What is the difference between us and our?
us | our |
(personal) me and at least one other person; the objective case of we .
(colloquial) me
The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
Belonging to us.
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(Northern England, Scotland) Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.
As determiners the difference between us and our
is that us is the speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person while our is belonging to us.As a pronoun us
is me and at least one other person; the objective case of we.As a symbol us
is an alternative spelling of µs|lang=en.As a noun us
is plural of lang=en.As a proper noun US
is abbreviation of United States|lang=en.As an adjective US
is american; related to the United States.us
English
(wikipedia us)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Pronoun
(English Pronouns)- Give us a look at your paper.
- Give us your wallet!
Quotations
* 1611 — 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 ...See also
* we * our * oursDeterminer
(en determiner)- It's not good enough for us teachers.
See also
* weEtymology 2
Derived from the similarity between the letter u and the Greek letter .Symbol
(head)Statistics
*Etymology 3
.Noun
(head)Usage notes
our
English
(wikipedia our)Determiner
- Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order.
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- Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.
