'm
See also: Variations of "m"
'm - English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /əm/, /m̩/ or, next to a vowel, sometimes /m/
Verb
’m (clitic)
Noun
’m
'm - Bavarian
Article
'm m or n
'm - Catalan
Pronoun
'm
- Contraction of me.
Usage notes
- 'm is the reduced (reduïda) form of the pronoun. It is used after verbs ending with a vowel.
- Truca'm. ― Call me.
Declension
'm - Cornish
Determiner
'm
Pronoun
'm
'm - Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /əm/
Pronoun
'm
- Contracted form of hem
- Hij heeft 'm neergeschoten.
- He shot him.
Declension
subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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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, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural. |
'm - Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA: /m/
Determiner
'm
- (literary) my (triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)
- Rwy'n myned yn ôl adref i’m hannwyl famwlad.
- I am going back home to my dear homeland.
Pronoun
'm
- (literary) me (used after vowels as the direct object of a verb; triggers h-prothesis of a following vowel)
- Dywed na’m hadwaenai.
- He/She says that he/she would not recognise me.
- Fe’m ganed i deulu di-Gymraeg.
- I was born (lit. "One gave birth to me") into a non-Welsh-speaking family.
Usage notes
Particle
'm
- (colloquial) Contraction of ddim (“not”).
- Dwyt ti’m yn cofio Macsen.
- You don’t remember Macsen.