moi
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FinnishEdit
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EtymologyEdit
From Middle French moy, from Old French mei, moi, mi (“me”), tonic form of me, from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). More at me.
See cognates in regional languages in France : Norman mei, Gallo mai, Picard moè, Bourguignon moi, Franco-Provençal mè, Occitan me, Corsican me.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
moi
- me (first-person singular direct object pronoun)
- to me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)
SynonymsEdit
- mézigue (argot)
Related termsEdit
French personal pronouns
Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | 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 | se, s’ | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui, soi | |
Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle, soi | ||||||
— | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
Third | Masculine | ils | se, s’ | les | leur | y | en | eux, soi | |
Feminine | elles | elles, soi |
NounEdit
moi m (uncountable)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “moi” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
13th century. From Old Galician and Old Portuguese mui, from muito (“very”).
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
moi
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “mui” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
- “moi” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
- “moi” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
- “moi” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
JapaneseEdit
Naga PidginEdit
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Tonic form of me, from Latin mē.
PronounEdit
moi
Usage notesEdit
- Similar in terms of usage to modern French moi except it may be used as a personal object pronoun where modern French would use me :