us

See also: Appendix:Variations of "us"

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EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n-sme- (“us”). Cognate with West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).

PronunciationEdit

• (stressed) enPR: ŭs, IPA^(key): /ʌs/
• (unstressed) (US) IPA^(key): /əs/, (UK) IPA^(key): /əs/, /əz/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌs

PronounEdit

us

1. (personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
2. (colloquial) Me.

   Give us a look at your paper.

   Give us your wallet!

3. (Northern England) Our.

   We'll have to throw us food out.

QuotationsEdit

• 1611 — King James Version of the Bible, Luke 1:1

  Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

TranslationsEdit

objective case of "we"

• American Sign Language: 1^o-f@IpsiChest-FingerBack RoundHoriz 1^o-f@ContraChest-FingerBack
• Arabic: ـنَا‎‎ (-nā), إِيَّانَا‎‎ (ʾiyyānā)

  Egyptian Arabic: ـنا‎‎ (-naa)

• Armenian: մեզ (mez)

  Old Armenian: մեզ (mez)

• Bengali: আমাদের (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.)
• Chamicuro: a'ti
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 我哋 (ngo⁵ dei⁶)

  Mandarin: 我們 (zh), 我们 (zh) (wǒmen)

  Min Nan: 阮 (zh-min-nan) (góan, gún), 咱 (zh-min-nan) (lán), 咱人 (zh-min-nan) (lán-lâng)

• Czech: nás, 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
• Ido: ni (io)
• Interlingua: nos (ia)
• Irish: sinn pl

  Old Irish: n-, don-, -unn

• Italian: noi (it), a noi, ci (it)
• Japanese: wata (私達) or tachi (私達)
• Kabuverdianu: nu
• Kazakh: бізді (kk) (bizdi)

• Korean: 우리 (ko) (uri)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئێمه‌‎‎ (ku) (ême)

• Latin: (accusative) nos (la), (dative) nobis (la), (ablative) nobis (la)
• Macedonian: ни (ni), нас (nas), нам (nam)
• Malay:

  exclusive: kami (ms) pl

  inclusive: kita (ms) pl

• 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: oss (no)
• Old English: ūs
• Persian: ما‎‎ (fa) (mâ)
• Pipil: tech-
• Polish: nas (pl), nam (pl), nami
• Portuguese: nos (pt)
• Romanian: ne (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)
• Serbo-Croatian: nas (sh)
• Slovene: midva (sl) (‘us two’), midve (‘us two women’), mi (sl) (three or more), me (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)
• Ukrainian: нас (uk) (nas), нам (nam)
• Volapük: obis
• Welsh: ni
• West Frisian: ús (fy)
• Wolof: nu
• Zulu: thina

colloquial: me

• German: uns (de)

See alsoEdit

• we
• our
• ours

DeterminerEdit

us

1. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.

   It's not good enough for us teachers.

See alsoEdit

• we

Etymology 2Edit

Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.

SymbolEdit

us

1. Alternative spelling of µs: microsecond
   • 2002, Peter Spasov, Microcontroller Technology, the 68HC11, p. 489:

     ;wait 500 us

   • 2012, Peter Feiler and David Gluch, Model-Based Engineering with AADL:

     The standard units are ns (nanoseconds), us (microseconds), ms (milliseconds), sec (seconds), min (minutes), and hr (hours).

   • 2014, Michael Corey, ‎Jeff Szastak, ‎and Michael Webster, Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right, p. 198:

     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.

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

us

1. plural of u

Usage notesEdit

• There is some difference of opinion regarding the use of apostrophes in the pluralization of references to letters as symbols. New Fowler's Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that "after letters an apostrophe is obligatory." The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.16, "To avoid confusion, lowercase letters ... form the plural with an apostrophe and an s". The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.

AnagramsEdit

• SU, Su

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CatalanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈus/
• Homophone: ús

PronounEdit

us (proclitic and contracted enclitic, enclitic vos)

1. you (plural, direct or indirect object)
2. Contraction of vos.

DeclensionEdit

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi3	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
1st person majestic1	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
2nd person formal1	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person very formal2	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l’4	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal2	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	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-.

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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French us, from Latin ūsus.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ys/
• Rhymes: -ys

NounEdit

us m pl (plural only)

1. (plural only) mores; traditional practices or manners

Usage notesEdit

Only used in Modern French as us et coutumes (“mores and customs”). Also see the etymologically related usage.

Further readingEdit

• “us” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

AnagramsEdit

• su

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GothicEdit

RomanizationEdit

us

1. Romanization of 𐌿𐍃

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Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• ous, os, hus, usse, hous

EtymologyEdit

From Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n-sme- (“us”).

PronounEdit

us (nominative we)

1. First-person plural accusative pronoun: us.
2. (reflexive) ourselves.
3. (reciprocal) each other.

SynonymsEdit

• we

DescendantsEdit

• English: us

ReferencesEdit

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

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Middle Low GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ʊs/, /uːs/

PronounEdit

ûs or us

1. (personal pronoun, dative, accusative) Alternative form of uns.
2. (possesive pronoun) Alternative form of uns.

DeclensionEdit

Possesive pronoun:

Declension of us

	nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
	Strong declension
Masculine	ûs	ûsen	ûsem(e) (ûsennote)	ûses
Neuter		ûs
Feminine		ûse	ûser(e)
Plural	ûse		ûsen	ûser(e)
	Weak declension
Masculine	ûse	ûsen	ûsen
Neuter		ûse
Feminine		ûsen
Plural	ûsen
The longer forms become rarer in the course of the period.

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NormanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Old French uis.

NounEdit

us m (plural us)

1. door

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Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥s, *nes. Cognates include 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 of Latin nos.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /uːs/

PronounEdit

ūs (personal pronoun)

1. us: accusative or dative plural form of iċ

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Old FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin usus.

NounEdit

us m (oblique plural us, nominative singular us, nominative plural us)

1. tradition or custom

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Old FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz.

PronounEdit

ūs

1. Accusative and dative form of wī

DeclensionEdit

Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions

	singular					plural
	1st	2nd	3rd m	3rd f	3rd n	1st	2nd	3rd
nominative	ik	thū	hī	hiū, hiō	hit	wī	jī	hiā
accusative	mī	thī	hine	hiā	hit	ūs	jū, jō	hiā
dative	mī	thī	him	hire, hiāre	him	ūs	jū, jō	him, hirem, hiārem
genitive	mīn	thīn	sīn	hire, hiāre	sīn	ūser	jūwer	hira, hiāra

DescendantsEdit

• West Frisian: ús

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TurkishEdit

NounEdit

us (definite accusative usa, plural uslar)

1. Synonym of akıl

Derived termsEdit

• usa vurma metodu

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Tz'utujilEdit

NounEdit

us

1. fly (insect)

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VolapükEdit

AdverbEdit

us

1. there

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West FrisianEdit

PronounEdit

us

1. Alternative form of ús