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TranslingualEdit

 
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Alternative formsEdit

  • (Roman numeral one): Ⅰ, i, ⅰ
  • ("Cardinal number read ordinal", i.e. ordinal): I.

LetterEdit

I (lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

I (lower case ı)

  1. The letter i without a dot above, in both the upper case and the lower case versions.

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SymbolEdit

I

  1. (chemistry) Symbol for iodine.
  2. (physics) Isotopic spin.
  3. (license plate codes) Italy
  4. (physics, electronics) Electrical current.
  5. (physics, kinematics) moment of inertia.
  6. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for isoleucine
  7. (mathematics, linear algebra) identity matrix
  8. (analysis, topology) the (closed) unit interval; [0, 1]
  9. (inorganic chemistry) Specifying an oxidation state of 1
  10. (music) major tonic triad

NumeralEdit

I (upper case Roman numeral, lower case i)

  1. cardinal number one.
  2. (ordinal, especially in the names of aristocracy) the first.

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Other representations of I:

  • Letter styles

  • Capital and lowercase versions of I, in normal and italic type

  • Uppercase and lowercase I in Fraktur

ReferencesEdit

EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English I, ik (also ich), from Old English ih, ic (“I”), from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”). Cognate with Scots I, ik, A (“I”), West Frisian ik (“I”), Dutch ik (“I”), Low German ik (“I”), German ich (“I”), Bavarian i (“I”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål jeg (“I”), Norwegian Nynorsk eg (“I”), Swedish jag (“I”), Icelandic ég, eg (“I”), Latin ego (“I”), Ancient Greek ἐγώ (egṓ), Russian я (ja, “I”), Lithuanian aš (“I”). See also ich.

PronounEdit

I (first person singular subject personal pronoun, objective me, possessive my, possessive pronoun mine, reflexive myself)

  1. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
      It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort, / Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile / A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort, / In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.
Usage notesEdit
  • The word I is always capitalised in written English. Other forms of the pronoun, such as me and my, follow regular English capitalisation rules.
  • Historically, I was used as the complement of the copula to be, (for example, It is I.) as it describes a state of being, not an action being done upon or with an object. Nowadays, however, this form is considered too formal in almost all contexts, and instead me is used (for example, It's me). Compare with German, wherein this distinction among verbs is better preserved: Es ist ein Apfel. (“It is an apple.”) vs. Es isst einen Apfel (“It eats an apple.”), wherein einen marks the accusative masculine indefinite article, whereas ein is the nominative masculine indefinite article.
  • When used in lists, it is traditionally prescribed that the first person come last. Colloquially, it is common for the objective case me to be used after a conjunction, even when the list serves as the subject of a main verb: You and me aren't so different. The prescribed version would be You and I aren't so different. The objective case is prescribed when the list serves as the object of a verb or of a preposition (My son is going with my husband and me), but frequently this is hypercorrected to the nominative case: My son is going with my husband and I.
SynonymsEdit
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English personal pronouns
personal pronoun possessive
pronoun		 possessive
determiner
subjective objective reflexive
first person singular I me myself mine my
mine (before vowels, archaic)
plural we us ourselves
ourself		 ours our
second person singular standard you you yourself yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		 your
archaic, informal thou thee thyself
theeself		 thine thy
thine (before vowels)
plural standard you
you all
ye (archaic)		 you
you all		 yourselves yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		 your
informal / dialectal (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person singular masculine he him himself
hisself (archaic)		 his
hisn (obsolete outside dialects)		 his
feminine she her herself hers
hern (obsolete outside dialects)		 her
neuter it it itself its
his (archaic)		 its
his (archaic)
genderless they them themself, themselves theirs their
genderless, nonspecific
(formal)		 one one oneself – one's
plural they them themselves theirs
theirn (obsolete outside dialects)		 their

NounEdit

I (uncountable)

  1. (metaphysics) The ego.
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

LetterEdit

I (upper case, lower case i, plural Is or I's)

  1. The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.
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NumberEdit

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ordinal number ninth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 3Edit

Abbreviation.

NounEdit

I (countable and uncountable, plural Is)

  1. (US, roadway) Interstate.
  2. (grammar) Abbreviation of instrumental case.

