FromMiddle English us Old English ūs ( “ us ” ,dative personal pronoun ) , fromProto-Germanic *uns ( “ us ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *ne- *nō- *n-ge- *n̥smé ( “ us ” ) . The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed when used. Cognate withSaterland Frisian uus ( “ us ” ) ,West Frisian us ús ( “ us ” ) ,Low German uns us ( “ us ” ) ,Dutch ons ( “ us ” ) ,German uns ( “ us ” ) ,Danish os ( “ us ” ) ,Latin nōs ( “ we, us ” ) .
us (personal pronoun; the objective case ofwe )
Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed.( exclusive us .) Don't treatus like idiots.
Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed.( inclusive us .) Let's ask him if he'll giveus a lift.
Used where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula: Who's there? —Us . (or) — It'sus .
Who's going to go? —Us . We'll go.
Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education,nation ,region ,language , etc.It's not true that the rest of Europe hatesus .
I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashedus 5-0.
People in general.Grief agesus .
( colloquial ) Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's getus up and out of bed, please.
( colloquial ) Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners .Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. First let's getus a few ingredients that we'll need ...
( Commonwealth , colloquial , chiefly with certain verbs such asgive get fetch ) Me .Giveus a look at your paper.
Fetchus a cold beer from the fridge, would you.
She's turned theweans againstus ! (talking to oneself) Now then ... let me see ... I hope I'm doing this right ... if we just connect these two wires together ... if it givesus a shock then ... Ow!
( Northumbria ) Look atus while you’re speaking tous .
Could you do that forus ?
( Northern England ) Our .We'll have to throwus food out.
objective case of "we"
American Sign Language:1^o-f@IpsiChest-FingerBack RoundHoriz 1^o-f@ContraChest-FingerBack Arabic:ـنَا ( -nā ) ,إِيَّانَا ( ʔiyyānā ) Egyptian Arabic:ـنا ( -nā ) Armenian:մեզ (hy) ( mez ) Old Armenian:մեզ ( mez ) Bengali:আমাদের (bn) ( amader ) Bislama:yumi ,yumitupela (dual inclusive );yumitripela (trial inclusive );yumipela (plural inclusive );mitupela (dual exclusive );mitripela (trial exclusive );mipela (plural exclusive ) Burmese:ကျုပ်တို့ ( kyuptui. ) ,တို့ (my) ( tui. ) Catalan:( classical ) nos (ca) ,( colloquial ) mos (ca) ,( contracted ) ens (ca) Chamicuro:a'ti Chinese:Cantonese:我哋 (yue) ( ngo5 dei6 ) Hokkien:阮 (zh-min-nan) ( góan, gún ) ,咱 (zh-min-nan) ( lán ) ,咱人 (zh-min-nan) ( lán-lâng ) Mandarin:我們 / 我们 (zh) ( wǒmen ) Czech:nás (cs) ,nám (cs) Dalmatian:noi Dutch:ons (nl) Eshtehardi:چَما ( ĉamā ) Esperanto:nin (eo) Ewe:míawo Finnish:meidät (fi) ,meitä (fi) French:nous (fr) , à nous Georgian:ჩვენს ( čvens ) German:uns (de) Greek:μας (el) ( mas ) Hopi:itamuy Hungarian:minket (hu) ,bennünket (hu) Ido:ni (io) Interlingua:nos (ia) Irish:sinn pl Old Irish: n- ,don- -unn Italian:noi (it) , a noi,ci (it) Japanese:私達 (ja) (watashitachi) Kabuverdianu:nu Kazakh:бізді ( bızdı ) Kituba:beto Korean:우리 (ko) ( uri ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:ئێمە ( ême ) Latin:( accusative ) nos (la) ,( dative ) nobis (la) ,( ablative ) nobis (la) Lingala:bísó Low German:uns üsch üsseck Macedonian:ни ( ni ) ,нас ( nas ) ,нам ( nam ) Malay:kami (ms) pl ( exclusive ) ,kita (ms) pl ( inclusive ) Maori: māua ( exclusive referring to two people ) ,tāua ( inclusive referring to two people ) ,mātau/mātou ( exclusive referring to three or more people ) ,tātau/tātou ( inclusive referring to three or more people ) Ngarrindjeri:ngatjagha Ngazidja Comorian:sisi Norn:vus Norwegian:Bokmål:oss (no) Nynorsk:oss Old English:ūs (ang) Persian:ما (fa) ( mâ ) Pipil:tech- Polish:nas (pl) ,nam (pl) ,nami Portuguese:nos (pt) Romanian:ne (ro) ( unstressed dative and accusative ) ,nouă (ro) ( stressed dative ) , (pe )noi ( stressed accusative ) Russian:нас (ru) pl ( nas ) ,нам (ru) pl ( nam ) ,на́ми (ru) pl ( námi ) Scottish Gaelic: sinn pl Serbo-Croatian: nas (sh) Slovene:midva (sl) (‘us two’),midve mi (sl) (three or more),me (sl) (three or more women) Sorbian:Lower Sorbian:naju du , nas pl Spanish: nos (es) ,nosotros (es) ,nosotras (es) Svan:please add this translation if you can Swedish:oss (sv) Telugu:మమ్మల్ని ( mammalni ) Ukrainian:нас (uk) ( nas ) ,нам (uk) ( nam ) Volapük:obis Welsh:ni West Frisian:ús (fy) Wolof:nu Zulu:thina
English personal pronouns Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are initalics .
