me

See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Cognate with Scots me (“me”), North Frisian me (“me”), Saterland Frisian mie (“me”), Dutch me, mij (“me”), Low German mi (“me”), German mir (“me”, dative), Icelandic mér (“me”, dative), Latin mē (“me”), Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé, “me”), Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /miː/
• enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /mi/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophone: mee

Pronoun

me (first-person singular pronoun, referring to the speaker)

1. As the direct object of a verb.

   Can you hear me?
2. (obsolete) Myself; 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) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
   • 1993 April, Harper's Magazine:

     When I get to college, I'm gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.

6. (colloquial) As the complement of the copula (be or is).

   It wasn't me.

   • 2017, Theresa May, “Andrew Neil interviews Theresa May: full transcript”, in The Spectator‎^[1]:

     It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.

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

   Me and my friends played a game.

8. (nonstandard, not with and) As the subject of a verb.
   • 1844, Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, volume 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 (Homestar Runner), number 10:

     Strong Bad: Me gotta see that again.

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, for example, "me and her are friends". This usage is traditionally considered incorrect, and "she and I are friends" would be the preferred construction.

Using me as the lone subject (without and) of a verb (e.g. "me want", "me like") is a feature of various types of both pidgin English and that of infant English-learners, and is sometimes used by speakers of standard English for jocular effect (e.g. "me likee", "me wantee").

Although in the spoken version of some dialects 'me' is commonly used as a possessive, in writing, speakers of these dialects usually write my.

Some prescriptivists object to the use of me following the verb to be, as in "It wasn’t me". The phrase "It was not I" is considered to be correct, though this may be seen as extreme and used for jocular effect.

Synonyms

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

Translations

me — see me/translations

Etymology 2

Variant form.

Determiner

me

1. (UK regional, British, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of my
   • (Can we date this quote?), Wilfred Owen, “The Letter”, in Douglas Kerr, editor, The Works of Wilfred Owen, page 54:

     There don't seem much to say just now. / (Yer what? Then don't, yer ruddy cow! / And give us back me cigarette!)

   • 1995, A Close Shave:

     Get off me cheese! Get off! Get off!

   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 99:

     "What have I ever done to prove me worth, or where I could at least say as I'd made a difference?"

Translations

my — see also my

• Armenian: իմ (hy) (im)
• Czech: můj (cs)
• Danish: min (da)
• Dutch: mijn (nl), m'n (nl) (informal)
• Esperanto: mia (eo)
• Finnish: minun (fi), mun (fi) (nonstandard)
• French: mon (fr) m, ma (fr) f, mes (fr) pl
• Icelandic: minn (is) m, mín (is) f, mitt (is) n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: мој (moj)
• Norwegian: min (no)
• Novial:
• Portuguese: meu (pt) m, meus (pt) m pl, minha (pt) f, minhas (pt) f pl
• Russian: мой (ru) (moj)
• Scottish Gaelic: mo
• Slovak: môj (sk)
• Spanish: mi (es) m or f, mis (es) m pl or f pl
• Swedish: min (sv) c, mitt (sv) n, mina (sv) pl
• Vietnamese: của tôi (see usage note at tôi)

See also

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself thysen	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all y'all you guys	you all y'all you guys	y'allselves	y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed)
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself (archaic) hissen	his hisn (obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself hersen	hers hern (obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itself hitself	its his (archaic)	its his (archaic) hits
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their

References

• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]

Anagrams

• 'em, EM, Em, em, em-

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Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *me(t). Cognate to Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “after, beyond; in the middle, between”), Gothic miþ (“with”), Old Norse með.

Preposition

me (+ accusative)

1. with (accompanied by)

   Shkoj me tim vëlla.

   I'm going with my brother.

2. with (possessing)

   E sheh djalin me sytë e kaltër?

   Do you see the guy with blue eyes?

3. with (by means of)

   Preferoj të shkruaj me penë.

   I prefer to write with a pen.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *manu, compare Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin”), Old Armenian մանր (manr, “small”). Alternatively it could represent a continuation of Proto-Indo-European *mṇi̯ō, to be compared with Latin minuō (“lessen”), Proto-Slavic *mьnь (“smaller”) and the like.

Adjective

me (feminine mee)

1. insufficient, scanty, not full

Derived terms

• mehem
• mej
• metë

 

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Angloromani

Alternative forms

• ma, mai, mei, mey, mi

Etymology

Inherited from Romani me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meɪ]

Pronoun

me

1. I

   Synonyms: mandi, tutti

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Annobonese

Etymology

From Portuguese mãe (“mother”).

