different between our vs ourselves

English

Etymology

From Middle English oure, from Old English ?re, ?ser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *n?-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Scots oor (“our”), West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser (“our”), Danish vor (“our”), Norwegian vår (“our”), and more distantly Latin noster.

Pronunciation

(UK)

• enPR: ou?, IPA^(key): /?a??(?)/ or (with triphthong smoothing) IPA^(key): /??(?)/
• Homophone: hour or Homophone: are
• Rhymes: -a??(?) or Rhymes: -??(?)

(US)

• enPR: our, IPA^(key): /?a??/ or enPR: ar, IPA^(key): /??/, [??], [??]
• or
• Homophone: hour or Homophone: are
• Rhymes: -a??(?) or Rhymes: -??(?)

(General Australian)

• enPR: ou(?), IPA^(key): /æ?(?)/ or IPA^(key): /??/
• Homophone: ow (some dialects) or Homophone: are
• Rhymes: -a? or Rhymes: -??(?)

Determiner

our

1. Belonging to us.
   • 2008, Mike Knudson & Steve Wilkinson, Raymond and Graham Rule the School

     Paying no attention to Lizzy, Mrs. Gibson began calling out our names in alphabetical order.
2. Of, from, or belonging to the nation, region, or language of the speaker.
3. (Northern England, Scotland) Used before a person's name to indicate that the person is in one's family, or is a very close friend.

Translations

See also

Verb

our

1. Misspelling of are.

Anagrams

• ROU, UoR, uro-

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ?re.

Pronoun

our

1. Alternative form of oure

Etymology 2

Determiner

our

1. Alternative form of youre

Etymology 3

From Anglo-Norman houre.

Noun

our

1. Alternative form of houre

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Puter, Vallader) ur

Etymology

From Latin ?ra.

Noun

our m (plural ours)

1. (Surmiran) edge, margins

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /a???s?lvz/, /???s?lvz/

Pronoun

ourselves (first personal plural pronoun, reflexive case of we)

1. (reflexive) Us; the group including the speaker as the object of a verb or preposition when that group also is the subject.

   We should keep this for ourselves.

2. (emphatic) We; intensifies the subject as the group including the speaker, especially to indicate that no one else satisfies the predicate.

   We did it ourselves.

Synonyms

• usself (obsolete or dialectal)
• weself (Jamaican)

Coordinate terms

• ourself (for the singular "we")

Translations

See also