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English Person Plural German 80.Our 英 Aʊə]美 Aʊɝ

正面 80.our
英 [aʊə]美 ['aʊɝ]

背面
释义:
pron. 我们的
例句:
1. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?我们活着是为了什么?不就是给邻居当笑柄,再反过来笑他们。

1. *al-ter- "the other of two" => *an-ter- => ander (德语单词) => other (前面的元音音变为o, 在古英语中字母n在摩擦音前消失、脱落).
our 我们的来自古英语ure,我们的,来自Proto-Germanic*ons,来自PIE*nes,我们的第一人称复数斜格,词源同us,nostalgia,nostrum.
ourour: [OE] Our is the English member of the common Germanic family of first person plural possessive forms, which also includes German unser and Dutch onze. They all come from the same prehistoric base, *ons, as produced English us.=> usour (pron.)Old English ure "of us," genitive plural of the first person pronoun, from Proto-Germanic *ons (cognates: Old Saxon usa, Old Frisian use, Old High German unsar, German unser, Gothic unsar "our"), from PIE *nes-, oblique case of personal pronoun in first person plural (source of Latin nos "we," noster "our"). Also compare ours. Ourselves (late 15c.), modeled on yourselves, replaced original construction we selfe, us selfum, etc."

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