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Definition of “one's”
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one's1 (wʌnz)
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adjective
- (formal) a third-person singular possessive corresponding to one ⇒
The end of one's useful professional life is hard to accept.
⇒One has cut one's finger.
⇒One must wash one's hair.
see one
one's2 (wʌnz)
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abbreviation for
- the contracted form of one is ⇒
when one's running a business
⇒if one's feeling a bit tired
⇒One's not going to hurt you.
- the contracted form of one has ⇒
when one's got something to do
⇒every positive experience one's had
⇒When one's gone, the other partner is going to be totally lost.
⇒One's been here for a long time.
Translations for 'one's'
- British English: one'swʌnz You use one's to show that something belongs to people in general.It is natural to want to care for one's family and children. DETERMINER
- Arabic: خاضّ
- Brazilian Portuguese: seu, seus sua, suas
- Chinese: 某人的
- Croatian: svoj
- Czech: svůj
- Danish: ens
- Dutch: zijn
- European Spanish: propio
- Finnish: yksi, yksi jstak tietystä ryhmästä, yksi monista, toinen
- French: son
- German: man
- Greek: δικός μου
- Italian: proprio propria
- Japanese: 一般的な人を指す所有格
- Korean: ~이라는 사람의 소유격
- Norwegian: ens
- Polish: swój swoja, swoje
- Portuguese: seu
- Romanian: al său a sa, ai/ale sale
- Russian: наше
- Spanish: de uno
- Swedish: ens
- Thai: คำแสดงความเป็นเจ้าของ
- Turkish: kişinin
- Ukrainian: чийсь
- Vietnamese: của ai
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