Deeper Dive: us

us pronoun [OE. us, AS. s; akin to OFries. & OS. s, D. ons, G. uns, Icel. & Sw. oss, Dan. os, Goth. uns, L. nos we, us, Gr. we, Skr. nas us. . Cf. Nostrum, Our.]

The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; – the objective case of we. See We.
“Tell us a tale.” Chaucer.

Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11.



-- Webster's unabridged 1913





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