own

Signification (Anglais)

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.

Concepts

posséder

propre

avoir

particulier

avouer

reconnaître

used before the noun

vaincre

jouir de

confesser

détenir

disposer

personnel

Synonymes

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

Traductions

besitzen

proprio

possedere

poseer

bezitten

propio

eigen

eigen

possuir

próprio

haben

posseir

erop nahouden

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/əʊn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Appartenant à écossais: ain

Appartenant à saterlandais: oain

Appartenant à néerlandais: -

Appartenant à allemand: -

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: eigen

Appartenant à norvégien bokmål: -

Appartenant à suédois: egen

Appartenant à islandais: eigin

Appartenant à sanskrit: ईश्वर

Appartenant à ancien anglais: āgnian

Appartenant à néerlandais: eigenen

Appartenant à allemand: eignen

Appartenant à suédois: 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”).

Phrases

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

Mais, si vous le pouvez, essayez de prendre vos propres décisions.

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

Ses principaux acteurs et actrices sont également devenus des stars majeures à part entière.

Why don't you fellows get your own news ?

Pourquoi ne pas obtenir vos propres nouvelles?

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

Le Blaufarbenwerk avait sa propre juridiction et avait sa propre école.

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

Bowburn has its own Junior and Infant and Nursery schools .