Noun

me

1. mother

References

• 2005, John H. McWhorter, Defining Creole

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Asturian

Alternative forms

• m' (before a vowel)

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative singular of ego. As an indirect pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative singular of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronoun

me

1. me (first-person plural direct pronoun)
2. me (first-person plural indirect pronoun)

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Carolinian

Conjunction

me

1. and

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-.

Pronoun

me (enclitic, contracted 'm, proclitic em, contracted proclitic m')

1. me (direct or indirect object)

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi3	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
1st person majestic1	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
2nd person formal1	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person very formal2	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l’4	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal2	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive		en, n’	-ne, ’n
locative		hi	-hi
1) Behaves grammatically as plural. 2) Behaves grammatically as third person.			3) Only as object of a preposition. 4) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Related terms

• Template:related terms

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Chuukese

Conjunction

me

1. and

Preposition

me

1. from

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Cimbrian

Article

me

1. (Sette Comuni) the; definite article for two declensions:
   1. dative singular masculine
   2. dative singular neuter

See also

Cimbrian definite articles
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Nominative	dar	de / di	's / z	de / di
Accusative	in	de / di	's / z	de / di
Dative	me	dar	me	in

References

• “me” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

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Cornish

Alternative forms

• my (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form)

Pronoun

me

1. (Standard Cornish) I, me

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/

• Audio:

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Pronoun

me

1. objective unstressed form of ik (“I”)

Inflection

Dutch personal pronouns

	subject		object		possessive			reflexive	genitive5
singular	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	pred.
1st person	ik	'k1	mij	me	mijn	m'n1	mijne	me	mijner, mijns
2nd person	jij	je	jou	je	jouw	je	jouwe	je	jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer, uws
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich	uwer, uws
3rd person masculine	hij	ie1	hem	'm1	zijn	z'n1	zijne	zich	zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine	zij	ze	haar	h'r1, 'r1, d'r1	haar	h'r1, 'r1, d'r1	hare	zich	harer, haars
3rd person neuter	het	't1	het	't1	zijn	z'n1	zijne	zich	zijner, zijns
plural
1st person	wij	we	ons	–	ons, onze2	–	onze	ons	onzer, onzes
2nd person	jullie	je	jullie	je	jullie	je	–	je	–
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer, uws
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich	uwer, uws
3rd person	zij	ze	hen3, hun4	ze	hun	–	hunne	zich	hunner, huns
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).				5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, gelle (object form elle) and variants are commonly used colloquially in Belgium. Archaic forms are gijlieden and gijlui ("you people").

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Estonian

Etymology

Short form of meie, from .

Pronoun

me (genitive me, partitive meid)

1. we

Declension

Declension of mina (irregular)

	singular	plural
nominative	mina / ma	meie / me
genitive	minu / mu	meie
partitive	mind	meid
illative	minusse / musse	meisse
inessive	minus / mus	meis
elative	minust / must	meist
allative	minule / mulle	meile
adessive	minul / mul	meil
ablative	minult / mult	meilt
translative	minuks	meieks
terminative	minuni	meieni
essive	minuna	meiena
abessive	minuta	meieta
comitative	minuga	meiega

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Finnish

Etymology

From , from Proto-Uralic *me. The word is inflected as plural, but there is no plural marker in the nominative, except in dialects (met).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme/, [ˈme̞]
• Hyphenation: me
• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

me (stem mei-)

1. we

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. (compare the usage of minä (“I”))

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 allative minulle meille essive minuna meinä translative minuksi meiksi abessive – – instructive minutta meittä comitative – –

Synonyms

• met (dialectal)
• myö (dialectal)

Derived terms

• me-henki

See also

• minä
• sinä
• hän
• te
• he

Anagrams

• em.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French me, from Old French me, from Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Northern dialects have preserved a form mi for the indirect object (also found in Old French in the Oaths of Strasbourg), from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a Vulgar Latin *mi, whereas in standard French, it has merged into me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/
• IPA^(key): /mø/

• audio:

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• Rhymes: -ə

Pronoun

me (personal, objective case)

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

Further reading

• “me”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Galician

Pronoun

me

1. inflection of eu:
   1. accusative/dative
   2. reflexive

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Guaraní

Noun

me

1. male
2. husband

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mai (“May”)

Noun

me

1. May

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Hawaiian

Preposition

me

1. with

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː

Interjection

me

1. baa (representing the bleating sound sheep make)

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Ido

Etymology

From English me, French me, Italian me, Spanish me, from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/, /mɛ/

Pronoun

me (first-person singular)

1. I, me

   Me es tre felica.

