I

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Translingual[edit]

LetterI.svg
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
Codepoint U+0049
 H ← Basic Latin → J 
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Alternative forms[edit]

Letter[edit]

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.

See also[edit]

Symbol[edit]

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

Cardinal number[edit]

I (upper case Roman numeral, lower case i)

  1. cardinal number one.

Usage notes[edit]

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

See also[edit]

See also[edit]

Other representations of I:

  • Letter styles

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

  • Uppercase and lowercase I in Fraktur

References[edit]

  • “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.

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Letter[edit]

I uppercase (lowercase i)

  1. The ninth letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.
See also[edit]

Number[edit]

I upper case (lower case i)

  1. The ordinal number ninth, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

Etymology 2[edit]

Abbreviation.

Abbreviation[edit]

I

  1. (US, roadway) interstate

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English I, ik (also ich), from Old English ih, ic (“I”), from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”). Cognate with Scots I, ik, A (“I”), West Frisian ik (“I”), Dutch ik (“I”), Low German ik (“I”), German ich (“I”), Bavarian I (“I”), Danish jeg (“I”), Swedish jag (“I”), Icelandic ég, eg (“I”), Latin ego (“I”), Ancient Greek ἐγώ (ego), Russian я (ja, “I”), Lithuanian aš (“I”). See also ich.

Pronoun[edit]

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

  1. The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
      It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort, / Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile / A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort, / In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
personal pronoun
See also[edit]
English personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Subject Objective Reflexive Possessive adjective Possessive pronoun
Singular First — I me myself my mine
Second — you,
thou (archaic)		 you,
thee (archaic)		 yourself,
thyself (archaic)
theeself (archaic)		 your,
thy (archaic)		 yours,
thine (archaic)
Third Masculine he him himself his
Feminine she her herself her hers
Neuter it itself its its (rare)
Gender-neutral they them themself their theirs
Plural First — we us ourselves our ours
Second — you,
ye (archaic)		 you yourselves your yours
Third — they them themselves their theirs
Indefinite Third — one oneself one's —

Noun[edit]

I (uncountable)

  1. (metaphysics) The ego.
Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • “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.

Statistics[edit]

American Sign Language[edit]

Letter[edit]

I (Stokoe I)

  1. The letter I

Azeri[edit]

Letter[edit]

I upper case (lower case ı)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Azeri alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse ír, variant of ér, from Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

Pronoun[edit]

I (objective jer, possessive jeres)

  1. (personal) you, you all

See also[edit]

Danish personal pronouns
Number Person Inflection Nominative Accusative Possessive Reflexive Reflexive possessive
Singular First common jeg mig min
neuter mit
plural mine
Second common du dig din
neuter dit
plural dine
formal De Dem Deres
Third masculine han ham hans sig sin
feminine hun hende hendes
common den den dens
neuter det det dets sit
plural sine
Plural First — vi os vores
common vor
neuter vort
plural vore
Second – I jer jeres
formal De Dem Deres
Third – de dem deres sig

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (letter name): IPA: /i/

Letter[edit]

I (capital, lowercase i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also[edit]

  • Previous letter: H
  • Next letter: J

Esperanto[edit]

Letter[edit]

I upper case (lower case i)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

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Finnish[edit]

Letter[edit]

I upper case (lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ii and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Abbreviation[edit]

I

  1. improbatur

German[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the German alphabet.

Italian[edit]

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia it

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (phoneme; name of letter) IPA: /i/
  • (phoneme, when followed by a vowel in the same syllable) IPA: /j/

Letter[edit]

I m, f (invariable lower case, i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Italian alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Latvian[edit]

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia lv

Etymology[edit]

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Letter[edit]

I

I upper case (lower case i)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Malay[edit]

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia ms

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Name of letter) IPA: [ai̯]
  • (Phoneme) IPA: [i]
  • (Phoneme, Closed ultima) IPA: [e]

Letter[edit]

I

  1. The ninth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Old English iċ, from Proto-Indo-European. More at English I

Pronoun[edit]

I

  1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

I

  1. (dialect) I: a first-person singular personal pronoun
  2. (rare, archaic) you: a second-person plural nominative pronoun

Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

I (capital, lowercase i)

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

Usage notes[edit]

  • Before vowels, this letter usually takes on the sound of /j/
    ianuarie /'ja.nu.a.ri.e/
  • 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'jetsʲ/

Slovene[edit]

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia sl

Pronunciation[edit]

Letter[edit]

I (capital, lowercase i)

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

Somali[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (phoneme): IPA: /ɪ/, /i/
  • (letter name): IPA: /ʔɪ/

Letter[edit]

I upper case (lower case i)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Somali alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes[edit]

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by E and followed by O.

See also[edit]

Spanish[edit]

Letter[edit]

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Abbreviation[edit]

I

  1. Ilustre
    La I municipalidad de Valparaíso.

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish ī, ir, from Old Norse ír, variant of ér, from Proto-Germanic *jūz, from Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

Pronoun[edit]

I (personal pronoun)

  1. (archaic) you (second-person plural nominative)

Synonyms[edit]

Turkish[edit]

Letter[edit]

I upper case (lower case ı)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ı and written in the Latin script.

See also[edit]

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