Us in Different Languages
Discover 'Us' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
Us
Afrikaans ons | ||
Albanian ne | ||
Amharic እኛ | ||
Arabic نحن | ||
Armenian մեզ | ||
Assamese আমাক | ||
Aymara jiwasaru | ||
Azerbaijani biz | ||
Bambara an | ||
Basque gu | ||
Belarusian нас | ||
Bengali আমাদের | ||
Bhojpuri हमनीं के | ||
Bosnian nas | ||
Bulgarian нас | ||
Catalan nosaltres | ||
Cebuano kami | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 我们 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 我們 | ||
Corsican noi | ||
Croatian nas | ||
Czech nás | ||
Danish os | ||
Dhivehi އަހަރެމެން | ||
Dogri अस | ||
Dutch ons | ||
English us | ||
Esperanto ni | ||
Estonian meile | ||
Ewe mí | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) sa amin | ||
Finnish meille | ||
French nous | ||
Frisian ús | ||
Galician nós | ||
Georgian ჩვენ | ||
German uns | ||
Greek μας | ||
Guarani ore | ||
Gujarati અમને | ||
Haitian Creole nou | ||
Hausa mu | ||
Hawaiian ʻo mākou | ||
Hebrew לָנוּ | ||
Hindi अमेरिका | ||
Hmong peb | ||
Hungarian minket | ||
Icelandic okkur | ||
Igbo anyị | ||
Ilocano sitayo | ||
Indonesian kami | ||
Irish linn | ||
Italian noi | ||
Japanese 我ら | ||
Javanese kita | ||
Kannada ನಮಗೆ | ||
Kazakh біз | ||
Khmer ពួកយើង | ||
Kinyarwanda twe | ||
Konkani आमकां | ||
Korean 우리 | ||
Krio wi | ||
Kurdish me | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئێمە | ||
Kyrgyz биз | ||
Lao ພວກເຮົາ | ||
Latin nobis | ||
Latvian mums | ||
Lingala biso | ||
Lithuanian mus | ||
Luganda ffe | ||
Luxembourgish eis | ||
Macedonian нас | ||
Maithili हम सब | ||
Malagasy antsika | ||
Malay kita | ||
Malayalam ഞങ്ങളെ | ||
Maltese magħna | ||
Maori matou | ||
Marathi आम्हाला | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯑꯩꯈꯣꯏ | ||
Mizo keini | ||
Mongolian бид | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) ငါတို့ | ||
Nepali हामीलाई | ||
Norwegian oss | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ife | ||
Odia (Oriya) ଆମ | ||
Oromo nuyi | ||
Pashto موږ | ||
Persian ما | ||
Polish nas | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) nos | ||
Punjabi ਸਾਨੂੰ | ||
Quechua ñuqayku | ||
Romanian ne | ||
Russian нас | ||
Samoan tatou | ||
Sanskrit वयम् | ||
Scots Gaelic dhuinn | ||
Sepedi rena | ||
Serbian нас | ||
Sesotho rona | ||
Shona isu | ||
Sindhi اسان کي | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) අපට | ||
Slovak nás | ||
Slovenian nas | ||
Somali anaga | ||
Spanish nos | ||
Sundanese urang | ||
Swahili sisi | ||
Swedish oss | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) tayo | ||
Tajik мо | ||
Tamil எங்களுக்கு | ||
Tatar без | ||
Telugu మాకు | ||
Thai เรา | ||
Tigrinya ንሕና | ||
Tsonga hina | ||
Turkish bize | ||
Turkmen biz | ||
Twi (Akan) yɛn | ||
Ukrainian нас | ||
Urdu ہمیں | ||
Uyghur us | ||
Uzbek biz | ||
Vietnamese chúng ta | ||
Welsh ni | ||
Xhosa thina | ||
Yiddish אונדז | ||
Yoruba àwa | ||
Zulu thina |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | The Afrikaans word "ons" is derived from the Dutch "ons", which is a reflexive pronoun meaning "ourselves" but evolved into the first person plural pronoun "we" in Dutch and Afrikaans. |
| Albanian | In Albanian, the word "ne" can be used as both the accusative and dative form of the first-person plural pronoun, with accusative meaning "us" and dative meaning "to us". |
| Amharic | The word "እኛ" can also mean "we" in Amharic. |
| Arabic | The Arabic word "نحن" (us) is the plural form of the first-person singular pronoun "أنا" (I) and can also mean "our". |
| Armenian | The Armenian word "մեզ" ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root *mes-, meaning "I" or "me". |
| Azerbaijani | In Azerbaijani, the word "biz" means "us" and is also the root of the word "bizim" which means "our. |
