

   Þetta kemur oss ekki við.

   This does not affect us.

Declension

Icelandic honorific pronouns
plural	first person	second person
nominative	vér	þér
accusative	oss	yður
dative	oss	yður
genitive	vor	yðar

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Lombard

Etymology

Akin to osso, from Latin os.

Noun

oss

1. bone

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Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔsː/

Pronoun

oss

1. us
2. (reflexive; also oss selv) ourselves

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	–	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
	Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
		masculine (person)	han	han/ham	hans
		feminine (noun)	den		dens
		masculine (noun)
		neuter(noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
Plural	First	–	vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	–	dere	dere	deres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• okke, os, osse (øss)

Etymology

From Old Norse accusative and dative oss of vér, from Proto-Germanic accusative *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔsː/ (example of pronunciation)

Pronoun

oss

1. (personal) us; me and at least one other person; objective case of me and vi
2. (reflexive) ourselves
   • 1998, Fosse, Jon, Natta syng sine songar, Oslo: Samlaget, page 203:

     vi tok oss god tid

     we took our time

     (literally, “we took ourselves good time”)

3. (dialectal, Gudbrandsdal, Romsdal, personal) we
   • 1770, Storm, Edvard, “Guten aa Jenta paa Fjøshjellen”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 233:

     Dæmæ venda os aat Bygden

     thus we turn towards the village

References

• “oss”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

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Old Norse

Pronoun

oss

1. accusative of vér
2. dative of vér

Declension

Old Norse personal pronouns

number	first person	second person	reflexive	third person
case	singular			singular masculine	singular feminine	singular neuter
nominative	ek	þú		hann	hon, hón	þat
accusative	mik	þik	sik	hann, hánn	hana, hána	þat
dative	mér	þér	sér	hánum, hónum	henni	því
genitive	mínn, minn	þínn, þinn	sínn, sinn	hans, háns	hennar	þess
case	dual
nominative	vit	it, þit
accusative	okkr	ykkr	sik
dative	okkr	ykkr	sér
genitive	okkarr	ykkarr	sínn, sinn
case	plural			plural masculine	plural feminine	plural neuter
nominative	vér	ér, þér		þeir	þær	þau
accusative	oss	yðr	sik	þá	þær	þau
dative	oss	yðr	sér	þeim	þeim	þeim
genitive	várr	yðarr, yðvarr	sínn, sinn	þeirra	þeirra	þeirra

Descendants

• Icelandic: oss
• Faroese: os, oss
• Norn:

  Orkney: vus

  Shetland: wus

• Norwegian: oss
• Dalian: wóss, vôss, ôss, våss, uôss, wåss, wôss, huoss
  • Elfdalian: uoss
• Westrobothnian: oss, ass, åss
• Old Swedish: oss
  • Swedish: oss
• Scanian: váss
• Old Danish: os, us
  • Danish: os
• Gutnish: våss

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) ies
• (Surmiran) òss
• (Puter, Vallader) öss

Etymology

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os.

Noun

oss m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) bone

Noun

oss m (plural ossa)

1. (Sutsilvan) bone

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse oss, from Proto-Germanic *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔs/

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Pronoun

oss

1. us (objective case)

   Såg du oss där?

   Did you see us there?

2. reflexive case of vi; compare ourselves

   Vi skulle vilja lära oss jonglera.

   We would like to learn how to juggle.

Usage notes

Note that some verbs have special senses when used reflexively. For example, do not confuse vi lär oss att... ("we learn to...") [reflexive] with de lär oss att... ("they teach us to...") and vi lär oss själva att... ("we teach ourselves to..."). Here, lär means teach(es) if it is not reflexive, but learn(s) if it is reflexive. Hence the need for the separate pronoun "oss själva" to be used when object and subject agree, but the verb nevertheless should not be used in the reflexive case.

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
singular	first	—	jag	mig, mej3	min	mitt	mina
	second	—	du	dig, dej3	din	ditt	dina
	third	masculine (person)	han	honom, han2, en5	hans
		feminine (person)	hon	henne, na5	hennes
		gender-neutral (person)1	hen	hen, henom7	hens
		common (noun)	den	den	dess
		neuter (noun)	det	det	dess
		indefinite	man or en4	en	ens
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina
plural	first	—	vi	oss	vår, våran2	vårt, vårat2	våra
	second	—	ni	er	er, eran2, ers6	ert, erat2	era
		archaic	I	eder	eder, eders6	edert	edra
	third	—	de, dom3	dem, dom3	deras
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina

¹Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.

²Informal

³Colloquial pronunciation spelling.

⁴Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.

⁵Informal, somewhat dialectal

⁶Formal address

⁷Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

See also

• oss själva

Anagrams

• SOS, sos

Further reading

• oss in Svensk ordbok.

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Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oksa.

Noun

oss (genitive ossa, partitive ossa)

1. branch

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.