   I am very happy.

   Ka vu parolas a me?

   Are you talking to me?

Derived terms

• mea (“my, mine”)

Noun

me (plural me-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter M/m.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze ^{(Category: io:Latin letter names)}

See also

    Personal pronouns in Ido

		Singular			Plural
		Nominative	Possessive		Nominative	Possessive
			Singular	Plural		Singular	Plural
First person		me	mea	mei	ni	nia	nii
Second person	Formal	vu	vua	vui	vi	via	vii
	Familiar	tu	tua	tui
Third person	Masculine	ilu, il	ilua	ilui	ili	ilia	ilii
	Feminine	elu, el	elua	elui	eli	elia	elii
	Neuter	olu, ol	olua	olui	oli	olia	olii
	Common	lu	lua	lui	li	lia	lii
	Reflexive	su	sua	sui	su	sua	sui
Indefinite		onu, on	onua	onui	onu, on	onua	onui
Notes
The possessive plurals are seldom used.
The shortened forms are preferred.
The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios.

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Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative singular of ego.

Pronoun

me

1. objective of i; me; to me
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,

     You seem to me a goddess among the gods,

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin mē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/
• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

me (personal, objective case)

1. (disjunctive, emphatic) me

Pronoun

me

1. Alternative form of mi

Usage notes

Used when followed by a third-person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

See also

Italian personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Reflexive	Accusative	Dative	Combined	Disjunctive	Locative	Partitive
Singular	first	—	io	mi, m', -mi			me	me	—
	second	—	tu	ti, t', -ti			te	te
	third	m	lui	si2, s', -si	lo, l', -lo	gli, -gli	glie, se2	lui, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f	lei, Lei1		la, La1, l', L'1, -la, -La1	le3, Le1, -le3, -Le1		lei, Lei1, sé
Plural	first	—	noi	ci, c', -ci			ce	noi	—
	second	—	voi, Voi4	vi, Vi4, v', V'4, -vi, -Vi4			ve	voi, Voi4
	third	m	loro, Loro1	si, s', -si	li, Li1, -li, -Li1	gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro1	glie, se	loro, Loro1, sé	ci, c', vi, v' (formal)	ne, n'
		f			le, Le1, -le, -Le1
1	Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
2	Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
3	Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language.
4	Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).

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Japanese

Romanization

me

1. Rōmaji transcription of め (hiragana)
2. Rōmaji transcription of メ (katakana)

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Kein

Noun

me

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975) (as mɛ)
• Bemal Organized Phonology Data (as me)

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Kurdish

Etymology 1

Pronoun

1. : us, we

Etymology 2

Verb

1. .

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”). Cognate with Ancient Greek με (me), ἐμέ (emé, “me”), Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”), Old English me, Old Frisian mi, Old Saxon mī, Dutch mij, Old High German mih (German mich), Old Norse mik, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺 (mik). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin me, Greek με (me), Old Irish mé (Irish mí, Welsh mi), Proto-Slavic *mene (Old Church Slavonic мене (mene), Russian меня́ (menjá)), Lithuanian mi, Albanian mua.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /meː/, [meː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me/, [mɛː]

• Audio (Classical):

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Pronoun

Template:la-pronoun-form (personal pronoun)

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

Derived terms

• mēcum, mēmet

Descendants

• Aromanian: mi
• Catalan: me
• French: me, moi
• Galician: me
• Italian: me, mi

• Portuguese: me
• Romanian: mă
• Sicilian: mi
• Spanish: me

References

• “me”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “me”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

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Mandarin

Romanization

me (me⁵／me⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄜ)

1. Template:pinyin reading of
2. Template:pinyin reading of
3. Template:pinyin reading of
4. Template:pinyin reading of
5. Template:pinyin reading of

me

1. Nonstandard spelling of mē.

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

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Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French mai

Noun

me

1. May

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Mengen

Noun

me

1. (drinkable) water
2. any liquid
3. (non-tidal) stream, river

References

• F. Madden, Mengen Dictionary (2006)
• Dan Rath, Mengen Dialect Survey (1991) (me, mee)

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Middle English

Etymology 1

, from Proto-Indo-European. More at English me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/
• Rhymes: -eː

Pronoun

me (nominative I)

1. me (first-person singular accusative pronoun)
2. (reflexive) myself

Descendants

• English: me
• Scots: me

References

• “me (pron.2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Etymology 2

Determiner

me (nominative I)

1. Alternative form of mi.

References

• “min, (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Etymology 3

From man, men, by way of phonemic reduction in unstressed positions.

