us

See also: Variations of "us"

us - English

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

us

  1. (personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
  2. (Commonwealth, colloquial, chiefly with give) Me.
    • Give us a look at your paper.
    • Give us your wallet!
    • She's turned the weans against us!
  3. (Northern England) Our.
    • We'll have to throw us food out.
  4. (Tyneside) Me (in all contexts).
    • Look at us while you’re speaking to us.
    • Could you do that for us?

Alternative forms

Translations

  • German: uns (de)

Determiner

us

  1. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
    • It's not good enough for us teachers.

Symbol

us

  1. Alternative spelling of µs: microsecond

Noun

us

  1. (rare) Alternative form of u's.

Anagrams

us - Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

us (proclitic and contracted enclitic, enclitic vos)

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

Usage notes

  • 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.

Declension

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-.

us - Fala

Alternative forms

  • os (Mañegu)

Article

us m pl (singular u, feminine a, feminine plural as)

  1. (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) Masculine plural definite article; the

Pronoun

us

  1. (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) Third person plural masculine accusative pronoun; them

Alternative forms

Article

us m pl (singular un, feminine unha, feminine plural unhas)

  1. (Lagarteiru) Masculine singular indefinite article; some

us - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ys/

Noun

us m pl (plural only)

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

Usage notes

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

Anagrams

us - Gothic

Romanization

us

  1. Romanization of 𐌿𐍃

us - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /us/, /uːs/

Pronoun

us (nominative we)

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

Synonyms

Descendants

us - Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ʊs/, /uːs/

Pronoun

ûs or us

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

Declension

Possesive pronoun:

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

us - Norman

Noun

us m (plural us)

  1. door

us - Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /uːs/

Pronoun

ūs

  1. accusative/dative of : (to) us

Descendants

us - Old French

Noun

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

  1. tradition or custom

Descendants

  • French: us

us - Old Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈuːs/

Pronoun

ūs

  1. accusative/dative of

Inflection

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

Descendants

  • North Frisian:
  • Saterland Frisian: uus
  • West Frisian: ús

us - Portuguese

Noun

us

  1. plural of u

us - Serbo-Croatian

Noun

ȕs f (Cyrillic spelling у̏с)

  1. fishbone

us - Turkish

Noun

us (definite accusative usa, plural uslar)

  1. mind
  2. reason
  3. intelligence

Declension

Inflection
Nominative us
Definite accusative usu

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • uslu
  • usa vurma metodu

us - Tz'utujil

Noun

us

  1. fly (insect)

us - Volapük

Adverb

us

  1. there

us - West Frisian

Pronoun

us

  1. object of wy
Meaning and Definition of us
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