ours

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English oures, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to our +‎ -s (compare -'s); formed by analogy to his. Displaced ourn (from Middle English ouren) in standard speech.

Pronunciation

• , IPA^(key): /ˈaʊɚz/, /ɑɹz/
• , IPA^(key): /ˈaʊəz/, /ɑːz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)z, -ɑː(ɹ)z
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)z

Pronoun

ours

1. That which belongs to us; the possessive case of we, used without a following noun.

Translations

that which belongs to us

• Arabic: لَنَا m (lanā)

  Egyptian Arabic: لينا (lina), بتعنا m (betaʿna), بتاعتنا f (betaʿetna), بتوعنا pl (betuʿna)

• Azerbaijani: bizimki
• Belarusian: наш (naš)
• Bulgarian: наш (bg) (naš)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 我們的／我们的 (zh), 我们的 (zh) (wǒmen de); 咱們的／咱们的, 咱们的 (zánmen de); 咱的 (zh) (zán de)

• Coptic: ⲫⲱⲛ m (phōn) (Bohairic), ⲑⲱⲛ f (thōn) (Bohairic), ⲛⲟⲩⲛ pl (noun) (Bohairic), ⲡⲱⲛ m (pōn) (Sahidic), ⲧⲱⲛ f (tōn) (Sahidic), ⲛⲟⲩⲛ pl (noun) (Sahidic)
• Czech: náš (cs) m
• Dutch: het onze, de onze, die van ons
• Esperanto: la nia
• Finnish: meidän (fi)
• French: le nôtre (fr) m, la nôtre (fr) f, les nôtres (fr) m pl or f pl
• German: unserer (de) m, unsere (de) pl and f, unseres (de) n
• Greek: δικός μας (el) m (dikós mas), δικιά μας f (dikiá mas), δική μας (el) f (dikí mas), δικό μας (el) n (dikó mas), δικοί μας (el) m pl (dikoí mas), δικές μας f pl (dikés mas), δικά μας n pl (diká mas)

  Ancient: (article and possessive adjective in appropriate gender and number) ὁ ἡμέτερος (ho hēméteros)

• Hebrew: שלנו (shelánu)
• Hindi: हमारा (hi) (hamārā)
• Hungarian: mienk (hu), miénk (hu), mieink (hu)
• Italian: il nostro m, la nostra f, i nostri m pl, le nostre f pl
• Japanese: 私たちの (ja) (わたしたちの, watashitachi no), 私等の (わたしたちの, watashitachi no), 我らの (われらの, warera no), 我々の (ja) (われわれの, wareware no)
• Lao: ຂອງພວກເຮົາ (khööng phöök-hao)
• Latin: noster (la), nostri (la), nostrum (la)
• Latvian: mūsu, mūsējs, mūsējais
• Macedonian: наш (naš)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Manchu: ᠮᡝᠨ᠋ᡳᠩᡤᡝ (meningge), ᠮᡠᠰᡝᠩᡤᡝ (musengge)
• Mazanderani: امنی (ameni)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: манайх (manajx)

  Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠨ᠋ᠤᠬᠢ (manuki)

• Novial:
• Polish: nasz (pl)
• Portuguese: o nosso m
• Romanian: al nostru (ro) m, a noastră f, ai noștri m pl, ale noastre f pl
• Russian: наш (ru) (naš)
• Serbo-Croatian: наш, naš (sh)
• Slovak: náš
• Slovene: nàš (sl)
• Spanish: lo nuestro
• Swedish: vår (sv) c, vårt (sv) n, våra (sv) pl
• Thai: ของเรา (kŏng rao)
• Tuvan: бистии (bistii)
• Ukrainian: наш (naš)
• Urdu: ہمارا (hamārā)
• Uyghur: بىزنىڭكى (bizningki), بىزنىڭكىلەر pl (bizningkiler)
• Vietnamese: của chúng tôi
• Yakut: биһиэнэ (bihiene)
• Zazaki: emara

Anagrams

• Ruso, sour

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French

Etymology

From Middle French ours, from Old French urs, from Latin ursus, from Proto-Italic *orssos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uʁs/

• audio:

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Noun

ours m (plural ours, feminine ourse)

1. bear (animal)
2. masthead (list of a newspaper's main staff)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• nounours
• ours à face courte
• Ours à lunette
• ours blanc
• ours brun

• ours malais
• ours marin
• ours noir
• ours polaire
• ourson

Descendants

• Haitian Creole: ous
• Louisiana Creole: lours, lous
• Mauritian Creole: lurs
• Seychellois Creole: lours

Further reading

• “ours”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle English

Pronoun

ours

1. Alternative form of oures

References

• “oures, (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French urs, from Latin ursus.

Noun

ours m (plural ours, feminine singular ourse, feminine plural ourses)

1. bear (mammal)

Descendants

• French: ours