Dictionary formnoster, nostra, nostrum
Translation
our; ours
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Examples
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Our house is near the sea.
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Our Father, who art in heaven.
pugnaverunt.
Our men fought bravely.
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This is ours.
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In our land there are many rivers.
, , is a first-and-second declension adjective of the -er type: the e survives only in the masculine nominative singular and drops everywhere else, giving , , , . It agrees with the thing owned, never with the owner.
Latin leaves possessives out far more readily than English does, so do not reach for unless the ownership is actually in question. The masculine plural on its own is a noun in military prose, "our men, our side", and Caesar uses it constantly. Keep those forms apart from and as genitives of the pronoun , which look identical: is "one of us", partitive, while the in is this adjective.
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This word is taught in chapter 2, lesson 7: noster, statim, aliquis and 7 more words.