us
Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case). It's not good enough forus teachers.
( proscribed ) Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (subjective case). 1988 February 7, Mike Riegle, quoting John Royal, “Why Does GCN Have A Prisoner Project?”, inGay Community News , volume15 , number29 , page10 :Us gays and lesbians in here got a reason to be bitching about the conditions.
Derived from the similarity between the letteru and the Greek letterµ .
us
Alternative spelling ofµs :microsecond 2002 Microcontroller Technology, the 68HC11 , page489 :;wait 500us
2012 Model-Based Engineering with AADL :The standard units are ns (nanoseconds),us (microseconds), ms (milliseconds), sec (seconds), min (minutes), and hr (hours).
2014 Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right , page198 :Because the flash devices are local to the server, the latencies can be microseconds (us ) instead of milliseconds (ms) and eliminate some traffic that would normally have gone over the storage network.
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
us
( rare ) Alternative form ofu's .Inherited fromLatin vōs
us (proclitic and contracted enclitic ,enclitic vos
you (plural, direct or indirect object)Contraction ofvos .us reforçada Sius plau. ―Please. Si nous importa. ―If you don't mind. -us reduïda vowel .Volia veure-us . ―I wanted to see you. Catalan personal pronouns and clitics strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic singular 1st standard jo mi 3 em m’ -me ,’m em m’ -me ,’m meu majestic1 nós ens -nos ,’ns ens -nos ,’ns nostre 2nd standard tu et t’ -te ,’t et t’ -te ,’t teu formal1 vós us -vos ,-us us -vos ,-us vostre very formal2 vostè el l’ -lo ,’l li -li seu 3rd m ell el l’ -lo ,’l li -li seu f ella la l’ 4 -la li -li seu n ho -ho li -li seu plural 1st person nosaltres ens -nos ,’ns ens -nos ,’ns nostre 2nd standard vosaltres us -vos ,-us us -vos ,-us vostre formal2 vostès els -los ,’ls els -los ,’ls seu 3rd m ells els -los ,’ls els -los ,’ls seu f elles les -les els -los ,’ls seu 3rd person reflexivesi es s’ -se ,’s es s’ -se ,’s seu adverbial ablative/genitive en n’ -ne ,’n locative hi -hi
1 Behaves grammatically as plural. 2 Behaves grammatically as third person.3 Only as object of a preposition. 4 Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.
IPA (key ) : /us/ ,( stressed optionally ) /uːs/ FromMiddle High German ūz Proto-Germanic *ūt
us (+ dative )
( Ripuarian , parts of Moselle Franconian ) out of ,from 1936 Inscription on theSchwarze Katz well inZell :He steiht ferm wie en Zellerus dem Hamm. He stands firm as a Zell manfrom theHamm [i.e. the Moselle bow around Zell with its steeply sloped vineyards]. Where it occurs in Moselle Franconian, it generally does so only in unstressed position while the stressed form isaus ous FromMiddle High German uns Proto-Germanic *uns *unsiz Luxembourgish eis Limburgish ós
us
( most of Ripuarian , parts of Moselle Franconian ) Dative/accusative first-person plural personal pronoun :us FromOld Galician-Portuguese os Latin illōs
us m pl (singular u feminine a feminine plural as
( Lagarteiru , Valverdeñu ) Masculine plural definite article ;the us
( Lagarteiru , Valverdeñu ) Third person plural masculine accusative pronoun ;them Dialects: L Lagarteiru M Mañegu V Valverdeñu
us m pl (singular un feminine unha feminine plural unhas
( Lagarteiru ) Masculine singular indefinite article ;some Valeš, Miroslav (2021 )Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web) [1] 2022 ,→ISBN Inherited fromOld French us Latin ūsus
IPA (key ) : /ys/ ,( less often ) /y/ Rhymes:-ys -y Homophones :eusse eussent eusses ( with/s/ ) ,eu eue eues eus eut eût u ( without/s/ ) ,hue huent hues ( without/s/ , aspirated ) us m pl (plural only )
( plural only ) mores ;traditional practices ormanners us
Romanization of𐌿𐍃 FromOld English ūs ( “ us ” ,dative personal pronoun ) , fromProto-Germanic *uns ( “ us ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *ne- *nō- *n-ge- *n-sme- ( “ us ” ) .
