my

See also: Appendix:Variations of "my"

Contents

EnglishEdit

Wikipedia

Alternative formsEdit

• ma, mah, me, muh

PronunciationEdit

• (stressed) enPR: mī IPA^(key): /maɪ/

  • Audio (US)

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• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /maɪ/, /mə/
  • (unstressed, Cockney) IPA^(key): /mɪ/, /mi/
• IPA^(key): /mi/ in some speakers of Hiberno-English, Scouse
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophone: muh (some dialects)

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn ‎(“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz ‎(“my, mine”, pron.) (genitive of *ek ‎(“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos ‎(“my; mine”). Cognate with West Frisian myn ‎(“my”), Afrikaans my ‎(“my”), Dutch mijn ‎(“my”), German mein ‎(“my”), Swedish min ‎(“my”). More at me.

DeterminerEdit

my

1. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
   1. Belonging to me.

      I can't find my book.

   2. Associated with me.

      My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.

      Don't you know my name?

      I recognised him because he had attended my school.

   3. Related to me.

      My parents won't let me go out tonight.

   4. In my possession.

      I have to take my books back to the library soon.

Related termsEdit

• mine

Derived termsEdit

terms derived using my

my arse my ass my bad my eye my fellow Americans my foot my God

my goodness my gosh my pleasure my son my way or the highway my word

TranslationsEdit

belonging to me

• Afrikaans: my
• Albanian: im (sq)
• American Sign Language: FlatB@Chest-PalmBack
• Arabic: ـِي ‎(-ī) (suffix, enclitic pronoun)

  Egyptian Arabic: ـي ‎(-i), ـيا ‎(ya)

• Armenian: իմ (hy) ‎(im)
• Aromanian: njeu m, meu m, nja f, mea f
• Asturian: mio (ast), míu (ast) m, mía (ast) f
• Azeri: mənim
• Bashkir: минең ‎(mineñ)
• Belarusian: мой ‎(moj)
• Bengali: আমার (bn) ‎(amar)
• Brahui: kanna
• Breton: ma (br)
• Bulgarian: мой (bg) ‎(moj)
• Catalan: meu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 我嘅 ‎(ngo⁵ ge³, o⁵ ge³), 我的 ‎(ngo⁵ dik¹, o⁵ dik¹) (formal, written)

  Mandarin: 我的 (zh) ‎(wǒ-de)

• Coptic: ⲡⲁ m ‎(pa), ⲧⲁ f ‎(ta), ⲛⲁ m pl, f pl ‎(na)
• Czech: můj (cs) m
• Danish: min (da) c
• Dutch: mijn (nl)
• Egyptian: 𓀀 m ‎(i), 𓁐 f ‎(i), 𓇋 m, f ‎(i)
• Esperanto: mia (eo)
• Estonian: minu, mu (et)
• Faroese: mín
• Finnish: (minun (genitive of minä)) + -ni (possessive suffix)
• French: mon (fr) m, ma (fr) f, mes (fr) pl
• Friulian: gno m
• Galician: meu (gl) m, miña (gl) f
• Georgian: ჩემი ‎(čemi)
• German: mein (de) m
• Greek: μού ‎(moú)

  Ancient: ἐμός ‎(emós), μου ‎(mou) (genitive personal pronoun)

• Hawaiian: koʻu, kaʻu
• Hebrew: שֶׁלִּי ‎(shelí)
• Hindi: मेरा (hi) ‎(merā)
• Hungarian: -m, -om, -am, -em, -öm
• Icelandic: minn (is)
• Ido: mea (io)
• Indonesian: saya (id)
• Interlingua: mi
• Irish: mo (ga) (before a consonant), m' (before a vowel)
• Istriot: meîo m, mio m
• Italian: mio (it) m
• Japanese: 私の (ja) ‎(わたしの, watashi-no), (male speaker) 僕の (ja) ‎(ぼくの, boku-no), 我が (ja) ‎(わが, wa-ga) (also written: 我 (ja))
• Kalmyk: мини ‎(mini)
• Kazakh: менің (kk) ‎(meniñ)
• Khmer: របស់ខ្ញុំ ‎(raboh kñom)
• Korean: 나의 ‎(naui), 내 (ko) ‎(nae), 저의 (ko) ‎(jeoui), 제 (ko) ‎(je)
• Kyrgyz: менин (ky) ‎(menin)
• Latin: meus (la) m
• Latvian: mans
• Lithuanian: mano (lt)
• Lojban: mi (jbo)
• Low German: ^{(please verify)} mien
• Macedonian: мој ‎(moj)
• Malay: saya (ms)
• Malayalam: എന്റെ (ml) ‎(enṟe)
• Maltese: tiegħi

• Manchu: mini
• Maore Comorian: -angu
• Maori: tāku, tōku, āku, ōku
• Mazanderani: مه ‎(me)
• Mirandese: miu m
• Nahuatl: noca, no (nah)
• Navajo: shi-
• North Frisian:

  Föhr: man m

• Norwegian: min (no) m
• Novial: men
• Occitan: meu (oc) m
• Ojibwe: nii-
• Old Church Slavonic: мои ‎(moi)
• Old English: mīn
• Oriya: ମୋର (or) ‎(mor), ମୋ (or) ‎(mo)
• Persian: ـم (fa) ‎(-am) (suffix), من (fa) ‎(... man)
• Pipil: nu-
• Pitjantjatjara: ngayuku
• Polish: mój (pl) m
• Portuguese: meu (pt) m, minha (pt) f
• Quechua: (possessive suffix) -y
• Romanian: meu (ro) m
• Russian: мой (ru) m ‎(moj)
• Sardinian: meu m, miu m

