uns
German, pronoun/ʊns/
uns is spelled U-N-S (3 letters) and appears 1,288 times per million words in written German, the 87th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Uns is a German pronoun meaning “accusative/dative of wir: us” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Personalpronomen 1. Person Plural Dativ”.
What does uns mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
accusative/dative of wir: us
- 2
reflexive pronoun of wir
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. Personalpronomen 1. Person Plural Dativ 2. Personalpronomen 1. Person Plural Akkusativ 3. Reflexivpronomen 1. Person Plural 4. reziprokes Pronomen 1. Person Plural
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of uns
- ich first-person nominative personal
- du error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- er masculine nominative personal
- sie feminine nominative personal
- es neuter nominative personal
- wir first-person nominative personal
- ihr error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- Sie error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- Ihr error-unrecognized-form nominative personal
- meiner first-person genitive personal
- mein first-person genitive personal
- deiner error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
- dein error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
- seiner genitive masculine personal
- sein genitive masculine personal
- ihrer feminine genitive personal
- unser first-person genitive personal
- euer error-unrecognized-form genitive personal
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce uns?
- /ʊns/
- [ʊns]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to uns
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is uns in German?
uns appears 1,288 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).