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Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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us

/əs/ pronoun, determiner, noun

Forms USs -'s uz is iz U.S. U. S.

  1. pronoun Me and at least one other person, excluding the person(s) being addressed. (exclusive us.) “Don't treat us like idiots.”
  2. pronoun Me and at least one other person, including the person(s) being addressed. (inclusive us.) “Let's ask him if he'll give us a lift.”
  3. pronoun We, used in the same circumstances where “me” would be used instead of “I”, e.g. for the pronoun in isolation or as the complement of the copula: “Who's there? — Us. (or) — It's us.”
  4. pronoun Any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc. “It's not true that the rest of Europe hates us.”
  5. pronoun People in general. “Grief ages us.”
  6. pronoun (colloquial) The person(s) being addressed. “Come on! Wakey wakey! Let's get us up and out of bed, please.”
  7. pronoun (colloquial) Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners. “Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. First let's get us a few ingredients that we'll need ...”
  8. pronoun (Commonwealth, colloquial, chiefly with certain verbs such as give, get, fetch, etc.) Me. “Give us a look at your paper.”
  9. determiner Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (objective case). “It's not good enough for us teachers.”
  10. determiner (proscribed) Designates the speaker(s)/writer(s) as constituting or belonging to the stated category of people (subjective case).
  11. determiner (Northern England, Nottinghamshire) Our. “We'll have to throw us food out.”
  12. noun (informal) The relationship between the speaker and some other unspecified person. “There is no us.”

Synonyms

United States United States of America America the States U.S. USA U.S.A.

Etymology

From Middle English us, from Old English ūs (“us”, dative personal pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *uns, from Proto-Germanic *uns (“us”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥swé, alteration of *n̥smé (“us”). The compensatory lengthening was lost in Middle English due to the word being unstressed when used. Cognate with Saterland Frisian uus (“us”), West Frisian us, ús (“us”), Low German uns, us (“us”), Dutch ons (“us”), German uns (“us”), Danish os (“us”), Latin nōs (“we, us”).

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Abbreviation of United States.

Abbreviation.

Webster’s 1913

  1. pronoun The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; --the objective case of we. See We. "Tell us a tale." Chaucer.

Etymology [OE. us, AS. ; akin to OFries. & OS. , D. ons, G. uns, Icel. & Sw. oss, Dan. os, Goth. uns, L. nos we, us, Gr. nas us. Nostrum, Our.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “us”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details