oss

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oss"

Translingual

Symbol

oss

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Ossetian.

English

Noun

oss (plural osses)

  1. Alternative spelling 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

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to osso, from Latin os.

Noun

oss

  1. bone

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔsː/

Pronoun

oss

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

See also
    Personal pronouns in Bokmål
Number Person Type Nominative Oblique Possessive
feminine masculine neuter plural
Singular First– jeg meg mi min mitt mine
Second– du deg di din ditt dine
Third feminine (person) hun henne hennes
masculine (person) han ham / han hans
feminine (noun) den dens
masculine (noun)
neuter (noun) det dets
reflexive – seg si sin sitt sine
Plural First– vi oss vår vårt våre
Second– dere deres
Third general de dem deres
reflexive – seg si sin sitt sine

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse accusative and dative oss of vér, from Proto-Germanic accusative *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɔsː/

Pronoun

oss

  1. (personal) us; me and at least one other person; objective case of me and vi
  2. (reflexive) ourselves
  3. (dialectal, Gudbrandsdal, Romsdal, Trøndelag, personal) we
    • 1770, Storm, Edvard, “Guten aa Jenta paa Fjøshjellen”, in Den fyrste morgonblånen, Oslo: Novus, published 1990, page 233:
      Dæmæ venda os aat Bygden
      thus we turn towards the village
    • Når va det oss skoillj fårrå te skævven?
      • When we were supposed to go to the forest?

References
  • “oss”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

Old Norse

Pronoun

oss

  1. accusative of vér
  2. dative of vér

Declension
Old Norse personal pronouns
number first person second person reflexive third person
case singular singular masculine singular feminine singular neuter
nominative ek þú hann hon, hón þat
accusative mik þik sik hann, hánn hana, hána þat
dative mér þér sér hánum, hónum henni því
genitive mínn, minn þínn, þinn sínn, sinn hans, háns hennar þess
case dual
nominative vit it, þit
accusative okkr ykkr sik
dative okkr ykkr sér
genitive okkarr ykkarr sínn, sinn
case plural plural masculine plural feminine plural neuter
nominative vér ér, þér þeir þær þau
accusative oss yðr sik þá þær þau
dative oss yðr sér þeim þeim þeim
genitive várr yðarr, yðvarr sínn, sinn þeira, þeirra þeira, þeirra þeira, þeirra


Descendants
  • Icelandic: oss
  • Faroese: os, oss
  • Norn:
    Orkney: vus
    Shetland: wus
  • Norwegian: oss
  • Dalian: wóss, vôss, ôss, våss, uôss, wåss, wôss, huoss
    • Elfdalian: uoss
  • Westrobothnian: oss, ass, åss
  • Old Swedish: oss
  • Scanian: váss
  • Old Danish: os, us
    • Danish: os
  • Gutnish: våss

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] with 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
Number Person Type Nominative Oblique Possessive
common neuter plural
singular first — jag mig, mej3 min mitt mina
second — du dig, dej3 din ditt dina
third masculine (person) han honom, han2, en5 hans
feminine (person) hon henne, na5 hennes
gender-neutral (person)1 hen hen, henom7 hens
common (noun) den den dess
neuter (noun) det det dess
indefinite man or en4 en ens
reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
plural first — vi oss vår, våran2 vårt, vårat2 våra
second — ni er er, eran2, ers6 ert, erat2 era
archaic I eder eder, eders6 edert edra
third — de, dom3 dem, dom3 deras
reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.
2Informal
4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.
5Informal, somewhat dialectal
6Formal address
7Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

See also
  • oss själva

Further reading

Anagrams

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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