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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

Pronoun

oss

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

See also

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

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
    Når va det oss skoillj fårrå te skævven?
    When we were supposed to go to the forest?
    • 1770, Edvard Storm, “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

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


Descendants

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

Alternative forms

  • (obsolete typography)

Etymology

From Old Norse oss, from Proto-Germanic *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔs/
  • (file)

Pronoun

oss

  1. us (objective case)
    Såg du oss där?
    Did you see us there?
    • 1981, X Models (lyrics and music), “Två av oss [Two of us]”:
      Det finns bara en av mig och det är jag. Det finns bara en av dig och det är du. Det finns bara två av oss, och det är vi.
      There is only one of me and that is I. There is only one of you and that is you . There are only two of us, and that is us .
  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...") 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

See also

References

Anagrams

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oksa.

Noun

oss (genitive ossa, partitive ossa)

  1. branch

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.