oss

See also: OSS, OSs, òss, öss, -ošs, and -ôs

English

Noun

oss (plural osses)

  1. Alternative form of 'oss

Anagrams

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse oss.

Pronoun

oss

  1. accusative and dative form of the word vér.
    Þetta kemur oss ekki við.
    This does not affect us.

Declension
Icelandic honorific pronouns
plural first person second person
nominative vér þér
accusative oss yður
dative oss yður
genitive vor yðar

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔsː/

Pronoun

oss

  1. us
  2. (reflexive; also oss selv) ourselves

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔsː/

Pronoun

oss

  1. objective case of me / objective case of vi
  2. (reflexive) ourselves

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os.

Noun

oss m

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun) bone

Noun

oss m (plural ossa)

  1. (Sutsilvan) bone

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse oss, from Proto-Germanic *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔs/
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Pronoun

oss

  1. us (objective case)
    Såg du oss där?
    Did you see us there?
  2. reflexive case of vi; compare ourselves
    Vi skulle vilja lära oss jonglera.
    We would like to learn how to juggle.

Usage notes

Note that some verbs have special senses when used reflexively. For example, do not confuse vi lär oss att... ("we learn to...") [reflexive] while de lär oss att... ("they teach us to...") and vi lär oss själva att... ("we teach ourselves to..."). Here, lär means teach(es) if it is not reflexive, but learn(s) if it is reflexive. Hence the need for the separate pronoun "oss själva" to be used when object and subject agree, but the verb nevertheless should not be used in the reflexive case.

Declension
Swedish personal pronouns
subject object possessive
singular full full common neuter plural
1st person jag mig, mej3 min mitt mina
2nd person du dig, dej2 din ditt dina
3rd person masculine han honom, han2 hans
3rd person feminine hon henne hennes
3rd person gender-neutral hen1 hen1, henom1 hens1
3rd person common den den dess
3rd person neuter det det dess
3rd person indefinite man or en6 en ens
3rd person reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
plural
1st person vi oss vår, våran2 vårt, vårat2 våra
2nd person ni er, eder5 er, eran2, eder5 ert, erat2, edert5 era, edra5
3rd person de, dom4 dem, dom4 deras
3rd person reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
1Not universally accepted.
2Informal
3Colloquial pronunciation spelling sometimes found in colloquial texts.
4Informal pronunciation spelling found very often in informal writings.
5Dated
6Dialectal, also used lately as a gender-neutral alternative to man.

See also
  • oss själva

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oksa.

Noun

oss (genitive ossa, partitive ossa)

  1. branch

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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