us

Significat (anglès)

Pron

1. Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
2. (colloquial) Me.
3. Our.
4. Me (in all contexts).

Det

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

Symbol

Alternative spelling of µs: microsecond

Noun

Alternative form of u's.

Sinònims

we

our

ourselves

you and me

me

ours

to us

you

all of us

my

me and them

hammock

pals

that

them

they

this

for us

I

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ʌs/

Etimologia (anglès)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé
Proto-Germanic *uns
Old English ūs
Middle English us
English us
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”).

Sents

She took care of Bobby for us .

My daughter , you want to prevent us from working ?

Turn out the lantern which gives us light .

A bus shuttle took us from the airport to the metro .

Despair is something that haunts us at night .

Could you issue us one perchance ?

The streamer of gas came out towards us .

The Internet of uncontrolled things brought us a distributed denial of service attack once again .