oss

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

English

Noun

oss (plural osses)

1. Alternative form of 'oss

Anagrams

• S.O.S., 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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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	general	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
		formal (rare)	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
		masculine (person)	han	ham / han	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	general	dere		deres
		formal (very rare)	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	general	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔsː/

Pronoun

oss

1. objective case of me / objective case of vi
2. (reflexive) ourselves

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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] while 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

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Võro

Etymology

From .

Noun

oss (genitive ossa, partitive ossa)

1. branch

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.