us

See also: Appendix:Variations of "us"

English

Etymology 1

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-, *n-sme- (“us”). Cognate with West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).

Pronunciation
  • (stressed) enPR: ŭs, IPA(key): /ʌs/
  • (unstressed) (US) IPA(key): /əs/, (UK) IPA(key): /əs/, /əz/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌs

Pronoun

us

  1. (personal) Me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.
    • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, 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...
  2. (colloquial) Me.
    Give us a look at your paper.
    Give us your wallet!
  3. (Northern England) Our.
    We'll have to throw us food out.
Alternative forms
Translations
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Determiner

us

  1. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
    It's not good enough for us teachers.
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Etymology 2

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

Symbol

us

  1. Alternative spelling of µs: microsecond
    • 2002, Peter Spasov, Microcontroller Technology, the 68HC11, p. 489:
      ;wait 500 us
    • 2012, Peter Feiler and 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, ‎and Michael Webster, Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right, p. 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.

Noun

us

  1. plural of u
Usage notes
  • There is some difference of opinion regarding the use of apostrophes in the pluralization of references to letters as symbols. New Fowler's Modern English Usage, after noting that the usage has changed, states on page 602 that "after letters an apostrophe is obligatory." The 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style states in paragraph 7.16, "To avoid confusion, lowercase letters ... form the plural with an apostrophe and an s". The Oxford Style Manual on page 116 advocates the use of common sense.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan us, from Latin ūsus.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

us (proclitic and contracted enclitic, enclitic vos)

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

Declension
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
1st person majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
2nd person formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person feminine elles les -les els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive en, n’ -ne, ’n
locative hi -hi
1) Behaves grammatically as plural.
2) Behaves grammatically as third person.		 3) Only as object of a preposition.
4) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

French

Etymology

From Old French us, from Latin ūsus.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ys/
  • Rhymes: -ys

Noun

us m pl (plural only)

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

Usage notes

Only used in Modern French as us et coutumes (“mores and customs”). Also see the etymologically related usage.

Further reading

Anagrams

Gothic

Romanization

us

  1. Romanization of 𐌿𐍃

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronoun

us (nominative we)

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

Synonyms

Descendants
  • English: us

References

Middle Low German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʊs/, /uːs/

Pronoun

ûs or us

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

Declension

Possesive pronoun:

Declension of us
nominative accusative dative genitive
Strong declension
Masculine ûsûsenûsem(e) (ûsennote)ûses
Neuter ûs
Feminine ûseûser(e)
Plural ûseûsenûser(e)
Weak declension
Masculine ûseûsenûsen
Neuter ûse
Feminine ûsen
Plural ûsen
The longer forms become rarer in the course of the period.

Norman

Etymology

From Old French uis, from Latin ostium.

Noun

us m (plural us)

  1. door

Old English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /uːs/

Pronoun

ūs (personal pronoun)

  1. us: accusative or dative plural form of iċ

Old French

Etymology

From Latin ūsus.

Noun

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

  1. tradition or custom

Descendants
  • French: us

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *uns, *unsiz.

Pronoun

ūs

  1. accusative and dative of wī

Inflection
Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd m 3rd f 3rd n 1st 2nd 3rd
nominative ik thū hī hiū, hiō hit wī jī hiā
accusative mī thī hine hiā hit ūs jū, jō hiā
dative mī thī him hire, hiāre him ūs jū, jō him, hirem, hiārem
genitive mīn thīn sīn hire, hiāre sīn ūser jūwer hira, hiāra

Descendants
  • West Frisian: ús

Turkish

Noun

us (definite accusative usa, plural uslar)

  1. Synonym of akıl

Derived terms
  • usa vurma metodu

Tz'utujil

Noun

us

  1. fly (insect)

Volapük

Adverb

us

  1. there

West Frisian

Pronoun

us

  1. object of wy
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