me

See also: Variations of "me"

me - English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: , IPA: /miː/
  • (US) enPR: , IPA: /mi/
  • Homophone: mee

Pronoun

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

  1. As the direct object of a verb.
    • Can you hear me?
  2. (archaic, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
  3. As the object of a preposition.
    • Come with me.
  4. As the indirect object of a verb.
    • He gave me this.
  5. (US, colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
  6. As the complement of the copula (be or is).
    • It wasn't me.
  7. (informal, with and, often proscribed) As the subject of a verb.
    • Me and my friends played a game.
  8. (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

  • (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

Descendants

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

Translations


Determiner

me

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

Translations


Noun

me

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

Anagrams

me - Akan

Pronoun

me

  1. I

me - Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mɛ]

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.

Adjective

me m (feminine mee)

  1. insufficient, scanty, not full

Derived terms

me - Angloromani

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [meɪ]

Pronoun

me

  1. I

me - Annobonese

Noun

me

  1. mother

me - Aragonese

Pronoun

me

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

me - Asturian

Alternative forms

  • m' (before a vowel)

Pronoun

me

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

me - Atong (India)

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /me/

Noun

me (Bengali script মে)

  1. May

Synonyms

me - Breton

Pronoun

me

  1. I, me

me - Carolinian

Conjunction

me

  1. and

me - Catalan

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

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-.

me - Chuukese

Conjunction

me

  1. and

Preposition

me

  1. from

me - Cimbrian

Article

me

  1. (Sette Comuni) the; definite article for two declensions:
    1. dative singular masculine
    2. dative singular neuter

me - Cornish

Alternative forms

  • my (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form)

Pronoun

me

  1. (Standard Cornish) I, me

me - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mə/

Pronoun

me

  1. 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)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of mijn (my).

me - Estonian

Pronoun

me (genitive me, partitive meid)

  1. we

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

  1. 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

  1. we

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.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

Anagrams

me - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mə/
  • (Parisian) IPA: /mø/

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.
Number Person Gender Nominative (subject) Accusative (direct complement) Dative (indirect complement) Locative (at) Genitive (of) Disjunctive (tonic)
SingularFirst je, j’ me, m’ moi
Second tu te, t’ toi
ThirdMasculine il le, l’ lui y en lui
Feminine elle la, l’ elle
Indeterminate on1
Reflexive se, s’4 soi4
PluralFirst nous nous nous
Second vous2 vous2,3 vous2
ThirdMasculine 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

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

me - Guaraní

Noun

me

  1. male
  2. husband

me - Haitian Creole

Noun

me

  1. May

me - Hawaiian

Preposition

me

  1. with

me - Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɛː/

Interjection

me

  1. baa (representing the bleating sound sheep make)

me - Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /me/, /mɛ/

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”)

Noun

me (plural me-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter M/m.

me - Istriot

Pronoun

me

  1. objective of i; me; to 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)

  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).

me - Jamaican Creole

Pronoun

me

  1. Alternative spelling of mi.

me - Japanese

Romanization

me

  1. Rōmaji transcription of (hiragana)
  2. Rōmaji transcription of (katakana)

me - Jingpho

Noun

me

  1. ballot

me - Kein

Noun

me

  1. louse

me - Latin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /meː/, [meː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /me/, [mɛː]

Pronoun

(personal pronoun)

  1. me, myself; accusative singular of ego
  2. by me, with me, from me; ablative singular of ego

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Aromanian: mi
  • Catalan: me
  • Ligurian: mi
  • Corsican: mi
  • French: me, moi
  • Galician: me
  • Italian: me, mi
  • Portuguese: me
  • Romanian:
  • Sicilian: mi
  • Spanish: me

me - Lolopo

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mɯ³³]

Noun

me 

  1. (Yao'an) body hair

Noun

me 

  1. (Yao'an) mushroom

me - Mandarin

Romanization

me (me5me0, Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄜ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of
  4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of ,
  5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of

me

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .

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

  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

me - Mauritian Creole

Noun

me

  1. May

me - Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

me

  1. husband

me - Mengen

Noun

me

  1. (drinkable) water
  2. any liquid
  3. (non-tidal) stream, river

me - Middle English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /meː/

Pronoun

me (nominative I)

  1. me (first-person singular accusative pronoun)
  2. (reflexive) myself

Descendants


Determiner

me (nominative I)

  1. Alternative form of mi.

Pronoun

me

  1. Typically singular, indefinite pronoun: one, you (indefinite).

me - Middle French

Alternative forms

  • m' (before a vowel)

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

me - Nalca

Noun

me

  1. son
  2. child

me - Nauruan

Conjunction

me

  1. and

me - Naxi

Adverb

me

  1. not

me - Neapolitan

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /me/

Pronoun

me

  1. me (accusative or dative or reflexive or prepositional)

Coordinate terms

NumberPersonNominativeAccusativeDativeReflexivePossessivePrepositional
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

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

Noun

me f (plural mes)

  1. (Sark) sea

me - North Frisian

Pronoun

me

  1. First-person singular, objective: me

me - Northern Kurdish

Pronoun

me

  1. oblique form of em: us, we

Verb

me

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bûn
    • Synonym: im

me - Northern Qiang

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mə/

Noun

me

  1. fire

me - Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /meː/
  • Homophone: med

Pronoun

me (object case oss)

  1. we
    • Kva skal me gjera?
      • What shall we do?

Alternative forms


Pronoun

me

  1. eye dialect spelling of meg (me)

Anagrams

me - Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /meː/

Pronoun

  1. (personal) accusative/dative of

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

me - Old French

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)

Descendants

  • Middle French: me
    • French: me

me - Pali

Alternative forms

  • 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

me - Pennsylvania German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mə/

Article

me m or n (indefinite)

  1. a, an

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

  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

me - Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA: /mi/
  • (Portugal) IPA: /m(ɨ)/
  • Hyphenation: me

Pronoun

me

  1. first-person singular objective direct personal pronoun; me
    • Meus amigos me ligaram.
      • My friends called me.
  2. first-person singular objective indirect personal pronoun; (to) me
    • Dê-me o copo.
      • Give me the glass.
  3. 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.
  4. 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

  1. I

Descendants

  • Angloromani: me
  • Vlax Romani: me

me - Romanian

Interjection

me

  1. baa (sound made by sheep or goats)

me - Sassarese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /me/

Pronoun

me

  1. (preceded by a preposition) me

me - Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Adverb

me

  1. e.g.

me - Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

me (Cyrillic spelling ме)

  1. of me (genitive singular of (I))
  2. me (accusative singular of (I))

Declension

singular plural
nominative
genitive mȅne, me nȃs
dative mȅni, mi nȁma, nam
accusative mȅne, me nȃs
vocative
locative mȅni nȁma
instrumental mnȏm, mnóme nȁma

me - Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /méː/

Pronoun

mẹ̑

  1. we (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)

Inflection

singular
1st person 2nd person reflexive
nominative jàz
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 m, f or n m, 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)

  1. (personal) accusative of yo: me
  2. (personal, dative pronoun) dative of yo: to me, for me
  3. (personal, reflexive) reflexive of yo: myself

me - Sumerian

Romanization

me

  1. Romanization of 𒈨 (me)

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

me - Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: me
  • IPA: /ˈmeʔ/, [ˈmɛʔ]

Noun

(Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)

  1. bleat; maa; cry of a goat or sheep
    • Synonym: (obsolete) ii

Alternative forms


Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: me
  • IPA: /ˈme/, [ˈmɛ]

Particle

me (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of may.

me - Turkish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

me

  1. baa (sound of a sheep)

Derived terms


Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈme/

Noun

me

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter M.

me - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, quả) me ()

  1. tamarind

Noun

me

  1. mother

me - West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /me/

Pronoun

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

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

me - White Hmong

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /me˧/

Adjective

me

  1. little; small (size or quantity)

me - Yola

Pronoun

me

  1. Alternative form of mee

me - Zazaki

Pronoun

me

  1. me

me - Zou

Noun

me

  1. curry
Meaning and Definition of me
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