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English Online Dictionary. What means us‎? What does us mean?

English

Etymology 1

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”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed while being used. 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

• (stressed) enPR: ŭs, IPA^(key): /ʌs/, /ʌz/, (Local Dublin) IPA^(key): /ʊs/
• (unstressed) (US) IPA^(key): /əs/, (UK) IPA^(key): /əs/, /əz/
• Rhymes: -ʌs

Pronoun

us

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

   Used where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula:

2. (Commonwealth, colloquial, chiefly with give) Me.

3. (Northern England) Our.

4. (Northumbria) Me (in all contexts).

Alternative forms

• -'s (contracted form, as in let's)
• uz, is, iz (Northumbria)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• we
• our
• ours

Determiner

us

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

See also

• we

Etymology 2

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

Symbol

us

1. Alternative spelling of µs: microsecond

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

us

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

Anagrams

• SU, Su

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin vōs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [us]
• 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

Further reading

• “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, 2024
• “us” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Central Franconian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /us/, (stressed optionally) /uːs/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German ūz, from Proto-Germanic *ūt.

Preposition

us (+ dative)

1. (Ripuarian, parts of Moselle Franconian) out of, from

Usage notes

• Where it occurs in Moselle Franconian, it generally does so only in unstressed position while the stressed form is aus, ous.

Alternative forms

• uus, uss
• aus, ous (Moselle Franconian)

Etymology 2

From Middle High German uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz. Loss of the nasal is due to a sporadic development (analogous to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant-law, but later and not systematic); compare Luxembourgish eis, Limburgish ós.

Pronoun

us

1. (most of Ripuarian, parts of Moselle Franconian) Dative/accusative first-person plural personal pronoun: us

Alternative forms

• uus, uss
• oos, os, oss (common variant)
• uns, ons (Kölsch, also younger byform in many other dialects)

Fala

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese os, from Latin illōs.

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

See also

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• unhos (Mañegu)
• unhus (Valverdeñu)

Article

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

1. (Lagarteiru) Masculine singular indefinite article; some

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French us, from Latin ūsus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ys/, (less often) /y/
• Rhymes: -ys, -y
• Homophones: eusse, eussent, eusses (with /s/), eu, eue, eues, eus, eut, eût, u (without /s/), hue, huent, hues (without /s/, aspirated)

Noun

us m pl (plural only)

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

Usage notes

• Now almost exclusively used in us et coutumes (“mores and customs”).

Related terms

• abus
• user, usage, usuel

Further reading

• “us”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• su

Gothic

Romanization

us

1. Romanization of 𐌿𐍃

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ous, os, hus, usse, hous

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /us/, /uːs/

Pronoun

us (nominative we)

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

Synonyms

• we

Descendants

• English: us
• Scots: us, hus
• Yola: ouse, ouz, uz

See also

References

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

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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:

Norman

Etymology

From Old French uis, from Latin ostium.

Noun

us m (plural us)

1. door

Old English

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /uːs/

Pronoun

ūs

1. accusative/dative of wē: (to) us

Descendants

• Middle English: us, ous, os, hus, usse, hous
  • English: us
  • Scots: us, hus
  • Yola: ouse, ouz, uz

Old French

Etymology

From Latin ūsus.

Noun

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

1. tradition or custom

Descendants

• French: us

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz. Cognates include Old English ūs, Old Saxon ūs and Old Dutch uns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːs/

Pronoun

ūs

1. accusative/dative of wī

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Most dialects: üs

  Sylt: üüs

• Saterland Frisian: uus
• West Frisian: ús

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -us

Noun

us

1. plural of u

Scots

Etymology

Inherited 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”).

Pronoun

us

1. us

See also

References

• “us, pers. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “us, pers. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ.

Noun

ȕs f (Cyrillic spelling у̏с)

1. fishbone

References

• “us”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوص (us), from Proto-Turkic *us (“mind, reason”).

Noun

us (definite accusative usu, plural uslar)

1. mind
2. reason
3. intelligence

Declension

Synonyms

• akıl
• zihin

Derived terms

• uslu
• us dışı
• us pahası
• usa vurmak
• uslamlamak
• usuna getirmek

References

Tz'utujil

Noun

us

1. fly (insect)

Volapük

Adverb

us

1. there

West Frisian

Pronoun

us

1. object of wy