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Dictionary: us   (ŭs) pronunciation
 
pron. The objective form of we.
  1. Used as the direct object of a verb: She saw us on the subway.
  2. Used as the indirect object of a verb: They offered us free tickets to the show.
  3. Used as the object of a preposition: This letter is addressed to us.
  4. Informal. Used as a predicate nominative: It's us. See Usage Note at we.
  5. Nonstandard. Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb: We decided to get us another car. See Note at me.

[Middle English, from Old English ūs.]


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IN BRIEF: The objective case of "we"..

pronunciation Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. — Jamake Highwater Source: The Language of Vision

 
Wikipedia: US (disambiguation)
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Us is a pronoun in the English language, the objective form of we.

US (capitalized) is an alternative of the abbreviation U.S., which generally refers to the United States of America, but can also mean Union State of Russian Federation and Belarus.

US, U.S., Us, us or U/S, etc. may also refer to:

In travel:

  • US is the IATA airline designator for US Airways

In music:

In education:

In other uses:

  • Us Weekly, an American celebrity magazine
  • Us (TV movie)
  • us is often used to denote µs (microsecond) when the proper "µ" (micro sign) character or Greek "μ" (Mu) letter are either both missing, or cannot be easily entered
  • .us, Internet TLD of the United States of America
  • United Services Club or US Club, a golf club in Mumbai

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Translations: Us
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Dansk (Danish)
pron. - os, [sl.] mig

abbr. - US; United States of America

Nederlands (Dutch)
(voor/aan) ons(zelf), mij/me, V.S.

Français (French)
pron. - nous, nôtre

abbr. - (abrév = United States) USA

Deutsch (German)
pron. - uns

abbr. - Vereinigte Staaten

Ελληνική (Greek)
pron. - εμάς, μας
abbr. - Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες, ΗΠΑ

Italiano (Italian)
ci, noi

Português (Portuguese)
pron. - nos, nós, conosco
abbr. - EUA

Русский (Russian)
нам, нас, нами, СШ(А), относящийся к США

Español (Spanish)
pron. - nos, nosotros, nosotras

abbr. - Estados Unidos, abrev. de United States

Svenska (Swedish)
pron. - oss, vi
abbr. - United States, Förenta Staterna

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
美国

我们

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
abbr. - 美國

pron. - 我們

한국어 (Korean)
pron. - 우리들, 짐을(에게), 사람들에게

abbr. - United States, United Service

日本語 (Japanese)
pron. - われわれを, 私たちに, 私たち, 私たちが

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ضمير) نحن (اختصار) الولايات المتحدة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
pron. - ‮אותנו, לנו‬
abbr. - ‮ארה"ב, (קיצור) עוזר מזכיר, לא ראוי לשימוש‬


 
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