Pronoun

me

1. Typically singular, indefinite pronoun: one, you (indefinite).

See also

• man
• ei

References

• “me (pron.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• m' (before a vowel)

Etymology

From Old French me.

Pronoun

me

1. me, first-person singular object pronoun
2. to me, first-person singular indirect object pronoun

Synonyms

• (first-person singular object and indirect object pronoun): moy (with verbs in the imperative)

Descendants

• French: me

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Nalca

Noun

me

1. son
2. child

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Nauruan

Conjunction

me

1. and

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Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin mē.

Alternative forms

• mme, m', mm'

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/
• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

me

1. me (accusative or dative or reflexive or prepositional)

Coordinate terms

Number	Person	Nominative	Accusative	Dative	Reflexive	Possessive	Prepositional
singular	first-person	io (i')	me			mìo, mìa, mieje, meje	me, méne
	second-person, familiar	tu	te			tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje	te, téne
	second-person, formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	'i, 'e (li, le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	ìsso
	third-person, feminine	éssa	'a (la)	'e (le)			éssa
plural	first-person	nuje	ce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second-person, plural	vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsse	'i, 'e (li, le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro
	third-person, feminine	llòro	'e (le)

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Norman

Alternative forms

• mé (continental Normandy, Jersey)
• maïr (Guernsey)

Noun

me f (plural mes)

1. (Sark) sea

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North Frisian

Pronoun

me

1. First-person singular, objective: me

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• vi

Etymology

Probably from Old Norse mit (“we two, the both of us”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/
• Homophone: med

Pronoun

me

1. we

   Kva skal me gjera?

   What shall we do?

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk personal pronouns

person	first person	second person	reflexive	third person
case	singular			singular masculine	singular feminine	singular neuter
nominative	eg, je1	du		han	ho	det, dat2
accusative	meg	deg	seg	han, honom2	ho, henne2	det, dat2
dative2	meg	deg	seg	honom	henne	di2
genitive	min	din	sin	hans	hennar, hennes1	dess3
case	plural
nominative	me, vi	de, dokker			dei
accusative	oss, okk	dykk, dokker	seg		dei, deim2
dative	oss, okk	dykk, dokker	seg		deim2
genitive	vår, okkar	dykkar, dokkar	sin		deira, deires1

¹Obsolete. ²Landsmål. ³Rare or literary. Cursive forms unofficial today.

References

• “me” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Novial

Pronoun

1. I; me
2. (reflexive) myself

Related terms

• men

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz, dative of *ek, 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 (mik). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin me, Greek με (me), Old Irish mé (Irish mí, Welsh mi), Proto-Slavic *mene (Old Church Slavonic мене (mene), Russian меня́ (menjá)), Lithuanian mi, Albanian mua.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/

Pronoun

mē

1. (personal) accusative/dative of iċ: (to) me

Descendants

• Middle English: me
  • English: me
  • Scots: me

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative of ego. As an indirect object pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a Vulgar Latin *mi (compare the form mi in particular, found in early Old French in the Oaths of Strasbourg).

Pronoun

me

1. myself (first-person singular reflexive pronoun)
2. me (first-person singular direct object pronoun)
3. to me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)

Related terms

• moi/mei

Descendants

• Middle French: me
  • French: me

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀫𑁂 (Brahmi script)
• मे (Devanagari script)
• মে (Bengali script)
• මෙ (Sinhalese script)
• မေ (Burmese script)
• เม (Thai script)
• ᨾᩮ (Tai Tham script)
• ເມ (Lao script)
• មេ (Khmer script)
• 𑄟𑄬 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

me

1. enclitic genitive/dative/instrumental/ablative singular of ahaṃ

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛ/

Pronoun

me

1. Alternative form of moje.

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese me, from Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-. As an objective indirect pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/, /me/
• IPA^(key): /mɨ/
• Hyphenation: me
• Rhymes: -i

Pronoun

me (personal pronoun)

2. first-person singular objective direct personal pronoun; me
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 228:

     Você está me chamando de maluco?

