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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronoun 1.3.1 Usage notes 1.3.2 Synonyms 1.3.3 Translations 1.4 References 1.5 Anagrams 2 Albanian 2.1 Preposition 3 Croatian 3.1 Pronoun 3.1.1 Declension 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Pronoun 4.2.1 Related terms 5 Estonian 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Pronoun 6 Finnish 6.1 Etymology 6.2 Pronunciation 6.3 Pronoun 6.3.1 Inflection 6.3.2 Usage notes 6.3.3 Synonyms 6.4 See also 7 French 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Pronoun 7.2.1 Related terms 8 Galician 8.1 Etymology 8.2 Pronoun 8.3 See also 9 Guaraní 9.1 Noun 10 Haitian Creole 10.1 Etymology 10.2 Noun 11 Ido 11.1 Pronoun 12 Italian 12.1 Pronunciation 12.2 Pronoun 13 Japanese 13.1 Noun 14 Kurdish 14.1 Pronoun 15 Latin 15.1 Pronoun 16 Lingua Franca Nova 16.1 Pronoun 17 Lojban 17.1 Particle 17.1.1 Related terms 18 Mandarin 18.1 Pinyin syllable 18.1.1 Usage notes 19 Nauruan 19.1 Conjunction 20 Old English 20.1 Etymology 20.2 Pronunciation 20.3 Pronoun 21 Portuguese 21.1 Pronunciation 21.2 Pronoun 21.2.1 See also 22 Romani 22.1 Pronoun 23 Scottish Gaelic 23.1 Etymology 23.2 Alternative forms 23.3 Abbreviation 24 Serbo-Croatian 24.1 Pronoun 24.1.1 Declension 25 Slovene 25.1 Pronoun 26 Spanish 26.1 Pronunciation 26.2 Pronoun 27 Vietnamese 27.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: mē, IPA: /miː/, SAMPA: /mi:/
• (US) enPR: mē, IPA: /mi/, SAMPA: /mi/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -iː

[edit] Etymology

Middle English me (acc. & dat. singular) from Old English mē (acc. & dat. singular), cf mec (acc. & reflex. singular) from Proto-Germanic *mīz, mēz (“‘me (dative)’”). Akin to Old High German mir (dat. singular), Old High German mih (acc. & reflex. singular), German mich, mir "me", Dutch me, mij "me", Latin me, Ancient Greek me, eme, Sanskrit mā, mām

[edit] Pronoun

me first person singular pronoun, referring to the speaker

1. As the direct object of a verb.

   Can you hear me?

2. (obsolete) As a reflexive direct object of a verb.

   1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci - And I awoke, and found me here.

3. As the object of a preposition.

   Come with me.

4. As the indirect object of a verb.

   He gave me this.

5. (US, colloquial) As a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.

   1993, Harper’s Magazine, April - When I get to college, I’m gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.

6. (colloquial) As the complement of the copula (“be”, “is”).

   It wasn't me.

7. (Australian, British, chiefly Northeastern) Preceding a noun, marking ownership.

   Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), The Letter - And give us back me cigarette!

8. (colloquial) As the subject of a verb, used with and.

   Me and my friends played a game.

9. (nonstandard) As the subject of a verb, used without and.

   1844, Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, Vol. II - One of them, whose sobriquet was Big-headed Blackboy, was stretched out before the fire, and no answer could be obtained from him, but a drawling repetition, in grunts of displeasure, of “Bel (not) me want to go.”

   2005, Michael Chapman & Matthew Chapman, Teen Girl Squad Issue 10 (cartoon), part of Homestar Runner - Strong Bad: Me gotta see that again.

[edit] Usage notes

Me is traditionally described as the accusative pronoun, meaning it should be used as the object of verbs and prepositions, while the nominative pronoun I should be used as the subject of verbs. However, “accusative” pronouns are widely used as the subject of verbs in colloquial speech if they are accompanied by and: Me and her are friends. This usage is considered incorrect by some prescriptivists.

Some prescriptivists object to the use of me following the verb to be, as in “It wasn’t me.”, considering “It was not I.” to be correct.

Although the genitive use (marking ownership) is commonly used in speech in some dialects, speakers of these dialects usually use my in writing.

Using me as the lone subject (without and) of a verb is a feature of various types of pidgin English, and is sometimes used by speakers of standard English for jocular effect. See me likee, me wantee.

[edit] Synonyms

• (subject of a verb): I
• (reflexive object): myself
• (complement of the copula): I
• (indirect object): us (Australia, UK)
• (marking ownership): my; mine (archaic)
• (vulgar or slang) my ass

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: em

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[edit] Albanian

[edit] Preposition

me

1. with

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[edit] Croatian

[edit] Pronoun

me

1. of me (short (enclitic) form genitive singular of jȃ (“‘I’”))
2. me (short (enclitic) form accusative singular of jȃ (“‘I’”))

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /mə/, SAMPA: /m@/

[edit] Pronoun

me (personal)

1. me; First-person singular, objective, mute form of mij.

