my

See also: My, MY, .my, m’y, mý, and Mỹ

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (stressed) enPR: mī IPA^(key): /maɪ/

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• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /maɪ/, /mə/
  • (unstressed, Cockney) IPA^(key): /mɪ/, /mi/
• IPA^(key): /mi/ in some speakers of Hiberno-English, Scouse
• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophone: muh (some dialects)

Etymology 1

From Middle English my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.), genitive of Proto-Germanic *ek (“I”). Cognate with West Frisian myn (“my”), Afrikaans my (“my”), Dutch mijn (“my”), German mein (“my”). More at me.

Pronoun

my (possessive pronoun)

1. (attributive) Belonging to me.

   Don't you know my name?

   I recognised him because he had attended my school.

Derived terms

terms derived using my

my arse my ass my bad my eye my fellow Americans my foot my God

my goodness my gosh my pleasure my son my way or the highway my word

Translations

belonging to me

• Afrikaans: my
• Albanian: im
• American Sign Language: FlatB@Chest-PalmBack
• Arabic: ـي (-i) (suffix, enclitic pronoun)

  Egyptian Arabic: ـي (-i), ـيا (ya)

• Armenian: իմ (im)
• Aromanian: njeu
• Asturian: mio (ast), míu (ast) m, mía (ast) f
• Azeri: mənim
• Bashkir: минең (mineñ)
• Belarusian: мой (moj)
• Bengali: আমার (amar)
• Breton: ma (br)
• Bulgarian: мой (bg) (moj)
• Catalan: meu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 我嘅 (ngo5 ge3, o5 ge3), 我的 (ngo5 dik1, o5 dik1) (formal, written)

  Mandarin: 我的 (zh) (wǒ-de)

• Coptic: ⲡⲁ m (pa), ⲧⲁ f (ta), ⲛⲁ m pl, f pl (na)
• Czech: můj (cs) m
• Danish: min (da) c
• Dutch: mijn (nl)
• Egyptian: 𓀀 m (i), 𓁐 f (i), 𓇋 m, f (i)
• Esperanto: mia (eo)
• Estonian: minu, mu (et)
• Finnish: (minun (genitive of minä)) + -ni (possessive suffix) : In standard Finnish, the possessive suffix is compulsory and the genitive of the personal pronoun optional. In colloquial Finnish, usually only minun (or its colloquial or dialectal variants, mun, miun etc.) is used. -->
• French: mon (fr) m, ma (fr) f, mes (fr) pl
• Friulian: gno
• Galician: meu (gl) m
• Georgian: ჩემი (č’emi)
• German: mein (de) m
• Greek: μού (moú)
• Hawaiian: koʻu, kaʻu
• Hebrew: שֶׁלִּי (shelí)
• Hindi: मेरा (merā)
• Hungarian: -m, -om, -am, -em, -öm
• Icelandic: minn (is)
• Ido: mea (io)
• Indonesian: saya (id)
• Interlingua: mi
• Irish: mo (ga) (before a consonant), m' (before a vowel)
• Italian: mio (it)
• Japanese: 私の (ja) (わたしの, watashi-no), (male speaker) 僕の (ja) (ぼくの, boku-no), 我が (わが, wa-ga) (also written: 我 (ja))
• Kazakh: менің (meniñ)
• Khmer: របស់ខ្ញុំ (raboh kñom)
• Korean: 나의 (na-ui), 내 (ko) (nae), 저의 (ko) (jeo-ui)
• Kyrgyz: менин (menin)
• Latin: meus (la) m

• Latvian: mans
• Lithuanian: mano (lt)
• Logudorese Sardinian: meu
• Lojban: mi (jbo)
• Low German: mien
• Macedonian: мој (moj)
• Malay: saya (ms)
• Maltese: tiegħi
• Manchu: mini
• Mazanderani: مه (me)
• Nahuatl: noca, no (nah)
• Navajo: shi-
• Norwegian: min (no) m
• Novial: men
• Ojibwe: nii-
• Old English: mīn
• Persian: ـم (fa) (-am) (suffix), من (fa) (... man)
• Pipil: nu-
• Pitjantjatjara: ngayuku
• Polish: mój (pl) m
• Portuguese: meu (pt) m
• Quechua: (possessive suffix) -y
• Romanian: meu (ro) m
• Russian: мой (ru) m (moj)
• Scots: ma
• Scottish Gaelic: mo
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мој

