us
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-, *n̥smé (“us”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), 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/, /ʌz/
- (unstressed) (US) IPA(key): /əs/, (UK) IPA(key): /əs/, /əz/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌs
PronounEdit
us
- (personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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...
- (Commonwealth, colloquial, chiefly with give) Me.
- Give us a look at your paper.
- Give us your wallet!
- She's turned the weans against us!
- (Northern England) Our.
- We'll have to throw us food out.
- (Tyneside) Me (in all contexts).
- Look at us while you’re speaking to us.
- Could you do that for us?
Alternative formsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
DeterminerEdit
us
- The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
- It's not good enough for us teachers.
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.
SymbolEdit
us
- 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.
- 2002, Peter Spasov, Microcontroller Technology, the 68HC11, p. 489:
Etymology 3Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
NounEdit
us
AnagramsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
us (proclitic and contracted enclitic, enclitic vos)
Usage notesEdit
- us is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.
- Si us plau. ― Please.
- Si no us importa. ― If you don't mind.
- -us is the reduced (reduïda) form of the pronoun. It is used after verbs ending with a vowel.
- Volia veure-us. ― I wanted to see you.
DeclensionEdit
Further readingEdit
- “us” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “us”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
- “us” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
FalaEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Portuguese os, from Latin illōs.
Alternative formsEdit
- os (Mañegu)
ArticleEdit
us m pl (singular u, feminine a, feminine plural as)
- (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) Masculine plural definite article; the
PronounEdit
us
- (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) Third person plural masculine accusative pronoun; them
See alsoEdit
nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | |||
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first person | singular | ei | me, -mi | mi | ||
plural | common | nos | musL nusLV nos, -nusM |
nos | ||
masculine | noshotrusM | noshotrusM | ||||
feminine | noshotrasM | noshotrasM | ||||
second person | singular | tú | te, -ti | ti | ||
plural | common | vos | vusLV vos, -vusM |
vos | ||
masculine | voshotrusM | voshotrusM | ||||
feminine | voshotrasM | voshotrasM | ||||
third person | singular | masculine | el | le, -li | uLV, oM | el |
feminine | ela | a | ela | |||
plural | masculine | elis | usLV, osM | elis | ||
feminine | elas | as | elas | |||
reflexive | — | se, -si | sí |
Etymology 2Edit
Alternative formsEdit
ArticleEdit
us m pl (singular un, feminine unha, feminine plural unhas)
- (Lagarteiru) Masculine singular indefinite article; some
ReferencesEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French us, from Latin ūsus.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
us m pl (plural only)
- (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 Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
AnagramsEdit
GothicEdit
RomanizationEdit
us
- Romanization of 𐌿𐍃
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
us (nominative we)
- First-person plural accusative pronoun: us.
- (reflexive) ourselves.
- (reciprocal) each other.
SynonymsEdit
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | possessive | |||
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singular | 1st-person | I, ich, ik | me | min mi1 |
min | ||
2nd-person | þou | þe | þin þi1 |
þin | |||
3rd-person | m | he | him hine2 |
him | his | his hisen | |
f | sche, heo | hire heo |
hire | hire hires, hiren | |||
n | hit | hit him2 |
his, hit | — | |||
dual3 | 1st-person | wit | unk | unker | |||
2nd-person | ȝit | inc | inker | ||||
plural | 1st-person | we | us, ous | oure | oure oures, ouren | ||
2nd-person4 | ye | yow | your | your youres, youren | |||
3rd-person | inh. | he | hem he2 |
hem | here | here heres, heren | |
bor. | þei | þem, þeim | þeir | þeir þeires, þeiren |
1Used preconsonantally or before h.
2Early or dialectal.
3Dual 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.
4Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
ReferencesEdit
- “ū̆s, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle Low GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ûs or us
- (personal pronoun, dative, accusative) Alternative form of uns.
- (possesive pronoun) Alternative form of uns.
DeclensionEdit
Possesive pronoun:
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | |
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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. |
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French uis, from Latin ostium.
NounEdit
us m (plural us)
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
PronounEdit
ūs
- accusative/dative of wē: (to) us
DescendantsEdit
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
us m (oblique plural us, nominative singular us, nominative plural us)
DescendantsEdit
- French: us
Old FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz. Cognates include Old English ūs, Old Saxon ūs and Old Dutch uns.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
ūs
- accusative/dative of wī
InflectionEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
PortugueseEdit
NounEdit
us
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ.
NounEdit
ȕs f (Cyrillic spelling у̏с)
ReferencesEdit
- “us” in Hrvatski jezični portal
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ottoman Turkish اوص (us), from Proto-Turkic *us (“mind, reason”).[1]
NounEdit
us (definite accusative usa, plural uslar)
DeclensionEdit
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Nominative | us | uslar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | usu | usları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | usa | uslara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | usta | uslarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | ustan | uslardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | usun | usların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003), “*us”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
Tz'utujilEdit
NounEdit
us
- fly (insect)
VolapükEdit
AdverbEdit
us
West FrisianEdit
PronounEdit
us