our

See also: 'our, and -our

English

Etymology

From Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, ūser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Scots oor (“our”), West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser (“our”), Danish vor (“our”), Norwegian vår (“our”), and more distantly Latin noster.

Pronunciation

(UK)

• enPR: ouə, ä(r), IPA^(key): /ˈaʊə(ɹ)/, /ɑː(ɹ)/, /aː(ɹ)/
• Homophone: hour or Homophone: are
• Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ) or Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

(US)

• (stressed form)
  • enPR: our, IPA^(key): /ˈaʊɚ/
    • Rhymes: -aʊə(ɹ)

  • Audio (US):

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  • Homophone: hour
• (unstressed form)
  • enPR: ar, IPA^(key): /ɑɹ/, [ɑɹ], [ɑ˞]
    • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

  • Homophone: are

(General Australian, New Zealand)

• enPR: ou(ə), IPA^(key): /æʊ(ə)/ or IPA^(key): /ɐː/

(India)

• IPA^(key): /aː(r)/, /ɐʋə(r)/, /ɐwə(r)/

(Canada)

• IPA^(key): /aʊ(ə)ɹ/, /ɑːɹ/
  • (Dialectal) IPA^(key): /ʌʊɹ/, /ɔːɹ/
• Homophone: ow (some dialects) or Homophone: are
• Rhymes: -aʊ or Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Determiner

our

1. Belonging to us.
   • 2008, Mike Knudson, Steve Wilkinson, Raymond and Graham Rule the School:

     Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order.

   • 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:

     As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

2. Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:

     Thirdly, I continue to attempt to interdigitate the taxa in our flora with taxa of the remainder of the world.

3. (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.

   I'm going to see our Terry for tea.

Derived terms

• dollar of our daddies
• I'll go to the foot of our stairs
• our asses
• our era
• our kid
• peace for our time
• peace in our time
• year of our Lord

 

Translations

belonging to us

• Aghwan: 𐔱𐔴𐕐𐔼 (beši)
• Albanian: ynë (sq), jonë (sq)
• American Sign Language: FlatB@IpsiChest-FingerUpPalmAcross RoundHoriz FlatB@ContraChest-FingerUpPalmAside
• Arabic: ـنَا (-nā)

  Egyptian Arabic: ـنا (-nā)

  Moroccan Arabic: ـنا (-na)

• Armenian: մեր (hy) (mer)
• Assamese: আমাৰ (amar)
• Asturian: nuesu (ast), nuestru (ast)
• Basque: gure
• Belarusian: наш (naš)
• Bengali: আমাদের (bn) (amader)
• Bikol Central: sato (bcl), satuya (inclusive); samo (bcl), samuya (bcl) (exclusive)
• Brahui: nana
• Breton: hon (br), hor (br)
• Bulgarian: наш (bg) (naš)
• Catalan: nostre (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 我哋嘅 (yue) (ngo⁵ dei⁶ ge³)

  Mandarin: 我們的／我们的 (zh) (wǒmen de)

• Chukchi: мургин (murgin)
• Coptic: ⲡⲉⲛ m (pen), ⲧⲉⲛ f (ten), ⲛⲉⲛ m pl or f pl (nen)
• Czech: náš (cs) m
• Dalmatian: nuester
• Danish: vor (da)
• Dutch: ons (nl), onze (nl)
• Egyptian: (.n)
• Esperanto: nia (eo)
• Estonian: meie (et), me (et)
• Ewe: míaƒe
• Faroese: okkara, vár
• Finnish: meidän ...mme, -mme (fi), meidän (fi)
• French: notre (fr), nos (fr)
• Friulian: nestri
• Georgian: ჩვენი (čveni)
• German: unser (de), unsere (de) (accusative feminine singular; accusative all plurals)

  Alemannic German: öise

• Greek: μας (el) (mas)

  Ancient: ἡμέτερος (hēméteros) (adjective), ἡμῶν (hēmôn) (genitive case of personal pronoun)

