Etymology From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed when used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German uns, us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).
Personal, Pronoun Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)
Don't treat us like idiots.
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Personal, Pronoun Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)
Let's ask him if he'll give us a lift.
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1:
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Personal, Pronoun We, used in the same circumstances where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula
Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.
Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go.
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Personal, Pronoun Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us.
I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashed us 5-0.
Get; fetch; get; fetch With certain verbs such as give
Give us a look at your paper.
Fetch us a cold beer from the fridge, would you.
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She's turned the weans against us!
(talking to oneself) Now then ... let me see ... I hope I'm doing this right ... if we just connect these two wires together ... if it gives us a shock then ... Ow!
55 termswe, our, ours, Ime, me, myselfmemysen, mine, mymineme, ourselvesourselfoursen, oursourn, you, yourselfyoursen, yoursyourn, your, thou, thee, thyselftheeselfthysen, thine, thythine, youye, yourselves, you ally'all you guys yous, y'allselves, all yours y'all's you guys' your guys', all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys', he, him, himselfhisselfhissen, hishisn, his, she, her, herselfhersen, hershern, ithit, itselfhitself, itshis, itshishits, they, them, themself, themselves, theirs, their, one, oneself, –, one's, themhem, 'em, themselvestheirsen, theirstheirn, The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun, including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete, archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
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Etymology From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed when used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German uns, us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).
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Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case).
It's not good enough for us teachers.
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Proscribed Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (subjective case).
Us gays and lesbians in here got a reason to be bitching about the conditions.1988 February 7, Mike Riegle, quoting John Royal, “Why Does GCN Have A Prisoner Project?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 10:
Etymology From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed when used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German uns, us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).
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Informal The relationship between the speaker and some other unspecified person.