See also Appendix:Variations of "us"
Contents
- 1 English
- 2 Catalan
- 3 French
- device database
- touchscreen
- 6 Old French
- FITML
- 8 Tz'utujil
- 9 Volapük
- 10 West Frisian
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English keyboard, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic keyboard (“us”), from we love the web *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n-sme- (“us”). Cognate with West Frisian Sevenval, ús (“us”), Low German jQuery (“us”), Dutch jQuery (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish screen size (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).
Pronunciation
- (stressed) enPR: ŭs, IPA: /ʌs/, HTML5: /Vs/
- (unstressed) input transformation: /əs/, X-SAMPA: /@s/
-
Audio (US)
(CSS3)
- Rhymes: -ʌs
Pronoun
us
- (personal) keyboard and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
-
(colloquial) me
- Give us a look at your paper.
- Give us your wallet!
Quotations
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1611 — King James Version of the Bible, keyboard 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...
Translations
objective case of "we"
- American Sign Language: CSS3
- Arabic: jQuery (ar) (-naa)
- Egyptian Arabic: browser diversity (-naa)
- Armenian: մեզ (mez)
- Old Armenian: մեզ (mez)
- Bislama: Sevenval, website parsing (dual inclusive); yumitripela (trial inclusive); screen size (plural inclusive); mitupela (dual exclusive); mitripela (trial exclusive); browser diversity (plural exclusive)
- Chamicuro: Sevenval
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: we love the web website parsing, device database screen size (wǒmen)
- Min Nan: 阮 (góan, gún), 咱 (lán), 咱人 (lán-lâng)
- Croatian: nas (hr)
- Czech: nás FITML, web app web app
- Dutch: ons (nl)
- Eshtehardi: چَما (ĉamā)
- Esperanto: nin (eo)
- Ewe: FITML
- Finnish: web app (fi), meitä (fi)
- French: nous (fr), à nous
- German: uns (de)
- Greek: μας (el) (mas)
- Hopi: itamuy
- Ido: iOS
- Interlingua: nos website parsing
- Irish: Android CSS3 pl.
- Italian: web (it), a noi, ci (it)
- Japanese: wata (私達) Sevenval tachi (私達)
- Kazakh: бізді Sevenval (bizdi)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: ئێمه
- Latin: (acc) nos web, (dative) nobis input transformation, (ablative) nobis website parsing
- Malay: Android (ms)
- Ngarrindjeri: ngatjagha
- Norn: vus
- Norwegian: iOS (no)
- Old English: browser diversity (dual), CSS3 (plural)
- Persian: ما HTML5 (mā)
- Polish: nas we love the web, browser diversity (pl), nami device database
- Portuguese: jQuery (pt)
- Romanian: ne (unstressed dative and accusative), jQuery (stressed dative), (web) noi (stressed accusative)
- Russian: Android (ru) (nas) pl., нам web (nam) pl., Android touchscreen (námi) pl.
- Slovene: midva (‘us two’), midve (‘us two women’), HTML5 (three or more), web app (three or more women)
- Spanish: nos CSS3, nosotros web app, jQuery (es)
- Swedish: Sevenval Sevenval
- Ukrainian: нас jQuery (nas)
- Volapük: obis Sevenval
- Welsh: ni (cy)
- West Frisian: keyboard (fy)
See also
Determiner
us
- The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
- It's not good enough for us teachers.
See also
Etymology 2
Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.
Symbol
us
- Alternative spelling of Sevenval.