• Hawaiian: (dual, exclusive) ko māua, kā māua, (dual, inclusive) ko kāua, kā kāua, (plural, exclusive) ko mākou, kā mākou, (plural, inclusive) ko kākou, kā kākou
• Hebrew: -נו (-nu), שֶׁלָּנוּ
• Hindi: हमारा (hi) (hamārā)
• Hungarian: -nk, -unk, -ünk
• Icelandic: okkar (is), vor (is)
• Ido: nia (io)
• Interlingua: nostre
• Irish: ár
• Istriot: nostro m, nostra m
• Italian: nostro (it) m, nostra (it) f, nostri (it) m pl, nostre (it) f pl
• Japanese: 私たちの (ja) (わたしたちの, watashitachi no) (also: 我等の), 我らの (われらの, warera no), 我々の (ja) (われわれの, wareware no)
• Kalmyk: мана (mana)
• Kazakh: біздің (bızdıñ)
• Korean: 우리의 (ko) (uri-ui)
• Kyrgyz: биздин (ky) (bizdin)
• Ladino: muestro, nuestro
• Lao: ຂອງພວກເຮົາ (khǭng phūak hao)
• Latgalian: myusu
• Latin: noster (la) m
• Latvian: mūsu
• Livonian: mäd
• Louisiana Creole French: nô
• Macedonian: наш (naš)
• Maltese: tagħna
• Manchu: [script needed] (musei) (inclusive), [script needed] (meni) (exclusive)
• Manx: ar
• Maori: tā māua (singular dominant exclusive referring to two people), tō māua (singular subordinate exclusive referring to two people), tā tāua (singular dominant inclusive referring to two people), tō tāua (singular subordinate inclusive referring to two people), tā mātau/mātou (singular dominant inclusive referring to three or more people), tō mātau/mātou (singular subordinate inclusive referring to three or more people), tā māua (plural dominant exclusive referring to two people), ō māua (plural subordinate exclusive referring to two people), ā mātau/mātou (plural dominant exclusive referring to three or more people), ō mātau/mātau (plural subordinate exclusive referring to three or more people), ā tātau/tātou (plural dominant inclusive referring to three or more people), ō tātau/tātau (plural subordinate inclusive referring to three or more people)
• Mazanderani: امه (ame)
• Mongolian: маань (mn) (maanʹ), манай (mn) (manaj)
• Navajo: nihi-
• Neapolitan: nuosto
• Nepali: हाम्रो (ne) (hāmro)
• Norwegian: vår (no)
• Occitan: nòstre (oc)
• Old Church Slavonic: нашь m (našĭ)
• Old Norse: várr, órr
• Persian: ما (fa) (mâ)
• Pipil: tu-
• Polish: nasz (pl)
• Portuguese: nosso (pt)
• Romani: amaro m, amari f, amare pl
• Romanian: nostru (ro)
• Romansch: noss, nies, nos
• Russian: наш (ru) (naš)
• Sanskrit: अस्माकम् (asmākam)
• Sardinian: nostru, noltru, nostu
• Scots: oor, wir
• Scottish Gaelic: ar
• Serbo-Croatian: наш, naš (sh)
• Sicilian: nostru (scn)
• Sinhalese: අපේ (apē)
• Slovak: náš
• Slovene: nàš (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: naju (in reference to two people), naš (in reference to three or more people)

  Upper Sorbian: naju (in reference to two people), naš (in reference to three or more people)

• Southern Altai: бистиҥ (bistiŋ)
• Spanish: nuestro (es), nuestra (es) f, nuestros (es) m pl, nuestras (es) f pl
• Swahili: -etu
• Swedish: vår (sv)
• Tagalog: atin (tl), amin (tl)
• Telugu: మా (te) (mā), మన (te) (mana)
• Tetum: ami-nia
• Thai: ของเรา (kŏng rao)
• Tigrinya: ናትና (natna)
• Tlingit: haa
• Turkish: bizim (tr)
• Udi: беши (beši), беш (beš)
• Ukrainian: наш (uk) (naš)
• Urdu: ہمارا (hamārā)
• Venetan: nostro (vec) m, nostra f
• Vietnamese: của chúng tôi
• Volapük: obsik (vo), obas
• Walloon: nosse (wa) m or f (singular, before consonant), nost (wa) m (singular, before vowel), no (wa) m or f (singular, Western Walloon)
• Welsh: ein
• West Frisian: ús (fy)
• Zulu: possessive concord + -ithu

See also

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself thysen	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all y'all you guys	you all y'all you guys	y'allselves	y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed)
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself (archaic) hissen	his hisn (obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself hersen	hers hern (obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itself hitself	its his (archaic)	its his (archaic) hits
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their

Verb

our

1. Misspelling of are. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Anagrams

• ROU, UoR, uro-

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ūre.

Pronoun

our

1. Alternative form of oure

Etymology 2

Determiner

our

1. Alternative form of your

Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman houre.

Noun

our

1. Alternative form of houre

Romansch

Alternative forms

• ur (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin ōra.

Noun

our m (plural ours)

1. (Surmiran) edge, margins

Scots

Alternative forms

• oor, wir, wur

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, from Proto-West Germanic *unsar, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz.

Determiner

our

1. our

See also

Scots personal pronouns

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		A, I, Ik	me	mysel	mine, mines	mine, my
	plural		we	us, we	oorsel, oorsels	oors	our
second person	singular	standard (formal)	ye you, yow	ye you, yow	yersel yoursel	yers yours	yer your
		Insular (informal)	thoo	thee	thysel, theesel	thines	thy, thee, thees
	plural		ye, yese you, youse	ye, yese you, youse theer	yesels yoursels	yers yours	yer your
third person	singular	masculine	he, e	him, im	himsel, hissel	his, is	his, is
		feminine	scho, she, shu	her, er	hersel	hers	her, er
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itsel hitsel	its hits	its hits
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	ane	ane	–	–	ane's
	plural		thay	thaim	thaimsel, thaimsels	thairs	thair

References

• “our, possess. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “our, pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 24 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Yola

Determiner

our

1. Alternative form of oor
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 7, page 86:

     Our eein wode b' mistern t' dearnt up ee skee.

     Our eyes would be dazzled to look up to the sky.

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 96:

     To our pleoughès an mulk-pylès till a neeshte holy die.

     To our ploughs and our milk-pails till the next holiday.

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 11-12:

     w'oul daie an ercha daie, our meines an oure gurles, praie var long an happie zins,

     we will daily and every day, our wives and our children, implore long and happy days,

   • 1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX, page 131:

     Wathere proceeds to tell that the game was “was jist ing our hone”

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 86