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English
Alternative forms
Etymology 1
one + -'s.
Pronunciation
Determiner
one's
- Belonging to one.
Usage notes
- Unlike most other possessive determiners (my, your etc., except for his and its), one’s has a word-final s, but unlike possessive pronouns (yours, hers, theirs), it is spelled with an apostrophe.
Translations
belonging to one
- Belarusian: свой m (svoj)
- Bulgarian: свой m (svoj)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自己的 (zh) (zìjǐ de)
- Czech: svůj (cs) m
- Dutch: zijn (nl)
- Esperanto: onia (eo)
- Finnish: -nsa (fi), -nsä (fi), -an (fi), -än (fi)
- French: son (fr) m, sa (fr) f, ses (fr) pl
- Georgian: ვისიმე (visime), ვისამე (visame), ვინმესი (vinmesi)
- German: sein (de) m, seine (de) f
- Hindi: अपना (hi) (apnā)
- Hungarian: -a (hu), -e (hu), -ja, -je
- Japanese: 自分の (ja) (じぶんの, jibun no)
- Korean: 자신의 (ko) (jasin-ui)
- Macedonian: свој m (svoj)
- Malayalam: ഒരാളുടെ (orāḷuṭe)
- Polish: swój (pl) m
- Portuguese: seu (pt), de alguém
- Romanian: său (ro) m, sa f, săi m pl, sale (ro) f pl
- Russian: свой (ru) m (svoj), своя́ (ru) f (svojá), своё (ru) n (svojó), свои́ (ru) pl (svoí)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: свој m
- Roman: svoj (sh) m
- Slovak: svoj m
- Slovene: svój
- Spanish: su (es) m, suyo (es) m, suya (es) f, sus (es) m pl, suyos (es) m pl, suyas (es) f pl
- Swedish: sin (sv) c, sitt (sv) n, sina (sv) pl, ens (sv)
- Tamil: தன் (ta) (taṉ)
- Ukrainian: свій (uk) m (svij), своя́ f (svojá), своє́ n (svojé), свої́ pl (svojí)
- Urdu: اپنا (ur) (apnā)
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Etymology 2
Contraction of one is.
Pronunciation
Contraction
one's
- Contraction of one is.
This one's for you.
Anagrams
- ENSO, Enos, NEOs, Neso, SONE, Sone, eons, neos, noes, nose, sone