[edit] Related terms

See Wiktionary:Dutch inflection

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[edit] Estonian

[edit] Etymology

Short form of meie.

[edit] Pronoun

me

1. we

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[edit] Finnish

[edit] Etymology

From the same Proto-Uralic *me as the Hungarian personal pronoun mi.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [me]
• Hyphenation: me

  Rhymes: -e

[edit] Pronoun

me (personal, plural, stem mei-)

1. we

[edit] Inflection

• Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms don't exist; the abessive is hardly used.
• In addition to the standard set of cases, me and the other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, meidät.

Declension of me noun case singular plural nominative minä me genitive minun meidän partitive minua meitä accusative minut meidät inessive minussa meissä elative minusta meistä illative minuun meihin adessive minulla meillä ablative minulta meiltä allative minulle meille essive minuna meinä translative minuksi meiksi instructive – – abessive minutta meittä comitative – –

[edit] Usage notes

• Although usually omitted in written language (the verb shows both the person and the number), the pronoun is in spoken language practically always used. (cf. the usage of minä (“‘I’”))

[edit] Synonyms

• met (dialectal)
• myö (dialectal)

[edit] See also

• minä
• sinä
• hän
• te
• he

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}
• IPA: /mə/, SAMPA: /m@/

[edit] Pronoun

me (personal, objective case)

1. (direct object) Me.
2. (indirect object) to Me.

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[edit] Galician

[edit] Etymology

From Latin mihi, dative singular form of ego, and from mē, accusative singular form of ego.

[edit] Pronoun

me accusative and dative (nominative eu, oblique min)

1. (to) me (dative singular first-person personal pronoun)
2. me (accusative singular first-person personal pronoun)
3. myself (reflexive singular first-person personal pronoun)

[edit] See also

• Appendix:Galician pronouns
• comigo
• eu
• meu
• min

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[edit] Guaraní

[edit] Noun

me

1. male
2. husband

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[edit] Haitian Creole

[edit] Etymology

From French mai (“‘May’”)

[edit] Noun

me

1. May

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[edit] Ido

[edit] Pronoun

me (personal)

1. I, me

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /mε/, SAMPA: /mE/

[edit] Pronoun

me (personal, objective case)

1. to me

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

me (hiragana め)

1. 目: eye, -th
2. 眼: eye
3. 芽: sprout

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[edit] Kurdish

[edit] Pronoun

me

1. we (the speaker/writer and at least one other person)

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Pronoun

mē (personal pronoun)

1. me, myself; accusative singular of ego.
2. by me, with me, from me; ablative singular of ego.

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[edit] Lingua Franca Nova

[edit] Pronoun

me

1. I, me
2. my

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[edit] Lojban

[edit] Particle

me

1. Converts a sumti to a selbri; x1 is specific to the following sumti in aspect x2.

[edit] Related terms

• me'u

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pinyin syllable

me (form of me0 or me5)

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having the tone, mé.
2. 么: interrogative particle; repetition of a tune small; tender
3. 嚈:
4. 沚: islet in stream; small sandbar
5. 麼, 麽: interrogative final particle; insignificant, small, tiny

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Nauruan

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me

1. and

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mik-, from Proto-Indo-European *me. Cognate with Old Frisian mi, Old Saxon mī (Dutch mij), Old High German mih (German mich), Old Norse mik, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺. The IE root is also the source of Latin me, Greek με, Old Irish mé (Irish mí, Welsh mi), Proto-Slavic *me- (Old Church Slavonic мене, Russian меня), Lithuanian mi, Albanian mua.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /me:/

[edit] Pronoun

mē (personal pronoun)

1. me: accusative or dative singular form of iċ.

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[edit] Portuguese

[edit] Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: me

[edit] Pronoun

me (personal pronoun)

1. me, myself

[edit] See also

Portuguese personal pronouns (edit)
Number	Person	Subject (nominative case)	Direct object (accusative case)	Indirect object (dative case)	com + indirect object
Singular	First	eu	me	mim	comigo
	Second	tu	te	ti	contigo
	Third	ele, ela	lhe, o, a, se	ele, ela, si	consigo
Plural	First	nós	nos	nós	conosco
	Second	vós	vos	vós	convosco
	Third	eles, elas	lhes, os, as, se	eles, elas, si	consigo

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[edit] Romani

[edit] Pronoun

me (personal)

1. I

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[edit] Scottish Gaelic

[edit] Etymology

From mar eisimpleir.

[edit] Alternative forms

• m.e.

[edit] Abbreviation

me

1. e.g.

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[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Pronoun

me (Cyrillic spelling ме)

1. of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“‘I’”))
2. me (accusative singular of jȃ (“‘I’”))

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[edit] Slovene

[edit] Pronoun

me f. (personal)

1. we

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /me/, SAMPA: /me/

[edit] Pronoun

me (objective case)

1. (personal, direct object) me
2. (personal, indirect object) to me, for me
3. (personal, reflexive) myself

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Noun

me

1. tamarind