Ours

Ours is the first-person plural possessive pronoun in English. It is used to indicate that something belongs to or is associated with the speaker and at least one other person, when the noun is not stated. As an independent possessive pronoun, it can function as the subject complement in a sentence: for example, "That book is ours" or "The decision was ours." It cannot directly modify a noun; that role is filled by the possessive determiner "our," as in "our house" or "our plan."

In everyday use, "ours" appears in contexts of shared ownership or responsibility. It often follows a form of the verb "to be" in predicative position and can stand alone without a following noun. The corresponding determiner form is "our," which precedes a noun, as in "our car" or "our project." The related reflexive form is "ourselves," used when the subject and the object are the same group, as in "We prepared the meal ourselves."

Pronunciation is typically similar to "hours" or "powers" in many varieties of English, often pronounced as one syllable with stress on the first sound: /ˈaʊərz/ in standard English.

Ours is part of a broader set of personal pronouns that include mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, and theirs. It is contrasted with "ourselves," which is the reflexive form, and with "our," the determiner used before a noun. The usage of "ours" is common in formal and informal speech alike and appears in writing to emphasize collective ownership or association.