Talk:We

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What is the origin of the 'royal we'? How did the royalty come to use this plural form to mean just themselves? --Cladist

[edit] Nominative case

On US (disambiguation), it says it's the oblique case but here, it says that its the nominative. Which is it? --Celestianpower ^hablamé 16:25, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

That says "us" is the oblique case, which it is, and "we" is the nominative case. Adam Bishop 16:39, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

Sorry - my mistake. It's just the link there took me here. --Celestianpower ^hablamé 17:01, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Atypical uses of we

"The royal we (Pluralis Majestatis) is the first-person plural pronoun when used by an important personage ..." Isn't it singular rather than plural when used this way (by a monarch)? Bubba73 (talk), 00:36, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

It's plural because it is typically used to refer to the instiution/country that person is representing. For instance if the Queen of England says "we take thee to be our friend" it means England takes thee to be its friend, not the Queen herself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 130.159.248.1 (talk) 14:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC).

Would it be relevant to add to the page that in some dialects of midland Norwegian, the word for "we" (vi) is replaced by "us" (oss). 193.69.146.66 16:27, 11 April 2007 (UTC)