I

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The Universal Character Set

Unicode name	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
Basic Latin	U+0049

Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Alternative forms 1.2 Letter 1.2.1 See also 1.3 Symbol 1.4 Cardinal number 1.4.1 Usage notes 1.4.2 See also 1.5 See also 1.6 References 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Etymology 1 2.2.1 Abbreviation 2.3 Etymology 2 2.3.1 Noun 2.4 Etymology 3 2.4.1 Pronoun 2.4.1.1 Translations 2.4.2 Noun 2.4.2.1 Synonyms 2.5 References 3 American Sign Language 3.1 Letter 4 Danish 4.1 Pronoun 4.1.1 Inflection 4.1.2 Related terms 5 Dutch 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Letter 5.3 See also 6 Finnish 6.1 Noun 7 German 7.1 Noun 8 Italian 8.1 Pronunciation 8.2 Noun 9 Romanian 9.1 Pronunciation 9.2 Letter 9.2.1 Usage notes 10 Slovene 10.1 Pronunciation 10.2 Letter 11 Spanish 11.1 Letter 12 Swedish 12.1 Pronoun 12.1.1 Synonyms

[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Alternative forms

• (Roman numeral one): Ⅰ, i, ⅰ

[edit] Letter

I upper case (lower case i)

1. The ninth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

I upper case (lower case ı)

1. The letter i without a dot above, in both the upper case and the lower case versions.

[edit] See also

• (Latin script):  Aa  Bb  Cc  Dd  Ee  Ff  Gg  Hh  Ii  Jj  Kk  Ll  Mm  Nn  Oo  Pp  Qq  Rr  Ss  Tt  Uu  Vv  Ww  Xx  Yy  Zz
• (Variations of letter I):  Íí  Ìì  Ĭĭ  Îî  Ǐǐ  Ïï  Ḯḯ  Ĩĩ  Įį  Īī  Ỉỉ  Ȉȉ  Ȋȋ  Ịị  Ḭḭ  Ɨɨ  ᵻ  ᶖ   İi   Iı  ɪ  Ｉｉ  fi  IJij  IJij
• (Letters using dot sign):  Ȧȧ  Ạạ  Ặặ  Ậậ  Ǡǡ  Ḃḃ  Ḅḅ  Ċċ  Ḋḋ  Ḍḍ  Ėė  Ẹẹ  Ḟḟ  Ġġ  Ḣḣ  Ḥḥ  Ii  İi  Iı  Ịị  Ḳḳ  Ḷḷ  Ṁṁ  Ṃṃ  Ṅṅ  Ṇṇ  Ȯȯ  Ọọ  Ợợ  Ṗṗ  Ṙṙ  Ṛṛ  Ṡṡ  Ṣṣ  ẛ  Ṫṫ  Ṭṭ  Ụụ  Ựự  Ṿṿ  Ẇẇ  Ẉẉ  Ẋẋ  Ẏẏ  Ỵỵ  Żż  Ẓẓ

[edit] Symbol

I

1. (chemistry) Symbol for iodine.
2. (physics) Isotopic spin.
3. (license plate codes) Italy
4. (physics, electronics) Electrical current.
5. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for isoleucine

[edit] Cardinal number

I (upper case Roman numeral, lower case i)

1. cardinal number one.

[edit] Usage notes

In titles, this is read as "the first", so George I is read George the first.

[edit] See also

• Next: II (2)

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Other representations of I:

NATO phonetic: India Morse code: ·· Braille: ⠊ ASL Manual: I

Signal flag:

Semaphore:

Letter styles

Capital and lowercase versions of I, in normal and italic type

Uppercase and lowercase I in Fraktur

[edit] References

• “I” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “I” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.

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[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /aɪ/, SAMPA: /aI/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -aɪ

• Homophones: eye, aye, ay

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Abbreviation.

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I

1. (US, roadway) interstate

[edit] Etymology 2

• Old French i, from Latin ī, from Etruscan I (i).

[edit] Noun

I (plural Is)

1. The capitalised ninth letter of the English alphabet, preceded by H and followed by J.

[edit] Etymology 3

Middle English I from Old English ih from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om. Akin to M.E. ik (N. dial.) and ich (S. dial.) from O.E. iċ "I", Early Mod. Eng. dialectal ik "I"; Frisian, Dutch and Low German ik, German ich, Icel. ég, eg, Norw. & Dan. jeg, Swedish jag, Old Norse ek; Latin ego, Ancient Greek ἐγώ, Russian я.

[edit] Pronoun

I first person singular subject personal pronoun (objective me, possessive my, possessive noun mine, reflexive myself)

1. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject of a sentence.

Inflection

object	me
reflexive	myself
possessive	mine or my

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[edit] Noun

I (uncountable)

1. (metaphysics) The ego.

[edit] Synonyms

• (vulgar, slang) my ass, m'ass

[edit] References

• “I” in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “I” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "I" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

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[edit] American Sign Language

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(Stokoe I)

1. The letter I

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Pronoun

I

1. (personal) you, you all

[edit] Inflection

• nominative: I
• accusative: jer
• dative: jer

[edit] Related terms

• du
• jeres

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /i/

[edit] Letter

I (capital, lowercase i)

1. The ninth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

[edit] See also

• Previous letter: H
• Next letter: J

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[edit] Finnish

[edit] Noun

I

1. improbatur

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[edit] German

[edit] Noun

I n.

1. i (name of the letter I, i)

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /i/, SAMPA: /i/

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia ^it

I m. and f. inv.

1. The ninth letter of the Italian, and of the Latin alphabets

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /i/

[edit] Letter

I (capital, lowercase i)

1. The eleventh letter of the Romanian alphabet generally representing the phoneme /i/. Preceded by H and followed by Î.

[edit] Usage notes

• Before and after vowels, this letter usually takes on the sound of /j/

  ianuarie /'ja.nu.a.ri.e/

  femei /fe'mej/

• At the ends of words (except verb infinitives, and those ending in a consonant cluster ending in l or r), the letter palatalizes the previous syllable and is "whispered": /ʲ/

  băieţi /bə'jeʦʲ/

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[edit] Slovene

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[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Letter

I (capital, lowercase i)

1. The 10th letter of the Slovene alphabet. Preceded by H and followed by J.

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Letter

I (upper case, lower case i)

1. The tenth letter of the Spanish alphabet.

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Pronoun

I (personal pronoun)

1. (archaic) you (second person plural)

[edit] Synonyms

• ni