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my

See also: Appendix:Variations of "my"

Translingual

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Etymology

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

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my

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

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • (stressed) enPR: mī IPA(key): /maɪ/
    • (Canada, Dialectal) IPA(key): /mʌɪ/, [məi̯]
    • Audio (US):(file)
  • (unstressed) IPA(key): /maɪ/, /mə/
    • (UK, Ottawa Valley) IPA(key): /mɪ/, /mi/
  • (Ireland, Scouse, some speakers) IPA(key): /mi/
  • Homophones: muh, me (some dialects)
  • Rhymes: -aɪ

Etymology 1

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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.

Determiner

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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 the possession of me.
      I have to take my books back to the library soon.
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English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

personal pronoun possessive
pronoun		 possessive
determiner
subjective objective reflexive
first
person		 singular I
me (colloquial)		 me myself
me
mysen		 mine my
mine (before vowels, archaic)
me
plural we us ourselves
ourself
oursen		 ours our
second
person		 singular standard
(historically
formal) 		you you yourself
yoursen		 yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		 your
archaic
(historically
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'allselves y'all's
you guys'
your guys' (proscribed)		 y'all's
your all's (nonstandard)
you guys'
your guys' (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
genderless1 they them themself, themselves theirs their
nonspecific
(formal) 		one one oneself – one's
plural they them
hem, 'em		 themselves
theirsen		 theirs
theirn (obsolete outside dialects)		 their

1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronouns.

Etymology 2

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

Interjection

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my

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

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Dutch mij.

Pronoun

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my (subject ek)

  1. me (object)
Alternative forms
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  • mij (obsolete)
  • mijn (obsolete, rare)

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Afrikaans personal pronouns
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
fem sy haar hare
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.

Etymology 2

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From Dutch mijn.

Determiner

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my

  1. my; of me
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Afrikaans personal pronouns
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
fem sy haar hare
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.

Cameroon Pidgin

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Determiner

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my

  1. 1st person singular possessive determiner

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Cameroon Pidgin possessive determiners
singular plural
1st person my we
2nd person your wuna
3rd person yi dia

Chinese Pidgin English

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Etymology

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From English my.

Pronoun

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my

  1. 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 quotation)
  2. me (object pronoun)
    Synonym: me
  3. my (possessive pronoun)

Cornish

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Alternative forms

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  • (Revived Late Cornish) me

Etymology

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From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī. Cognate with Breton me, Irish mé, Manx mee, Scottish Gaelic mi, and Welsh mi.

Pronoun

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my

  1. I, me
    My a welas.
    I saw.

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Cornish personal pronouns
number person independent
(subject) 		suffixed infixed possessive
(dependent)
enclitic emphatic reduced
singular first my vy evy ma, a 'm owA
second ty jy, sy1 tejy ta, a 'thM dhaS
third2 m ev ev eev va, a 'n yS
f hi hi hyhi N/A 's hyA
plural first ni ni nyni 'gan, 'n agan, 'gan
second3 hwi hwi hwyhwi 'gas, 's agas, 'gas
third i i ynsi 's agaA, 'gaA

1 Uncommon.
2 hun and ins have been suggested as non-binary 3rd person singular pronouns, though these have not yet officially adopted.
3 Infrequently used as a formal alternative to the singular.

S Triggers soft mutation A Triggers aspirate mutation M Triggers mixed mutation

Mutation

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Mutation of my
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
my vy unchanged unchanged fy vy

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Czech my, from Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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my

  1. we

Declension

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Declension of my (pl-only animate pronoun)
plural
nominative my
genitive nás
dative nám
accusative nás
vocative —
locative nás
instrumental námi
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Czech personal pronouns
singular plural
1st person já my
2nd person familiar ty vy
polite vy
3rd person m on oni1
f ona ony
n ono ona
reflexive sebe, se (clitic)

1 animate referents only, for inanimate ones ony is used.

Further reading

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  • “my”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “my”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “my”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Danish

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Noun

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my n (singular definite myet, plural indefinite myer)

  1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

Declension

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Declension of my
neuter
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative my myet myer myerne
genitive mys myets myers myernes

Noun

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my c

  1. micron

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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my

  1. Obsolete spelling of mij.

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Egyptian

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Etymology

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

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Adverb

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miii
  1. likewise
  2. accordingly

References

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  • 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 Sorbian

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Etymology

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

Pronoun

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my pl

  1. we

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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

Manx

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Etymology

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

Conjunction

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my

  1. if

Middle English

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Determiner

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my (subjective pronoun I)

  1. Alternative form of mi

Old Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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my

  1. we (first person plural)