Etymology 4Edit

InterjectionEdit

I

  1. Obsolete spelling of aye.

ReferencesEdit

StatisticsEdit

Most common English words before 1923 in Project Gutenberg: and · to · in · #6: I · that · was · he

AfarEdit

LetterEdit

I (lowercase i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Afar alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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American Sign LanguageEdit

LetterEdit

  (transliteration needed) (Stokoe I)

  1. The letter I

AzeriEdit

LetterEdit

I upper case (lower case ı)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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DanishEdit

FWOTD – 5 November 2015

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse ír, variant of ér, from Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

I (objective jer, possessive jeres)

  1. (personal) you, you all (second person plural)
    I må ikke gå derind!
    You can't go in there!
    • 2014, Diverse forfattere, Fire uger blev til fire år - og andre beretninger, Lindhardt og Ringhof (ISBN 9788711336083)
      Og så er der forresten lidt mere med det samme: I må love os een ting. mor og far, I må ikke efterligne os unge! — For gør I det, ja, så kommer I til at se så morsomme ud. — I må ikke prøve på at løbe fra jeres alder, for det kan I alligevel ikke.
      And by the way, there's something else: You must promise us one thing, mum and dad, you may not imitate us young! — For if you do, you will look so funny. — you may not try to run way from your age, for you can't do that anyway.
    • 1981, Mogens Wolstrup, Vild hyben: danske forfattere skriver om jalousi
      Men det er ikke jeres skyld, siger Ditte. I er unge og kloge. I er grimme og fantastisk smukke. I har modet! I er på rette vej med jeres show. Jeg føler med jeres oprør, og måske derfor kunne jeg ikke klare mere. Jeres hud er glat, I er startet i tide.
      But it is not your fault, Ditte says. You are young and intelligent. You are ugly and amazingly beautiful. You have the courage! You are on the right path with your show. I feel with your rebellion, and perhaps for that reason, I couldn't take any more. Your skin is smooth, you started in time.
    • 2011, Per Ullidtz, Absalons Europa, BoD – Books on Demand (ISBN 9788771142396), page 229
      Og lidt senere ”I har hørt at det er sagt: øje for øje og tand for tand. Men jeg siger jer, at I må ikke sætte jer imod det onde; men dersom nogen giver dig et slag på din højre kind, da vend ham også den anden til! ...
      And a little later ”you have heard it said: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, you may not resist evil; but if anyone hits you on the right cheek, turn the other towards [whoever hit you]! ...

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Danish personal pronouns
Number Person Inflection Nominative Accusative Possessive Reflexive Reflexive possessive
Singular First common jeg mig min
neuter mit
plural mine
Second common du dig din
neuter dit
plural dine
formal De Dem Deres
Third masculine han ham hans sig sin
feminine hun hende hendes
common den den dens
neuter det det dets sit
plural sine
Plural First — vi os vores
common vor
neuter vort
plural vore
Second – I jer jeres
formal De Dem Deres
Third – de dem deres sig

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

I (capital, lowercase i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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  • Previous letter: H
  • Next letter: J

EsperantoEdit

LetterEdit

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

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FinnishEdit

LetterEdit

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ii and written in the Latin script.

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AbbreviationEdit

I

  1. improbatur

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

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I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the German alphabet.

Related termsEdit

ItalianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme; name of letter) IPA(key): /i/
  • (phoneme, when followed by a vowel in the same syllable) IPA(key): /j/

LetterEdit

I m, f (invariable lower case, i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Italian alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

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JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

I

  1. Rōmaji transcription of い

LatvianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

PronunciationEdit

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LetterEdit

 
I

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

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MalayEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [ai̯]
  • (Phoneme) IPA(key): [i]
  • (Phoneme, Closed ultima) IPA(key): [e]

LetterEdit

I

  1. The ninth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English iċ, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. More at English I.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

I

  1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Norwegian BokmålEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

I

  1. (dialect) I: a first-person singular personal pronoun
  2. (rare, archaic) you: a second-person plural nominative pronoun

PortugueseEdit

LetterEdit

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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RomanianEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

I (lowercase i)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Romanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notesEdit

  • Generally represents the phoneme /i/. Preceded by H and followed by Î.
  • Before vowels, this letter usually takes on the sound of /j/
    ianuarie /ja.nuˈa.ri.e/
  • At the ends of words (except verb infinitives, and those ending in a consonant cluster ending in l or r), the letter palatalizes the previous syllable and is "whispered": /ʲ/
    băieți /bəˈjetsʲ/

SaanichEdit

PronunciationEdit

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I

  1. The eleventh letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Skolt SamiEdit

PronunciationEdit

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I (lower case i)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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SloveneEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

I (capital, lowercase i)

  1. The 10th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by H and followed by J.

SomaliEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ɪ/, /i/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ʔɪ/

LetterEdit

I upper case (lower case i)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Somali alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

Usage notesEdit

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by E and followed by O.

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SpanishEdit

LetterEdit

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Spanish alphabet.

AbbreviationEdit

I

  1. Ilustre
    La I municipalidad de Valparaíso.

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Swedish ī, īr, from Old Norse ír, variant of ér, from Proto-Germanic *jīz, variant of *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

I (personal pronoun)

  1. (archaic) you (second-person plural nominative)

SynonymsEdit

TurkishEdit

LetterEdit

I (upper case, lower case ı)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ı and written in the Latin script.

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VietnameseEdit

PronunciationEdit

LetterEdit

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called i or i ngắn and written in the Latin script.

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ZuluEdit

LetterEdit

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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