me
me - English
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: mē, IPA: /miː/
- (US) enPR: mē, IPA: /mi/
- Homophone: mee
Pronoun
me (first-person singular pronoun, referring to the speaker)
- As the direct object of a verb.
- Can you hear me?
- (archaic, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
- As the object of a preposition.
- Come with me.
- As the indirect object of a verb.
- He gave me this.
- (US, colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
- As the complement of the copula (be or is).
- It wasn't me.
- (informal, with and, often proscribed) As the subject of a verb.
- Me and my friends played a game.
- (nonstandard, not with and) As the subject of a verb.
Usage notes
Me is traditionally described as the accusative pronoun, meaning it should be used as the object of verbs and prepositions, while the nominative pronoun I should be used as the subject of verbs. However, "accusative" pronouns are widely used as the subject of verbs in colloquial speech if they are accompanied by and, for example, "me and her are friends". This usage is traditionally considered incorrect, and "she and I are friends" would be the preferred construction.
Using me as the lone subject (without and) of a verb (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 the spoken version of some dialects 'me' is commonly 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 considered to be correct, though this may be seen as extreme and used for jocular effect.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
Translations
Determiner
me
Translations
Noun
me
- (music) The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.
Anagrams
me - Akan
Pronoun
me
me - Albanian
Pronunciation
- IPA: [mɛ]
Preposition
me (+accusative)
Adjective
me m (feminine mee)
Derived terms
me - Angloromani
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: [meɪ]
Pronoun
me
me - Annobonese
Noun
me
me - Aragonese
Pronoun
me
me - Asturian
Alternative forms
- m' (before a vowel)
Pronoun
me
me - Atong (India)
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /me/
Noun
me (Bengali script মে)
Synonyms
me - Breton
Pronoun
me
me - Carolinian
Conjunction
me
me - Catalan
Pronoun
me (enclitic, contracted 'm, proclitic em, contracted proclitic m')
- 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
Related terms
me - Chuukese
Conjunction
me
Preposition
me
me - Cimbrian
Article
me
- (Sette Comuni) the; definite article for two declensions:
- dative singular masculine
- dative singular neuter
me - Cornish
Alternative forms
- my (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form)
Pronoun
me
me - Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mə/
Pronoun
me
- objective unstressed form of ik (“I”)
Inflection
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, 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. |
Synonyms
Pronoun
me (dependent possessive)
- Pronunciation spelling of mijn (“my”).
me - Estonian
Pronoun
me (genitive me, partitive meid)
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | mina / ma | meie / me |
genitive | minu / mu | meie |
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 |
terminative | minuni | meieni |
essive | minuna | meiena |
abessive | minuta | meieta |
comitative | minuga | meiega |
me - Fala
Pronoun
me
- First person singular dative and accusative pronoun; me
Usage notes
- Takes the form -mi when suffixed to an impersonal verb form.
me - Finnish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈme/, [ˈme̞]
- Syllabification: me
Pronoun
me
Usage notes
- Although usually omitted in written language (the verb shows both the person and the number), the pronoun is in spoken language used very often (compare the usage of minä (“I”)).
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.
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Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Kven: met
Anagrams
me - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mə/
- (Parisian) IPA: /mø/
Pronoun
me (personal, objective case)
- (direct object) me
- Est-ce que tu me vois ? ― Do you see me?
- (indirect object) to me
- Émilien me donne un peu d'argent. ― Émilien gave some money to me.
Related terms
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.
me - Galician
Pronoun
me
- inflection of eu:
- accusative/dative
- reflexive
me - Guaraní
Noun
me
me - Haitian Creole
Noun
me
me - Hawaiian
Preposition
me
me - Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mɛː/
Interjection
me
- baa (representing the bleating sound sheep make)
me - Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA: /me/, /mɛ/
Pronoun
me (first-person singular)
Derived terms
- mea (“my, mine”)
Noun
me (plural me-i)
me - Istriot
Pronoun
me
me - Italian
Pronunciation
- (standard, clitic) IPA: /me/°
- Hyphenation: me
- 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)
- (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
- (clitic) Alternative form of mi
Usage notes
me - Jamaican Creole
Pronoun
me
- Alternative spelling of mi.
