our
det.det. belonging to us. You use this word to show that something is owned or shared by you and at least one other person.
det. belonging to or associated with the speaker and one or more other people. Functions as a possessive determiner that must be followed by a noun.
We love our new house.
Our flight leaves at six in the morning, so we need to go to bed early tonight.
While individual goals are important, our collective success depends on how well we communicate and support each other during the most difficult phases of the project.
From Middle English oure, from Old English ūre, ūser (“our”), from Proto-Germanic unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European n̥-s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Scots oor (“our”), West Frisian ús (“our”), Low German uns (“our”), Dutch onze (“our”), German unser, unsere (“our”) Danish vor (“our”), Norwegian vår (“our”), and more distantly Latin noster.
A possessive determiner; it must precede a noun or an adjective-noun phrase.
That car is our.That car is ours.Learners often confuse the determiner 'our' with the possessive pronoun 'ours'. 'Our' requires a following noun.