us (nominative we
First-person plural accusative pronoun: us .( reflexive ) ourselves .( reciprocal ) each other .Middle English personal pronouns nominative accusative dative genitive possessive singular 1st person I ich ik me min mi 1 min 2nd person þou þe þin þi 1 þin 3rd person m he him hine 2 him his his hisen f sche heo hire heo hire hire hires hiren n hit hit him 2 his hit — dual3 1st person wit unk unker 2nd person ȝit inc inker plural 1st person we us ous oure oure oures ouren 2nd person 4 ye yow your your youres youren 3rd person inh. he hem he 2 hem here here heres heren bor. þei þem þeim þeir þeir þeires þeiren
1 Used preconsonantally or before
h .
2 Early or dialectal.
3 Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.
ûs or us
( personal pronoun, dative, accusative ) Alternative form ofuns .( possessive ) Alternative form ofuns .Possessive pronoun:
Declension of us singular plural masculine neuter feminine Strong declension nominative ûs ûse accusative ûsen ûs ûse dative ûsem(e) (ûsennote ûser(e) ûsen genitive ûses ûser(e) Weak declension nominative ûse ûsen accusative ûsen ûse ûsen dative ûsen genitive
The longer forms become rarer in the course of the period.
FromOld French uis Latin ostium
us m (plural us
door FromProto-Germanic *uns Proto-Indo-European *n̥s *nes Old Frisian ūs West Frisian ús Old Saxon ūs Low German os ons Dutch ons Old High German uns German uns Old Norse oss Swedish oss Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃 ( uns ) . The Indo-European root is also the source ofLatin nos
ūs
accusative / dative wē us FromLatin ūsus
us oblique singular , m (oblique plural us nominative singular us nominative plural us
tradition orcustom FromProto-Germanic *uns *unsiz Old English ūs Old Saxon ūs Old Dutch uns
ūs
accusative / dative wī North Frisian:Most dialects:üs Sylt:üüs Saterland Frisian:uus West Frisian:ús Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009 )An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary , Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company,→ISBN us
plural ofu Inherited fromMiddle English us Old English ūs ( “ us ” ,dative personal pronoun ) , fromProto-Germanic *uns ( “ us ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *ne- *nō- *n-ge- *n̥smé ( “ us ” ) .
us
us Scots personal pronouns
personal pronoun possessive possessive subjective objective reflexive first person singular A I Ik me mysel mine mines mine my plural we us we oorsel oorsels oors our second person singular standard (formal) ye you yow ye you yow yersel yoursel yers yours yer your Insular (informal)thoo thee thysel theesel thines thy thee thees plural ye yese you youse ye yese you youse theer yesels yoursels yers yours yer your third person singular masculine he e him im himsel hissel his is his is feminine scho she shu her er hersel hers her er neuter it hit it hit itsel hitsel its hits its hits genderless, nonspecific ane ane – – ane's plural thay thaim thaimsel thaimsels thairs thair
“us,pers. pron. ”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language Scottish Language Dictionaries , 2004–present,→OCLC 7 June 2024 , reproduced fromWilliam A[ lexander] Craigie ,A[ dam] J[ ack] Aitken [ et al. ] , editors,A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: [ … ] Oxford University Press , 1931–2002,→OCLC “us,pers. pron. ”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language Scottish Language Dictionaries , 2004–present,→OCLC 7 June 2024 , reproduced from W[ illiam] Grant and D[ avid] D. Murison, editors,The Scottish National Dictionary Scottish National Dictionary Association , 1931–1976,→OCLC Inherited fromProto-Slavic *ǫsъ
ȕs f (Cyrillic spelling у̏с
fishbone “us ”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal 2006–2025 FromOttoman Turkish اوص ( us ) , fromProto-Turkic *us ( “ mind, reason ” ) .[ 1]
us (definite accusative usu plural uslar
mind reason intelligence us
fly ( insect ) us
there 1932 Leerboek der Wereldtaal , page19 :Cils äbinons-li i pö zäl et? Si! elogobus tumis. Were there children at that party as well? Yes, I've seen hundreds of themthere . us
object ofwy 
