me
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”). Cognate with Scots me (“me”), North Frisian me (“me”), Saterland Frisian mie (“me”), Dutch me, mij (“me”), Low German mi (“me”), German mir (“me”, dative), Icelandic mér (“me”, dative), Latin mē (“me”), Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé, “me”), Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”).
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) enPR: mē, IPA(key): /miː/
- (US) enPR: mē, IPA(key): /mi/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -iː
- Homophone: mee
PronounEdit
me (first-person singular pronoun, referring to the speaker)
- As the direct object of a verb.
- Can you hear me?
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Psalms 86:17:
- Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.
- (obsolete, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
- 1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci:
- And I awoke, and found me here.
- As the object of a preposition.
- Come with me.
- As the indirect object of a verb.
- He gave me this.
- (US, colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
- 1993 April 1, Harper's Magazine:
- When I get to college, I'm gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.
- As the complement of the copula (be or is).
- It wasn't me.
- 2017, Theresa May, “Andrew Neil interviews Theresa May: full transcript”, in The Spectator[1]:
- It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.
- (informal, with and, often proscribed) As the subject of a verb.
- Me and my friends played a game.
- (nonstandard, not with and) As the subject of a verb.
- 1844, Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, volume II:
- One of them, whose sobriquet was Big-headed Blackboy, was stretched out before the fire, and no answer could be obtained from him, but a drawling repetition, in grunts of displeasure, of "Bel (not) me want to go.
- 2005, Michael Chapman & Matthew Chapman, Teen Girl Squad (Homestar Runner), number 10:
- Strong Bad: Me gotta see that again.
Usage notesEdit
Me is traditionally described as the accusative pronoun, meaning it should be used as the object of verbs and prepositions, while the nominative pronoun I should be used as the subject of verbs. However, "accusative" pronouns are widely used as the subject of verbs in colloquial speech if they are accompanied by and, for example, "me and her are friends". This usage is traditionally considered incorrect, and "she and I are friends" would be the preferred construction.
Using me as the lone subject (without and) of a verb (e.g. "me want", "me like") is a feature of various types of both pidgin English and that of infant English-learners, and is sometimes used by speakers of standard English for jocular effect (e.g. "me likee", "me wantee").
Although in the spoken version of some dialects 'me' is commonly used as a possessive, in writing, speakers of these dialects usually write my.
Some prescriptivists object to the use of me following the verb to be, as in "It wasn’t me". The phrase "It was not I" is considered to be correct, though this may be seen as extreme and used for jocular effect.
SynonymsEdit
- (subject of a verb): I; my ass (vulgar)
- (complement of the copula): I
- (indirect object): us (Australia, UK)
- (marking ownership): my; mine (archaic)
Related termsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
TranslationsEdit
See me/translations § Pronoun.
Etymology 2Edit
Variant form.
DeterminerEdit
me
- (Britain regional, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of my
- a. 1918, Wilfred Owen, “The Letter”, in Douglas Kerr, editor, The Works of Wilfred Owen, page 54:
- There don't seem much to say just now. / (Yer what? Then don't, yer ruddy cow! / And give us back me cigarette!)
- 1995, Nick Park, A Close Shave:
- Get off me cheese! Get off! Get off!
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 99:
- "What have I ever done to prove me worth, or where I could at least say as I'd made a difference?"
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
AnagramsEdit
AkanEdit
PronounEdit
me
AlbanianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Albanian *me(t). Cognate to Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “after, beyond; in the middle, between”), Gothic miþ (miþ, “with”), Old Norse með.
PrepositionEdit
me (+accusative)
- with (accompanied by)
- Shkoj me tim vëlla.
- I'm going with my brother.
- with (possessing)
- E sheh djalin me sytë e kaltër?
- Do you see the guy with blue eyes?
- with (by means of)
- Preferoj të shkruaj me penë.
- I prefer to write with a pen.
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Indo-European *manu, compare Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin”), Old Armenian մանր (manr, “small”). Alternatively it could represent a continuation of Proto-Indo-European *mṇi̯ō, to be compared with Latin minuō (“lessen”), Proto-Slavic *mьnь (“smaller”) and the like.
AdjectiveEdit
me m (feminine mee)
Derived termsEdit
AngloromaniEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me
AnnoboneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Portuguese mãe (“mother”).
NounEdit
me
ReferencesEdit
- 2005, John H. McWhorter, Defining Creole
AragoneseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin me. Akin to Spanish me and French me.
PronounEdit
me
AsturianEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- m' (before a vowel)
EtymologyEdit
From Latin mē, accusative singular of ego. As an indirect pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative singular of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.
