me

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Etymology 1

From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”).

Cognates

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

• (UK, Canada) enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /miː/
• (US) enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /mi/
• (Northern England, Ottawa Valley) enPR: mĭ, IPA^(key): /mɪ/
• (some accents) enPR: mā, IPA^(key): /meɪ/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ, -ɪ
• Homophones: mee, may (some accents)

Pronoun

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

1. The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
   1. As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.

      Can you hear me?

      He gave me this.

      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17:

        Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.

   2. (archaic, proscribed) 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. (colloquial, proscribed) 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.

   4. As the object of a preposition.

      Come with me.

2. (sometimes proscribed) As the complement of the copula (be).

   It wasn't me.

   • 2017, Theresa May, “Andrew Neil interviews Theresa May: full transcript”, in The Spectator‎^[1], archived from the original on 22 May 2017:

     It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.

3. Used for the pronoun in isolation or in apposition.

   Who's there? —Me.

   Who did this? —Me. I did it. (≈ It was me. I did it.)

4. (nonstandard or proscribed) I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
   1. (informal, with a conjunction, often proscribed) As the subject of a verb.

      Me and my friends played a game.

      [It was] literally all me and my astrophysicist colleagues could talk about.

      Stella and me have opted to take a course called 'Autobiography and Fiction'.

   2. (nonstandard, not with a conjunction) As the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
      • 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.

      • 1899 July 20, Mrs. A[lexander] J[effrey] McKelway [i.e., Lavinia Rutherford McKelway], “Children’s Department”, in A[lexander] J[effrey] McKelway, editor, Presbyterian Standard, volume XLI, number 28, Charlotte, N.C.: The Presbyterian Publishing Company, page 14, column 1:

        Well he said me mustn’t eat ’nanas cause ’nanas would make me sick.

      • 2005 October 10, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Teen Girl Squad Issue #10”, in Homestar Runner‎^[2], spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

        Whoa! That was about the coolest thing ever! Me gotta see that again.

   3. (nonstandard, in apposition) Would be the subject of a copula in standard English, though the copula is omitted; used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
      • 1932 June, Katherine Albert, “Hey! Hey! Here Comes Johnny”, in James R. Quirk, editor, Photoplay, volume XLII, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Photoplay Publishing Company, page 119, column 2:

        “I should stick to Tarzan,” he [Johnny Weissmuller] explains. “You see, I’m no actor. Well, I didn’t have to act in ‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’—just said, ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane.’ I'll never be able to act.”

        The words do not occur in the film itself, nor in the original book by Burroughs. Instead, Tarzan says “Tarzan” and “Jane” repeatedly.

      • 1954 February 3, Mrs. John F. Underhill, “The Last Leaf; Chapter Three: Bear Tracks”, in Lawrence Maxwell, editor, Junior Guide, volume 2, number 5, Washington, D.C., page 7, column 2:

        May opened the door, and a huge Indian walked into the room. “Me Bear Tracks,” he said. “Me hungry.”

Usage notes

Me is traditionally described as the objective pronoun, meaning it is used as the object of verbs and prepositions, while the subjective pronoun I should be used as the subject of verbs. However, "objective" pronouns are widely used as the subject of verbs in colloquial speech when they are accompanied by a conjunction, for example, "me and her are friends". This usage is traditionally considered incorrect, and "she and I are friends" is the prescriptive construction.

Using me as the lone subject of a verb (without a conjunction, 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 some dialects 'me' is also used as a possessive, in writing, speakers of these dialects usually write my.

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• after me the deluge
• a little bird told me
• arrest-me-red
• ask me anything
• believe you me
• come at me
• date-me doc
• don't tread on me
• fixme
• fool me once
• for me
• hear me out
• hit me
• Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me
• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
• let this cup pass from me
• little old me
• look-at-me, look at me
• make me
• meet me at McDonald's
• meet me at McDonald's haircut
• me-me generation, me-me-me generation
• me-time
• Mii
• readme
• rot me
• silly me
• stap me
• stap me vitals
• strike me blind
• strike me lucky
• strike me silly
• that's all Greek to me, that's Greek to me
• that's me told
• that's news to me
• thee and me
• touch-me-not-ish
• touch-me-not-ishness

 

Related terms

• meseems
• methinks
• noli me tangere

Descendants

• Bislama: mi
• Jamaican Creole: mi
• Nigerian Pidgin: mi
• Pijin: mi
• Sranan Tongo: mi

Translations

See me/translations § Pronoun.

