our
私たちの
解説 Definition
話し手を含む複数の人に属する人・物・事柄であることを示し、名詞の前に置く。
The first-person plural possessive determiner, placed before a noun to show that a person, thing, or matter belongs to or is associated with a group that includes the speaker.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
we「私たちは」に対応する「私たちの」が our だと結び付け、our school、our family、our plan のようなまとまりで覚えると定着しやすい。our の後ろには名詞が必要だが、ours は単独で使える。発音は会話では弱く短くなることもあるため、自然な音声の中で繰り返し確認するとよい。
Link we with our: we names the group as the subject, while our marks something connected with that group. Learn the word in noun phrases such as our school, our team, and our plan. Our must come before a noun, but ours can stand alone; compare This is our room with This room is ours. The word can sound reduced in rapid speech, so recognize both its careful pronunciation and its shorter conversational forms while keeping the spelling unchanged.
例文
Our school is near the station.
私たちの学校は駅の近くにあります。
We cleaned our room together.
私たちは一緒に部屋を掃除しました。
Our team won the game.
私たちのチームが試合に勝ちました。
our の類義語・関連語
our の語源・成り立ち Etymology
our は一人称複数代名詞 we に対応する所有を示す語で、古英語 ūre「私たちの」に由来します。ゲルマン祖語の一人称複数代名詞にさかのぼる古い語です。名詞の前では our、名詞を伴わず「私たちのもの」と言う場合は ours を使います。
Our descends from Old English ūre, the possessive form associated with the first-person plural pronoun. It comes from an ancient Germanic pronoun system and has cognates in other Germanic languages. Although English lost much of its earlier case inflection, distinct forms such as we, us, and our survived. In modern English, our functions before a noun as a possessive determiner, while the later form ours functions independently, as in The house is ours.
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