We

Table of contents

1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Personal pronoun 1.3.1 Translations 2 Dutch 2.1 Personal pronoun 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Synonyms 3 Polish

English

Etymology

From Middle English < Old English wē < Proto-Germanic *wiz < Proto-Indo-European *wei- .

Pronunciation

• wē, /wiː/, /wi:/

  Homophones: wee

  Rhymes: -iː

Personal pronoun

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

1. the speakers, or the speaker and at least one other person.
2. the speaker. (The use of we in the singular is the editorial we , used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitue for I. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.)

Translations

• Arabic: نَحْنُ (náħnu)
• Bislama: yumi, yumitupela (dual inclusive); yumitripela (trial inclusive); yumipela (plural inclusive); mitupela (dual exclusive); mitripela (trial exclusive); mipela (plural exclusive)
• Breton: ni
• Bulgarian: ние (nie)
• Chinese: 我們 /我们 (wǒ men, formal); 咱們 /咱们 (zán men, informal)
• Cree: kiyanaw
• Czech: my
• Danish: vi
• Dutch: wij, we
• Dyirbal: ŋaliɖi (dual), ŋanaɖi (plural)
• Esperanto: ni
• Estonian: meie , me
• Fijian: including second person: kedaru (dual), kedatou (paucal), keda (plural)

excluding second person: keirau (dual), keitou (paucal), keimami (plural)

• Finnish: me
• French: nous (1,2)
• German: wir
• Greek (Ancient): ἡμεῖς (hēmeis)
• Hausa: múu (independent form), mún (perfective 1), múkà (perfective 2), bàmù...bá (neg. perfective), záamù (future), mâa (predictive), múkàn (habitual), mù (subjunctive), múnàa (continuous 1), múkè(e) (continuous 2), báamàa (neg. continuous)
• Hawaiian: including second person: kāua (dual), kākou (plural)

excluding second person: māua (dual), mākou (plural)

• Hebrew: אנחנו (anákhnu), אנו (ánu)
• Hindi: हम (ham)
• Hungarian: mi
• Icelandic: við
• Ido: ni
• Indonesian: kita (including second person), kami (excluding second person)
• Italian: noi, noialtri
• Japanese: 私たち (わたしたち , watashi-tachí), 我ら / 我等 (われら , waréra), 我々 / 我我 (われわれ , wareware)
• Korean: 우리 (uri)
• Kurdish: em, me
• Lingua Franca Nova: nos
• Manchu: (muse inclusive), (be exclusive)
• Norwegian: vi
• Ojibwe: giinawind (inclusive), niinawind (exclusive)
• Persian: ما (mā)
• Polish: my
• Portuguese: nós
• Quechua: ñuqanchik (including second person), ñuqayku (excluding second person)
• Romanian: noi
• Russian: мы (my)
• Scottish Gaelic: sinn non-emphatic, sinne emphatic
• Slovak: my
• Spanish: nosotros m, nosotras f
• Swahili: sisi
• Swedish: vi
• Tagalog: including second person: natin (ng form), atin (sa form), tayo (unmarked form);

excluding second person: namin (ng form), amin (sa form), kami (unmarked form)

• Thai: เรา (rao)
• Tok Pisin: yumi (including second person), yumipela (including second person), mipela (excluding second person)
• Turkish: biz
• Urdu: هَم (ham)

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Dutch

Personal pronoun

we

Pronunciation

• IPA : /wə/
• SAMPA : /w@/

1. The first person, we refers to the speakers. See also ons.

   Translations

   • English: we

Synonyms

• wij

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Polish

we

see Polish meaning for w