Noun

me (plural mes)

1. The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.

   Synonym: I

   • 1871, George MacDonald, “[At the Back of the North Wind] Out in the Storm”, in Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R[ichard] Stockton, Julian Hawthorne, editors, Masterpieces of the World’s Literature, Ancient and Modern: The Great Authors of the World with Their Master Productions, volume XIV, New York, N.Y.: American Literary Society, published 1899, pages 7514–7515:

     “Quite easily. Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other. It can’t be like you.” “Ah, but which is me? I can’t be two mes, you know.” “No. Nobody can be two mes.” “Well, which me is me?” “Now I must think. There looks to be two.” “Yes. That’s the very point—You can’t be knowing the thing you don’t know, can you?” “No.” “Which me do you know?” “The kindest, goodest, best me in the world,” answered Diamond, clinging to North Wind. […] “Do you know the other me as well?” “No. I can’t. I shouldn’t like to.” “There it is. You don’t know the other me. You are sure of one of them?” “Yes.” “And you are sure there can’t be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the me you don’t know must be the same as the me you do know—else there would be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the other me you don’t know must be as kind as the me you do know?”

   • 1948 January, Rog Phillips [pseudonym; Roger Phillip Graham], “Hate”, in Amazing Stories, volume 22, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, page 69, column 2:

     The question seems unanswerable, because if those same atoms were to be collected as they leave my body as waste in the normal process of metabolism, and in a year when my body contained all new atoms, those old atoms which were me a year ago were reformed into an exact replica of me down to the last thought and cell, would there be two mes?

   • 1990, Bei Dao [pseudonym; Zhao Zhenkai], translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Susette Ternent Cooke, Waves, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 158:

     “In these last few days I keep feeling that I’m changing, changing into something I don’t quite recognize myself.” / “You’ve become more like yourself.” / “Could there be two mes?” / “Perhaps more than two.” / “It gets worse and worse. So which me do you actually love ?” / “All of them.” / “You’re being slippery.” Her lips curled slyly. “In fact you only love the me in your mind’s eye, and that me doesn’t exist, right?” / “No, that’s the combination of all the yous.” / She laughed. “It’s just as complicated as a mathematical calculation, if you end up with the three-headed, six-armed me, could you stand that?”

Etymology 2

Variant form.

Determiner

me

1. (UK regional, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of my
   • a. 1918, 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!)

   • 1994, John Hodge, Shallow Grave, spoken by Alex Law (Ewan McGregor):

     I want me money back!

   • 1995, Nick Park, 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 my

Etymology 3

From mi (“third note of a major scale”) +‎ -e (“flat”), from Glover's solmization, Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Noun

me

1. (music) The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.

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

• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “me”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “me”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[3], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.

Anagrams

• 'em, EM, Em, em, em-

Akan

Pronoun

me

1. I

   Mete Twi kasa.

   I speak Twi.

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

 

Angloromani

Alternative forms

• ma, mai, mei, mey, mi

Etymology

Inherited from Romani me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meɪ]

Pronoun

me

1. I

   Synonyms: mandi, tutti

Annobonese

Etymology

From Portuguese mãe (“mother”).

Noun

me

1. mother

References

• John H. McWhorter (2005) Defining Creole (in Annobonese)

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin me. Akin to Spanish me and French me.

Pronoun

me

1. First-person singular dative, accusative and prepositional pronoun; me

Usage notes

• Takes the form m' before verbs beginning with vowel sounds.

