us
Part of speech: pron
det
noun
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: -'s
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: uz
pos: pron
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: is
pos: pron
tags: alternative
Northumbria
form: iz
pos: pron
tags: alternative
Northumbria
Senses:
gloss: Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)
pos: pron
tags: personal
pronoun
examples: Don't treat us like idiots.
gloss: Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)
pos: pron
tags: personal
pronoun
examples: Let's ask him if he'll give us a lift.
Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...
gloss: 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
pos: pron
tags: personal
pronoun
examples: Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.
Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go.
gloss: Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
pos: pron
tags: personal
pronoun
examples: It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us.
I went to watch my favourite team play Real Madrid, but they thrashed us 5-0.
gloss: People in general.
pos: pron
tags: personal
pronoun
examples: Grief ages us.
gloss: The person(s) being addressed.
pos: pron
tags: colloquial
personal
pronoun
examples: Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's get us up and out of bed, please.
gloss: Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
pos: pron
tags: colloquial
personal
pronoun
examples: 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 ...
gloss: Me.
pos: pron
tags: Commonwealth
colloquial
personal
pronoun
usually
examples: Give us a look at your paper.
Fetch us a cold beer from the fridge, would you.
She's turned the weans against us!
(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!
gloss: Me (in all contexts).
pos: pron
tags: Northumbria
personal
pronoun
examples: Look at us while ye’re speakin tiv us.
Could ye dee that for us?
gloss: Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case).
pos: det
examples: It's not good enough for us teachers.
gloss: Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (subjective case).
pos: det
tags: proscribed
examples: Us gays and lesbians in here got a reason to be bitching about the conditions.
gloss: Our.
pos: det
tags: Northern-England
examples: We'll have to throw us food out.
gloss: The relationship (usually romantic) between the speaker and listener or some other unspecified person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: There is no us.
Us is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Related words: we
our
ours
Ime
me
myselfmemysen
mine
mymineme
ourselvesourselfoursen
oursourn
you
yourselfyoursen
yoursyourn
your
thou
thee
thyselftheeselfthysen
thine
thythine
youye
yourselves
you ally'all you guys yous
y'allselves
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
he
him
himselfhisselfhissen
hishisn
his
she
her
herselfhersen
hershern
ithit
itselfhitself
itshis
itshishits
they
them
themself
themselves
theirs
their
one
oneself
–
one's
themhem
'em
themselvestheirsen
theirstheirn
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
Derived words: 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
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