     Are you calling me crazy?

   Meus amigos me ligaram.

   My friends called me.

4. first-person singular objective indirect personal pronoun; (to) me

   Dê-me o copo.

   Give me the glass.

6. first-person singular reflexive pronoun; myself

   Este tipo de tratamento me faz querer me enforcar.

   This kind of treatment makes me want to hang myself.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:me.

See also

Portuguese personal pronouns (edit)
Number	Person	Nominative (subject)		Accusative (direct object)		Dative (indirect object)	Prepositional		Prepositional with com		Non-declining
		m	f	m	f	m and f	m	f	m	f	m	f
Singular	First	eu		me			mim		comigo
	Second	tu		te			ti		contigo		você
											o senhor	a senhora
	Third	ele	ela	o (lo, no)	a (la, na)	lhe	ele	ela	com ele	com ela	o mesmo	a mesma
				se			si		consigo
Plural	First	nós		nos			nós		connosco (Portugal) conosco (Brazil)		a gente
	Second	vós		vos			vós		convosco, com vós		vocês
											os senhores	as senhoras
	Third	eles	elas	os (los, nos)	as (las, nas)	lhes	eles	elas	com eles	com elas	os mesmos	as mesmas
				se			si		consigo
Indefinite				se			si		consigo

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Romani

Pronoun

me

1. I

Descendants

• Angloromani: me

See also

Romani personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Accusative	Dative	Locative	Ablative	Instrumental	Possessive
Singular	First	—	me	man	manqe	manθe	manθar	mança	miro, -i, -e
	Second	—	tu	tut	tuqe	tuθe	tuθar	tuça	tiro, -i, -e
	Reflexive third	—	—	pes	pesqe	pesθe	pesθar	peça	pesqero, -i, -e
	Third	Masculine	ov	les	lesqe	lesθe	lesθar	leça	lesqero, -i, -e
		Feminine	oj	la	laqe	laθe	laθar	laça	laqero, -i, -e
Plural	First	—	amen		amenqe	amenθe	amenθar	amença	amaro, -i, -e
	Second	—	tumen		tumenqe	tumenθe	tumenθar	tumença	tumaro, -i, -e
	Reflexive third	—	—	pen	penqe	penθe	penθar	pença	penqero, -i, -e
	Third	—	on	len	lenqe	lenθe	lenθar	lença	lenqero, -i, -e

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Kalderash Romani personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative	Accusative (long and short forms)	Dative	Locative	Ablative	Instrumental	Possessive
Singular	First	—	me	man, ma	mánge	mánde	mándar	mánsa	múrro m, múrri f, múrre pl
	Second	—	tu	tut, tu	túke	túte	tútar	túsa	tíro m, tíri f, tíre pl
	Reflexive third	—	—	pês, pe	pêske	pêste	pêstar	pêsa	pêsko m, pêski f, pêske pl
	Third	Masculine	wo	lês, le	lêske	lêste	lêstar	lêsa	lêsko m, lêski f, lêske pl
		Feminine	woi	la, la	láke	láte	látar	lása	láko m, láki f, láke pl
Plural	First	—	ame	amên, ame	amênge	amênde	amêndar	amênsa	amáro m, amári f, amáre pl
	Second	—	tume	tumên, tume	tumênge	tumênde	tumêndar	tumênsa	tumáro m, tumári f, tumáre pl
	Reflexive third	—	—	pên, pe	pênge	pênde	pêndar	pênsa	pêngo m, pêngi f, pênge pl
	Third	—	won	lên, le	lênge	lênde	lêndar	lênsa	lêngo m, lêngi f, lênge pl

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Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• m.e.

Etymology

From mar eisimpleir.

