my

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English

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Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (stressed) enPR: mī IPA(key): /maɪ/
    • Audio (US)(file)
  • (unstressed) IPA(key): /maɪ/, /mə/
    • (unstressed, UK) 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 mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (possessive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”). Cognate with West Frisian myn (“my”), Afrikaans my (“my”), Dutch mijn (“my”), German mein (“my”), Swedish min (“my”). More at me.

Determiner

my

  1. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
    1. Belonging to me.
      I can't find my book.
    2. Associated with me.
      My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.
      Don't you know my name?
      I recognised him because he had attended my school.
    3. Related to me.
      My parents won't let me go out tonight.
    4. In the possession of me.
      I have to take my books back to the library soon.
Related terms
Derived terms
terms derived using my

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Translations
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

Etymology 2

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

Interjection

my

  1. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.
    My, what big teeth you have!
Derived terms

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch mij.

Pronoun

my (subject ek)

  1. me (object)

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns
subjective objective possessive determiner possessive pronoun
singular 1st ek my myne
2nd jy jou joune
2nd, formal u u s’n
3rd, masc hy hom sy syne
3rd, fem sy haar hare
3rd, neut dit sy syne
plural 1st ons ons s’n
2nd julle / jul1 julle s’n
3rd hulle / hul1 hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

Etymology 2

From Dutch mijn.

Determiner

my

  1. my; of me

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns
subjective objective possessive determiner possessive pronoun
singular 1st ek my myne
2nd jy jou joune
2nd, formal u u s’n
3rd, masc hy hom sy syne
3rd, fem sy haar hare
3rd, neut dit sy syne
plural 1st ons ons s’n
2nd julle / jul1 julle s’n
3rd hulle / hul1 hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

Chinese Pidgin English

Etymology

From English my.

Pronoun

my

  1. I (subject pronoun)
    Synonyms: I, me
    • 1836 January, “Jargon spoken at Canton: how it originated and has grown into use; mode in which the Chinese learn English; examples of the language in common use between foreigners and Chinese”, in The Chinese Repository, volume IV, number 9, page 433:
      ‘My wanchee takee go away alla this cover, putee nother piece,’ replied I.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. me (object pronoun)
    Synonym: me
  3. my (possessive pronoun)

Cornish

Alternative forms

  • (Standard Cornish) me

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī.

Pronoun

my

  1. I, me

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

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  1. we

Declension

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Danish

Noun

my n (singular definite myet, plural indefinite myer)

  1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

Declension

Declension of my
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative my myet myer myerne
genitive mys myets myers myernes

Noun

my c

  1. micron

Synonyms

References

Egyptian

Etymology

mj (“like”) +‎ -j (“adverbializing suffix”).

Pronunciation

Adverb

miii
  1. likewise
  2. accordingly

References

  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.

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

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish má, from Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂.

Conjunction

my

  1. if

Middle English

Determiner

my (subjective pronoun I)

  1. Alternative form of mi.

References

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *me-.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

my

  1. we (first person plural )

Declension

Declension of my
plural
nominative my
genitive nas
dative nam
accusative nas
instrumental nami
locative nas
vocative —

See also

Further reading

Portuguese

Pronoun

my

  1. Obsolete form of mim.

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

my

  1. we

Related terms

Further reading

  • “my”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Swedish

Noun

my n

  1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

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

Pronoun

my

  1. we

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

my

  1. object of ik

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

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Etymology

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Noun

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Noun

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  1. mosquito

Derived terms

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