us
/əs/
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Northumbria/ɪz/
us pronoun: me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.). Also the alternative form of u's.
Pronoun
us (personal pronoun; the objective case of we)
- Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.)
- Don't treat us like idiots.
- Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.)
- 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...1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 1:1
- 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
- Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.
- Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go.
- Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
- 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.
- People in general.
- Grief ages us.
- The person(s) being addressed.
- Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's get us up and out of bed, please.
- Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
- 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 ...
- Me.
- Give us a look at your paper.
- Fetch us a cold beer from the fridge, would you.
- Me (in all contexts).
- Look at us while ye’re speakin tiv us.
- Could ye dee that for us?
Determiner
us
- Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case).
- It's not good enough for us teachers.
- Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (subjective case).
- Us gays and lesbians in here got a reason to be bitching about the conditions.1988 February 7, Mike Riegle, quoting John Royal, “Why Does GCN Have A Prisoner Project?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 10
- Our.
- We'll have to throw us food out.
Noun (1)
us
- The relationship between the speaker and some other unspecified person.
- There is no us.
- Us is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: US
IPA/juː.ɛs/
US
- Initialism of the United States: a country in North America.
- ICANN is based in the US.
- legal residents of the contiguous US
Noun (2) capitalized: US
US (plural USs)
- Initialism of unconditioned stimulus.
- Initialism of ultrasonography or ultrasound.
Adjective capitalized: US
US (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of undersize.
- Abbreviation of unserviceable.
- The radio is US.
Proper noun (2) capitalized: US
US
- Initialism of Upper Sorbian.
Noun (3) capitalized: Us
Us
- plural of U
Also used as
us is also the alternative form of u's.
us meaning in Bengali, Telugu, Arabic and Malay
us in Bengali
- objective case of "we"
- আমাদের amader
us in Telugu
- objective case of "we"
- మమ్మల్ని mammalni
us in Arabic
- objective case of "we"
- ـنَا -nā, إِيَّانَا ʔiyyānā
us in Malay
- objective case of "we"
- kami, kita
More languagesFewer languages
- us in Persian
- ما mâ
- us in Myanmar
- ကျုပ်တို့ kyuptui., တို့ tui.
Examples of us in a sentence
- 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!
Forms of us
| Pronoun | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | -'s |
| alternative Northumbria | uz |
| alternative Northumbria | is |
| alternative Northumbria | iz |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative US | U.S. |
| alternative form | U. S. |
| Noun | |
| plural | USs |
Origin of 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”).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Abbreviation of United States.
Words formed from us
- ANZUS
- AUKUS
- US American
- US-ASCII
- US'er
- USian
- US-ian
- USrael
- US-wide
- 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
- usie
- usness
- usself
- us selves
- usses
- ussie
- us versus them
- usward
- with us
Phrases with us
16 more phrasesFewer phrases
- US dollars
- US Americans
- US of America
- continental US
- US survey acre
- US survey feet
- US survey foot
- came down to us
- US survey acres
- comes down to us
- coming down to us
- US Virgin Islands
- US Virgin Islander
- US Virgin Islanders
- til death do us part
- for what we are about to receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful
Words that rhyme with us
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Questions about us
- What does us mean?
- Us means me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.).
- What is us in Bengali?
- Us in Bengali is আমাদের (amader). See Us meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use us in a sentence?
- She's turned the weans against us!
- What part of speech is us?
- Us can be a pronoun, a determiner, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce us?
- Us is pronounced /əs/.
Words near us in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: us (page history and authors); US (page history and authors); Us (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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