own

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. (not-comparable) Belonging to; possessed; acquired; proper to; property of; titled to; held in one's name; under/using the name of. Often marks a possessive determiner as reflexive, referring back to the subject of the clause or sentence.
2. (not-comparable) Not shared.
3. (not-comparable, obsolete) Peculiar, domestic.
4. (not-comparable, obsolete) Not foreign.

Verb

1. (transitive) To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to; to acquire a property or asset.
2. (transitive) To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership.
3. (transitive) To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm.
4. (transitive) To virtually or figuratively enslave.
5. (Internet, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above.
6. (slang, transitive) To illicitly obtain superuser or root access to a computer system, thereby having access to all of the user files on that system.
7. (intransitive, slang) To be very good.
8. (intransitive) To admit, concede, grant, allow, acknowledge, confess; not to deny.
9. (transitive) To admit; concede; acknowledge.
10. (transitive) To proudly acknowledge; to not be ashamed or embarrassed of.
11. (transitive) To take responsibility for.
12. (transitive) To recognise; acknowledge.
13. (transitive) To claim as one's own.
14. (UK, dialectal, intransitive) To confess.

Noun

A crushing insult.

Sinonieme

possess

have

personal

hold

self

one’s own

proper

admit

private

confess

acknowledge

occupy

ain

native

my

recognize

same

distinctive

belong to

in possession of

control

associated with

receive

special

possession

particular

peculiar

obtain

fresh

individual

profess

separate

familiar

even

cede

employ

earn

carry

distinct

dedicate

homeland

declare

avow

allow

home country

home

🏠

countryman

idem

idiosyncratic

himself

Vertalings

besitzen

proprio

posséder

possedere

poseer

propre

bezitten

propio

eigen

eigen

possuir

próprio

avoir

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/əʊn/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Skots: ain

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: oain

Verwante met Nederlands: -

Verwante met Duits: -

Verwante met Nuwe Noors: eigen

Verwante met Boeknoors: -

Verwante met Sweeds: egen

Verwante met Yslands: eigin

Verwante met Sanskrit: ईश्वर

Verwante met Old English: āgnian

Verwante met Nederlands: eigenen

Verwante met Duits: eignen

Verwante met Sweeds: ägna

In summary

From Middle English owen, aȝen, from Old English āgen (“own, proper, peculiar”), originally the past participle of āgan; from Proto-West Germanic *aigan (“own”), from Proto-Germanic *aiganaz (“own”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to have, possess”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots ain (“own”), Saterland Frisian oain (“own”), Dutch, German and Norwegian Nynorsk eigen (“own”), Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish egen (“own”), Icelandic eigin (“own”). Originally past participle of the verb at hand in English owe.
Also cognate with Sanskrit ईश्वर (īśvará, “able to do, capable of; owner, master”).

Sinne

But , if you can , try to make your own decisions .

Its main actors and actresses have also become major stars in their own right .

Why don't you fellows get your own news ?

The Blaufarbenwerk had its own jurisdiction and had its own school .

I've always looked on Bessie as my own sister .

Bowburn has its own Junior and Infant and Nursery schools .