on

Meaning

1. one, people, you, someone (an unspecified individual)
2. (informal) we

Concepts

one

they

you

men

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

hands

manpower

we

workforce

labor force

boy

👦

work force

augmentative

labour force

Synonyms

hommes

il

👨

main d’œuvre

gens

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

nous

personnel

quelqu’un

se

soi

ace

force physique

main-d’oeuvre

main-d’œuvre

actif

Asse

ce dernier

celui-là

elle

👩

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɔ̃/

Etymology

Inherited from Old French hom, om (nominative form), from Latin homō (“human being”) (compare homme from the Old French oblique form home, from the Latin accusative form hominem). Its pronominal use is of Germanic origin. Compare Old English man (“one, they, people”), reduced form of Old English mann (“person”); Catalan hom; German man (“one, they, people”); Dutch men (“one, they, people”). In the second sense, meaning "we", also compare the development Malay kita orang (“we (incl.) + person”) and also dialectal kitorang, kitong, torang.

Sentences

Mais on ne sait rien de sa fin .

But we don't know anything about its end.

Et on te devra tout le bonheur du pays .

And we owe you all the happiness in the country.

Quand on ne croit pas à ces espérances , ou quand elles sont trop voilées ...

When you don't believe in these expectations, or when they are too veiled...

Dès qu’on avait dîné , on passait dans la cuisine .

As soon as we had dinner, we went into the kitchen.

En plus , on installa un système électrique pour sonner les cloches .

In addition, an electrical system was installed to ring the bells.

Sur Rif on trouve également des phoques .

On Rif there are also seals.

À Monaco , on attend un nouvel épisode du duel Stewart-Brabham.

In Monaco, we are waiting for a new episode of the Stewart-Brabham duel.

Parmi les continuateurs des travaux de René Thom, on peut mentionner Erik Christopher Zeeman.

Among the continuators of René Thom's work, we can mention Erik Christopher Zeeman.