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ours  (ourz)
pron. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
Used to indicate the one or ones belonging to us: The original of the painting is ours. Their children are grown, but ours are still young.

[Middle English oures, from oure, our, from Old English re; see nes-2 in Indo-European roots.]

ours [aʊəz]
pron
1. something or someone belonging to or associated with us ours have blue tags
of ours belonging to or associated with us
Translations
ours [aʊəz] POSS PRON (referring to singular posession) → (el/la)nuestro/a; (referring to plural posession) → (los/las)nuestros/as
this house is oursesta casa es nuestra
a friend of oursun amigo nuestro
your car is much bigger than oursvuestro coche es mucho más grande que el nuestro
"our teachers are strict" - "ours are too"-nuestros profesores son estrictos -los nuestros también

ours [ˈaʊərz] pron
(gen, referring to singular noun)le* nôtre(la); (referring to plural noun)les nôtres
Your garden is very big, ours is much smaller → Votre jardin est très grand, le nôtre est beaucoup plus petit.
Your school is very different from ours → Votre école est très différente de la nôtre.
Our teachers are strict. - Ours are too → Nos professeurs sont sévères. - Les nôtres aussi.
(= our property) is this ours? → c'est à nous?
This car is ours → Cette voiture est à nous.
Whose is this? - It's ours → C'est à qui? - À nous.
Is this one ours?
BUT C'est le or la nôtre?.

ours
poss pronunsere(r, s); ours not to reason why(, ours but to do or die) (prov)das wissen die Götter (inf), → es ist nicht an uns, nach dem Warum zu fragen ? also mine1

ours [ˈaʊəz] poss pronil/la nostro/a, i/le nostri/e pl
a friend of ours → un nostro amico
theirs is red, ours is green → il loro è rosso, il nostro è verde
this is ours → questo è (il) nostro
ours [ˈaʊəz] poss pronil/la nostro/a, i/le nostri/e pl
a friend of ours → un nostro amico
theirs is red, ours is green → il loro è rosso, il nostro è verde
this is ours → questo è (il) nostro

ours مِلكَنا náš vores unserer δικός μας nuestro meidän nôtre naše il nostro 私たちのもの 우리 것 ons vår nasz nosso принадлежащий нам vår ของเราเอง bizimki của chúng tôi 我们的


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"Doubtless," said the Philosopher to himself, as he walked away, "the wisdom of fools is no deeper nor truer than ours, but they really do seem to have a more impressive way of imparting it.
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
"We did not think you would start to explore this island of ours without telling us," he said; and then, "I was afraid--But--what--Hullo
 
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