ours
/ˈaʊɚz/ pronom A1En français : le nôtre, la nôtre, les nôtres
- Excluding the person(s) being addressed (exclusive ours) · You can't take that! It's ours!· Could we ask you to move, please. These seats are ours.
- Including the person(s) being addressed (inclusive ours). · We should ask for it back. After all, it is ours.· Don't you think that ours looks much nicer than theirs?
- That or those belonging to any entity that the speaker is a part of or identifies with, such as place of employment or education, nation, region, language, etc. · French food is better than ours.
- That or those belonging to people in general. · As we get older, maintaining an active social life should be a priority of ours.
- That or those belonging to everyone being addressed. · Good evening everyone. How are we all tonight? I know I've got my happy face on; have we all got ours on too?
- That or those belonging to an individual being addressed; used especially to a person in the speaker's care, or to whom advice or instruction is being given. · Hello Mrs Miggins. How are we feeling this morning? Oh, what's that bottle of tablets under our chair? Is that ours?
- Used to imply connection between the speaker's experiences or activities and a group of listeners. · Hey guys, in this video I'll show you how I make my upside-down sponge cake. There are lots of recipes for these, but ours is the best.
- Our house or home. · You can stay the night at ours if you like.
Pluriel ours
Dans la bibliothèque
“Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
Holmes; but that is no business of ours.”
There is never enough to go around in an asylum, so things are always skimpy--at least in a poor asylum like ours.
The man’s cub is ours--to kill if we choose.”
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