me - Japanese
Romanization
me
me - Jingpho
Noun
me
me - Kein
Noun
me
me - Latin
Alternative forms
- mēd (Early Latin)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA: /meː/, [meː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /me/, [mɛː]
Pronoun
mē (personal pronoun)
Derived terms
Descendants
me - Lolopo
Pronunciation
- IPA: [mɯ³³]
Noun
me
- (Yao'an) body hair
Noun
me
- (Yao'an) mushroom
me - Mandarin
Romanization
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 么
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚜
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 末
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麼/么, 麽/么
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚒
me
- 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.
me - Maori
Particle
me
- Conjunctive
- Definitive
- Comparative
me - Mauritian Creole
Noun
me
me - Mbyá Guaraní
Noun
me
me - Mengen
Noun
me
me - Middle English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /meː/
Pronoun
me (nominative I)
Descendants
Determiner
me (nominative I)
- Alternative form of mi.
Pronoun
me
me - Middle French
Alternative forms
- m' (before a vowel)
Pronoun
me
- me, first-person singular object pronoun
- 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
me - Nalca
Noun
me
me - Nauruan
Conjunction
me
me - Naxi
Adverb
me
me - Neapolitan
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /me/
Pronoun
me
- 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) |
me - Norman
Alternative forms
Noun
me f (plural mes)
- (Sark) sea
me - North Frisian
Pronoun
me
- First-person singular, objective: me
me - Northern Kurdish
Pronoun
me
Verb
me
me - Northern Qiang
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mə/
Noun
me
me - Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA: /meː/
- Homophone: med
Pronoun
me (object case oss)
- we
- Kva skal me gjera?
- What shall we do?
Alternative forms
Pronoun
me
- eye dialect spelling of meg (“me”)
Anagrams
me - Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /meː/
Pronoun
mē
- (personal) accusative/dative of iċ
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
me - Old French
Pronoun
me
- myself (first-person singular reflexive pronoun)
- me (first-person singular direct object pronoun)
- to me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)
Related terms
Descendants
me - Pali
Alternative forms
Pronoun
me
- enclitic genitive/dative/instrumental/ablative singular of ahaṃ
me - Pennsylvania German
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mə/
Article
me m or n (indefinite)
Declension
Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
---|---|---|---|
Nominative | en | en | en |
Accusative | en | en | en |
Dative | me | re | me |
me - Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /mɛ/
- Syllabification: me
Pronoun
me
- Alternative form of moje
Interjection
me
- (onomatopoeia) Used to imitate the sound of a sheep or ram, baa
- Synonym: be
Derived terms
me - Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA: /mi/
- (Brazil) IPA: /mi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA: /me/
- (Portugal) IPA: /m(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: me
Pronoun
me
- first-person singular objective direct personal pronoun; me
- Meus amigos me ligaram.
- My friends called me.
- first-person singular objective indirect personal pronoun; (to) me
- Dê-me o copo.
- Give me the glass.
- 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.
- 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 me.
me - Romani
Pronoun
me
Descendants
me - Romanian
Interjection
me
- baa (sound made by sheep or goats)
me - Sassarese
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /me/
Pronoun
me
- (preceded by a preposition) me
Related terms
me - Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Adverb
me
me - Serbo-Croatian
Pronoun
me (Cyrillic spelling ме)
Declension
me - Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA: /méː/
Pronoun
mẹ̑
- we (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)
Inflection
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 |
me - Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /me/ [me]
- Syllabification: me
Pronoun
me (objective case)
me - Sumerian
Romanization
me
- Romanization of 𒈨 (me)
me - Swedish
Preposition
me
- (colloquial) Apocopic form of med (“with”)
- Ja vill inte va me (Jag vill inte vara med)
- I don't wanna join
me - Tagalog
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: me
- IPA: /ˈmeʔ/, [ˈmɛʔ]
Noun
mê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: me
- IPA: /ˈme/, [ˈmɛ]
Particle
me (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)
me - Turkish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈme/ (standard)
- IPA: /ˈmeː/ (overall more common)
Noun
me
- baa (sound of a sheep)
Derived terms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈme/
Noun
me
- The name of the Latin-script letter M.
me - Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà Nội) IPA: [mɛ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA: [mɛ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA: [mɛ˧˧]
Noun
Noun
me
me - West Makian
Pronunciation
- IPA: /me/
Pronoun
me - White Hmong
Pronunciation
- IPA: /me˧/
Adjective
me
me - Yola
Pronoun
me
- Alternative form of mee
me - Zazaki
Pronoun
me
me - Zou
Noun
me