onse
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch onze (“our”), but probably later reinterpreted as ons se, to which attests the pronoun form ons s’n (“ours”), as well as dialectal Afrikaans julle se (“your”) and hulle se (“their”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɔnsə/
Determiner
onse
- (dialectal, otherwise archaic) Alternative form of ons: first-person plural possessive determiner.
See also
Afrikaans personal pronouns
| subjective | objective | possessive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | 1st | ek | my | |||
| 2nd | jy | jou | ||||
| 2nd, formal | u | |||||
| 3rd, masc | hy | hom | sy | |||
| 3rd, fem | sy | haar | ||||
| 3rd, neut | dit | sy | ||||
| plural | 1st | ons | ||||
| 2nd | julle | julle / jul1 | ||||
| 3rd | hulle | hulle / hul1 | ||||
| 1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous. | ||||||
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch unsa, from Proto-Germanic *unseraz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈonzə/
Determiner
onse
- our
- 1249, Schepenbrief van Bochoute, Velzeke, eastern Flanders:
- Descepenen van bochouta quedden alle degene die dese lettren sien selen i(n) onsen here.
- The aldermen of Bochoute address all who will see this letter by our lord.
- Descepenen van bochouta quedden alle degene die dese lettren sien selen i(n) onsen here.
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Descendants
Tagalog
Etymology
Numeral
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