PronounEdit
me
Atong (India)Edit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
me (Bengali script মে)
SynonymsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.
BretonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”). Cognate to Welsh mi.
PronounEdit
me
CarolinianEdit
ConjunctionEdit
me
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-.
PronounEdit
me (enclitic, contracted 'm, proclitic em, contracted proclitic m')
- me (direct or indirect object)
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
ChuukeseEdit
ConjunctionEdit
me
PrepositionEdit
me
CimbrianEdit
ArticleEdit
me
- (Sette Comuni) the; definite article for two declensions:
- dative singular masculine
- dative singular neuter
See alsoEdit
Cimbrian definite articles | ||||
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Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural | |
Nominative | dar | de / di | 's / z | de / di |
Accusative | in | de / di | 's / z | de / di |
Dative | me | dar | me | in |
ReferencesEdit
- “me” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
CornishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- my (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form)
PronounEdit
me
- (Standard Cornish) I, me
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me
InflectionEdit
subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner, mijns |
2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer, jouws |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer, haars |
3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
plural | |||||||||
1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer, onzes |
2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner, huns |
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). |
5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural. |
SynonymsEdit
EstonianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Short form of meie, from Proto-Finnic *mek.
PronounEdit
me (genitive me, partitive meid)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | mina / ma | meie / me |
genitive | minu / mu | meie |
partitive | mind | meid |
illative | minusse / musse | meisse |
inessive | minus / mus | meis |
elative | minust / must | meist |
allative | minule / mulle | meile |
adessive | minul / mul | meil |
ablative | minult / mult | meilt |
translative | minuks | meieks |
terminative | minuni | meieni |
essive | minuna | meiena |
abessive | minuta | meieta |
comitative | minuga | meiega |
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Finnic *mek, from Proto-Uralic *me. The word is inflected as plural, but there is no plural marker in the nominative, except in dialects (met).
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me (stem mei-)
Usage notesEdit
- Although usually omitted in written language (the verb shows both the person and the number), the pronoun is in spoken language used very often. (compare the usage of minä (“I”))
InflectionEdit
- Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms don't exist; the abessive is hardly used.
- In addition to the standard set of cases, me and the other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, meidät.
Declension of me
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SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Kven: met
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French me, from Old French me, from Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Northern dialects have preserved a form mi for the indirect object (also found in Old French in the Oaths of Strasbourg), from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a Vulgar Latin *mi, whereas in standard French, it has merged into me.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me (personal, objective case)
Related termsEdit
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | |
Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | ||
Third | Masculine | il | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | |||||
Indeterminate | on1 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Reflexive | — | se, s’4 | — | — | soi4 | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | |
Second | — | vous2 | vous2,3 | — | — | vous2 | ||
Third | Masculine | ils3 | les | leur | y | en | eux3 | |
Feminine | elles | elles |
- 1 Also used as the first person plural.
- 2 Also used as the polite singular form.
- 3 Also used when a group has both men and women.
- 4 Also used as third person plural reflexive.
Further readingEdit
- “me” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
GalicianEdit
PronounEdit
me
- inflection of eu:
GuaraníEdit
NounEdit
me
Haitian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
me
HawaiianEdit
PrepositionEdit
me
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
InterjectionEdit
me
- baa (representing the bleating sound sheep make)
IdoEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English me, French me, Italian me, Spanish me, from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”).
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me (first-person singular)
Derived termsEdit
- mea (“my, mine”)
NounEdit
me (plural me-i)
- The name of the Latin script letter M/m.
See alsoEdit
- (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze (Category: io:Latin letter names)
See alsoEdit
Singular | Plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nominative | Possessive | Nominative | Possessive | ||||
Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | ||||
First person | me | mea | mei | ni | nia | nii | |
Second person | Formal | vu | vua | vui | vi | via | vii |
Familiar | tu | tua | tui | ||||
Third person | Masculine | ilu, il | ilua | ilui | ili | ilia | ilii |
Feminine | elu, el | elua | elui | eli | elia | elii | |
Neuter | olu, ol | olua | olui | oli | olia | olii | |
Pangender | lu | lua | lui | li | lia | lii | |
Reflexive | su | sua | sui | su | sua | sui | |
Indefinite | onu, on | onua | onui | onu, on | onua | onui | |
Notes | |||||||
The possessive plurals are seldom used. | |||||||
The shortened forms are preferred. | |||||||
The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios. |
IstriotEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin mē, accusative singular of ego.
PronounEdit
me
- objective of i; me; to me
- 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:
- Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,
- You seem to me a goddess among the gods,
- Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,
- 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me (personal, objective case)
PronounEdit
me
- Alternative form of mi
Usage notesEdit
Used when followed by a third-person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
See alsoEdit
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Conjunctive | Disjunctive | Locative | Partitive |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | first | — | io | mi, m', -mi | me | me | — | |||
second | — | tu | ti, t', -ti | te | te | |||||
third | m | lui | si2, s', -si | lo, l', -lo | gli, -gli | glie, se2 | lui, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | |
f | lei, Lei1 | la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1 | le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1 | lei, Lei1, sé | ||||||
Plural | first | — | noi | ci, c', -ci | ce | noi | — | |||
second | — | voi, Voi4 | vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4 | ve | voi, Voi4 | |||||
third | m | loro, Loro1 | si, s', -si | li, Li1, -li, -Li1 | gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1 |
glie, se | loro, Loro1, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | |
f | le, Le1, -le, -Le1 | |||||||||
1 | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead. | |||||||||
2 | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | |||||||||
3 | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | |||||||||
4 | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). |
Jamaican CreoleEdit
PronounEdit
me
- Alternative spelling of mi.
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
me
JingphoEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Burmese မဲ (mai:)
NounEdit
me
ReferencesEdit
- Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research[3], volume 35, DOI: , ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128
KeinEdit
NounEdit
me
Further readingEdit
- Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975) (as mɛ)
- Bemal Organized Phonology Data (as me)
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Cognate with Ancient Greek με (me), ἐμέ (emé, “me”), Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”), Old English me, Old Frisian mi, Old Saxon mī, Dutch mij, Old High German mih (German mich), Old Norse mik, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺 (mik). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin me, Greek με (me), Old Irish mé (Irish mí, Welsh mi), Proto-Slavic *mene (Old Church Slavonic мене (mene), Russian меня́ (menjá)), Lithuanian mi, Albanian mua.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
mē (personal pronoun)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- me in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- me in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
LolopoEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-Loloish *ʔ-mwe³ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with Sichuan Yi ꂯ (mix), Burmese အမွေး (a.mwe:), Drung meul (“body hair”), Jingpho mun, Tedim Chin mul¹.
NounEdit
me
- (Yao'an) body hair
Etymology 2Edit
From Proto-Loloish *s-mo¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Sichuan Yi ꂥ (hmu), Burmese မှို (hmui), Gong มู๋, Naxi mul, Japhug tɤ jmɤɣ and Jingpho kämu.
NounEdit
me
- (Yao'an) mushroom
MandarinEdit
RomanizationEdit
me (Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄜ)
- Pinyin transcription of 么
- Pinyin transcription of 嚜
- Pinyin transcription of 末
- Pinyin transcription of 麼, 麽
- Pinyin transcription of 嚒
me
- Nonstandard spelling of mē.
Usage notesEdit
- English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Mauritian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
me
MengenEdit
NounEdit
me
ReferencesEdit
- F. Madden, Mengen Dictionary (2006)
- Dan Rath, Mengen Dialect Survey (1991) (me, mee)
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Old English mē, from Proto-Indo-European. More at English me.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me (nominative I)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “me, pron.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2Edit
DeterminerEdit
me (nominative I)
- Alternative form of mi.
ReferencesEdit
- “min, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3Edit
From man, men, by way of phonemic reduction in unstressed positions.
PronounEdit
me
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “me, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- m' (before a vowel)
EtymologyEdit
From Old French me.
PronounEdit
me
- me, first-person singular object pronoun
- to me, first-person singular indirect object pronoun
SynonymsEdit
- (first-person singular object and indirect object pronoun): moy (with verbs in the imperative)
DescendantsEdit
- French: me
NalcaEdit
NounEdit
me
NauruanEdit
ConjunctionEdit
me
NeapolitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me
- me (accusative or dative or reflexive or prepositional)
Coordinate termsEdit
Number | Person | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Reflexive | Possessive | Prepositional |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
singular | first-person | io (i') | me | mìo, mìa, mieje, meje | me, méne | ||
second-person, familiar | tu | te | tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje | te, téne | |||
second-person, formal | vuje | ve | vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste | vuje | |||
third-person, masculine | ìsso | 'o, 'u (lo, lu) | 'i, 'e (li, le) | se | sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje | ìsso | |
third-person, feminine | éssa | 'a (la) | 'e (le) | éssa | |||
plural | first-person | nuje | ce | nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste | nuje | ||
second-person, plural | vuje | ve | vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste | vuje | |||
third-person, masculine | ìsse | 'i, 'e (li, le) | llòro | se | llòro (invariable) | llòro | |
third-person, feminine | llòro | 'e (le) |
NormanEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
me f (plural mes)
North FrisianEdit
PronounEdit
me
- First-person singular, objective: me
Northern KurdishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronounEdit
me
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
me
- first-person singular present indicative of bûn
- Synonym: im
Norwegian NynorskEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Probably from Old Norse mit, a form of vit (“we two, the both of us”) influenced by the final -m in Old Norse verbs inflected in the first person plural.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me (object case oss)
- we
- Kva skal me gjera?
- What shall we do?
Alternative formsEdit
See alsoEdit
Number | Person | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive / Genetive | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
feminine | masculine | neuter | plural | ||||
Singular | First | eg, je1 | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
Second | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine | |
Third (reflexive) | — | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | |
Third (masculine) | han | han, honom1 | hans | ||||
Third (feminine) | ho | ho, henne | hennar, hennes1 | ||||
Third (neuter) | det | dess2 | |||||
Plural | First | me, vi | oss | vår | vårt | våre | |
Second | de, dokker | dykk, dokker | dykkar, dokkar | ||||
Third | dei | dei, deim1 | deira, deires1 |
Etymology 2Edit
PronounEdit
me
- eye dialect spelling of meg (“me”)
- 1879, Berg, Hallvard, Segner fraa Bygdom, Christiania: Samlaget, page 93:
- "No, Unga, kunne de slutte mæ Lesnae ei Stund o høyre paa me."
- "Now, kids, you stop with the reading for a while and listen to me."
ReferencesEdit
- “me” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
AnagramsEdit
NovialEdit
PronounEdit
me
Related termsEdit
Old EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *miz, dative of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *me. Cognate with Old Frisian mi, Old Saxon mī, Dutch mij, Old High German mih (German mich), Old Norse mik, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺 (mik). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin me, Greek με (me), Old Irish mé (Irish mí, Welsh mi), Proto-Slavic *mene (Old Church Slavonic мене (mene), Russian меня́ (menjá)), Lithuanian mi, Albanian mua.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
mē
- (personal) accusative/dative of iċ: (to) me
DescendantsEdit
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin mē, accusative of ego. As an indirect object pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a Vulgar Latin *mi (compare the form mi in particular, found in early Old French in the Oaths of Strasbourg).
PronounEdit
me
- myself (first-person singular reflexive pronoun)
- me (first-person singular direct object pronoun)
- to me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronounEdit
me
Pennsylvania GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
EtymologyEdit
ArticleEdit
me m or n (indefinite)
DeclensionEdit
Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | en | en | en |
Accusative | en | en | en |
Dative | me | re | me |
PolishEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me
- Alternative form of moje.
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Portuguese me, from Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-. As an objective indirect pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me (personal pronoun)
- first-person singular objective direct personal pronoun; me
- 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 228:
- Você está me chamando de maluco?
- Are you calling me crazy?
- Meus amigos me ligaram.
- My friends called me.
- first-person singular objective indirect personal pronoun; (to) me
- Dê-me o copo.
- Give me the glass.
- first-person singular reflexive pronoun; myself
- Este tipo de tratamento me faz querer me enforcar.
- This kind of treatment makes me want to hang myself.
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:me.
See alsoEdit
Portuguese personal pronouns (edit) | |||||||||||||
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Number | Person | Nominative (subject) |
Accusative (direct object) |
Dative (indirect object) |
Prepositional | Prepositional with com |
Non-declining | ||||||
m | f | m | f | m and f | m | f | m | f | m | f | |||
Singular | First | eu | me | mim | comigo | ||||||||
Second | tu | te | ti | contigo | você | ||||||||
o senhor | a senhora | ||||||||||||
Third | ele | ela | o (lo, no) |
a (la, na) |
lhe | ele | ela | com ele | com ela | o mesmo | a mesma | ||
se | si | consigo | |||||||||||
Plural | First | nós | nos | nós | connosco (Portugal) conosco (Brazil) |
a gente | |||||||
Second | vós | vos | vós | convosco, com vós | vocês | ||||||||
os senhores | as senhoras | ||||||||||||
Third | eles | elas | os (los, nos) |
as (las, nas) |
lhes | eles | elas | com eles | com elas | os mesmos | as mesmas | ||
se | si | consigo | |||||||||||
Indefinite | se | si | consigo |
RomaniEdit
PronounEdit
me
DescendantsEdit
- Angloromani: me
See alsoEdit
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Ablative | Instrumental |
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Singular | First | — | me | man | manqe | manθe | manθar | mança |
Second | — | tu | tut | tuqe | tuθe | tuθar | tuça | |
Third | Masculine | vov | les | lesqe | lesθe | lesθar | leça | |
Feminine | voj | la | laqe | laθe | laθar | laça | ||
Plural | First | — | ame | amen | amenqe | amenθe | amenθar | amença |
Second | — | tume | tumen | tumenqe | tumenθe | tumenθar | tumença | |
Third | — | von | len | lenqe | lenθe | lenθar | lença |
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
InterjectionEdit
me
- baa (sound made by sheep or goats)
Scottish GaelicEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From mar eisimpleir.
AdverbEdit
me
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronounEdit
me (Cyrillic spelling ме)
- of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“I”))
- me (accusative singular of jȃ (“I”))
DeclensionEdit
SloveneEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
mẹ̑
- we (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)
InflectionEdit
singular | |||
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1st person | 2nd person | reflexive | |
nominative | jàz | tí | — |
accusative | méne, me | tébe, te | sébe, se |
genitive | méne, me | tébe, te | sébe, se |
dative | méni, mi | tébi, ti | sébi, si |
locative | méni | tébi | sébi |
instrumental | menój, máno | tebój, tábo | sebój, sábo |
possessive | mój | tvój | svój |
dual | |||
1st person | 2nd person | reflexive | |
nominative | mídva m, médve/mídve f or n | vídva m, védve/vídve f or n | — |
accusative | náju | váju | sébe, se |
genitive | náju | váju | sébe, se |
dative | náma | váma | sébi, si |
locative | náju | váju | sébi |
instrumental | náma | váma | sebój, sábo |
possessive | nájin | vájin | svój |
plural | |||
1st person | 2nd person | reflexive | |
nominative | mí m, mé f or n | ví m, vé f or n | — |
accusative | nàs | vàs | sébe, se |
genitive | nàs | vàs | sébe, se |
dative | nàm | vàm | sébi, si |
locative | nàs | vàs | sébi |
instrumental | nàmi | vàmi | sebój, sábo |
possessive | nàš | vàš | svój |
See alsoEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin mē (accusative singular of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-. As an indirect object, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
me (objective case)
- (personal) accusative of yo: me
- (personal, dative pronoun) dative of yo: to me, for me
- (personal, reflexive) reflexive of yo: myself
See alsoEdit
nominative | dative | accusative | disjunctive | ||||
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first person | singular | yo | me | mí1 | |||
plural | masculine2 | nosotros | nos | nosotros | |||
feminine | nosotras | nosotras | |||||
second person | singular | tuteo | tú | te | ti1 | ||
voseo | vos | vos | |||||
formal3 | usted | le, se4 | lo/la5 | usted | |||
plural | familiar6 | masculine2 | vosotros | os | vosotros | ||
feminine | vosotras | vosotras | |||||
formal/general3 | ustedes | les, se4 | los/las5 | ustedes | |||
third person | singular | masculine2 | él | le, se4 | lo | él | |
feminine | ella | la | ella | ||||
neuter | ello7 | lo/la5 | ello | ||||
plural | masculine2 | ellos | les, se4 | los | ellos | ||
feminine | ellas | las | ellas | ||||
reflexive | — | se | sí1 |
- Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
- Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
- Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
- If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
- Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
- Used primarily in Spain
- Used only in rare circumstances
TurkishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
me
- baa (sound of a sheep)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
me
- The name of the Latin-script letter M.
See alsoEdit
- (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Compare Acehnese mè (“tamarind”).
NounEdit
(classifier cây, trái, quả) me • (楣)
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
me
- mother
- 1936, Vũ Trọng Phụng, chapter 3, in Số đỏ, Hà Nội báo:
- Bà chủ vừa đặt con chó xuống vừa nhanh nhẩu nói: – À cậu tắm ! Cậu của me ngoan. Me đi vắng, ở nhà có đứa nào đánh cậu không ? Loulou Huýt! Huýt...
- The mistress of the house set down the dog and promptly said, "Ah, you are bathing! Mommy's son is nice. While mommy went away, did anyone hit you? Loulou, whee whee!"
WestrobothnianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse mið (“middle; mark, sign.”) Compare Swedish medel (“means,”) medel- (“mid(dle)-.”)
NounEdit
me m (definite singular men)
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
me n (plural me)
White HmongEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
me
ReferencesEdit
ZazakiEdit
PronounEdit
me
See alsoEdit
ZouEdit
NounEdit
me