Us
/ʌs/noun
The objective form of the first-person plural pronoun, referring to the speaker and one or more others.
Did you know?“Us” is the object form of an ancient Indo-European pronoun root that also survives in words like “we,” “our,” and “ours,” showing how deeply identity was built into language itself.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*me-
“First-person pronoun stem used for the speaker and the speaker’s group”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*uns
“Object form of the first-person plural pronoun”
Old English
OE
ūs
“Us; to us”
Middle English
ME
us
“Us; to us”
Modern English
English
us
“The objective form of the first-person plural pronoun”