See also

Aragonese personal pronouns

				nominative	disjunctive	dative	accusative
first person	singular			yo	me, m'2
	plural	masculine		nusatros1.1		nos1.6
		feminine		nusatras1.1
second person	singular	familiar		tú	te, t'2
		formal		vusté,1.2 vos
	plural	familiar	masculine	vusatros1.3		vos, tos3
			feminine	vusatras1.3
		formal		vustés,1.2 vos
third person	singular	masculine		él1.4		le1.7	lo,1.8 l'2
		feminine		ella1.5			la
	plural	masculine		els, ellos1.4		les1.7	los1.9
		feminine		ellas1.5			las
	reflexive			—		se, s'2

1. The forms shown in the table are the most widespread ones. Some varieties use different forms:
   1. nusotros/as (Ansotano, Cheso, Somontanos) and nusaltros/as (Benasquese and Belsetán).
   2. usté(s) (Benasquese), ustet(z) (Ansotano), vustet(z) (Tensino, Somontanos)
   3. vusotros/as (Ansotano, Cheso, Somontanos) and vusaltros/as (Benasquese and Belsetán).
   4. ell(s) (Benasquese) and er(s) (Belsetán).
   5. era(s) (Belsetán).
   6. mos (Ribagorçan). Before third-person pronouns and the adverbial pronoun en the contracted form mo' is used.
   7. li(s) (Cheso, Tensino).
   8. el (Ribagorçan). The contracted form l' is used before verbs beginning with vowel sounds and 'l after pronouns ending in vowels and no (“no, not”).
   9. es, els (Ribagorçan). These forms are contracted to 's and 'ls after pronouns ending in vowels and no (“no, not”).
2. The contracted forms are used before verbs beginning with vowel sounds.
3. In Ribagorçan the contracted form to' is used before third-person pronouns and the adverbial pronoun en.

References

• “me”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

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 singular direct pronoun)
2. me (first-person singular indirect pronoun)

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

• mai
• mei

Etymology

From English [Term?] (“May”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Noun

me (Bengali script মে)

1. May

Synonyms

• jetja

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”). Cognate to Welsh mi.

Pronoun

me

1. I, me

Carolinian

Conjunction

me

1. and

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mē (accusative of ego).

Pronunciation

• (Central) IPA^(key): /mə/
• (Valencia) IPA^(key): /me/

Pronoun

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

1. me (direct or indirect object)

Usage notes

• -me is the full (plena) form of the pronoun. It is normally used after verbs ending with a consonant or ⟨u⟩, or between some adverbs/pronouns and a verb. In some varieties of Catalan (Balearic/Valencian) it can also occur in sentence-initial position.

  Segueix-me! ― Follow me!

  Tant me fa. (after adverb) ― I don't care.

  Me sembla que… (sentence-initial, nonstandard) ― It seems that…

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

• em
• jo
• mi

 

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈme]

Noun

me f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, childish, euphemistic) poo

Chuukese

Conjunction

me

1. and

Preposition

me

1. from

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

Cornish

Alternative forms

• my (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form)

Pronoun

me

1. (Standard Cornish) I, me

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/

• Audio:

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Pronoun

me

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

Declension

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").

Synonyms

• mij

Pronoun

me (dependent possessive)

1. Pronunciation spelling of mijn (“my”).

Estonian

Etymology

Short form of meie, from Proto-Finnic *mek.

Pronoun

me (genitive me, partitive meid)

1. we

Declension

Declension of me
1st person	singular		plural
	long	short	long	short
nominative	mina	ma	meie	me
genitive	minu	mu	meie	me
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	meiks
terminative	minuni	–	meieni	–
essive	minuna	–	meiena	–
abessive	minuta	–	meieta	–
comitative	minuga	muga	meiega	–

See also

Estonian personal pronouns
		singular		plural
		long	short	long	short
1st person		mina	ma	meie	me
2nd person	familiar	sina	sa	teie	te
	polite	Teie	Te
3rd person	animate	tema	ta	nemad	nad
	inanimate	see		need

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese me, from Latin mē.

Pronoun

me

1. First person singular dative and accusative pronoun; me

Usage notes

• Takes the form -mi when suffixed to an impersonal verb form.

