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unserig

ours

Definition & meaning

unserig means “ours”, “belonging to us”, or “characteristic of us.” It emphasizes that something belongs to or is associated with the speaker and other people.

It is relatively uncommon in everyday modern German and can sound colloquial, dialectal, literary, or emphatic. More commonly, German uses the possessive pronoun unser or the phrase von uns.

Examples:

  • Das ist unserig. — That is ours.
  • Er gehört zu den Unserigen. — He belongs to our group / He is one of ours.
  • Sie blieb bei den Unserigen. — She stayed with our people.

The substantivized form das Unserige means “what is ours,” “our share,” or “our part.”

Grammar & Word origin

unserig is an adjective formed from the possessive stem unser (“our”) plus the suffix -ig, which often creates adjectives meaning “having the quality of” or “belonging to.”

  • unser = our
  • -ig = an adjective-forming suffix

It can be used as a normal adjective, although it is not very frequent:

  • unsereigenes? No: the standard form is unser eigenes — our own.
  • die Unserigen = our people / our group
  • das Unserige = what is ours

The more common possessive forms are:

  • unser — our
  • unserer — ours, depending on grammatical case and gender
  • von uns — belonging to us / from us

Synonyms & antonyms

Synonyms

  • unser — the usual possessive determiner meaning “our”; it normally stands before a noun, as in unser Haus (“our house”).
  • von uns — a common neutral phrase meaning “belonging to us” or “from us.”
  • zu uns gehörig — “belonging to us”; formal and explicit.
  • einer von uns — “one of us,” referring to a person who belongs to the speaker’s group.

Antonyms

  • fremd — foreign, unfamiliar, or belonging to someone else; it is the clearest general opposite of unserig.
  • euerig — yours, belonging to you; this is not an exact opposite, but contrasts our with your.
  • ihrig — theirs, belonging to them; this contrasts ownership by “us” with ownership by “them.”

Common phrases & collocations

  • das Unserige — what is ours; our share or responsibility
  • die Unserigen — our people; members of our group
  • einer der Unserigen — one of our people
  • bei den Unserigen — among our people / with our group
  • das Unsere — the more usual alternative to das Unserige, meaning “what is ours” or “our share”

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Examples

Das ist unseriges.word

That is ours.

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