The word 我国 (wǒguó) is formed through the straightforward compounding of the first-person singular or plural possessive pronoun 我 (wǒ), meaning "I" or "we", with the noun 国 (guó), meaning "country" or "nation". This creates a possessive compound literally translating to "my/our country", which functions as a single, formal, and patriotic term for referring to one's homeland, equivalent to "our nation" or "China" in context. Its formation follows the common Chinese syntactic pattern of modifier (我) + head noun (国), where the pronoun denotes collective ownership, imbuing the term with a sense of shared identity and belonging.