we

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.2.1 Homophones 1.3 Pronoun 1.4 Determiner 1.4.1 Translations 2 Dutch 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Pronoun 2.2.1 Synonyms 2.2.2 See also 3 Old English 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Pronoun 4 Polish 4.1 Alternative spellings 4.2 Preposition 5 Tocharian A 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Numeral

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

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From Old English wē < Proto-Germanic *wiz < Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: wē, IPA: /wiː/, SAMPA: /wi:/
• (US) enPR: wē, IPA: /wi/, SAMPA: /wi/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -iː

[edit] Homophones

• wee
• whee (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
• wii (a videogame console)

[edit] Pronoun

we first person plural, nominative case (objective case us, reflexive ourselves, possessive our, possessive noun ours)

1. (personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.
2. (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (The use of we in the singular is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.)

[edit] Determiner

we

1. The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.

   We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /wə/, SAMPA: /w@/

[edit] Pronoun

we (personal pronoun)

1. we

[edit] Synonyms

• wij

[edit] See also

• ons

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wiz < Proto-Indo-European *wes-, *wei-. Cognate with Old Frisian wi, Old Saxon wī (Dutch wij), Old High German wir (German wir), Old Norse vér (Swedish vi), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 (weis).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /we:/

[edit] Pronoun

wē (personal pronoun)

1. we (nominative plural form of iċ)

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[edit] Polish

[edit] Alternative spellings

• w

[edit] Preposition

we (before words that begin with awkward consonant clusters)

1. at, in, into

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[edit] Tocharian A

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dwóy(h₁).

[edit] Numeral

we f.

1. (cardinal) two