I

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LetterI.svg
Unicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
Codepoint U+0049
 H ← Basic Latin → J 
See also Appendix:Variations of "i"

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[edit] Translingual

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[edit] Alternative forms

[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.

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[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.

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Other representations of I:

  • 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.

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology 1

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

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I uppercase (lowercase i)

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

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.

[edit] Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

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I

  1. (US, roadway) interstate

[edit] Etymology 3

From Middle English I, from Old English ih (“I”), from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om (“I”). Akin to Middle English ik (N. dial.) and ich (S. dial.) from Old English iċ "I", Early Modern English dialectal ik "I"; Frisian, Dutch and Low German ik, German ich, Bavarian I "I", Icelandic ég, eg, Norwegian & Danish jeg, Swedish jag, Old Norse ek; Latin ego, Ancient Greek ἐγώ (ego), Russian я, Lithuanian aš.

[edit] Pronoun

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.
Inflection
subject I
object me
reflexive myself
possessive my
possessive pronoun mine
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personal pronoun
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English personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Subject Objective Reflexive Possessive 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)
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 —

[edit] Noun

I (uncountable)

  1. (metaphysics) The ego.

[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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I (Stokoe I)

  1. The letter I

[edit] Azeri

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I upper case (lower case ı)

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

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Pronoun

I (objective jer, possessive jeres)

  1. (personal) you, you all

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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
polite form 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
polite form De Dem Deres
Third – de dem deres sig

[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA: /i/

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I (capital, lowercase i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

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  • Previous letter: H
  • Next letter: J

[edit] Esperanto

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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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[edit] Finnish

[edit] Abbreviation

I

  1. improbatur

[edit] German

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I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the German alphabet.

[edit] Italian

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[edit] Pronunciation

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

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I m. and f. inv. (lower case i)

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

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[edit] Middle English

[edit] Etymology

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

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I

  1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

[edit] Romanian

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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/

[edit] Slovene

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[edit] Pronunciation

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I (capital, lowercase i)

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

[edit] Somali

[edit] Pronunciation

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

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I upper case (lower case i)

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

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

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[edit] Spanish

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I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Spanish alphabet.

[edit] Abbreviation

I

  1. Ilustre
    La I municipalidad de Valparaíso.

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Pronoun

I (personal pronoun)

  1. (archaic) you (second person plural)

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[edit] Turkish

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I upper case (lower case ı)

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

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