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our

[ ouuhr, ou-er; unstressed ahr ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

pronoun

(a form of the possessive case of we used as an attributive adjective):
Our team is going to win. Do you mind our going on ahead?

-our

British.

variant of -or ¹.

our

/ ��ʊə /

determiner

of, belonging to, or associated in some way with us
our parents are good to us
our best vodka
belonging to or associated with all people or people in general
our nearest planet is Venus
a formal word for my used by editors or other writers, and monarchs
informal.
(often sarcastic) used instead of your
are our feet hurting?
dialect.
belonging to the family of the speaker
it's our Sandra's birthday tomorrow

-our

suffix forming nouns

indicating state, condition, or activity
labour
behaviour

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Spelling Note

See -or ¹.

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Grammar Note

See me.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of our¹

before 900; Middle English oure, Old English ū��, suppletive genitive plural of ��ŧ we from same base as ū�� us

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of our¹

Old English ū�� (genitive plural), from us ; related to Old French, Old Saxon ū��er, Old High German �ܲԲ�ŧ��, Gothic unsara

Origin of our²

in Old French -eur, from Latin -or, noun suffix

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Example Sentences

And in no time, we had our first conversation, then our first date.

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"But the US is the biggest popcorn market in the world so we had planned that a lot of our growth would come from there."

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Some are much bigger, and are perpetuated by our president and his cronies.

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Besides, L.A. shouldn’t shut out Trump from our lives, especially while he’s in power.

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But ultimately, they all wanted to uphold the guarantees of the Bill of Rights and civil liberties and uphold things that people could all agree on; something like our constitutional order, the rule of law.

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