us
English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
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”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (stressed) enPR: ŭs, IPA(key): /ʌs/, IPA(key): /ʌz/
- (unstressed) (US) IPA(key): /əs/, (UK) IPA(key): /əs/, /əz/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ʌs
Pronoun[edit]
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 964384981, 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 of Nations, 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 forms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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See also[edit]
Determiner[edit]
us
- The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
- It's not good enough for us teachers.
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.
Symbol[edit]
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 3[edit]
Noun[edit]
us
Anagrams[edit]
Catalan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Occitan us, from Latin ūsus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
us (proclitic and contracted enclitic, enclitic vos)
Usage notes[edit]
- 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 vowel.
- Volia veure-us. ― I wanted to see you.
Declension[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “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.
- “us” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French us, from Latin ūsus.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
us m pl (plural only)
- (plural only) mores; traditional practices or manners
Usage notes[edit]
Only used in Modern French as us et coutumes (“mores and customs”). Also see the etymologically related usage.
Further reading[edit]
- “us”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams[edit]
Gothic[edit]
Romanization[edit]
us
- Romanization of 𐌿𐍃
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n-sme- (“us”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
us (nominative we)
- First-person plural accusative pronoun: us.
- (reflexive) ourselves.
- (reciprocal) each other.
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
See also[edit]
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.
References[edit]
- “ū̆s, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle Low German[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ûs or us
- (personal pronoun, dative, accusative) Alternative form of uns.
- (possesive pronoun) Alternative form of uns.
Declension[edit]
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. |
Norman[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French uis, from Latin ostium.
Noun[edit]
us m (plural us)
Old English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ūs
- accusative/dative of wē: (to) us
Descendants[edit]
Old French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
us m (oblique plural us, nominative singular us, nominative plural us)
Descendants[edit]
- French: us
Old Frisian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz. Cognates include Old English ūs, Old Saxon ūs and Old Dutch uns.
Pronunciation[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
ūs
- accusative/dative of wī
Inflection[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ.
Noun[edit]
ȕs f (Cyrillic spelling у̏с)
References[edit]
- “us” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Ottoman Turkish اوص (us), from Proto-Turkic *us (“mind, reason”).[1]
Noun[edit]
us (definite accusative usa, plural uslar)
Declension[edit]
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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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Derived terms[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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'utujil[edit]
Noun[edit]
us
- fly (insect)
Volapük[edit]
Adverb[edit]
us
West Frisian[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
us
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