Declension

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Declension of the personal pronouns
Singular 1st person 2nd person Reflexive
Nominative jáz, já ty —
Genitive mne, mě tebe, tě sebe, sě
Dative mně, mi tobě, ti sobě, si
Accusative mě, mne tě, tebe sě, sebe
Locative mně tobě sobě
Instrumental mnú tobú, tebú sobú, sebú
Possessive mój tvój svój
Dual 1st person 2nd person Reflexive
Nominative vě, va, ma vy —
Genitive najú vajú sebe, sě
Dative náma váma sobě, si
Accusative ny, najú vy, vajú sě, sebe
Locative najú vajú sobě
Instrumental náma váma sobú, sebú
Possessive náš, najú váš, vajú svój
Plural 1st person 2nd person Reflexive
Nominative my vy —
Genitive nás vás sebe, sě
Dative nám, nem vám, vem sobě, si
Accusative ny, nás vy, vás sě, sebe
Locative nás vás sobě
Instrumental námi vámi sobú, sebú
Possessive náš váš svój

Descendants

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  • Czech: my

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Old Polish

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my. First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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my

  1. we; first person plural
  2. we; I royal first person plural

Declension

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Declension of my
plural dual
nominative my wa
genitive nas naju
dative nam nama
accusative nas wa
instrumental nami nama
locative nas naju

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  • Polish: my
  • Silesian: my

References

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  • B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “my, ny (?)”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɘ
  • Syllabification: my

Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Polish my.

Pronoun

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my

  1. we; first person plural
  2. we; I royal first person plural
  3. we; I editorial first person plural
Declension
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Declension of my
plural
nominative my
genitive nas
dative nam
accusative nas
instrumental nami
locative nas
vocative —

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Etymology 2

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

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Noun

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my n (indeclinable)

  1. mu (Greek letter Μ, μ)

Trivia

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According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), my is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 88 times in scientific texts, 30 times in news, 138 times in essays, 200 times in fiction, and 419 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 875 times, making it the 49th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

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  1. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “my”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 259

Further reading

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  • my in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • my in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “my”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
  • “MY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2021 June 22
  • Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “my”, in Słownik języka polskiego
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “my”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “my”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 1081

Portuguese

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Pronoun

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my

  1. Obsolete form of mim.

Scots

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited 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”).

Determiner

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my

  1. my
    Synonym: mine

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Scots personal pronouns
personal pronoun possessive
pronoun		 possessive
determiner
subjective objective reflexive
first person singular A, I, Ik me mysel mine, mines mine, my
plural we us, we oorsel, oorsels oors our
second person singular standard (formal) ye
you, yow		 ye
you, yow		 yersel
yoursel		 yers
yours		 yer
your
Insular (informal) thoo thee thysel, theesel thines thy, thee, thees
plural ye, yese
you, youse		 ye, yese
you, youse
theer		 yesels
yoursels		 yers
yours		 yer
your
third person singular masculine he, e him, im himsel, hissel his, is his, is
feminine scho, she, shu her, er hersel hers her, er
neuter it
hit		 it
hit		 itsel
hitsel		 its
hits		 its
hits
genderless, nonspecific
(formal) 		ane ane – – ane's
plural thay thaim thaimsel, thaimsels thairs thair

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Silesian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Polish my.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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my

  1. first-person plural pronoun; we
    Coordinate term: (singular) jŏ

Declension

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Declension of my
plural
nominative my
genitive nŏs, nas
dative nōm, nam
accusative nŏs, nas
instrumental nami
locative nŏs, nas

Further reading

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  • my in silling.org

Slovak

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Etymology

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

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Pronoun

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my

  1. we

Declension

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Declension of my
plurale tantum
nominative my
genitive nás
dative nám
accusative nás
locative nás
instrumental nami
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Slovak personal pronouns
substantive possessive
singular plural singular plural
1st person ja my môj náš
2nd person familiar ty vy tvoj váš
polite vy váš
3rd person m on oni* / ony jeho ich
f ona jej
n ono jeho
reflexive seba, sa (clitic) svoj

* masculine animate only, ony otherwise

Further reading

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  • “my”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Swedish

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Noun

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my n

  1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

Upper Sorbian

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Etymology

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

Pronoun

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my

  1. we

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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 nas
Second person pronouns
singular dual plural
nominative ty wój wy
genitive će
(after preposition) tebje 		waju was
dative ći
(after preposition) tebi 		wamaj wam
accusative će
(after preposition) tebje 		waju was
instrumental tobu wamaj wami
locative tebi 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 nich

Further reading

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  • “my” in Soblex

West Frisian

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Etymology

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

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Pronoun

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my

  1. object of ik
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