ons

See also: öns, -ons, Ons, and ONS

ons - English

Verb

ons

  • (Singapore, Philippines, Malaysia, transitive, colloquial)
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of on

Anagrams

ons - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɔns/, [ɔ̃s]

Pronoun

ons

  1. we (subject)
    • Ons is ’n familie.
      • We are a family.
  2. us (object)

Alternative forms

Determiner

ons

  1. our

Noun

ons

  1. ounce (unit of measurement)

ons - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɔns/

Pronoun

ons (personal)

  1. us (objective form of wij or we)
    • Geef ons heden ons dagelijks brood.
      • Give us today our daily bread.

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: ons
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: ensi
  • Jersey Dutch: on̈s, on̈ns
  • Negerhollands: ons, oṅ
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: ons

Determiner

ons (dependent possessive, independent possessive onze, inflected form onze)

  1. our (neuter)
    • Geef ons heden ons dagelijks brood.Give us our daily bread

Usage notes

Only used with singular neuter nouns in dependent clauses; onze is used in all other situations as an independent possessive as well as with male and female nouns.

Inflection

subject object possessive reflexive genitive5
singular full unstr. full unstr. full unstr. pred.
1st person ik 'k1 mij me mijn m'n1 mijne me mijner, mijns
2nd person jij je jou je jouw je jouwe je jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal gij ge u uw uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u u uw uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person masculine hij ie1 hem 'm1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine zij ze haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 hare zich harer, haars
3rd person neuter het 't1 het 't1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
plural
1st person wij we ons ons, onze2 onze ons onzer, onzes
2nd person jullie je jullie je jullie je je
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 gij ge u uw uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u u uw uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person zij ze hen3, hun4 ze hun hunne zich hunner, huns
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). 5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural.

Noun

ons n (plural onsen or onzen, diminutive onsje n)

  1. metric ounce (100 grams)

Usage notes

Prior to the law of 1820 that introduced the metric system in what then united both the Netherlands and Belgium a variety of measures ranging around ca 30 grams were known by this name. The law of 1820 attributed the name to the hectogram of 100 grams. In 1937 the IJkwet of the Netherlands officially abolished the term, but it is still commonly used.

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Caribbean Javanese: os
  • Papiamentu: òns

ons - Middle Dutch

Pronoun

ons

  1. accusative/dative of wi

Descendants

  • Dutch: ons
    • Afrikaans: ons
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: ensi
    • Jersey Dutch: on̈s, on̈ns
    • Negerhollands: ons, oṅ
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: ons
  • Limburgish: ós
  • Zealandic: oôns

ons - Middle English

Adverb

ons

  1. Alternative form of ones

ons - Swedish

Noun

ons

  1. indefinite genitive plural of o.

Anagrams

ons - Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈons/
  • Hyphenation: ons

Noun

ons (definite accusative onsu, plural onslar)

  1. ounce

ons - Volapük

Pronoun

ons

  1. (nominative plural of on) they (neuter or of mixed or unspecified gender)
Meaning and Definition of ons
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