uspronoun
ukstrong /ʌs/weak /əs/usstrong /ʌs/weak /əs/us pronoun (GROUP)
A1 used as the object of a verb or a preposition to refer to a group that includes the speaker and at least one other person:
Thank you for driving us to the station.
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- If you get to the restaurant before us just wait at the bar.
- We really appreciate all the help you gave us last weekend.
- We were asked to show some identification before the security guards would let us in.
- The teacher asked us to form a circle and join hands.
- She thinks she's better than the rest of us.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: personal pronouns
- 'em
- he
- her
- it
- me
- moi
- number one
- one
- personally
- s
- s/he
- she
- thee
- them
- themself
- thou
- you
- yours
- yours truly idiom
- yous
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us pronoun (ME)
UK not standard (especially used in spoken English) me:
Give us a light, mate.
Give us it here and I'll see if I can mend it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: personal pronouns
- 'em
- he
- her
- it
- me
- moi
- number one
- one
- personally
- s
- s/he
- she
- thee
- them
- themself
- thou
- you
- yours
- yours truly idiom
- yous
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usdeterminer
ukstrong /ʌs//əs/us/ʌs//əs/Northern English not standardour:
Where've you parked us car?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Linguistics: possessive forms
- hers
- his
- its
- mine
- my
- our
- ours
- s
- the
- their
- theirs
- thine
- thy
- yer
- your
- yours