  Roman: moj

• Sinhalese: මගේ (magē)
• Slovak: môj
• Slovene: mój
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mój

• Spanish: mi (es)
• Swedish: min (sv) c
• Tagalog: (after noun) ko (tl), (before noun) aking
• Tajik: ... ман (... man)
• Talysh: چمن (cəmən), (for all persons) اشتن (əštan)
• Tatar: минем (minem)
• Telugu: నా (te) (nā), నా యొక్క (nā yokka)
• Thai: ของผม (kŏng pŏm) (male speaker), ของดิฉัน (kŏng dì-chăn) (female speaker), ของฉัน (kŏng chăn) (generic, informal)
• Tlingit: ax̱
• Turkish: benim (tr)
• Turkmen: meniň
• Ukrainian: мій (uk) (mij)
• Urdu: میرا (merā)
• Uzbek: mening
• Vietnamese: của tôi, tôi (vi) (usually post-position)
• Volapük: obik (vo)
• Welsh: fy
• West Frisian: myn
• Yiddish: מײַן (mayn)
• Zulu: possessive concord + -mi

See also

English personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Subject	Objective	Reflexive	Possessive adjective	Possessive pronoun
Singular	First	—	I	me	myself	my	mine
	Second	—	you, thou (archaic)	you, thee (archaic)	yourself, thyself (archaic) theeself (archaic)	your, thy (archaic)	yours, thine (archaic)
	Third	Masculine	he	him	himself	his
		Feminine	she	her	herself	her	hers
		Neuter	it		itself	its	its (rare)
		Gender-neutral	they	them	themself	their	theirs
Plural	First	—	we	us	ourselves	our	ours
	Second	—	you, ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	your	yours
	Third	—	they	them	themselves	their	theirs
Indefinite	Third	—	one		oneself	one's	—

Etymology 2

An abbreviation of an oath such as my word or my lord

Interjection

my

1. (dated) Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.

   My, what big teeth you have!

Derived terms

• my my

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: him · she · they · #34: my · were · are · their

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məi/

Etymology 1

From Dutch mij.

Pronoun

my (subject ek)

1. me (object)

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessive
singular	1st	ek	my	my
	2nd	jy	jou	jou
	2nd, formal	u		u
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy
	3rd, fem	sy	haar	haar
	3rd, neut	dit		sy
plural	1st	ons		ons
	2nd	julle		julle / jul1
	3rd	hulle		hulle / hul1
1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous.

Etymology 2

From Dutch mijn.

Determiner

my

1. my, mine

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessive
singular	1st	ek	my	my
	2nd	jy	jou	jou
	2nd, formal	u		u
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy
	3rd, fem	sy	haar	haar
	3rd, neut	dit		sy
plural	1st	ons		ons
	2nd	julle		julle / jul1
	3rd	hulle		hulle / hul1
1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous.

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Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

Pronoun

my

1. I

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Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /mɪ/

Pronoun

my

1. we

Declension

Declension of my

	singular	plural
nominative	já	my
genitive	mě/mne	nás
dative	mně/mi	nám
accusative	mě/mne	nás
vocative	—	—
locative	mně	nás
instrumental	mnou	námi

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Danish

Noun

my n

1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

Noun

my c

1. micron

Synonyms

• mikrometer
• mikron

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Egyptian

Alternative forms

Hieroglyphic signage

W19-M17-M17

Pronunciation

Wikipedia: Manuel de Codage

Adverb

my

1. accordingly

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Lojban

Alternative forms

• my.

Cmavo

my

1. Letteral for m.

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos

Pronoun

my pl

1. we

Declension

Declension of the first-person pronouns

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ja	mej	my
Genitive	mě (after preposition) mnjo	naju	nas
Dative	mě (after preposition) mnjo	nama	nam
Accusative	mě (after preposition) mnjo	naju	nas
Instrumental	mnu	nama	nami
Locative	mnjo	nama	nas
Possessive determiner	mój	naju	naš

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Manx

Conjunction

my

1. if

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Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɨ/

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Pronoun

my

1. we (first person pl)

Declension

    declension of my

	plural only
nominative	my
genitive	nas
dative	nam
accusative	nas
instrumental	nami
locative	nas
vocative	–

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

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Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos

Pronoun

my

1. we

Related terms

• ja
• ty
• on ona ono
• vy
• oni ony

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Swedish

Noun

my n

1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

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Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos

Pronoun

my

1. we

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West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛɪ/
• IPA^(key): /mi/ (Eastern)

Pronoun

my

1. me