my

See also: Appendix:Variations of "my"

TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

Abbreviation of English Myanmar, formerly Burma, where Burmese is spoken.

SymbolEdit

my

(international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Burmese.

EnglishEdit

English Wikipedia has an article on:

my

Wikipedia

Alternative formsEdit

ma, mah, me, muh

PronunciationEdit

(stressed) enPR: mī IPA^(key): /maɪ/
- Audio (US) (file)
(unstressed) IPA^(key): /maɪ/, /mə/
- (unstressed, UK) IPA^(key): /mɪ/, /mi/
(Ireland, Scouse, some speakers) IPA^(key): /mi/
Rhymes: -aɪ
Homophones: muh, me (some dialects)

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (possessive 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

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.
  - 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398, lines 165-166, page 10:
    From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,
4. In the possession of me.
  I have to take my books back to the library soon.

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

mine

TranslationsEdit

belonging to me

Afrikaans: my (af)
Albanian: im (sq)
Alutor: гымнин (ɣəmnin)
American Sign Language: FlatB@Chest-PalmBack
Arabic: ـِي‎ (ar) (-ī) (suffix, enclitic pronoun)
Egyptian Arabic: ـي‎ (-i), ـيا‎ (ya)
Armenian: իմ (hy) (im)
Aromanian: njeu m, meu m, nja f, mea f
Assamese: মোৰ (mür)
Asturian: mio (ast), míu (ast) m, mía (ast) f
Azerbaijani: mənim
Bashkir: минең (mineŋ)
Belarusian: мой (moj)
Bengali: আমার (bn) (amar)
Bikol Central: sako (bcl), sakuya (bcl) (before a noun); ko (bcl) (after a noun)
Brahui: kanna
Breton: ma (br)
Bulgarian: мой (bg) (moj)
Burmese: ကျွန်တော့် (kywantau.) (male speaker), ကျွန်မ (my) (kywanma.) (female speaker)
Catalan: meu (ca) m
Cebuano: aku
Chakma: 𑄟𑄧 (ma)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 我嘅 (ngo⁵ ge³), 我的 (ngo⁵ dik¹) (formal, written)

Mandarin: 我的 (zh) (wǒ de)
Coptic: ⲡⲁ m (pa), ⲧⲁ f (ta), ⲛⲁ m pl or f pl (na)
Cornish: ow
Czech: můj (cs) m
Danish: min (da) c
Dutch: mijn (nl)
Dzongkha: ངའི (nga'i)
Egyptian:

(.j m),

(.j f),

(.j m or f)
Esperanto: mia (eo)
Estonian: minu, mu (et)
Faroese: mín
Finnish: minun ...ni, -ni (fi), minun (fi)
French: mon (fr) m, ma (fr) f, mes (fr) pl
Friulian: gno m
Fula: am
Galician: meu (gl) m, miña (gl) f, mi (gl) m or f (honorific)
Georgian: ჩემი (čemi)
German: mein (de) m
Greek: μου (el) (mou)
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, waga) (also written: 我 (ja))
Kabuverdianu: nha
Kalmyk: мини (mini)
Kazakh: менің (kk) (menıñ)
Khmer: របស់ខ្ញុំ (rɔbɑh kñom)
Korean: 나의 (naui), 내 (ko) (nae), 저의 (ko) (jeoui), 제 (ko) (je)
Kyrgyz: менин (ky) (menin)
Lao: ຂອງຂ້ອຍ (khǭng khǭi)
Latin: meus (la) m
Latvian: mans
Lithuanian: mano (lt)
Louisiana Creole French: mô m, mâ f, mê pl
Low German: min (nds)
Lü: ᦃᦸᧂᦃᦾᧉ (ẋoangẋoay²)
Macedonian: мој (moj)
Malay: saya (ms)
Malayalam: എന്റെ (ml) (enṟe)
Maltese: tiegħi
Manchu: ᠮᡳᠨᡳ (mini)
Maore Comorian: -angu
Maori: tāku sg, āku pl (dominant), tōku sg, ōku pl (subordinate)
Mazanderani: مه‎ (me)
Middle English: mi (before a consonant), min (before a vowel)
Mirandese: miu m
Mongolian: миний (mn) (minii)
Nahuatl: noca, no (nah)
Navajo: shi-
Nepali: मेरो m (mero)
North Frisian:
Föhr: man m
Norwegian: min (no) m
Occitan: meu (oc) m
Ojibwe: nii-
Old Church Slavonic: мои (moj)
Old English: mīn
Oriya: ମୋର (or) (morô), 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, meus (pt) m pl, minhas (pt) f pl
Quechua: (possessive suffix) -y
Romani: mirro m, mirri f, mirre pl
Romanian: meu (ro) m
Russian: мой (ru) m (moj)
Sanskrit: मम (sa) (mama)
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, mìu m
Sinhalese: මගේ (magē)
Slovak: môj (sk)
Slovene: mój (sl)
Slovincian: mȯ́i̭ m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: mój
Southern Altai: мениҥ (meniŋ)
Spanish: mi (es), mis (es) m pl or f pl
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)
Tamil: என் (ta) (eṉ)
Tarantino: mije
Tatar: минем (minem)
Telugu: నా (te) (nā), నా యొక్క (nā yokka)
Thai: ของ ผม (kɔ̌ɔng pǒm) (male speaker), ของ ดิฉัน (kɔ̌ɔng dì-chǎn) (female speaker), ของ ฉัน (kɔ̌ɔng chǎn) (generic, informal)
Tibetan: ངའི (nga'i)
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 (fy)
White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
Yagara: ariba
Yiddish: מײַן‎ (mayn)
Yup'ik: -qa/ka (sg), -gka (dual), -nka (pl.)
Zhuang: duh gou
Zulu: possessive concord + -mi

