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with us

with us

∞ 1.0
Being present with our group now or still alive
  • idiom
translation icon : con nosotros
  • I want you to stay with us.
  • always with us
  • work with us
  • still with us

Can you maybe share with us when you first met me?

Examples

  • Hope you had a good time with us today.

  • She lives with us.

    Double Indemnity (1944)

  • I can feel that her spirit is with us right now.

    Theater Camp (2023)

  • You need to come with us.

    Joey & Rex Save the Church (2022)

  • Keep three or four officers out here with us.

    The China Syndrome (1979)

  • I'm most grateful to you for being with us this year.

  • They are all interns who have been with us during the past year.

  • Ezra is with us.

    Hell of a Summer (2023)

  • He's a good man, and he's been with us ever since I've been there, twenty-one years.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Thank you very much for being with us; it was a pleasure to have you.

Antonyms

absent
139 1.0

Not present where expected or not existing when needed

away
5 1.0

Not in a place because someone has gone somewhere else

How Supportive

with us
∞ 1.0
neutral
218 3.6
against
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

with us positive

Morphology

with + us

The meaning is directly compositional: 'with' denotes accompaniment or presence and 'us' specifies the group, so 'with us' straightforwardly means 'together with our group' or 'present alongside us'. This preposition + pronoun pattern is common and cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand the MWE.

Etymology

With us comes from the simple picture of a person standing next to a group; to be with us means you are included and near them. So when people say someone is 'with us' they mean the person is 'present' or still 'alive', and when they say someone is 'no longer with us' they mean the person is gone.