oss

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oss"

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

• S.O.S., SOS, SOs, SSO, so's, sos

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

From Latin ossum, popular variant of os, ossis, from Proto-Italic *ōs, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ (“bone”), *h₂óst.

Pronunciation

• (Milanese) IPA^(key): /ˈɔs/

Noun

oss

1. bone

References

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 90: “le ossa; un osso” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• Arrighi, Cletto (1896) Dizionario milanese-italiano, col repertorio italiano-milanese: […] ‎ (in Italian), Milan: Hoepli, page 489

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔsː/

Pronoun

oss

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

See also

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	general	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
		formal (rare)	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
		masculine (person)	han	ham / han	hans
		feminine (noun)	den		dens
		masculine (noun)
		neuter (noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
Plural	First	–	vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	general	dere		deres
		formal (very rare)	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	general	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• okke, osse
• åss, øss, os

Etymology

From Old Norse accusative and dative oss of vér, from Proto-Germanic accusative *uns, from Proto-Indo-European *n̥smé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔsː/

Pronoun

oss

1. (personal) us; me and at least one other person; objective case of me and vi
2. (reflexive pronoun) ourselves
   • 1998, Jon Fosse, Natta syng sine songar, Oslo: Samlaget, page 203:

     vi tok oss god tid

     we took our time

     (literally, “we took ourselves good time”)

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

number	first person	second person	reflexive	third person
case	singular			singular masculine	singular feminine	singular neuter
nominative	ek	þú		hann	hon, hón, hǫ́n	þat
accusative	mik	þik	sik	hann	hana, hána	þat
dative	mér	þér	sér	hánum, hónum, hǫ́num	henni	því
genitive	mín	þín	sín	hans	hennar	þess
case	dual
nominative	vit	it, þit
accusative	okkr	ykkr	sik
dative	okkr	ykkr	sér
genitive	okkar	ykkar	sín
case	plural			plural masculine	plural feminine	plural neuter
nominative	vér	ér, þér		þeir	þær	þau
accusative	oss	yðr	sik	þá	þær	þau
dative	oss	yðr	sér	þeim	þeim	þeim
genitive	vár	yðar, yðvar	sín	þeira, þeirra	þeira, þeirra	þeira, þeirra

Old Norse personal pronouns

Descendants

• Icelandic: oss
• Faroese: os, oss
• Norn:

  Orkney: vus

  Shetland: wus

• Norwegian: oss
• Dalian: wóss, vôss, ôss, våss, uôss, wåss, wôss, huoss
  • Elfdalian: uoss
• Old Swedish: oss
  • Swedish: oss
• Scanian: váss
• Old Danish: os, us
  • Danish: os
• Gutnish: våss

Romansch

Alternative forms

• ies (Sursilvan)
• òss (Surmiran)
• öss (Puter, Vallader)

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

• oß (obsolete typography)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔs/

• Audio:

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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 [object] and that is you [subject]. There are only two of us, and that is us [we – subject]. [Swedish has some of the same subject/object fuzziness as English, but a standalone "Det är <pronoun>" idiomatically (through intuition rather than being taught) uses the subject form]

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...") [reflexive] 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

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
singular	first	—	jag	mig, mej3	min	mitt	mina
	second	—	du	dig, dej3	din	ditt	dina
	third	masculine (person)	han	honom, han2, en5	hans
		feminine (person)	hon	henne, na5	hennes
		gender-neutral (person)1	hen	hen, henom7	hens
		common (noun)	den	den	dess
		neuter (noun)	det	det	dess
		indefinite	man or en4	en	ens
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina
plural	first	—	vi	oss	vår, våran2	vårt, vårat2	våra
	second	—	ni	er	er, eran2, ers6	ert, erat2	era
		archaic	I	eder	eder, eders6	edert	edra
	third	—	de, dom3	dem, dom3	deras
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina

Swedish personal pronouns

¹Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, though it remains limited.

²Informal

³Colloquial pronunciation spelling.

⁴Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.

⁵Informal, somewhat dialectal

⁶Formal address

⁷Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

See also

• oss själva

References

• vi in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vi in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vi in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• SOS, sos

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oksa.

Noun

oss (genitive ossa, partitive ossa)

1. branch

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.