See also

Fala personal pronouns

			nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
first person	singular		ei	me, -mi		mi
	plural	common	nos	musL nusLV nos, -nusM		nos
		masculine	noshotrusM			noshotrusM
		feminine	noshotrasM			noshotrasM
second person	singular		tú	te, -ti		ti
	plural	common	vos	vusLV vos, -vusM		vos
		masculine	voshotrusM			voshotrusM
		feminine	voshotrasM			voshotrasM
third person	singular	masculine	el	le, -li	uLV, oM	el
		feminine	ela		a	ela
	plural	masculine	elis		usLV, osM	elis
		feminine	elas		as	elas
	reflexive		—	se, -si		sí

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[4], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mek, 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]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation^(key): me

Pronoun

me

1. we

   Me emme unohda. ― We will not forget.

   Näin meidän kesken... ― Just between us...

   Mennäänkö meille? ― Should we go over to our place?

Usage notes

• When the verb shows both the person and the number, the pronoun may be left out in written Finnish and is usually only used for emphasis. However, the inflected forms are often used. In colloquial Finnish, the pronoun is almost always used, even with a verb. (compare the usage of minä (“I”)).
• See this appendix for information on the dialectal variants of me.

Inflection

• Irregular (inflectional stem mei-, as if in the plural). 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 elative minusta meistä illative minuun meihin adessive minulla meillä ablative minulta meiltä allative minulle meille essive minuna meinä translative minuksi meiksi abessive minutta meittä instructive – – comitative – –

Synonyms

• met (dialectal)
• myö (dialectal)

Derived terms

• meidänlainen
• meidänlaisemme
• meikäläinen

 

compounds

• me-henki

 

Descendants

• Kven: met

See also

Finnish personal pronouns

	first	second		third
		familiar	polite
singular	minä	sinä	Te	hän
plural	me	te		he

Further reading

• “me”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[5] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• em.

French

Etymology

From Middle French me, from Old French me, from Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“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/
• (Paris) IPA^(key): /mø/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ə

Pronoun

me (personal, objective case)

1. (direct object) me

   Est-ce que tu me vois ? ― Do you see me?

2. (indirect object) to me

   Émilien me donne un peu d’argent. ― Émilien gave some money to me.

Related terms

French personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative (subject)	Accusative (direct complement)	Dative (indirect complement)	Locative (at)	Genitive (of)	Disjunctive (tonic)
Singular	First	—	je, j’	me, m’		—	—	moi
	Second	—	tu	te, t’		—	—	toi
	Third	Masculine	il	le, l’	lui	y	en	lui
		Feminine	elle	la, l’				elle
		Indeterminate	on1	—	—	—	—	—
		Reflexive	—	se, s’4		—	—	soi4
Plural	First	—	nous	nous		—	—	nous
	Second	—	vous2	vous2,3		—	—	vous2
	Third	Masculine	ils3	les	leur	y	en	eux3
		Feminine	elles					elles

¹ Also used as the first person plural.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

³ Also used when a group has both men and women.

⁴ Also used as third person plural reflexive.

Further reading

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

Galician

Pronoun

me

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

Guaraní

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmẽ]
• Rhymes: -ẽ
• Hyphenation: me

Noun

me

1. male
2. husband

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mai (“May”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Noun

me

1. May

Hawaiian

Etymology

Cognate with Maori me (“and, with, must”) and Samoan ma (“and, with”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Preposition

me

1. with

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛː/
• Rhymes: -ɛː

Interjection

me

1. baa (representing the bleating sound sheep make)

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/, /mɛ/

Etymology 1

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

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”)

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.

Etymology 2

From m +‎ -e.

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)}

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,

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mē.

Pronunciation

• (standard, clitic) IPA^(key): /me/^°
  • Hyphenation: me
• (standard, disjunctive) IPA^(key): /ˈme/^*
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: mé
• As a clitic pronoun used before another clitic, it is pronounced unstressed and without syntactic gemination of the following consonant, e.g. me ne vado (“I'm going away”) /me ne ˈvado/. As a disjunctive pronoun used after a preposition, it is pronounced stressed and with syntactic gemination, e.g. a me piace (“I like him/her/it”) /a‿mˌme‿pˈpjatʃe/ (since a also triggers syntactic gemination).

