English Explanatory Dictionary

our

English dictionary entry

Meanings

det
  1. Belonging to us, excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive our).
  2. Belonging to us, including the person(s) being addressed (inclusive our).
  3. Of, from, or belonging to any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
  4. Belonging to people in general.
  5. Belonging to everyone being addressed.
  6. Belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially of a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given.
  7. Belonging to a third person, especially someone in the speaker's care.
  8. Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
  9. Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.
verb
  1. Misspelling of are.

Pronunciation

/ˈaʊ̯.əː/ [ˈaʊ̯.əː] /ˈɑː.əː/ [ˈɑː.əː] /ˈwɔː/ /ˈwɐ/ /ˈwə/ /ˈæʊ̯.əː/ [ˈæʊ̯.əː] /ˈäːəː/ [ˈäːəː] /ˈɐːəː/ [ˈɐːəː] /ˈaʊ̯.ɚ/ [ˈaʊ̯.ɚ] ~ [ˈaʊ̯.ɹ̩] en-us-our.ogg /ˈɑ.ɚ/ [ˈɑ.ɚ] ~ [ˈɑ.ɹ̩] en-us-our-2.ogg /ˈɛʊ̯.ɚ/ [ˈɛʊ̯.ɚ] ~ [ˈɛʊ̯.ɹ̩] /ˈɛ.ɚ/ [ˈɛ.ɚ] ~ [ˈɛ.ɹ̩] /ˈɐʊ̯.ɚ/ [ˈɐʊ̯.ɚ] ~ [ˈɐʊ̯.ɹ̩] /ˈɐ.ɚ/ [ˈɐ.ɚ] ~ [ˈɐ.ɹ̩] /ˈaː(r)/ [ˈaː(r)] /ˈɐʋə(r)/ [ˈɐʋə(r)] /ˈɐwə(r)/ [ˈɐwə(r)]

Word forms

our wor

Etymology

From Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, ūser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Scots oor (“our”), West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser, unsere (“our”) Danish vor (“our”), Norwegian vår (“our”), and more distantly Latin noster.

Related words

Ime me myselfmemysen mine mymineme we us 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

byrlady dollar of our daddies I'll go to the foot of our stairs our asses our era our kid our lass peace for our time peace in our time year of our Lord

Translations

Aghwan: 𐔱𐔴𐕐𐔼 Albanian: ynë Albanian: jonë Southern Altai: бистиҥ Arabic: ـنَا Arabic: ـنا Armenian: մեր Assamese: আমাৰ Asturian: nuesu Asturian: nuestru Basque: gure Belarusian: наш Bengali: আমাদের Central Bikol: ta Central Bikol: sato Central Bikol: satuya Central Bikol: mi Central Bikol: samo Central Bikol: samuya Brahui: nana Breton: hon Breton: hor Bulgarian: наш Catalan: nostre Chinese Cantonese: 我哋嘅 Chinese Mandarin: 我們的 /我们的 Chukchi: мургин Coptic: ⲡⲉⲛ Coptic: ⲧⲉⲛ Coptic: ⲛⲉⲛ Czech: náš Dalmatian: nuester Danish: vor Dutch: ons Dutch: onze Egyptian: n:Z2 Esperanto: nia Estonian: meie Estonian: me Ewe: míaƒe Faroese: okkara Faroese: vár Finnish: meidän ...mme Finnish: -mme Finnish: meidän French: notre French: nos West-Frisian: ús Friulian: nestri Georgian: ჩვენი German: unser German: öise Greek: μας Ancient Greek: ἡμέτερος Hawaiian: ko māua Hawaiian: kā māua Hawaiian: ko kāua Hawaiian: kā kāua Hawaiian: ko mākou Hawaiian: kā mākou Hawaiian: ko kākou Hawaiian: kā kākou Hebrew: ־נו Hebrew: שֶׁלָּנוּ Hindi: हमारा Hungarian: -nk Hungarian: -unk Hungarian: -ünk
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