us
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭs
ipa: /ʌs/
ipa: /ʌz/
note: Local Dublin
ipa: /ʊs/
ipa: /əs/
ipa: /əs/
ipa: /əz/
ipa: /ɪz/
rhymes: -ʌs
Forms: form: -'s
form: uz
form: is
form: iz
Etymology: 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-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed when used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German uns, us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).
Senses: examples: text: Don't treat us like idiots.
glosses: Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)
examples: text: Let's ask him if he'll give us a lift.
text: Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1:
glosses: Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)
examples: text: Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.
text: Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go.
glosses: We, used in the same circumstances where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula
examples: text: It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us.
text: I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashed us 5-0.
glosses: Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
examples: text: Grief ages us.
glosses: People in general.
examples: text: Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's get us up and out of bed, please.
glosses: The person(s) being addressed.
examples: text: Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. First let's get us a few ingredients that we'll need ...
glosses: Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
examples: text: Give us a look at your paper.
text: Fetch us a cold beer from the fridge, would you.
text: She's turned the weans against us!
text: (talking to oneself) Now then ... let me see ... I hope I'm doing this right ... if we just connect these two wires together ... if it gives us a shock then ... Ow!
qualifier: get; fetch; get; fetch
glosses: Me.
raw_tags: with certain verbs such as give
examples: text: Look at us while ye’re speakin tiv us.
text: Could ye dee that for us?
glosses: Me (in all contexts).
Derived terms: after us the deluge
all your base are belong to us
and so say all of us
bless us
can you tell us
come down to us
God preserve us
it happens to the best of us
let us
let us count the ways
let us go
my very educated mother just served us nachos
my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
my very educated mother just served us nine pumpkins
my very educated mother just served us noodles
my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas
no longer with us
nothing about us without us
one of us
still with us
tell us another
tell us another one
them-and-us
the poor we will always have with us
they hate us 'cause they ain't us
till death do us part
till death us do part
us-and-them
us-and-them-ism
us selves
usses
us versus them
with us
Related terms: word: we
word: our
word: ours
word: Ime
word: me
word: myselfmemysen
word: mine
word: mymineme
word: ourselvesourselfoursen
word: oursourn
word: you
word: yourselfyoursen
word: yoursyourn
word: your
word: thou
word: thee
word: thyselftheeselfthysen
word: thine
word: thythine
word: youye
word: yourselves
word: you ally'all you guys
word: y'allselves
word: all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
word: all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
word: he
word: him
word: himselfhisselfhissen
word: hishisn
word: his
word: she
word: her
word: herselfhersen
word: hershern
word: ithit
word: itselfhitself
word: itshis
word: itshishits
word: they
word: them
word: themself
word: themselves
word: theirs
word: their
word: one
word: oneself
word: –
word: one's
word: themhem
word: 'em
word: themselvestheirsen
word: theirstheirn
word: The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
word: including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
word: archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.