I'm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "im"

English

Alternative forms

• I 'm (obsolete)

Etymology

Contraction of I am.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /aɪm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /a(ɪ)m/

• Audio (US):

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• (unstressed, also) IPA^(key): /əm/, /ʌm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm

Contraction

I'm

1. Contraction of I am.

Usage notes

• The contraction I'm is not used when the word am would act as an auxiliary (and fall at the end of a clause). For example, in response to the question "Are you okay?", the reply "Yes, I'm okay" is widely used, while "Yes, I'm" (as a complete sentence) or even "Yes, I'm, but..." are never used, and would always be said as "Yes, I am" or "Yes, I am, but..." respectively. This is in keeping with a general rule that certain contractions are never used at the end of a clause.

Synonyms

• am (informal or dialectal)
• cham (West Country, obsolete)

Translations

Contraction

• Arabic: أَنَا ... (ar) (ʔanā ...); أَكُونُ (ʔakūnu) (verb كان (ar) (kān) is rarely used in the present tense)
• Catalan: jo sóc
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 我是 (zh) (wǒ shì), 我... (zh) (wǒ ...) (是 (shì) is not used with adjectives)

• Danish: jeg er
• Dutch: ik ben ...
• Esperanto: mi estas
• Faroese: eg eri
• Finnish: minä olen, olen (fi); minulla on, oon (fi) (colloquial)
• French: chuis (fr) (informal)
• Georgian: მე ვარ (me var)
• German: ich bin ...

  German Low German: ik bün

  Low German:

• Greek: είμαι (el) (eímai)
• Hebrew: אני ... (he) (aní ...)
• Hindi: मैं... हूँ (hi) (ma͠i... hū̃)
• Hungarian: ... vagyok (hu)
• Icelandic: ég er (is)
• Ido: me esas
• Italian: sono (it)
• Japanese: 私は...です (ja) (watashi wa ... desu)
• Korean: 저는 ...(이)예요 (ko) (jeo-neun ...(i)yeyo)
• Macedonian: јас сум (jas sum)
• Mongolian: би ... (mn) (bi ...)
• Norwegian: jeg er (no)
• Persian: ... هستم (fa) (... hastam), ... ام (fa) (... am) / ... ـم (... -am)
• Polish: jestem ... (pl) (the following noun is in the instrumental, adjective is in the nominative case)
• Portuguese: (eu) sou, (eu) estou
• Romanian: eu sunt, sunt (ro)
• Scots: A'm
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ја сам

  Roman: ja sam (sh)

• Slovak: som ... (sk)
• Slovene: jaz sem
• Spanish: (yo) soy
• Swedish: jag är
• Tagalog: ako si
• Thai: ผมเป็น... (th) m (pom bpen ...), ดิฉันเป็น... (th) f (dichan bpen ...), (เป็น (bpen) is not used with adjectives) ผม... (th) m (pom ...), ดิฉัน... (th) f (dichan ...)
• Ukrainian: я ... (uk) (ja ...) (verb бути is not used in the present tense)
• Vietnamese: tôi là ... (vi), (là is not used with adjectives) tôi ... (vi)
• Volapük: binob ...
• Yiddish: כ׳בין (kh'bin)
• Yup'ik: wiinga ...-augua

Anagrams

• MI, mi, mi.