Pronoun

me (personal, objective case)

1. (disjunctive, emphatic) me

   (Lui/Lei) non piace a me. / A me non piace (lui/lei). ― (He/She) does not appeal to me, i.e. I don't like him/her.

   (Lui/Lei) piace a me. / A me piace (lui/lei). ― (He/She) appeals to me, i.e. I like him/her.

   A me e lui piace lei. ― She appeals (both) to me and to him, i.e. he and I (both) like her.

Pronoun

me

1. (clitic) 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).

Jamaican Creole

Pronoun

me

1. Alternative spelling of mi.

Japanese

Romanization

me

1. The hiragana syllable め (me) or the katakana syllable メ (me) in Hepburn romanization.

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese မဲ (mai:, “mai:”).

Noun

me

1. ballot

References

• Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[6], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

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)

Khasi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Pronoun

me

1. you (singular and masculine), thou
   • 1891, “Jenesis 3:19”, in Ka Baibl (Khasi Bible):

     Naba ka 'dewmet me long, bad sha ka 'dewmet men leit phai pat.

     For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

   • 1891, “Salm 37:6”, in Ka Baibl (Khasi Bible):

     Bad un pynmih noh ïa ka hok jong me kum ka jingshai[.]

     And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light.

See also

• pha
• tun
• phi

References

• Bars, E. (1973) “me”, in Khasi-English Dictionary, Shillong, Meghalaya: Don Bosco Press

Latin

Alternative forms

• mēd (Early Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“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]

Pronoun

mē (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
• Ligurian: mi
• Corsican: mi
• Franco-Provençal: mè
• French: me, moi
• Galician: me
• Italian: me, mi
• Mirandese: me
• Mozarabic: ם (m)
• Old Galician-Portuguese: me
  • Galician: me
  • 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

Lolopo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɯ³³]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Loloish *ʔ-mwe³ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l. Cognate with Nuosu ꂯ (mix), Burmese အမွေး (a.mwe:), Drung meul (“body hair”), Jingpho mun, Tedim Chin mul¹.

Noun

me 

1. (Yao'an) body hair

Etymology 2

From Proto-Loloish *s-mo¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꂥ (hmu), Burmese မှို (hmui), Gong มู๋, Naxi mul, Japhug tɤjmɤɣ and Jingpho kämu.

Noun

me 

1. (Yao'an) mushroom

Mandarin

Romanization

me (me⁵／me⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄜ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 么
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚜
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 末
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麼／么, 麽／么
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚒

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.

Maori

Etymology

Cognate with Hawaiian me (“with”) and Samoan ma (“and, with”).

Particle

me

1. Conjunctive
   1. and (joins two noun phrases)
   2. with (indicates people or things present when an event occurs)
2. Definitive
   1. must, should (used before verbs to form a weak command)
   2. must be (used before nouns and adjectives)

      Me whā rawa?

      Must it be four?

   3. how should it be done (used before pēhea and a clause)
3. Comparative
   1. if only (reverses what is stated)
   2. as if, like (simile)
   3. to see whether

References

• "me" - Maori Dictionary

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French mai.

Noun

me

1. May

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

me

1. husband

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)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mē, 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 pronoun) myself

Descendants

• English: me
• Scots: me
• Yola: mee, me

See also

Middle English personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive	possessive
singular	1st-person		I, ich, ik	me		min mi1	min
	2nd-person		þou	þe		þin þi1	þin
	3rd-person	m	he	him hine2	him	his	his hisen
		f	sche, heo	hire heo	hire		hire hires, hiren
		n	hit		hit him2	his, hit	—
dual3	1st-person		wit	unk		unker
	2nd-person		ȝit	inc		inker
plural	1st-person		we	us, ous		oure	oure oures, ouren
	2nd-person4		ye	yow		your	your youres, youren
	3rd-person	inh.	he	hem he2	hem	here	here heres, heren
		bor.	þei	þem, þeim		þeir	þeir þeires, þeiren

¹Used preconsonantally or before h.
²Early or dialectal.
³Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
⁴Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

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.

