us | TKG English Learner's Dictionary

uspronoun

American /ʌs/ British /ʌs/

very commondefining vocabulary

used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to the speaker together with one or more other people
Us is the object form; the subject form is we.
- Please join us for dinner tonight.
- They invited us to the wedding.
- Wait for us at the entrance.
- The teacher gave us some homework.
meused informally to mean me
This informal use of us for a single speaker is common in casual British speech, especially right after a verb: give us a call, tell us your name.
informal British
- Give us a hand with these bags, would you?
- Lend us a pen for a minute.

Us is not used as the subject of a sentence; the subject form is we.

Give it to we. Give it to us.
After a preposition, use the object form us, not we.

Grammar trap English pronouns change form for subject, object, and possessive (we, us, our/ours); many languages use one form for all three.