mig
Catalan
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 147: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca). (compare Occitan mièg), from Latin medius (compare Portuguese meio, Italian mezzo), from Proto-Italic *meðios, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mig (feminine mitja, masculine plural migs or mitjos, feminine plural mitges)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “mig” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “mig”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “mig” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “mig” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic *mek, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
mig (nominative jeg, possessive min)
- (personal) first person singular accusative personal pronoun; me
- (personal, nonstandard, when before other terms in a list) first person singular nominative personal pronoun; I
- Mig og min bror tog til stranden.
- Me and my brother went to the beach.
- Mig og min bror tog til stranden.
Usage notes
Also used as reflexive pronoun.
See also
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common | neuter | plural | |||||
Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine | |
formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
common(noun) | den | dens | |||||
neuter(noun) | det | dets | |||||
reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine | ||
Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | ||
archaic / formal | vor | vort | vore | ||||
Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
Third | – | de | dem | deres | |||
reflexive | – | sig |
Icelandic
Etymology
Pronoun
mig
- (personal) accusative of ég; me
- Þú drapst mig.
- You killed me.
- Þú drapst mig.
- myself
- Ég brenndi mig.
- I burnt myself.
- Ég brenndi mig.
Declension
Icelandic personal pronouns | ||||||
singular | first person | second person | third person masculine | third person feminine | third person neuter | |
nominative | ég, eg, ek† | þú | hann | hún, hon†, hón† | það, þat† | |
accusative | mig, mik† | þig, þik† | hann | hana | það, þat† | |
dative | mér | þér | honum, hánum† | henni | því | |
genitive | mín | þín | hans | hennar | þess | |
plural | first person | second person | third person masculine | third person feminine | third person neuter | |
nominative | við | þið, þit† | þeir | þær | þau | |
accusative | okkur | ykkur | þá | þær | þau | |
dative | okkur | ykkur | þeim | þeim | þeim | |
genitive | okkar | ykkar | þeirra | þeirra | þeirra |
Middle English
Noun
mig
- Alternative form of mygge
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *migъ.
Noun
mȋg m (Cyrillic spelling ми̑г)
Declension
Swedish
Alternative forms
- mej (colloquial)
Etymology
From Old Norse mik, from Proto-Germanic, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
mig
- me (objective case)
- Såg du mig aldrig där?
- Did you never see me there?
- Kan du lära mig att jonglera?
- Can you teach me how to juggle?
- Såg du mig aldrig där?
- reflexive of jag; compare myself
- Jag skar mig på kniven.
- I cut myself on the knife.
- Jag skar mig på kniven.
Usage notes
Note that some verbs have special senses when used reflexively. For example, do not confuse jag lär mig att... ("I learn to...") [reflexive] with du lär mig att... ("you teach me to...") and jag lär mig själv att... ("I teach myself to..."). Here, lär means teach(es) if it is not reflexive, but learn(s) if it is reflexive. Hence the need for the separate pronoun "mig själv" to be used when object and subject agree, but the verb nevertheless should not be used in the reflexive case.
Declension
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
common | neuter | plural | |||||
singular | first | — | jag | mig, mej3 | min | mitt | mina |
second | — | du | dig, dej3 | din | ditt | dina | |
third | masculine (person) | han | honom, han2, en5 | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hon | henne, na5 | hennes | ||||
gender-neutral (person)1 | hen | hen, henom7 | hens | ||||
common (noun) | den | den | dess | ||||
neuter (noun) | det | det | dess | ||||
indefinite | man or en4 | en | ens | ||||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | ||
plural | first | — | vi | oss | vår, våran2 | vårt, vårat2 | våra |
second | — | ni | er | er, eran2, ers6 | ert, erat2 | era | |
archaic | I | eder | eder, eders6 | edert | edra | ||
third | — | de, dom3 | dem, dom3 | deras | |||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina |
See also
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Catalan terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan adjectives
- Danish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Danish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Danish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Danish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Danish/aj
- Danish lemmas
- Danish pronouns
- Danish nonstandard terms
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic non-lemma forms
- Icelandic pronoun forms
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Serbo-Croatian terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- Swedish terms derived from Old Norse
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Swedish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Swedish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Swedish/ɛj
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish pronouns