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

Nalca

Noun

me

1. son
2. child

Nauruan

Conjunction

me

1. and

Naxi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma.

Adverb

me

1. not

References

• Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• mme, m', mm'

Etymology

From Latin mē.

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)

Norman

Alternative forms

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

Noun

me f (plural mes)

1. (Sark) sea

North Frisian

Pronoun

me (Mooring)

1. Object case of ik: me, myself

Alternative forms

• mi (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt)

See also

Personal and possessive pronouns (Mooring dialect)

		personal				possessive
		subject case		object case		masculine referent	feminine / neuter / plural referent
		full	reduced	full	reduced
singular	1st	ik	'k	me		man	min
	2nd	dü	–	de		dan	din
	3rd m.	hi	'r	ham	'n	san	sin
	3rd f.	jü	's	har	's	harn	har
	3rd n.	hat	et, 't	ham	et, 't	san	sin
plural	1st	we		üs		üüsen	üüs
	2nd	jam	'm	jam		jarnge
	3rd	ja	's	ja, jam	's	jare
notes		The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts. Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur. Dual forms wat / unk and jat / junk are obsolete. Attributive and independent possessives are not distinguished in Mooring.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

Pronoun

me

1. oblique form of em: us, we

Etymology 2

Verb

me

1. first-person singular present indicative of bûn

   Synonym: im

Northern Qiang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/

Noun

me

1. fire

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mit, a form of vit (“we two, the both of us”) influenced by the final -m in Old Norse verbs inflected in the first person plural.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/
• Rhymes: -eː
• Homophone: med

Pronoun

me (object case oss)

1. we

   Kva skal me gjera?

   What shall we do?

Alternative forms

• vi

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.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

me

1. eye dialect spelling of meg (“me”)
   • 1879, Hallvard Berg, Segner fraa Bygdom, Christiania: Samlaget, page 93:

     "No, Unga, kunne de slutte mæ Lesnae ei Stund o høyre paa me."

     "Now, kids, you stop with the reading for a while and listen to me."

References

• “me” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• EM

Old English

Alternative forms

• mæ — Northumbrian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *miʀ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/

Pronoun

mē

1. (personal) accusative/dative of iċ
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 29:19

     Lēofre mē is þæt iċ hīe selle þē þonne ōðrum menn. Wuna mid mē!

     I'd rather give her to you than to someone else. Stay with me!

Usage notes

• Was originally only dative/instrumental, but by the literary period is also the accusative form in West Saxon. The Anglian dialects have retained the inherited accusative form, mec.

Descendants

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

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

Old Irish

Pronoun

me

1. Alternative spelling of mé (“I”)

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
   • c. 50 BC, The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi), Yamakavagga, page 26; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya‎^[7], Colombo, 2009:

     3. අක‍්කොච‍්ඡි මං අවධි මං අජිනි මං අහාසි මෙ
     යෙ තං උපනය‍්හන‍්ති වෙරං තෙසං න සම‍්මති

     3. akkocchi maṃ avadhi maṃ ajini maṃ ahāsi me
     ye taṃ upanayhanti veraṃ tesaṃ na sammati

     He abused me, he struck me, he defeated me, he robbed me.
     Hatred does not subside for those who nurse grudges thus.

     (Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)

   • 2006, The Fourth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Majjhimanikāya (I)‎^[8], page 192:

     සෙය්‍යථාපි නාම ජරසාලාය ගොපානසියො ඔලුග‍්ගවිලුග‍්ගා භවන‍්ති, එවමෙවස‍්සු මෙ ඵාසුළියො ඔලුග‍්ගවිලුග‍්ගා භවන‍්ති තායෙවප‍්පාහාරතාය.

     Seyyathāpi nāma jarasālāya gopānasiyo oluggaviluggā bhavanti, evamevassu me phāsuḷiyo oluggaviluggā bhavanti tāyevappāhāratāya.

