oss

See also: OSS, OSs, òss, öss, -ošs, and -ôs

English

Noun

oss (plural osses)

Alternative form of 'oss

Anagrams

S.O.S., 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.

Declension

Icelandic honorific pronouns
plural	first person	second person
nominative	vér	þér
accusative	oss	yður
dative	oss	yður
genitive	vor	yðar

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔsː/

Pronoun

oss

us
(reflexive; also oss selv) ourselves

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɔsː/

Pronoun

oss

objective case of me / objective case of vi
(reflexive) ourselves

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?
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] while 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

	subject	object	possessive
singular	full	full	common	neuter	plural
1st person	jag	mig	min	mitt	mina
2nd person	du	dig	din	ditt	dina
3rd person masculine	han	honom	hans
3rd person feminine	hon	henne	hennes
3rd person gender-neutral	hen*	hen/henom	hens*
3rd person common	den	den	dess
3rd person neuter	det	det	dess
3rd person indefinite	man/en	en	ens
3rd person reflexive	—	sig	sin	sitt	sina
plural
1st person	vi	oss	vår	vårt	våra
2nd person	ni	er eder (dated)	er	ert	era
3rd person	de	dem	deras
3rd person reflexive	—	sig	sin	sitt	sina

*Not universally accepted.

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oksa.

Noun

oss (genitive ossa, partitive ossa)

branch

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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