us

Signification (English)

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.

Concepts

nous

à nous

Synonyms

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

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ʌs/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: us

Inherited from ancien anglais: ūs

Cognate with saterlandais: uus

Cognate with frison occidental: us

Cognate with bas-allemand: us

Cognate with néerlandais: ons

Cognate with allemand: uns

Cognate with danois: os

Cognate with latin: nōs

In summary

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”).

Phrases

She took care of Bobby for us .

Elle a pris soin de Bobby pour nous .

My daughter , you want to prevent us from working ?

Ma fille, tu veux nous empêcher de travailler?

Turn out the lantern which gives us light .

Déposez la lanterne qui nous donne la lumière.

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

Une navette de bus nous a emmenés de l'aéroport au métro.

Despair is something that haunts us at night .

Le désespoir est quelque chose qui nous hante la nuit.

Could you issue us one perchance ?

Pourriez-vous nous délivrer une perchance?

The streamer of gas came out towards us .

Le streamer de Gas est sorti vers nous .

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

L'Internet des choses incontrôlées nous a amené une attaque de déni de service distribuée une fois de plus.