| Basque | The Basque word |
| Belarusian | The word "нас" can also refer to the concept of "ours" in Belarusian, as in "нас дом" ("our house"). |
| Bengali | "আমাদের" is also the plural of "আমার" ("my") in Bangla |
| Bosnian | The word 'nas' ('us') in Bosnian can also refer to 'nose'. |
| Bulgarian | Bulgarian 'нас' is a contraction of the Old Church Slavonic word 'нaсъ', derived from Proto-Indo-European '*nos', meaning 'we'. |
| Catalan | It is a contraction of "nos" (we) and "altres" (others), thus being an inclusive form of "we". |
| Cebuano | "Kami" can also refer to the first person plural pronoun "we" in Tagalog. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | The word "我们" can also mean "our" or "we". |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 「我們」的同音字「吾們」，在古書中指「我」的複數，後來則轉變為「你我」的集合，相當於「我們」的用法。 |
| Corsican | In Corsican, the word "noi" derives from the Latin "nos" and can also mean "we" in Italian, a language that strongly influenced Corsican. |
| Croatian | "Nas" can also mean "nose" in Croatian. |
| Czech | The word "nás" has multiple origins and also means "violence", "coercion" |
| Danish | In Danish, "os" is used both as a personal pronoun (meaning "us") and to mean "bones" or "antler". |
| Dutch | In Dutch, the word "ons" can also refer to the pronoun "we" when it is used as the subject of a sentence. |
| Esperanto | Ni derives from the French word "nous", meaning "we". It shares the same root with the English word "us". Ni has also been interpreted as an acronym for "nova internacia", meaning "new international". |
| Estonian | The word "meile" in Estonian does not have any other meanings or etymological origins. |
| Finnish | The word "meille" is the illative singular third-person form of the Finnish personal pronoun "me" (meaning "we") and means "to us". |
| French | The word "nous" also means "mind" in philosophy as it is derived from the Ancient Greek word "νόος". |
| Frisian | "ús" also refers to the first person plural in the Frisian language. |
| Galician | Galician 'nós' derives from Latin 'nōs' ('we'), while Portuguese 'nós' comes from Latin 'nōdu(m)' ('knot') and Spanish 'nosotros' from Latin 'nōs' ('we') merged with 'met ipsu(m)' ('with myself'). |
| Georgian | The word ჩვენ ("us") is also used in Georgian to refer to "you (plural)" |
| German | In German, "uns" can also be a dative pronoun meaning "to us" or an archaic nominative pronoun meaning "we." |
| Greek | The word "μας" can also be used as a plural form of the second-person pronoun "εσύ" (you), similar to the use of "y'all" in some English dialects. |
| Gujarati | The Gujarati word "અમને" (pronounced "ah-muh-nay") is derived from the Sanskrit word "asmākam," which also means "us."} |
| Haitian Creole | The word "nou" in Haitian Creole can also mean "we" in the inclusive sense, referring to the speaker and their audience. |
| Hausa | Hausa 'mu' also refers to a part or the whole of a group, as well as the totality of all living things. |
| Hawaiian | 'ʻO mākou' is the exclusive form of 'kākou', meaning 'we' and only including the speaker and those they consider to be most closely connected to them, like immediate family members. |
| Hebrew | The Biblical Hebrew word "לָנוּ" can also mean "for us." |
| Hindi | The word "अमेरिका" can also refer to the United States of America or the Americas (North and South America). |
| Hmong | The Hmong word 'peb' can also refer to "our" and "we". |
| Hungarian | The word "minket" is used as a personal pronoun in the accusative case in Hungarian, but it can also refer to a type of fur. |
| Icelandic | The word "okkur" in Icelandic is related to the Latin word "occurro" meaning "to meet". |
| Igbo | Igbo term "anyị" is etymologically linked to "anya," meaning "eye," emphasizing shared vision and collective perspective. |