     Truly, just as in a decrepit outhouse the rafters are crumbling, my ribs were just that way, they were crumbling from just this fasting.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German einem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/

Article

me

1. dative masculine/neuter singular of en: a, an

Declension

Declension of en
	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative	en	en	en	–
dative	emme me	re	emme me	–
accusative	en	en	en	–

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: me

Pronoun

me

1. Alternative form of moje

Interjection

me

1. (onomatopoeia) used to imitate the sound of a sheep or ram, baa

   Synonym: be

Derived terms

interjection

• ani be, ani me

 

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

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /me/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ/

• Hyphenation: me

Pronoun

me

2. first-person singular objective direct personal pronoun; me

   Meus amigos me ligaram.

   My friends called me.

   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, 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?

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.

8. particle of spontaneity, when it indicates that there was spontaneity in the action by its agent.

   Fui-me embora daquele lugar.

   I left that place..

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

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

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

me

1. baa (sound made by sheep or goats)

Sassarese

Alternative forms

• mi

Etymology

From Latin mē and, as an indirect object pronoun, possibly in part from mihi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Pronoun

me

1. (preceded by a preposition) me
   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Primabéra [Spring]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 13:

     Lu branu a me no piazi

     I don't like spring

     (literally, “The spring to me is not pleasant”)

Related terms

• meggu
• mi
• méiu

 

See also

• eu

References

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Scots

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”).

Pronoun

me

1. me

Etymology 2

Determiner

me

1. Alternative form of my

See also

Scots personal pronouns

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		A, I, Ik	me	mysel	mine, mines	mine, my
	plural		we	us, we	oorsel, oorsels	oors	our
second person	singular	standard (formal)	ye you, yow	ye you, yow	yersel yoursel	yers yours	yer your
		Insular (informal)	thoo	thee	thysel, theesel	thines	thy, thee, thees
	plural		ye, yese you, youse	ye, yese you, youse theer	yesels yoursels	yers yours	yer your
third person	singular	masculine	he, e	him, im	himsel, hissel	his, is	his, is
		feminine	scho, she, shu	her, er	hersel	hers	her, er
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itsel hitsel	its hits	its hits
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	ane	ane	–	–	ane's
	plural		thay	thaim	thaimsel, thaimsels	thairs	thair

References

• “I, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
• “me, pers. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “me, possess. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “my, poss. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• m.e.

Etymology

From mar eisimpleir.

Adverb

me

1. e.g.

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

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

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mē (accusative singular of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-. As an indirect object, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/ [me]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: 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 pronoun) 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

Further reading

• “me”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Sumerian

Romanization

me

1. Romanization of 𒈨 (me)

Swedish

Preposition

me

1. (colloquial) Apocopic form of med (“with”)

   Ja vill inte va me (Jag vill inte vara med)

   I don't wanna join

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmeʔ/ [ˈmɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -eʔ
• Syllabification: me

Noun

mê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)

1. maa (bleat cry of a goat or sheep)

   Synonym: (obsolete) ii

Alternative forms

• mee

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈme/ [ˈmɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: me

Particle

me (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)

1. Pronunciation spelling of may.

Further reading

• “me”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• em

Turkish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː/ (overall more common)

Noun

me

1. baa (sound of a sheep)

Derived terms

• melemek

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme/

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

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

Derived terms

• chua me đất

Etymology 2

Noun

me

1. mother

   Synonyms: mẹ, má

   • 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!"

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Pronoun

me (possessive prefixes mV (animate) and dV (inanimate))

1. third-person singular pronoun, he, she, it, etc.

See also

West Makian personal pronouns

	independent	possessive prefix
1st person singular	de	ti
2nd person singular	ni	ni
3rd person singular	me	mVan., dVinan.
1st person plural inclusive	ene	nV
1st person plural exclusive	imi	mi
2nd person plural	ini	fi
3rd person plural	eme	di

• V indicates the expected assimilated vowel of the following noun, following standard West Makian vowel harmony.

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[9], Pacific linguistics

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me˧/

Adjective

me

1. little; small (size or quantity)

Derived terms

• me nyuam

 

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[10], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 125-6.

Yola

Pronoun

me

1. Alternative form of mi
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 106:

     A plaauge apan Portheare! Hea'de luther me waal,

     A plague upon Porter, he'd hide me well,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 106

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

Zou

Noun

me

1. curry

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf