mig
English edit
Etymology edit
Probably from a pronunciation of mg.
Noun edit
mig (plural migs)
Usage notes edit
- More often spoken than written.
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Catalan mig, from Latin medius (compare Occitan mièg, French mi-).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
mig (feminine mitja, masculine plural migs or mitjos, feminine plural mitges)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “mig” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mig”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “mig” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mig” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
mig (nominative jeg, possessive min)
- (personal) first person singular accusative personal pronoun; me
- (personal, nonstandard, when before other terms in a list) first person singular nominative personal pronoun; I
- Mig og min bror tog til stranden.
- Me and my brother went to the beach.
- Mig og min bror tog til stranden.
Usage notes edit
Also used as reflexive pronoun.
See also edit
Danish personal pronouns
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common | neuter | plural | |||||
Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine | |
formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
common(noun) | den | dens | |||||
neuter(noun) | det | dets | |||||
reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine | ||
Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | ||
archaic / formal | vor | vort | vore | ||||
Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
Third | – | de | dem | deres | |||
reflexive | – | sig |
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
mig
- (personal) accusative of ég; me
- Þú drapst mig.
- You killed me.
- Þú drapst mig.
- myself
- Ég brenndi mig.
- I burnt myself.
- Ég brenndi mig.
Declension edit
Icelandic personal pronouns
Icelandic personal pronouns | ||||||
singular | first person | second person | third person masculine | third person feminine | third person neuter | |
nominative | ég, eg†, ek† | þú | hann | hún, hon†, hón† | það, þat† | |
accusative | mig, mik† | þig, þik† | hann | hana | það, þat† | |
dative | mér | þér | honum, hánum† | henni | því | |
genitive | mín | þín | hans | hennar | þess | |
plural | first person | second person | third person masculine | third person feminine | third person neuter | |
nominative | við | þið, þit† | þeir | þær | þau | |
accusative | okkur | ykkur | þá | þær | þau | |
dative | okkur | ykkur | þeim | þeim | þeim | |
genitive | okkar | ykkar | þeirra | þeirra | þeirra |
Middle English edit
Noun edit
mig
- Alternative form of mygge
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
mig n (definite singular miget, indefinite plural mig, definite plural miga)
Verb edit
mig
- inflection of miga:
References edit
- “mig” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Swedish edit
Pronoun edit
mig
- Alternative form of mik (Late Old Swedish)
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
mig m inan (related adjective migowy)
- (colloquial) sign of communication made with gestures or facial expressions
- (linguistics) sign (linguistic unit in sign language)
- flash, jiffy (very short, unspecified length of time)
Declension edit
Declension of mig
Derived terms edit
adverbs
Related terms edit
adverb
verbs
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Russian МиГ (MiG).
Noun edit
mig m animal (related adjective migowy)
Declension edit
Declension of mig
Further reading edit
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *migъ.
Noun edit
mȋg m (Cyrillic spelling ми̑г)
Declension edit
Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
- mej (colloquial)
Etymology edit
From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
mig
- me (objective case)
- Såg du mig aldrig där?
- Did you never see me there?
- Kan du lära mig att jonglera?
- Can you teach me how to juggle?
- 1981, X Models (lyrics and music), “Två av oss [Two of us]”:
- Det finns bara en av mig och det är jag. Det finns bara en av dig och det är du. Det finns bara två av oss, och det är vi.
- There is only one of me and that is I. There is only one of you [object] and that is you [subject]. There are only two of us, and that is us [we – subject]. [Swedish has some of the same subject/object fuzziness as English, but a standalone "Det är <pronoun>" idiomatically (through intuition rather than being taught) uses the subject form]
- reflexive of jag; compare myself
- Jag skar mig på kniven.
- I cut myself on the knife.
- (literally, “I cut me on the knife.”)
Usage notes edit
- Note that some verbs have special senses when used reflexively. For example, do not confuse jag lär mig att... ("I learn to...") [reflexive] with du lär mig att... ("you teach me to...") and jag lär mig själv att... ("I teach myself to..."). Here, lär means teach(es) if it is not reflexive, but learn(s) if it is reflexive. Hence the need for the separate pronoun "mig själv" to be used when object and subject agree, but the verb nevertheless should not be used in the reflexive case.
- Mej (along with dej) was popular as a semi-informal spelling around the 1970s to 1980s (as well as long before that, separately), and is therefore seen in many old song lyrics, for example. Usage has now mostly reverted back to mig.
Declension edit
Swedish personal pronouns
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common | neuter | plural | |||||
singular | first | — | jag | mig, mej3 | min | mitt | mina |
second | — | du | dig, dej3 | din | ditt | dina | |
third | masculine (person) | han | honom, han2, en5 | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hon | henne, na5 | hennes | ||||
gender-neutral (person)1 | hen | hen, henom7 | hens | ||||
common (noun) | den | den | dess | ||||
neuter (noun) | det | det | dess | ||||
indefinite | man or en4 | en | ens | ||||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | ||
plural | first | — | vi | oss | vår, våran2 | vårt, vårat2 | våra |
second | — | ni | er | er, eran2, ers6 | ert, erat2 | era | |
archaic | I | eder | eder, eders6 | edert | edra | ||
third | — | de, dom3 | dem, dom3 | deras | |||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina |
1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.
2Informal
3Colloquial pronunciation spelling.
4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.
5Informal, somewhat dialectal
6Formal address
7Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council