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we
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- The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.)
- The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.)
- The institution which the speaker/writer is acting for. (This is the editorial we, used by writers and others when speaking with the authority of their publication or organisation.)
- The sovereign alone in their capacity as monarch. (This is the royal we. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.)
- The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed.
- A second- or third-person pronoun for a person in the speaker's care.
- (colloquial) The speaker themselves, used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences and a group of listeners. (Compare the plural of modesty.)
- Us.
- The side which is keeping score.
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want
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- To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
- To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.
- To wish, desire, or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
- To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
- (colloquial) To be advised to do something (compare should, ought).
- (colloquial) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
- To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
- To be lacking or deficient or absent.
- To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
- To lack and be without, to not have (something).
- (obsolete) To lack and perhaps be able or willing to do without.
- To desire a romantic or (especially) sexual relationship with someone; to lust for.
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him
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- A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
- A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
- A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
- (colloquial) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
- Used reflexively: (to) himself.
- With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
- (slang) A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.