| Indonesian | "Kami" can also refer to a group of people or a company. |
| Irish | Linn derives from the Irish Gaelic word linn, "a pool or pond," likely due to the frequent occurrence of such geological features near linen sites. |
| Italian | Derived from the Latin word "nos", "noi" can also mean "we" in Italian, as opposed to "noi due" (the two of us). |
| Japanese | "我ら" is an old-fashioned, honorific version of "we" and is still used to refer to oneself in certain contexts, such as when speaking to a superior. |
| Javanese | The Javanese word "kita" not only means "us" but also has ceremonial and formal connotations, and can be used to refer to third parties. |
| Kannada | The word "ನಮಗೆ" ("us") in Kannada, besides its typical meaning, can also mean "to us" or "for us" in certain contexts. |
| Kazakh | The word "біз" in Kazakh can also refer to a group of people who share a common interest or goal. |
| Khmer | The Khmer word "ពួកយើង" ("us") is derived from the Sanskrit word "avaśyam", meaning "necessary" or "essential". |
| Korean | "우리" can also mean "we" or "our" in Korean. |
| Kurdish | The Kurdish word "me" can also mean "us", depending on the context. |
| Kyrgyz | `Биз` originates from the Turkic root `bi-` (`we, us`) and can also mean `this` or `such` when used as an adjective. |
| Latin | Nobis means 'belonging to' or 'towards us' and is related to the French word 'nous' |
| Latvian | In Latvian, "mums" means both "us" and "mothers". |
| Lithuanian | Lithuanian has several words similar to the word |
| Macedonian | Macedonian word "нас" is homophonous with Macedonian word "на" (on) meaning that it sounds the same but is spelled differently with a different meaning. |
| Malagasy | "Antsika" is the plural form of "isika", which can also mean "name" or "character". |
| Malay | The word "kita" in Malay can also mean "we" or "our group", and is a common pronoun used to refer to oneself and a group of people. |
| Malayalam | The word "ഞങ്ങളെ" also derives from the Proto-Dravidian root "*yaŋ-/ñā-/ñγ-" meaning "we, us, our". |
| Maltese | Magħna derives from an Arabic root meaning "to be with" and can also mean "together with" in Maltese. |
| Maori | This word is likely derived from the Proto-Oceanic term *matou, which also means "us" in many other Polynesian languages. |
| Marathi | In Marathi, "आम्हाला"'s alternate meaning includes "me", "you" and "oneself" based on context. |
| Mongolian | `Бид` (us) in Mongolian appears as `би` in the word `бидний` (we), and also signifies duality in `би гэрбээт` (husband and wife). |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In Burmese, "nga do" means both "us (exclusive)" and "we (inclusive)", unlike in English where "us" is inclusive and "we" is exclusive. |
| Nepali | The word "हामीलाई" can also be used to mean "our" or "us (inclusive)" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | The word "oss" can also mean a type of small fish. |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | In many areas of Zambia, 'ife' can be used to mean 'you' as well as 'us'. |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "موږ" (mōẓ) also denotes the singular "I" and the plural "we". |
| Persian | The Persian word "ما" ("us") also means "moon" and "mother". |
| Polish | The Polish word "nas" comes from the Proto-Slavic "nьsь", which meant "belonging to us". It also appears in Russian as "наш", in Ukrainian as "наш" (naš) and Belarussian as "наш" (naš). |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Nós" in Portuguese can refer to "us" but it can also mean "knots", "news" or "nausea" in the plural form. |
| Punjabi | The word "ਸਾਨੂੰ" also means "to us" in Punjabi, and is derived from the Sanskrit word "स्नु" (snu), meaning "to give". |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "ne" can also mean "to" or "for". |
