Definition of 'ours'
language note: Ours is the first person plural possessive pronoun.
pronoun
You use ours to refer to something that belongs or relates both to yourself and to one or more other people.
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English Easy Learning GrammarPossessive pronounsPossessive pronouns are used when you want to indicate who owns or is associated with
an item.
All those books are hers.
Those suitcases are ours.
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ours in British English
pronoun
1.
something or someone belonging to or associated with us
ours have blue tags
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ours in American English
pronoun
that or those belonging to us: the possessive form of we, used without a following noun, often after of
this house is ours; ours are better; she is a friend of ours
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British English: ours
/aʊəz/ PRONOUN
You use ours when you are talking about something that belongs to you and one or more other people.
That car is ours.
- American English: ours /ˈaʊərz/
- Arabic: مُلكَنَا
- Brazilian Portuguese: nosso
- Chinese: 我们的
- Croatian: naš
- Czech: náš
- Danish: vores
- Dutch: ons
- European Spanish: nuestro
- Finnish: meidän
- French: le nôtre
- German: unserer
- Greek: δικός μας
- Italian: il nostro
- Japanese: 私たちのもの
- Korean: 우리 것
- Norwegian: vår
- Polish: nasz
- European Portuguese: nosso
- Romanian: al nostru
- Russian: принадлежащий нам
- Latin American Spanish: nuestro
- Swedish: vår
- Thai: ของเรา
- Turkish: bizimki
- Ukrainian: наш
- Vietnamese: của chúng tôi
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