Contraction of I am.
I’m
- Contraction of I am.
The contraction I'm is not used when the word am would fall at the end of a clause. For example, in response to the question "Are you okay?", the reply "Yes, I'm okay" is widely used, while "Yes, I'm" (as a complete sentence) or even "Yes, I'm, but..." are never used, and would always be said as "Yes, I am" or "Yes, I am, but..." respectively.
- am (informal or dialectal)
- cham (West Country, obsolete)
Contraction
- Arabic: أَنَا ... (ar) (ʔanā ...); أَكُونُ (ʔakūnu) (verb كان (ar) (kān) is rarely used in the present tense)
- Catalan: jo sóc
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 我是 (zh) (wǒ shì), 我... (zh) (wǒ ...) (是 (shì) is not used with adjectives)
- Danish: jeg er
- Dutch: ik ben ...
- Esperanto: mi estas
- Faroese: eg eri
- Finnish: minä olen (fi), olen (fi); minulla on (fi), oon (fi) (colloquial)
- French: chuis (fr) (informal)
- Georgian: მე ვარ (me var)
- German: ich bin ...
- German Low German: ik bün
- Low German:
- Greek: είμαι (el) (eímai)
- Hebrew: אני ... (he) (aní ...)
- Hindi: मैं... हूँ (hi) (ma͠i... 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)yeyo)
- Macedonian: јас сум (jas sum)
- Mongolian: би ... (mn) (bi ...)
- Norwegian: jeg er (no)
- Persian: ... هستم (fa) (... hastam), ... ام (fa) (... am) / ... ـم (fa) (... -am)
- Polish: jestem ... (pl) (the following noun is in the instrumental, adjective is in the nominative case)
- Portuguese: (eu) sou, (eu) estou
- Romanian: eu sunt, sunt (ro)
- Scots: A'm
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ја сам
- Roman: ja sam (sh)
- Slovak: som ... (sk)
- Slovene: jaz sem
- Spanish: (yo) soy
- Swedish: jag är
- Tagalog: ako si
- Thai: ผมเป็น... (th) m (pom bpen ...), ดิฉันเป็น... (th) f (dichan bpen ...), (เป็น (bpen) is not used with adjectives) ผม... (th) m (pom ...), ดิฉัน... (th) f (dichan ...)
- Ukrainian: я ... (uk) (ja ...) (verb бути is not used in the present tense)
- Vietnamese: tôi là ... (vi), (là is not used with adjectives) tôi ... (vi)
- Yiddish: כ׳בין (kh'bin)
- Yup'ik: wiinga ...-augua
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