I'm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "im"

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Contraction of I am.

IPA^(key): /aɪm/
(unstressed) IPA^(key): /əm/, /ʌm/ (nonstandard, particularly southern American English) IPA^(key): /am/
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Rhymes: -aɪm

I'm

I am

Arabic: أَنَا ... (ar) ‎(ʾanā ...); أَكُونُ ‎(ʾakūnu) (verb كان ‎(kān) is rarely used in the present tense)
Armenian: ես ... եմ (hy) ‎(es ... em)
Belarusian: я ... (be) ‎(ja ...) (verb быць is not used in the present tense)
Bengali: আমি ... (bn) ‎(āmi ...)
Bulgarian: аз съм (bg) ‎(az sǎm)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 我是 (zh) ‎(wǒ shì), 我... (zh) ‎(wǒ ...) (是 is not used with adjectives)
Czech: jsem ... (cs)
Danish: jeg er (da)
Dutch: ik ben (nl)
Esperanto: mi estas
Faroese: eg eri
Finnish: minä olen (fi), olen (fi); minulla on (fi)
French: je suis (fr); j'ai (fr) chuis (fr)
Old French: sui

Middle French: je suis
Georgian: მე ვარ ‎(me var)
German: ich bin (de)
Greek: είμαι (el) ‎(eímai)
Hebrew: אני ... (he) ‎(aní ...)
Hindi: मैं ... हूँ (hi) ‎(maĩ ... hū̃)
Hungarian: ... vagyok (hu)
Icelandic: ég er (is)
Ido: me esas
Italian: sono (it)
Japanese: 私は...です (ja) ‎(watashi-wa ... desu)
Korean: 저는 ... (이)예요 (ko) ‎(jeo-neun ...(i)eyo)
Latin: sum (la)

Macedonian: јас сум ‎(jas sum)
Mongolian: би ... (mn) ‎(bi ...)
Norwegian: jeg er (no)
Old French: sui
Persian: ... هستم (fa) ‎(... hastam), ... ام (fa) ‎(... am) / ... ـم (fa) ‎(... -am)
Polish: jestem ... (the following noun is in the instrumental, adjective is in the nominative case)
Portuguese: (eu) sou
Romanian: eu sunt, sunt
Russian: я ... (ru) ‎(ja ...) (verb быть ‎(bytʹ) is seldom in the present tense)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ја сам

Roman: ja sam (sh)
Slovak: som ...
Slovene: jaz sem
Spanish: soy (es)
Swedish: jag är (sv)
Thai: ผมเป็น... (th) m ‎(pom bpen ...), ดิฉันเป็น... (th) f ‎(dichan bpen ...), (เป็น ‎(bpen) is not used with adjectives) ผม... (th) m ‎(pom ...), ดิฉัน... f ‎(dichan ...)
Ukrainian: я ... (uk) ‎(ja ...) (verb бути is not used in the present tense)
Urdu: میں ... ہوں ‎(maĩ ... hū̃)
Vietnamese: tôi là ... (vi), (là is not used with adjectives) tôi ... (vi)
Yiddish: איך בין ‎(ikh bin), כ׳בין ‎(kh'bin)