Adverb

me

1. e.g.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

me (Cyrillic spelling ме)

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

Declension

Declension of me

	singular	plural
nominative	jȃ	mȋ
genitive	mȅne, me	nȃs
dative	mȅni, mi	nȁma, nam
accusative	mȅne, me	nȃs
vocative	—	mȋ
locative	mȅni	nȁma
instrumental	mnȏm, mnóme	nȁma

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Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /méː/

Pronoun

mẹ̑

1. we (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)

Inflection

Declension of me (irregular, suppletive)

singular
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	jàz	tí	—
accusative	méne, me	tébe, te	sébe, se
genitive	méne, me	tébe, te	sébe, se
dative	méni, mi	tébi, ti	sébi, si
locative	méni	tébi	sébi
instrumental	menój, máno	tebój, tábo	sebój, sábo
possessive	mój	tvój	svój
dual
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	mídva m, médve/mídve f or n	vídva m, védve/vídve f or n	—
accusative	náju	váju	sébe, se
genitive	náju	váju	sébe, se
dative	náma	váma	sébi, si
locative	náju	váju	sébi
instrumental	náma	váma	sebój, sábo
possessive	nájin	vájin	svój
plural
	1st person	2nd person	reflexive
nominative	mí m, mé f or n	ví m, vé f or n	—
accusative	nàs	vàs	sébe, se
genitive	nàs	vàs	sébe, se
dative	nàm	vàm	sébi, si
locative	nàs	vàs	sébi
instrumental	nàmi	vàmi	sebój, sábo
possessive	nàš	vàš	svój

See also

Slovene personal pronouns

			singular	dual	plural
1st person		m	jaz	midva	mi
		f or n		medve, midve	me
2nd person	familiar tikanje	m	ti	vidva	vi
		f or n		vedve, vidve	ve
3rd person		m	on	onadva	oni
		f	ona	onedve, onidve	one
		n	ono	onedve, onidve	ona
Polite forms (not differentiated in dual and plural)					singular
polite vikanje – instead of 2nd person, binds with forms for 2rd person plural masculine					vi, Vi
very polite onikanje – instead of 2nd or 3rd person, binds with forms for 3rd person plural masculine (archaic)					oni
hyper polite onokanje – instead of 2nd person, binds with forms for 3rd person singular neuter (obsolete)					ono
patriarchal onkanje – instead of 2nd person, binds with forms for 3rd person singular masculine (obsolete)					on

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin mē (accusative singular of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-. As an indirect object, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/ [me]

Pronoun

me (objective case)

1. (personal) accusative of yo: me
2. (personal, dative pronoun) dative of yo: to me, for me
3. (personal, reflexive) reflexive of yo: myself

See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
first person	singular			yo	me		mí1
	plural	masculine2		nosotros	nos		nosotros
		feminine		nosotras			nosotras
second person	singular	tuteo		tú	te		ti1
		voseo		vos			vos
		formal3		usted	le, se4	lo/la5	usted
	plural	familiar6	masculine2	vosotros	os		vosotros
			feminine	vosotras			vosotras
		formal/general3		ustedes	les, se4	los/las5	ustedes
third person	singular	masculine2		él	le, se4	lo	él
		feminine		ella		la	ella
		neuter		ello7		lo	ello
	plural	masculine2		ellos	les, se4	los	ellos
		feminine		ellas		las	ellas
	reflexive			—	se		sí1

1. Not used with con; conmigo, contigo, and consigo are used instead, respectively
2. Like other masculine Spanish words, masculine Spanish pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
3. Treated as if it were third-person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity
4. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g., Se lo dije instead of Le lo dije)
5. Depending on the implicit gender of the object being referred to
6. Used primarily in Spain
7. Used only in rare circumstances

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Turkish

Etymology 1

Noun

me

1. baa (sound of a sheep)

Etymology 2

Noun

me

1. The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɛ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [mɛ˧˧]

Etymology 1

Compare Acehnese mè (“tamarind”).

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, quả) me • (楣)

1. tamarind

Etymology 2

Noun

me

1. mother

   Synonyms: mẹ, ma

   • 1936, Vũ Trọng Phụng, chapter 3, in Số đỏ, Hà Nội báo:

     Bà chủ vừa đặt con chó xuống vừa nhanh nhẩu nói: – À cậu tắm ! Cậu của me ngoan. Me đi vắng, ở nhà có đứa nào đánh cậu không ? Loulou Huýt! Huýt...

     The mistress of the house set down the dog and promptly said, "Ah, you are bathing! Mommy's son is nice. While mommy went away, did anyone hit you? Loulou, whee whee!"

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Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Compare Swedish medel (“means,”) medel- (“mid(dle)-.”)

Noun

1. superstition

Noun

1. method

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White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me˧/

Adjective

me

1. little; small (size or quantity)

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[3], SEAP Publications, →ISBN.

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Zazaki

Pronoun

me

1. me

See also

Zazaki personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		ez mı	ma
2nd person	familiar	tı to	şıma
	polite	şıma
3rd person		o a	ê