  Logudorese: meu m

• Scots: ma
• Scottish Gaelic: mo
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мој

  Roman: moj

• Shor: меең
• Sicilian: meu (scn) m, m
• Sinhalese: මගේ ‎(magē)
• Slovak: môj (sk)
• Slovene: mój (sl)
• Slovincian: mȯ́i̭ m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mój

• Southern Altai: мениҥ ‎(mänïŋ)
• Spanish: mi (es)
• Swedish: min (sv) c, mitt (sv) n
• Tagalog: (after noun) ko (tl), (before noun) aking
• Tajik: ... ман (tg) ‎(... man)
• Talysh: چمن ‎(cəmən), (for all persons) اشتن ‎(əštan)
• Tatar: минем ‎(minem)
• Telugu: నా (te) ‎(nā), నా యొక్క ‎(nā yokka)
• Thai: ของผม ‎(kŏng pŏm) (male speaker), ของดิฉัน ‎(kŏng dì-chăn) (female speaker), ของฉัน ‎(kŏng chăn) (generic, informal)
• Tlingit: ax̱
• Turkish: benim (tr)
• Turkmen: meniň
• Ukrainian: мій (uk) ‎(mij)
• Urdu: میرا ‎(merā)
• Uzbek: mening (uz)
• Vietnamese: của tôi, tôi (vi) (usually post-position)
• Volapük: obik (vo)
• Welsh: fy
• West Frisian: myn
• Yiddish: מײַן ‎(mayn)
• Zhuang: duh gou
• Zulu: possessive concord + -mi

See alsoEdit

English personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Subject	Objective	Reflexive	Possessive adjective	Possessive pronoun
Singular	First	—	I	me	myself	my, mine (archaic)	mine
	Second	—	you	you	yourself	your	yours, yourn (obsolete outside dialects)
		Archaic	thou	thee	thyself, theeself	thy, thine	thine
	Third	Masculine	he	him	himself, hisself (archaic)	his	his, hisn (obsolete outside dialects)
		Feminine	she	her	herself	her	hers, hern (obsolete outside dialects)
		Neuter	it		itself	its	its
		Indefinite	one		oneself	one's	—
Plural	First	—	we	us	ourselves	our	ours, ourn (obsolete outside dialects)
	Second	—	you, ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	your	yours, yourn (obsolete outside dialects)
	Third	—	they	them	themselves	their	theirs, theirn (obsolete outside dialects)

Etymology 2Edit

An abbreviation of an oath such as my word or my lord

InterjectionEdit

my

1. (dated) Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.

   My, what big teeth you have!

Derived termsEdit

• my my

StatisticsEdit

Most common English words before 1923: him · she · they · #34: my · were · are · their

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AfrikaansEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /məi/

Etymology 1Edit

From Dutch mij.

PronounEdit

my ‎(subject ek)

1. me (object)

See alsoEdit

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessive
singular	1st	ek	my	my
	2nd	jy	jou	jou
	2nd, formal	u		u
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy
	3rd, fem	sy	haar	haar
	3rd, neut	dit		sy
plural	1st	ons		ons
	2nd	julle		julle / jul1
	3rd	hulle		hulle / hul1
1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous.

Etymology 2Edit

From Dutch mijn.

DeterminerEdit

my

1. my; of me

See alsoEdit

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessive
singular	1st	ek	my	my
	2nd	jy	jou	jou
	2nd, formal	u		u
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy
	3rd, fem	sy	haar	haar
	3rd, neut	dit		sy
plural	1st	ons		ons
	2nd	julle		julle / jul1
	3rd	hulle		hulle / hul1
1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous.

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CornishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

PronounEdit

my

1. I, me

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CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos

PronunciationEdit

• audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /mɪ/

PronounEdit

my

1. we

DeclensionEdit

Declension of my

	singular	plural
nominative	já	my
genitive	mě/mne	nás
dative	mně/mi	nám
accusative	mě/mne	nás
vocative	—
locative	mně	nás
instrumental	mnou	námi

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DanishEdit

NounEdit

my n

1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

NounEdit

my c

1. micron

SynonymsEdit

• mikrometer
• mikron

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EgyptianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

Hieroglyphic signage

W19-M17-M17

PronunciationEdit

Wikipedia: Manuel de Codage

AdverbEdit

my

1. accordingly

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LojbanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• my.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mə/

CmavoEdit

my ‎(selma'o BY2 )

1. Letteral for m.

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Lower SorbianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos

PronounEdit

my pl

1. we

DeclensionEdit

Declension of the first-person pronouns

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ja	mej	my
Genitive	mě (after preposition) mnjo	naju	nas
Dative	mě (after preposition) mnjo	nama	nam
Accusative	mě (after preposition) mnjo	naju	nas
Instrumental	mnu	nama	nami
Locative	mnjo	nama	nas
Possessive determiner	mój	naju	naš

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ManxEdit

ConjunctionEdit

my

1. if

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PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mɨ/

• audio

  (file)

PronounEdit

my

1. we (first person pl)

DeclensionEdit

declension of my

	plural
nominative	my
genitive	nas
dative	nam
accusative	nas
instrumental	nami
locative	nas
vocative	—

See alsoEdit

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

External linksEdit

• my in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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PortugueseEdit

PronounEdit

my

1. Obsolete form of mim.

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SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos

PronounEdit

my

1. we

Related termsEdit

• ja
• ty
• on ona ono
• vy
• oni ony

External linksEdit

• my in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

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SwedishEdit

NounEdit

my n

1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

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Upper SorbianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos

PronounEdit

my

1. we

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West FrisianEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /mɛɪ/
• IPA^(key): /mi/ (Eastern)

PronounEdit

my

1. me