us
/əs/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 6.04 in modern English
2
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
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
pron
Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc.
pron
pron
Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners.
Colloquial
pron
Me.
Colloquial
Example Sentences
- "Don't treat us like idiots."
- "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..."
- "Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us."
- "Who's going to go? — Us. We'll go."
- "It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us."
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
-'s (alternative)
uz (alternative, Northumbria)
is (alternative, Northumbria)
iz (alternative, Northumbria)
U.S. (alternative, US)
U. S. (alternative)
USs (plural)