We

From Fresh Dictionary

1 English
2 Dutch
3 Old English
4 Polish
- 4.1 Preposition
- 4.2 Alternative spellings

English

Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg.
so	me	an	#42: we	who	said	would

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Etymology

Old English wÄ < Proto-Germanic *wiz < Proto-Indo-European *wei-.

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Pronunciation

wÄ, /wiË/, /wi:/
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Homophones: wee
Rhymes: -iË

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Personal pronoun

we (first person plural, nominative case) (Objective case: us; reflexive: ourselves; possessive: our; possessive noun: ours)

The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
The speaker/writer alone. (The use of we in the singular is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royaltyâthe royal weâas a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.)

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Translations

Albanian: ne
Arabic: ÙÙØÙÙÙ (nÃ¡Ä§nu)

Egyptian: Ø¥ØÙØ§ (âÃÄ§na)

Bislama:

inclusive: yumi, yumitupela (dual); yumitripela (trial); yumipela (plural);

exclusive: mitupela (dual); mitripela (trial); mipela (plural)

Breton: ni
Bulgarian: Ð½Ð¸Ðµ (nie)
Catalan: nosaltres
Chinese: æå/æä»¬ (wÇ men, formal); å±å/å±ä»¬ (zÃ¡n men, informal)
Cree: kiyanaw
Croatian: mi
Czech: my
Danish: vi
Dutch: wij, we
Dyirbal: ÅaliÉi (dual), ÅanaÉi (plural)
Esperanto: ni
Estonian: meie, me
Fijian:

inclusive: kedaru (dual), kedatou (paucal), keda (plural)

exclusive: keirau (dual), keitou (paucal), keimami (plural)

Finnish: me
French: nous (1,2)
Georgian: á©ááá (Ã§ven)
German: wir
Greek (Ancient): á¼¡Î¼Îµá¿Ï (hÄmeÃs)
Hausa: mÃºu (independent form), mÃºn (perfective 1), mÃºkÃ (perfective 2), bÃ mÃ¹...bÃ¡ (neg. perfective), zÃ¡amÃ¹ (future), mÃ¢a (predictive), mÃºkÃ n (habitual), mÃ¹ (subjunctive), mÃºnÃ a (continuous 1), mÃºkÃ¨(e) (continuous 2), bÃ¡amÃ a (neg. continuous)
Hawaiian:

inclusive: kÄua (dual), kÄkou (plural)

exclusive: mÄua (dual), mÄkou (plural)

Hebrew: ×× ×× × (anÃ¡khnu), ×× × (Ã¡nu)
Hindi: à¤¹à¤® (ham)
Hungarian: mi
Icelandic: viÃ°
Ido: ni
Indonesian: kita (inclusive), kami (exclusive)
Irish: muid conjunctive, sinn disjunctive; emphatic muidne, sinne
Italian: noi, noialtri

Japanese: ç§ãã¡ (ããããã¡, watashi-tachÃ), æã / æç (ããã, warÃ©ra), æã / ææ (ãããã, wareware)
Korean: ì°ë¦¬ (uri)
Kurdish: em, me
Latin: nos
Latvian: mÄs
Lithuanian: mes
Manchu: (muse inclusive), (be exclusive)
Manx: mayd, shin, emphatic shinyn
Navajo: nihÃ dual, danihÃ pl.
Northern Sami: moai dual, mii pl.
Norwegian: vi
Novial: nus (1,2)
Ojibwe: giinawind (inclusive), niinawind (exclusive)
Old English: wit (âwe twoâ), wÄ (three or more)
Persian: ÙØ§ (mÄ)
Polish: my
Portuguese: nÃ³s
Quechua: Ã±uqanchik (inclusive), Ã±uqayku (exclusive)
Romanian: noi
Russian: Ð¼Ñ (my)
Scottish Gaelic: sinn nonemphatic, sinne emphatic
Sicilian: nuautri
Slovak: my
Slovene: me f., mi m or both
Spanish: nosotros m., nosotras f.
Swahili: sisi
Swedish: vi
Tagalog:

inclusive: natin (ng form), atin (sa form), tayo (unmarked form);

exclusive: namin (ng form), amin (sa form), kami (unmarked form)

Telugu: à°®à±à°®à± , à°®à°¨à°®à±
Thai: à¹à¸£à¸² (rao)
Tok Pisin: yumi (inclusive), yumipela (inclusive), mipela (exclusive)
Turkish: biz
Urdu: ÙÙÙ (ham)
Yiddish: ×××¨ (mir)

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

IPA: /wÉ/
SAMPA: /w@/

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Personal pronoun

See also ons.

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Synonyms

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Old English

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Etymology

From Germanic *wiz < Proto-Indo-European *wes-, *wei-. Cognate with Old Frisian wi, Old Saxon wÄ« (Dutch wij), Old High German wir (German wir), Old Norse vÃ©r (Swedish vi), Gothic ðð´ð¹ð.

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