FYI

See also: fyi

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛfwaɪˈaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Initialism

FYI

1. Initialism of for your information.
   • 1948, "Don Burke, chief of TIME Inc.'s Cairo bureau," Time, 14 Jun.,

     At the close of a recent cable describing the recovery of his censor-held photographs of the fighting in the Holy Land, LIFE Photographer John Phillips added the casual postscript: "FYI, Burke narrowly escaped death outside Jerusalem a few days ago."

Translations

for your information

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 供您参考

• Dutch: ter informatie
• Finnish: tiedoksesi, tiedoksenne
• French: pour information, pour info (fr), pour mémoire (fr)
• German: zu deiner Information, zu Ihrer Information
• Hungarian: tájékoztatásul
• Italian: per vostra informazione

• Korean: 참고로 (chamgoro)
• Persian: جهت اطلاع‎‎ (jahat-e ettelâ')
• Polish: do twojej wiadomości
• Portuguese: para a sua informação
• Russian: к вашему сведению (k vašemu svedeniju)
• Spanish: para tu información, (Usted form) para su información
• Turkish: bilginize, bilgilerinize

Usage notes

• Although its usage long predates the internet and text messaging, FYI is now probably used most frequently in electronic communications.

Anagrams

• -ify