us

From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed while being used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).

• (stressed) enPR: ŭs, IPA^(key): /ʌs/, /ʌz/, (Local Dublin) IPA^(key): /ʊs/
• (unstressed) (US) IPA^(key): /əs/, (UK) IPA^(key): /əs/, /əz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌs

us

1. (personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1:

     Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us...

   Used where "me" would be used instead of "I", e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula:

   Who's there? —Us. (or) —It's us.

   Who's going to go? —Us. We'll go.

2. (Commonwealth, colloquial, chiefly with give) Me.

   Give us a look at your paper.

   Give us your wallet!

   She's turned the weans against us!

3. (Northern England) Our.

   We'll have to throw us food out.

4. (Northumbria) Me (in all contexts).

   Look at us while you’re speaking to us.

   Could you do that for us?

• -'s (contracted form, as in let's)
• uz, is, iz (Northumbria)

• we
• our
• ours

us

1. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.

   It's not good enough for us teachers.

• we

Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter µ.

us

1. Alternative spelling of µs: microsecond
   • 2002, Peter Spasov, Microcontroller Technology, the 68HC11, page 489:

     ;wait 500 us

   • 2012, Peter Feiler, David Gluch, Model-Based Engineering with AADL:

     The standard units are ns (nanoseconds), us (microseconds), ms (milliseconds), sec (seconds), min (minutes), and hr (hours).

   • 2014, Michael Corey, Jeff Szastak, Michael Webster, Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right, page 198:

     Because the flash devices are local to the server, the latencies can be microseconds (us) instead of milliseconds (ms) and eliminate some traffic that would normally have gone over the storage network.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

us

1. (rare) Alternative form of u's.

• SU, Su

Inherited from Latin vōs.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [us]
• Homophone: ús

us (proclitic and contracted enclitic, enclitic vos)

1. you (plural, direct or indirect object)
2. Contraction of vos.

• us is the reinforced (reforçada) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs.

  Si us plau. ― Please.

  Si no us importa. ― If you don't mind.

• -us is the reduced (reduïda) form of the pronoun. It is used after verbs ending with a vowel.

  Volia veure-us. ― I wanted to see you.

• “us” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “us”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “us” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /us/, (stressed optionally) /uːs/

From Middle High German ūz, from Proto-Germanic *ūt.

us (+ dative)

1. (Ripuarian, parts of Moselle Franconian) out of, from
   • 1936, Inscription on the Schwarze Katz well in Zell:

     He steiht ferm wie en Zeller us dem Hamm.

     He stands firm as a Zell man from the Hamm [i.e. the Moselle bow around Zell with its steeply sloped vineyards].

• Where it occurs in Moselle Franconian, it generally does so only in unstressed position while the stressed form is aus, ous.

• uus, uss
• aus, ous (Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz. Loss of the nasal is due to a sporadic development (analogous to the Ingvaeonic nasal spirant-law, but later and not systematic); compare Luxembourgish eis, Limburgish ós.

us

1. (most of Ripuarian, parts of Moselle Franconian) Dative/accusative first-person plural personal pronoun: us

• uus, uss
• oos, os, oss (common variant)
• uns, ons (Kölsch, also younger byform in many other dialects)

From Old Galician-Portuguese os, from Latin illōs.

• os (Mañegu)

us m pl (singular u, feminine a, feminine plural as)

1. (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) Masculine plural definite article; the

us

1. (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) Third person plural masculine accusative pronoun; them

• unhos (Mañegu)
• unhus (Valverdeñu)

us m pl (singular un, feminine unha, feminine plural unhas)

1. (Lagarteiru) Masculine singular indefinite article; some

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Inherited from Old French us, from Latin ūsus.

• IPA^(key): /ys/, (less often) /y/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ys, -y
• Homophones: eusse, eussent, eusses (with /s/), eu, eue, eues, eus, eut, eût, u (without /s/), hue, huent, hues (without /s/, aspirated)

us m pl (plural only)

1. (plural only) mores; traditional practices or manners

• Now almost exclusively used in us et coutumes (“mores and customs”).