| Russian | The word "нас" can also be used as a polite form of address to a single person, similar to "you" in English. |
| Samoan | 'Tatou' can also mean 'inclusive' or 'all-encompassing' in Samoan. |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word for 'us', 'dhuinn', is derived from the Old Irish 'd(u)uin' which also meant 'to us'. |
| Serbian | The word can also be used instead of a second-person singular pronoun (like “thou”) when talking to a child or to an animal |
| Sesotho | The word "rona" in Sesotho can also refer to a type of bird and a traditional dance. |
| Shona | The Shona word "isu" derives from the Proto-Bantu word "*isu" meaning "we" or "our". |
| Sindhi | The word "اسان کي" can also be used to indicate a sense of familiarity or intimacy between speakers, as in the English phrase "we folks". |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala, "අපට" can also mean "to" or "for". |
| Slovak | Originally the word "nás" did not mean "us" but rather "our". |
| Slovenian | The word "nas" can also mean "nose", "stalk", or "beam" in Slovenian. |
| Somali | In the 19th and early 20th centuries, anaga was sometimes written in orthographies based on Arabic script as anagaa. |
| Spanish | The 'os' ending in 'nos' is the same as in 'vosotros' (you all), representing the plural of 'you' instead of 'we'. |
| Sundanese | The Sundanese word "urang" can also refer to a person or an animal, similar to the Japanese "watakushi" and "anata. |
| Swahili | The word ''sisi'' in Swahili can also mean ''we'', ''our'', or ''ourselves''. |
| Swedish | The word "oss" in Swedish is related to the Latin word "nos", meaning "us", and also has the alternate meaning of "bone". |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | In archaic Tagalog, "tayo" also means "I", but it was used by people of high social rank and royalty. |
| Tajik | The word "мо" (us) can also refer to the plural form of "я" (I) or "ты" (you) in the nominative case. |
| Telugu | "మకు" is a colloquial form of "మాకు" (us) and can also be used in the sense "ours". In Old Tamil it meant "me". It can be used to indicate "we" as well if the subject of the sentence is a group or a community. |
| Thai | The Thai word |
| Turkish | The word "bize" in Turkish may derive from the Persian word "biz" meaning "we", or from the Turkish word "biz" meaning "this". |
| Ukrainian | The word "нас" in Ukrainian can also mean "we" in Russian, making it a useful term for communicating across borders. |
| Urdu | The word "ہمیں" can also be used as a respectful form of address, similar to "you" in English. |
| Uzbek | "Biz" is a homonym in Uzbek, meaning both "we" as a first-person plural pronoun and "knife" as a noun. |
| Vietnamese | "Chúng ta" is related to the Chinese pronoun "咱(men)" and also the 2nd person plural pronoun "you (all)" in some other Sino-Tibetan languages like Thai. |
| Welsh | Welsh "ni" is also used as a possessive pronoun "our" as in "ein ni, ein gwlad, ein hiaith." (our nation, our country, our language). |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word "thina" also signifies "a collection of people" or "the people of a place". |
| Yiddish | In Yiddish, "אונדז" can also refer to a group of people, including the speaker, or to a general sense of community. |
| Yoruba | "Àwa" means "us" in Yoruba, but it also refers to an extended family or group of people connected by kinship. |
| Zulu | The word 'thina' ('us' in English) is a Zulu possessive pronoun that can also refer to the speaker and their group. |
| English | In linguistics, "us" can refer to the first person plural nominative and accusative case of personal pronouns, or the voiced alveolar sibilant consonant /z/. |