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
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
ours in American English
(auᵊrz, ˈauərz, or, often ɑːrz)
pronoun
2.
that or those belonging to us
Ours was given second prize
Ours are in the car
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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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