• abus
• user, usage, usuel

• “us”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• su

us

1. Romanization of 𐌿𐍃

• ous, os, hus, usse, hous

From Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n-sme- (“us”).

• IPA^(key): /us/, /uːs/

us (nominative we)

1. First-person plural accusative pronoun: us.
2. (reflexive) ourselves.
3. (reciprocal) each other.

• we

• English: us
• Scots: us, hus
• Yola: ouse, ouz, uz

• “ū̆s, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

• IPA^(key): /ʊs/, /uːs/

ûs or us

1. (personal pronoun, dative, accusative) Alternative form of uns.
2. (possesive pronoun) Alternative form of uns.

Possesive pronoun:

From Old French uis, from Latin ostium.

us m (plural us)

1. door

From Proto-Germanic *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥s, *nes. Cognates include Old Frisian ūs (West Frisian ús), Old Saxon ūs (Low German os, ons), Dutch ons, Old High German uns (German uns), Old Norse oss (Swedish oss), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃 (uns). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin nos.

• IPA^(key): /uːs/

ūs

1. accusative/dative of wē: (to) us

• Middle English: us, ous, os, hus, usse, hous
  • English: us
  • Scots: us, hus
  • Yola: ouse, ouz, uz

From Latin ūsus.

us oblique singular, m (oblique plural us, nominative singular us, nominative plural us)

1. tradition or custom

• French: us

From Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz. Cognates include Old English ūs, Old Saxon ūs and Old Dutch uns.

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːs/

ūs

1. accusative/dative of wī

• North Frisian:

  Most dialects: üs

  Sylt: üüs

• Saterland Frisian: uus
• West Frisian: ús

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

• Rhymes: -us

us

1. plural of u

Inherited from Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne-, *nō-, *n-ge-, *n̥smé (“us”).

us

1. us

• “us, pers. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “us, pers. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ǫsъ.

ȕs f (Cyrillic spelling у̏с)

1. fishbone

• “us”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

From Ottoman Turkish اوص (us), from Proto-Turkic *us (“mind, reason”).^[1]

us (definite accusative usu, plural uslar)

1. mind
2. reason
3. intelligence

Inflection
Nominative	us
Definite accusative	usu
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	us	uslar
Definite accusative	usu	usları
Dative	usa	uslara
Locative	usta	uslarda
Ablative	ustan	uslardan
Genitive	usun	usların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular usum uslarım 2nd singular usun usların 3rd singular usu usları 1st plural usumuz uslarımız 2nd plural usunuz uslarınız 3rd plural usları usları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular usumu uslarımı 2nd singular usunu uslarını 3rd singular usunu uslarını 1st plural usumuzu uslarımızı 2nd plural usunuzu uslarınızı 3rd plural uslarını uslarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular usuma uslarıma 2nd singular usuna uslarına 3rd singular usuna uslarına 1st plural usumuza uslarımıza 2nd plural usunuza uslarınıza 3rd plural uslarına uslarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular usumda uslarımda 2nd singular usunda uslarında 3rd singular usunda uslarında 1st plural usumuzda uslarımızda 2nd plural usunuzda uslarınızda 3rd plural uslarında uslarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular usumdan uslarımdan 2nd singular usundan uslarından 3rd singular usundan uslarından 1st plural usumuzdan uslarımızdan 2nd plural usunuzdan uslarınızdan 3rd plural uslarından uslarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular usumun uslarımın 2nd singular usunun uslarının 3rd singular usunun uslarının 1st plural usumuzun uslarımızın 2nd plural usunuzun uslarınızın 3rd plural uslarının uslarının

• akıl
• zihin

• uslu
• us dışı
• us pahası
• usa vurmak
• uslamlamak
• usuna getirmek

us

1. fly (insect)

us

1. there
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 19:

     Cils äbinons-li i pö zäl et? Si! elogob us tumis.

     Were there children at that party as well? Yes, I've seen hundreds of them there.

us

1. object of wy