Etymology 2Edit

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

InterjectionEdit

my

Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.
My, what big teeth you have!

Derived termsEdit

my my

AfrikaansEdit

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /məi/

Etymology 1Edit

From Dutch mij.

PronounEdit

my (subject ek)

me (object)

Alternative formsEdit

mij (obsolete)
mijn (obsolete, rare)

Etymology 2Edit

From Dutch mijn.

DeterminerEdit

my

my; of me

Alternative formsEdit

mij (obsolete)
mijn (obsolete)

Cameroon PidginEdit

Alternative formsEdit

ma

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /ma/

DeterminerEdit

my

1st person singular possessive determiner

Chinese Pidgin EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English my.

PronounEdit

my

I (subject pronoun)
Synonyms: I, me
- 1836 January, “Jargon spoken at Canton: how it originated and has grown into use; mode in which the Chinese learn English; examples of the language in common use between foreigners and Chinese”, in The Chinese Repository, volume IV, number 9, page 433:
  ‘My wanchee takee go away alla this cover, putee nother piece,’ replied I.
  (please add an English translation of this quote)
me (object pronoun)
Synonym: me
my (possessive pronoun)

CornishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

(Standard Cornish) me

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī.

PronounEdit

my

I, me

CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ]
audio (file)

PronounEdit

my

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

Related termsEdit

Czech personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		já	my
2nd person	familiar	ty	vy
2nd person	polite	vy	vy
3rd person	m	on	oni
	f	ona	ony
	n	ono	ona
reflexive		sebe, se (clitic)

DanishEdit

NounEdit

my n (singular definite myet, plural indefinite myer)

The Greek letter μ (mu)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of my

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
neuter gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	my	myet	myer	myerne
genitive	mys	myets	myers	myernes

NounEdit

my c

micron

SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

“my” in Den Danske Ordbog

EgyptianEdit

EtymologyEdit

mj (“like”) +‎ -j (“adverbializing suffix”).

PronunciationEdit

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /miː/
- Conventional anglicization: my

AdverbEdit

ReferencesEdit

James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86.

Lower SorbianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronounEdit

my pl

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

ManxEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish má, from Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂.

ConjunctionEdit

my

if

Middle EnglishEdit

DeterminerEdit

my (subjective pronoun I)

Alternative form of mi

PolishEdit

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

my

Wikipedia ^pl

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): /mɨ/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɨ
Syllabification: my

Etymology 1Edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *me-.

PronounEdit

my

we; first person plural

DeclensionEdit

Declension of my

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

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μῦ (mû), from Phoenician 𐤌‬‎ (m‬ /mēm/).

Alternative formsEdit

mi

NounEdit

my n (indeclinable)

mu (Greek letter Μ, μ)

PortugueseEdit

PronounEdit

my

Obsolete form of mim.

SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): [mi]

PronounEdit

my

we

Related termsEdit

SwedishEdit

NounEdit

my n

The Greek letter μ (mu)

Upper SorbianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

PronounEdit

my

we

DeclensionEdit

Upper Sorbian personal pronouns

First person pronouns
	Singular			Dual		Plural
Nominative	ja			mój		my
Genitive	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
Dative	mi (after preposition) mni			namaj		nam
Accusative	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
Instrumental	mnu			namaj		nami
Locative	mni			namaj		nas
Second person pronouns
	Singular			Dual		Plural
Nominative	ty			wój		wy
Genitive	æe (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
Dative	æi (after preposition) tebi			wamaj		wam
Accusative	æe (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
Instrumental	tobu			wamaj		wami
Locative	tebi			wamaj		was
Third person pronouns
	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Neuter singular	Dual virile	Dual nonvirile	Plural virile	Plural nonvirile
Nominative	wón	wona	wono	wonaj	wonej	woni	wone
Genitive	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeje (after preposition) njeje	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeju		jich (after preposition) nich
Dative	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jej (after preposition) njej	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jimaj (after preposition) nimaj		jim (after preposition) nim
Accusative	jón (after preposition) njón (animate) jeho (animate after preposition) njeho	ju (after preposition) nju	jo, je (after preposition) njo, nje	jeju (after preposition) njeju	jej (after preposition) njej	jich (after preposition) nich	je (after preposition) nje
Instrumental	nim	njej	nim	nimaj		nimi
Locative	nim	njej	nim	nimaj		nich

West FrisianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Frisian mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.

PronunciationEdit

(Clay) IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/
(Wood) IPA^(key): /mi/

PronounEdit

my

object of ik

WestrobothnianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse mý, from Proto-Germanic *mugjǭ, *mują, from Proto-Indo-European *mu (“fly”), *mew-. Cognate with Norwegian mygg, Swedish mygga, Danish myg, Old English mycg, mycge (whence Middle English mygga, English midge); Old High German mucka (German Mücke (“mosquito”)); Latvian muša; Albanian mizë; Russian му́ха (múxa); Ancient Greek μυῖα (muîa); Ukrainian му́ха (múxa); Bulgarian му́ха (múha); Lower Sorbian mucha, Polish mucha and Slovak mucha. Akin to Latin musca (“fly”). Compare the Dutch mug.

PronunciationEdit

IPA^(key): [mýː], [mǿʏ̯ː], [mʊ́ɪ̯ː]
Rhymes: -ýː

(ð-dropping) Rhymes: -ýːð

(northern í-ý merger) Rhymes: -íː

NounEdit

my n

(collective) mosquitoes

NounEdit

my f

mosquito

Derived termsEdit

myskrank (“crane fly”)

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive	possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
first person	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
	singular	archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself thysen	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all y'all you guys	you all y'all you guys	–	y'all's you guys's your guys's (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys's your guys's (proscribed)
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself (archaic) hissen	his hisn (obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself hersen	hers hern (obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itself hitself	its his (archaic)	its his (archaic) hits
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their

		subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st	ek	my		myne
	2nd	jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal	u			u s’n
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
	3rd, fem	sy	haar		hare
	3rd, neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st	ons			ons s’n
	2nd	julle / jul¹			julle s’n
	3rd	hulle / hul¹			hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

		subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st	ek	my		myne
	2nd	jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal	u			u s’n
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
	3rd, fem	sy	haar		hare
	3rd, neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st	ons			ons s’n
	2nd	julle / jul¹			julle s’n
	3rd	hulle / hul¹			hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

my

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InterjectionEdit

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PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronounEdit

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Etymology 2Edit

DeterminerEdit

Alternative formsEdit

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Cameroon PidginEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

DeterminerEdit

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Chinese Pidgin EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronounEdit

CornishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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EtymologyEdit

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PronounEdit

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Further readingEdit

DanishEdit

NounEdit

DeclensionEdit

NounEdit

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EgyptianEdit

EtymologyEdit

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

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ManxEdit

EtymologyEdit

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Middle EnglishEdit

DeterminerEdit

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronounEdit

DeclensionEdit

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Etymology 2Edit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

Further readingEdit

PortugueseEdit

PronounEdit

SlovakEdit

EtymologyEdit

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