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Template:Basic Latin character info

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

  • (Roman numeral one): , i,
  • ("Cardinal number read ordinal", i.e. ordinal): I.

Letter

I (lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

I (lower case i)

  1. The letter i without a dot above, in both the upper case and the lower case versions.

See also

Symbol

I

  1. (deprecated template usage) (chemistry) Symbol for iodine.
  2. (deprecated template usage) (physics) Isotopic spin.
  3. (license plate codes) Italy
  4. (deprecated template usage) (physics, electronics) Electrical current.
  5. (deprecated template usage) (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for isoleucine
  6. (mathematics, linear algebra) identity matrix
  7. (mathematical analysis, topology) the (closed) unit interval; [0, 1]
  8. (deprecated template usage) (inorganic chemistry) Specifying an oxidation state of 1

Cardinal number

I (upper case Roman numeral, lower case i)

  1. cardinal number one.

Usage notes

In titles, this is read as "the first" in English, so George I is read George the first.

See also

See also

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References


English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English I, ik (also ich), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English ih, ic (I), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek (I), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (I). Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots I, ik, A (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] West Frisian ik (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch ik (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Low German ik (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German ich (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Bavarian I (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Danish jeg (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian jeg, eg (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian I (I) (dialectal), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish jag (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Icelandic ég, eg (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ego (I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἐγώ (egṓ), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian я (ja, I), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lithuanian (I). See also ich.

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.

Usage notes

  • The word I is always capitalised in written English. Other forms of the pronoun, such as me and my, follow regular English capitalisation rules.
Synonyms
Translations
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Noun

I (uncountable)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (metaphysics) The ego.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Letter

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I (upper case, lower case i, plural Is or I's)

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

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.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation.

Noun

I (countable and uncountable, plural Is)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (US, roadway) interstate
  2. (deprecated template usage) (grammar) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Abbreviation of instrumental case.

References

Statistics


American Sign Language

Letter

I (Stokoe I)

  1. The letter I

Azeri

Letter

I upper case (lower case ı)

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

See also


Danish

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse (deprecated template usage) ír, variant of (deprecated template usage) ér, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *jūz, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

I (objective jer, possessive jeres)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (personal) you, you all (second person plural)
    I må ikke gå derind!
    You can't go in there!
    • 2014, Diverse forfattere, Fire uger blev til fire år - og andre beretninger, Lindhardt og Ringhof (ISBN 9788711336083)
      Og så er der forresten lidt mere med det samme: I må love os een ting. mor og far, I må ikke efterligne os unge! — For gør I det, ja, så kommer I til at se så morsomme ud. — I må ikke prøve på at løbe fra jeres alder, for det kan I alligevel ikke.
      And by the way, there's something else: You must promise us one thing, mum and dad, you may not imitate us young! — For if you do, you will look so funny. — you may not try to run way from your age, for you can't do that anyway.
    • 1981, Mogens Wolstrup, Vild hyben: danske forfattere skriver om jalousi
      Men det er ikke jeres skyld, siger Ditte. I er unge og kloge. I er grimme og fantastisk smukke. I har modet! I er på rette vej med jeres show. Jeg føler med jeres oprør, og måske derfor kunne jeg ikke klare mere. Jeres hud er glat, I er startet i tide.
      But it is not your fault, Ditte says. You are young and intelligent. You are ugly and amazingly beautiful. You have the courage! You are on the right path with your show. I feel with your rebellion, and perhaps for that reason, I couldn't take any more. Your skin is smooth, you started in time.
    • 2011, Per Ullidtz, Absalons Europa, BoD – Books on Demand (ISBN 9788771142396), page 229
      Og lidt senere ”I har hørt at det er sagt: øje for øje og tand for tand. Men jeg siger jer, at I må ikke sætte jer imod det onde; men dersom nogen giver dig et slag på din højre kind, da vend ham også den anden til! ...
      And a little later ”you have heard it said: an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, you may not resist evil; but if anyone hits you on the right cheek, turn the other towards [whoever hit you]! ...

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Letter

I (capital, lowercase i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Dutch alphabet.

See also

  • Previous letter: H
  • Next letter: J

Esperanto

Letter

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

See also


Finnish

Letter

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Finnish alphabet, called ii and written in the Latin script.

See also

Abbreviation

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  1. improbatur

German

Pronunciation

Letter

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the German alphabet.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

Letter

I m or f (invariable lower case, i)

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

See also


Latvian

Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lv

Etymology

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

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Letter

I

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called i and written in the Latin script.

See also


Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ms

Pronunciation

Letter

I

  1. The ninth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter "sc" should be a valid script code; the value "Latinx" is not valid. See WT:LOS., from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European. More at English I

Pronunciation

Pronoun

I

  1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Pronoun

I

  1. (deprecated template usage) (dialect) I: a first-person singular personal pronoun
  2. (deprecated template usage) (rare, archaic) Template:l/en: a second-person plural nominative pronoun


Portuguese

Letter

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Romanian

Pronunciation

Letter

I (capital, lowercase i)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Romanian alphabet generally representing the phoneme /i/. Preceded by H and followed by Î.

Usage notes

  • Before vowels, this letter usually takes on the sound of /j/
    ianuarie /'ja.nu.a.ri.e/
  • 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'jetsʲ/

Saanich

Pronunciation

Letter

I

  1. The eleventh letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

Letter

I (lower case i)

  1. The sixteenth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also


Slovene

Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sl

Pronunciation

Letter

I (capital, lowercase i)

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

Somali

Pronunciation

Letter

I upper case (lower case i)

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

Usage notes

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

See also


Spanish

Letter

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The ninth letter of the Spanish alphabet.

Abbreviation

Template:rfc-header I

  1. Ilustre
    La I municipalidad de Valparaíso.

Swedish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Swedish ī, ir, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse ír, variant of ér, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *jūz, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *yū́.

Pronoun

I (personal pronoun)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) you (second-person plural nominative)

Synonyms


Turkish

Letter

I (upper case, lower case ı)

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

See also



Vietnamese

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [ʔi˧˧], [ʔi˧˧ ŋan˧˦]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [ʔɪj˧˧], [ʔɪj˧˧ ŋaŋ˦˧˥]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʔɪj˧˧], [ʔɪj˧˧ ŋaŋ˦˥]
  • Phonetic spelling: i, i ngắn

Letter

I (upper case, lower case i)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called i or i ngắn and written in the Latin script.

See also