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see|WE
wikipedia|We (disambiguation)
English
rank|so|me|an|42|we|who|said|would

Etymology
wikipedia
OE. unicode|we#Old English|w� < PG. *wiz < PIE. *wei-.

Pronunciation
IPA|/wi�/, SAMPA|/wi:/, AHD|w�
audio|en-us-we.ogg|Audio (US)

Homophones
wee
whee (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
wii

Pronoun
en-pron|desc=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.)

Determiner
infl|en|determiner

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

#: We Canadians like to think of ourselves as different.

Translations
trans-top|the speaker/writer and at least one other person
Albanian: t-|sq|ne|xs=Albanian
Arabic: ARchar|�ح�|��ح��� (náħnu)

Aramaic:

Bislama:

Breton: ni
Bulgarian: ние (nie)
Catalan: nosaltres
Chinese: ��/�们 (w� men, informal); ��/�们 (zán men, formal)

Chuvash: �пи�
Cree: kiyanaw
Croatian: t+|hr|mi
Czech: t+|cs|my
Danish: t-|da|vi
Dutch: t+|nl|wij, t+|nl|we
Dyirbal: IPAchar|�ali�i (dual), IPAchar|�ana�i (plural)
Esperanto: t+|eo|ni|xs=Esperanto
Estonian: meie, me
Fijian:

Finnish: t+|fi|me
French: nous (1,2)
Georgian: ���� (çven)
German: t+|de|wir
Ancient Greek: IPAchar|ἡμε�� (h�meís)
Greek: t+|el|εμεί�|sc=Grek (emeís)
Greek (mode: εμεί� (emeís)
Hausa: múu (independent form), mún (perfective 1), múkà (perfective 2), bàmù...bá (neg. perfective), záamù (future), mâa (predictive), múkàn (habitual), mù (subjunctive), múnàa (continuous 1), múkè(e) (continuous 2), báamàa (neg. continuous)
Hawaiian:

Hebrew: �נ�נ� (anákhnu), �נ� (ánu)
Hindi: हम (ham)
Hungarian: t+|hu|mi
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Icelandic: t+|is|við
Ido: ni
Indonesian: kita (inclusive), kami (exclusive)
Irish: muid conjunctive, sinn disjunctive; emphatic muidne, sinne
Italian: t+|it|noi, t-|it|noialtri
Japanese: �� (�����, watashi-tachí), �� / �� (���, waréra), �� / �� (����, wareware), �� (bokura)
Korean: �리 (uri)
Kurdish: em, me#Kurdish|me
Latin: t+|la|nos|alt=n�s
Latvian: t-|lv|m�s|xs=Latvian
Lithuanian: t+|lt|mes|xs=Lithuanian
Manchu: (muse inclusive), (be exclusive)
Manx: mayd, shin, emphatic shinyn
Navajo: nihí dual, danihí p
Northern Sami: moai dual, mii p
Norwegian: t+|no|vi
Novial: nus (1,2)
Ojibwe: giinawind (inclusive), niinawind (exclusive)
Old English: wit#Old English|wit (�we two�), we#Old English|w� (three or more)
Persian: FAchar|�ا (m�)
Polish: t+|pl|my
Portuguese: t+|pt|nós
Quechua: ñuqanchik (inclusive), ñuqayku (exclusive)
Romanian: t+|ro|noi
Russian: м� (my)
Scottish Gaelic: sinn nonemphatic, sinne emphatic
Sicilian: nuautri
Slovak: t-|sk|my
Slovene: me#Slovene|me f, mi#Slovene|mi m or both
Spanish: t+|es|nosotros|m, t-|es|nosotras|f
Swahili: sisi
Swedish: t+|sv|vi
Tagalog:

Telugu: మ�మ� , మనమ�
Thai: THchar|�รา (rao)
Tok Pisin: yumi (inclusive), yumipela (inclusive), mipela (exclusive)
Turkish: t+|tr|biz
Urdu: URchar|��|��� (ham)
Welsh: ni, ninnau (emphatic)
Yiddish: ��ר (mir)
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Category:English first person pronouns
Category:English homophones
Category:English two-letter words

Dutch

Pronunciation
IPA|/w�/, SAMPA|/w@/

Pronoun
infl|nl|pronoun|personal pronoun

1. #English|we

Synonyms
wij

See also
ons

Category:Dutch personal pronouns

Old English

Etymology
From Ger.|ang *wiz < PIE.|ang *wes-, *wei-. Cognate with Old Frisian wi, Old Saxon wi|wī (Dutch wij), Old High German wir (German wir), Old Norse vér (Swedish vi), Gothic ����.

Pronunciation
IPA|/we:/

Pronoun
infl|ang|pronoun|head=w�|personal pronoun

1. #English|we (nominative plural form of ic|i�)

Category:Old English pronouns

Polish

Alternative spellings
w#Polish|w

Preposition
infl|pl|preposition|before words that begin with awkward consonant clusters

1. at, in, into

af:we
ang:we
de:we
el:we
es:we
fa:we
fr:we
ko:we
hy:we
io:we
it:we
kk:we
ku:we
la:we
hu:we
nl:we
ja:we
pa:we
pl:we
pt:we
ru:we
simple:we
fi:we
sv:we
ta:we
te:we
vi:we
tr:we
zh:we

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