oss
See also: Appendix:Variations of "oss"
Translingual
Symbol
oss
- (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Ossetian.
English
Noun
oss (plural osses)
- Alternative spelling of 'oss.
Anagrams
- S.O.S., SOS, SOs, SSO, so's, sos
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse oss.
Pronoun
oss
- accusative and dative form of the word vér.
- Þetta kemur oss ekki við.
- This does not affect us.
- Þetta kemur oss ekki við.
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
- bone
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔsː/
Pronoun
oss
- us
- (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
- okke, osse
- åss, øss, os
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
- (personal) us; me and at least one other person; objective case of me and vi
- (reflexive) ourselves
- 1998, Fosse, Jon, Natta syng sine songar, Oslo: Samlaget, page 203:
- vi tok oss god tid
- we took our time
- (literally, “we took ourselves good time”)
-
- (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
- accusative of vér
- 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
- Swedish: oss
- Scanian: váss
- Old Danish: os, us
- Danish: os
- Gutnish: våss
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Sursilvan) ies
- (Surmiran) òss
- (Puter, Vallader) öss
Etymology
From Latin ossum, popular variant of os.
Noun
oss m
- (Rumantsch Grischun) bone
Noun
oss m (plural ossa)
- (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
- us (objective case)
- Såg du oss där?
- Did you see us there?
- Såg du oss där?
- reflexive case of vi; compare ourselves
- Vi skulle vilja lära oss jonglera.
- We would like to learn how to juggle.
- Vi skulle vilja lära oss jonglera.
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
3Colloquial pronunciation spelling.
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
- oss in Svensk ordbok.
Anagrams
- SOS, sos
Võro
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *oksa.
Noun
oss (genitive ossa, partitive ossa)
- branch
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.