'm
See also: Appendix:Variations of "m"
English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Contraction of am.
Verb
’m (clitic)
- Am, used especially in I'm.
- 2008, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes, Bantam (→ISBN), page 158:
- “So how'm I not good?”
- 2008, Elizabeth George, Playing for the Ashes, Bantam (→ISBN), page 158:
- (dialect) Various forms of be.
- 1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis
- You'm no better than a baby when they've clacketed at ye for an hour or two without a word of sense from beginnin' to end.
- 1962, John Le Carre, A Murder of Quality:
- "He'm a bad one. Ooh, he'm a bad one, Mister," and she laughed softly. "I seed 'im flying, riding on the wind," she laughed again, "and the moon be'ind 'im, lightin' up the way. They'm close as sisters, moon and Devil."
- 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright 2016, page 180:
- “Ah, it's a wonder we’m got two sticks to us name, with all that plunder what youm 'ad already.”
- 1874, Frances Mary Peard, Thorpe Regis
See also
Etymology 2
Noun
’m
Bavarian
Etymology
Merged unstressed form of am and em or dem.
Article
'm m or n
See also
Bavarian articles
m | n | f | pl | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | ||
definite | nominative | der, da | — | das, es, des | 's | de | d' | de | d' |
accusative | en, den | 'n | |||||||
dative | em, dem | 'm | em, dem | 'm | der, da | — | |||
genitive1 | des | des | der, da | der, da | |||||
indefinite | nominative | a | — | a | — | a | — | ||
accusative | an | 'n | |||||||
dative | am | 'm | am | 'm | a, ana | 'na |
1) higher, formal register
Catalan
Pronoun
'm
- Contraction of me.
Declension
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
Usage notes
- 'm is the reduced (reduïda) form of the pronoun. It is used after verbs ending with a vowel.
- Truca'm. ― Call me.
Cornish
Determiner
'm
Pronoun
'm
Dutch
Pronunciation
Pronoun
'm
- Contracted form of hem
- Hij heeft 'm neergeschoten.
- He shot him.
Declension
Welsh
Determiner
’m
Usage notes
- Unlike fy, does not cause mutation.
- fy nhad — i’m tad
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