'm
See also: Appendix:Variations of "m"
English
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editContraction of am.
Verb
edit’m (clitic)
- Am, used especially in I'm.
- 2008, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes, Bantam, →ISBN, page 158:
- “So how'm I not good?”
- (dialect) Various forms of be.
- 1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis:
- You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end.
- 1962, John Le Carre, A Murder of Quality:
- "He'm a bad one. Ooh, he'm a bad one, Mister," and she laughed softly. "I seed 'im flying, riding on the wind," she laughed again, "and the moon be'ind 'im, lightin' up the way. They'm close as sisters, moon and Devil."
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 180:
- “Ah, it's a wonder we’m got two sticks to us name, with all that plunder what youm 'ad already.”
See also
editEtymology 2
editPronoun
edit'm
- Alternative form of 'em
- 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- I picked up two stones and threw ’m in the air, heard ’m drop
- 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Etymology 3
editNoun
edit’m
Bavarian
editEtymology
editMerged unstressed form of am and em or dem.
Article
edit'm m or n
See also
editBavarian articles
m | n | f | pl | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | ||
definite | nominative | der, da | — | das, es, des | 's | de | d' | de | d' |
accusative | en, den | 'n | |||||||
dative | em, dem | 'm | em, dem | 'm | der, da | — | |||
genitive1 | des | des | der, da | der, da | |||||
indefinite | nominative | a | — | a | — | a | — | ||
accusative | an | 'n | |||||||
dative | am | 'm | am | 'm | a, ana | 'na |
1) higher, formal register
Catalan
editPronoun
edit'm
- Contraction of me.
Usage notes
edit- 'm is the reduced (reduïda) form of the pronoun. It is used after verbs ending with a vowel.
- Truca'm. ― Call me.
Declension
editCatalan personal pronouns and clitics
Cornish
editDeterminer
edit'm
Pronoun
edit'm
Dutch
editPronunciation
editPronoun
edit'm
- Contraction of hem.
- Hij heeft 'm neergeschoten.
- He shot him.
Declension
editWelsh
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editDeterminer
edit'm
- (literary) my (triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)
- Synonym: fy
- Rwy'n myned yn ôl adref i’m hannwyl famwlad.
- I am going back home to my dear homeland.
Pronoun
edit'm
- (literary) me (used after vowels as the direct object of a verb; triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)
Usage notes
edit- The determiner can be considered a "contraction" of fy used after mostly functional vowel-final words.
- The pronoun occurs after certain vowel-final preverbal particles, such as fe, a, ni, na, oni and pe.
Etymology 2
editParticle
edit'm
- (colloquial) Contraction of ddim (“not”).
- Dwyt ti’m yn cofio Macsen.
- You don’t remember Macsen.
Further reading
edit- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “'m”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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