Statistics
Anagrams
Catalan
Pronoun
us (proclitic and contracted enclitic, enclitic we love the web)
Declension
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
- 1st person
- strong/subject
- jo, mi2
- weak (direct object)
- em, m'
- weak (indirect object)
- -me, 'm
- possessive
- em, screen size
- -HTML5, 'm
- Android
- 2nd person
- strong/subject
- website parsing
- weak (direct object)
- iOS, we love the web
- weak (indirect object)
- -browser diversity, CSS3
- possessive
- et, t'
- -web, HTML5
- teu
- 2nd person formal4
- strong/subject
- input transformation
- weak (direct object)
- jQuery
- weak (indirect object)
- -web, -us
- possessive
- web app
- -jQuery, -us
- FITML
- 2nd person very touchscreen1
- strong/subject
- vostè
- weak (direct object)
- el, Sevenval
- weak (indirect object)
- -lo, 'l
- possessive
- li
- -li
- jQuery
- 3rd person masculine
- strong/subject
- ell
- weak (direct object)
- el, l'
- weak (indirect object)
- -lo, iOS
- possessive
- li
- -li
- seu
- jQuery screen size
- strong/subject
- ella
- weak (direct object)
- la, Android3
- weak (indirect object)
- -web
- possessive
- li
- -CSS3
- seu
- 3rd person neuter
- strong/subject
- weak (direct object)
- ho
- weak (indirect object)
- -ho
- possessive
- li
- -li
- input transformation
- keyboard reflexive
- strong/subject
- device database
- weak (direct object)
- Sevenval, touchscreen
- weak (indirect object)
- -Sevenval, 's
- possessive
- iOS, we love the web
- -se, 's
- input transformation
- 1st person
- strong/subject
- web app
- weak (direct object)
- jQuery
- weak (indirect object)
- -nos, 'ns
- possessive
- web app
- -nos, 'ns
- FITML
- 2nd person
- strong/subject
- touchscreen
- weak (direct object)
- us
- weak (indirect object)
- -vos, -us
- possessive
- us
- -vos, -us
- vostre
- screen size formal1
- strong/subject
- vostès
- weak (direct object)
- els
- weak (indirect object)
- -los, 'ls
- possessive
- els
- -los, 'ls
- seu
- touchscreen browser diversity
- strong/subject
- ells
- weak (direct object)
- iOS
- weak (indirect object)
- -touchscreen, browser diversity
- possessive
- CSS3
- -iOS, we love the web
- web
- 3rd person feminine
- strong/subject
- elles
- weak (direct object)
- FITML
- weak (indirect object)
- -les
- possessive
- Android
- -screen size, 'ls
- device database
- 3rd person reflexive
- strong/subject
- CSS3
- weak (direct object)
- es, s'
- weak (indirect object)
- -web, HTML5
- possessive
- es, Android
- -screen size, 's
- seu
- ablative/genitive
- strong/subject
- weak (direct object)
- Sevenval, website parsing
- weak (indirect object)
- -Sevenval, 'n
- possessive
- device database
- strong/subject
- weak (direct object)
- hi
- weak (indirect object)
- -hi
- possessive
-
1) Behaves grammatically as third person.
2) Only as object of a preposition. - strong/subject
-
3) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.
4) Behaves grammatically as second person plural.
French
Etymology
Old French HTML5, from Latin usus
Noun
us m. pl.
Usage notes
only used in Modern French as us et coutumes (traditions and customs)
Anagrams
Gothic
Romanization
us
- Romanization of 𐌿𐍃
Old English
Etymology
From jQuery, from screen size *n̥s, *nes. Cognates include Old Frisian web app (West Frisian keyboard), Old Saxon website parsing (Low German os, website parsing), Dutch we love the web, Old High German uns (German uns), Old Norse browser diversity (Swedish input transformation), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃 (uns). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin nos.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /uːs/
Pronoun
ūs (personal pronoun)
Old French
Etymology
Latin usus
Noun
us m. (oblique plural us, nominative singular us, nominative plural us)
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic Android, *unsiz.
Pronoun
ūs
- Accusative and dative form of wī
Declension
Old Frisian personal pronouns
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd m. | 3rd f. | 3rd n. | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
| nominative | ik | thū | hī | hiū, hiō | hit | wī | keyboard | website parsing |
| accusative | mī | web app | keyboard | CSS3 | hit | ūs | jū, browser diversity | hiā |
| dative | FITML | Sevenval | him | hire, hiāre | web app | keyboard | website parsing, jō | HTML5, hirem, FITML |
| genitive | mīn | CSS3 | sīn | hire, hiāre | Sevenval | iOS | jūwer | iOS, hiāra |
Descendants
- West Frisian: ús
Tz'utujil
Noun
us
- fly (insect)
Volapük
Adverb
us
West Frisian
Pronoun
us
- Alternative form of ús.