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Names in other languages

  • daWE
  • DeutschWE
  • EnglishWE
  • fiWE
  • FrançaisWE
  • nbWE
  • nnWE
  • SvenskaWE

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We is the nominative case of the first-person plural pronoun in the English language. We or WE may also refer to:

In Modern English, we is a plural, first-person pronoun. ==History== We has been part of English since Old English, having come from Proto-Germanic *wejes, from PIE *we-. Similarly, us was used in Old English as the accusative and dative plural of we, from PIE *nes-. The following table shows the old English first-person plural and dual pronouns: By late Middle English, the dual form was lost, and the dative and accusative had merged. The ours genitive can be seen as early as the 12th century. Ourselves replaced original construction we selfe, us selfum in the 15th century, so that, by the century's end, the Middle English forms of we had solidified into those we use today. ==References==

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