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What does we mean?
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we

The person speaking and other people with him or her. "Are you and Mia still going?" "No, were finished." We went to Paris together. We ought to help. Let's go. We need to talk to Mark. We won our football game. People in general. We need to think about other people more.

we

The person speaking and other people with him or her. We Canadians don't act that way.

we

(personal) The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person (not the person being addressed). (This is the exclusive we.) (personal) The speaker(s)/writer(s) and the person(s) being addressed. (This is the inclusive we.) (personal) The speaker/writer alone. (This use of we is the editorial we, used by writers and others, including royalty—the royal we—as a less personal substitute for I. The reflexive case of this sense of we is ourself.) (personal) The plural form of you, including everyone being addressed. the speaker(s) and the listener(s) (inclusive we: you and I)

we

The speakers/writers, or the speaker/writer and at least one other person.

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Simple sentences

Why don't we go home?
When we borrow money, we must agree on the conditions.
We can travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second.
We're going to eat a lot tonight so I hope you're not on a diet.
Hungry and thirsty, we at last reached the inn.
Hurry up, or we'll miss the train.
We have considered your proposal, and we have decided that we are not able to reduce the price.
We are looking forward to seeing you soon.
Could we have a table outside?
We got the meeting over with quickly.
We might have frost next week.
I suppose that behind each thing we have to do, there's something we want to do.
We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.
Their communication may be much more complex than we thought.
It may be that the happiness awaiting us is not at all the sort of happiness we would want.
It is up to you to decide whether we will go there or not.
We can't sleep because of the noise.
This is my friend Rachel. We went to high school together.
We don't see things as they are, but as we are.
We're meeting up tomorrow?
When do we arrive?
And what are we going to do?
We're getting out of here. The cops are coming.

Movie subtitles

No, it's not mine. We just live in the basement for rent.
We found out about it..
Well, we have to go there and see? but I'll be a good match for a husband.
Nowadays we don't have much customers and we're about to starve to death.
When I look at it we can't praise you enough!
We should come here all the time.
What should we do?
It doesn't seem like we talked to each other that much.
We don't have much food, but do you want to eat at my house?
We'll be in trouble if the lady comes out. Hurry, let's leave.
We'll see.
We have to stop, shit!
We are all dead now!
Also, we were lying before.
Now is the time that we, the Japan Liberation Front, should make a stand!
We're late, I hope he's waiting for us.
When we're like this, it doesn't seem too different from being in Britannia.
Sir Curel. we will leave the rest up to you.
We're Japanese!
That's why. I would at least like a world without war. A place where we won't lose dear ones.
Before Princess Cornelia arrives, we must cleanse the shame of our fellow men!
We'll treat you like a warrior.
Why do you think we exist?
If you are going to interfere, we'll kill you regardless of who you are!
So we've come to an understanding?
A distinction is needed precisely because we are true siblings.
With this. we can finally sweep away the parasites who were sucking Prince Clovis dry.
Hey, do we know anyone who has strawberry milk?
We spend all of our time trying to keep one step ahead of all the teachers.
We tried tunnels, but that didn't work, so we tried unmanned drones.
We get someone on the outside, usually a junior high kid.
See, the thing is, me and my friends, we really like PBJs.
We're pretty hungry. Can you do it?
I thought we were friends.
Yeah, I told you we were friends, and friends help each other out.
Ask him if I told him we were friends.
We'll cut him loose.
We'll cut him loose like a fart.
We could buy EpiPens so the kids who are allergic could be safe.
Hey, Johnny, we should go shoot hoops after this. You wanna go shoot hoops?

News and current affairs

After all, medieval alchemists engaged in what we now consider an absurd search for ways to transform base metals into gold.
But the 1945 consensus was dealt a much greater blow precisely when we all rejoiced at the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the other great twentieth-century tyranny.
We cannot simply return to the past.
It cannot be the same as the 1945 consensus, but we would do well, on this anniversary, to remember why that consensus was forged in the first place.
First, we must make certain that the relevant legislation to meet the challenge of terrorism is strictly temporary.
Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease.
Of course, we want to continue to find ways to make ourselves less vulnerable and terrorists more so.
Deductive inference enables us to predict effects if we know the principles (the rule) and the cause.
By inductive reasoning, if we know the cause and effects, we can infer the principles.
Using this macro-historical framework, we can see Japanese deflation, European debt, and even the Arab Spring as phases of systemic changes within complex structures that are interacting with one another in a new, multipolar global system.
We are witnessing simultaneous global convergence (the narrowing of income, wealth, and knowledge gaps between countries) and local divergence (widening income, wealth, and knowledge gaps within countries).
We live in an age of simultaneous fear of inflation and deflation; of unprecedented prosperity amid growing inequality; and of technological advancement and resource depletion.
We cannot postpone the pain of adjustment forever by printing money.
We can only hope that, in the end, the consequences of 2009 similarly prove to be far less dramatic than we now - intuitively and in our historical reflexes - feel them to be.
My father was involved with the United States space program, and we had some moon rocks at home, so I thought it was no big deal.
We need to convince each other that the fight against this common enemy has to be fought with a keen eye to balancing the needs of security with those of human and minority rights.
We have seen it in Great Britain and the US.
All things being equal, we probably are.
So far as we know, its leaders have kept their word.
We now know that the professor had broken into his own home, with the help of his chauffeur, because the door was jammed.
One thing to be learned, if we didn't know this already, is how close racial sensitivities are to the surface of US life, despite the election of a black president.