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ours

/ɑːz; ˈaʊəz/pronoun

उच्चारण आर्ज़

हमारा

Basic word

pronoun
  1. 1

    of or belonging to the speaker or writer and another person or other people

    हमारा

    • This house is ours.
    • a friend of ours
    • That blue car over there is ours.
    + 2 more examples
    • Their garden is bigger, but ours has more flowers.
    • Is this umbrella yours or ours?

    Synonyms belonging to us our own

    Opposite theirs

≈Synonyms and antonyms

Synonyms

belonging to us our own

Antonyms

theirs

§Grammar and usage

Ours is used without a noun, with no apostrophe (not 'our's'); 'a relative of ours'.

Ours बिना noun के, apostrophe के बिना प्रयुक्त होता है ('our's' नहीं); 'a relative of ours'।

Error-spotting tip: 'our's' is always wrong.

Error-spotting युक्ति: 'our's' सदा गलत है।

“Collocations, idioms and sayings

'Ours is not to reason why' (we must obey without asking why; from Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade', usually misquoted).

कहावत 'Ours is not to reason why' (बिना कारण पूछे हमें आज्ञा माननी है; Tennyson की 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' से, प्रायः गलत उद्धृत)।