WordCodex

mi

See also: Variations of "mi"

mi - Translingual

Symbol

mi

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Maori.

mi - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /miː/
  • Homophone: me

Noun

mi (uncountable)

  1. (music) A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

mi

  1. Alternative form of mi. .

Anagrams

mi - Ajië

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mi]

Verb

mi

  1. to come

mi - Albanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mi]

Pronoun

mi

  1. my

Noun

mi m (indefinite plural minj, definite singular miu, definite plural minjtë)

  1. mouse

Declension

indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative mi minj miu minjtë
accusative miun
dative miu minjve miut minjvet
ablative minjsh

mi - Ama

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mĩː/

Noun

mi

  1. bone

mi - Amele

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Ampari Dogon

Noun

mi

  1. water

mi - Arikapú

Noun

mi

  1. water

mi - Aromanian

Pronoun

mi (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of io)

  1. me (accusative)
  2. (reflexive) myself
    • Mi-ashedz.
      • I sit (seat myself).

mi - Bagupi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Baimak

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Bau

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Bavarian

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (accusative)

mi - Berti

Noun

mi

  1. water

mi - Bikol Central

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. by us, of us
  2. Our—exclusive of person spoken to.
    • An harong mi
      • Our house
    • Synonym: niyamo

mi - Bislama

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmi/
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me, my

Usage notes

  • In formal speech, mi is placed before a noun to denote a first-person possessor. In informal speech, the construction blong mi is used instead.

mi - Bourguignon

Noun

mi m (mis)

  1. noon, midday
    • El ât mi, noutre ovreire é dressai lai sope
      • It's noon, our worker has prepared the soup

Synonyms

mi - Buginese

Particle

mi

  1. ᨆᨗ: which means only, e.g. ᨉᨘᨕᨆᨗ /duaːmi/ means only two.

mi - Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈmi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. me; post preposition form of jo

Declension

See ca-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

  1. (music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)

Noun

mi f (plural mis)

  1. mu; the Greek alphabet letter Μ (lowercase μ).

Verb

mi

  1. (colloquial) second-person singular imperative form of mirar

Usage notes

This form is an optional reduced form of the imperative mira that can see use when combined with one or more clitic pronouns attached to the end of the verb - for example:

  • mi-te'l (“look at it, look at him”) for mira-te'l

Derived terms

mi - Central Franconian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /miː/, /mi/

Determiner

mi (masculine menge or minge, feminine meng or ming)

  1. (Ripuarian) my (first-person singular possessive)
    • Wo hann ich dann mi Jlas henjestallt?
      • Where did I put my glass?

Usage notes

  • The form meng/ming is used for the neuter when strongly stressed: Dat es ming Booch! (“That's my book!”) Contrariwise, the form mi may be used for the masculine and feminine when unstressed, chiefly with words for relatives: mi Papp (“my father”, but less common than menge Papp).

mi - Chuukese

Verb

mi

  1. (transitive, copulative) to be (precedes the adjective or adverb)

mi - Corsican

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (both direct and indirect subject)

mi - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈmɪ]

Pronoun

mi

  1. clitic dative of já

mi - Dalmatian

Pronoun

mi m (feminine maja)

  1. mine; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun
  2. my

mi - Dutch

Noun

mi f (plural mi's)

  1. (music) mi

mi - Egyptian

Romanization

mi

  1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of mj.

mi - Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mi]
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

mi (first-person singular nominative, accusative min, possessive mia)

  1. I, the one who is speaking, me, myself
    • Mi vidas lin. ― I see him.
    • Li donis la hundon al mi. ― He gave the dog to me.
    • Mi diris al mi. ― I said to myself.

mi - Ewe

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmɪ/

Pronoun

mi

  1. you (plural)

mi - Fala

Pronoun

mi

  1. First person singular prepositional pronoun; me

mi - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
  • Syllabification: mi

Pronoun

mi

  1. (poetic) Alternative form of mikä (“what”) (especially as a relative pronoun)

Declension

mi - French

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

  1. (music) mi, the note 'E'

mi - Friulian

Pronoun

mi (first person direct object, indirect object)

  1. (direct object) me
  2. (indirect object) to me
  3. (reflexive) myself

mi - Fula

Pronoun

mi

  1. I (first person singular subject pronoun; short form)

Usage notes

  • Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).
  • Used in all conjugations except the affirmative non-accomplished, where the long form is used instead.

mi - Ga

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me (first-person pronoun; refers to the person speaking)

mi - Gal

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Galician

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mi]

Determiner

mi (first-person singular possessive singular)

  1. (before the noun) unstressed form of meu and miña: my

Usage notes

The form mi is only used before padre (“father”), madre (“mother”), tío (“uncle”), señor (“lord, sir”), amo (“master”), as a form of respect.

Derived terms

  • mi madriña

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈmi]

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

  1. (music) mi (musical note)
  2. (music) E (the musical note or key)

mi - Garo

Noun

mi

  1. (botany) rice plant
  2. rice

mi - Garus

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Gaulish

Pronoun

mī

  1. I; first-person singular personal pronoun, nominative case

Inflection

NumberSingularPlural
Nominativemīsnīs
Accusativemesnīs
Genitivemonansron
Dativemoiamē
Ablativemeame
Instrumentalmoi?
Locativemoiamē

mi - Girawa

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Guerrero Amuzgo

Verb

mi

  1. have

Noun

mi

  1. cat

mi - Guinea-Bissau Creole

Pronoun

mi

  1. I (first person singular)
  2. me
  3. my

mi - Gumalu

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Gun

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mĩ́/

Pronoun

mí

  1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mĩ̀/

Pronoun

mì

  1. you (second-person plural personal pronoun)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mĩ/

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (first-person singular personal object pronoun)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mĩ́/

Pronoun

mí

  1. us (first-person plural personal object pronoun)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mĩ̀/

Pronoun

mì

  1. you (second-person plural personal object pronoun)

mi - Haitian Creole

Adjective

mi

  1. ripe, mature

Noun

mi

  1. wall

Synonyms

mi - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈmi]

Pronoun

mi

  1. (personal) we

Declension

nominative mi
accusative minket
dative nekünk
instrumental velünk
causal-final értünk
inessive bennünk
superessive rajtunk
adessive nálunk
illative belénk
sublative ránk
allative hozzánk
elative belőlünk
delative rólunk
ablative tőlünk

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Note: In all these forms, mi is optional and only serves for emphasis.

  • mialattunk, mielőttünk etc. (mi + a postposition with the first-person plural personal suffix; see Hungarian postpositions)
  • minekünk, mihozzánk etc. (mi + one of the declined forms listed in the table above; see Hungarian pronouns)

Pronoun

mi

  1. (interrogative) what?
    • Mi van a kezedben? ― What is in your hand?
  2. (after van or nincs in any tense and mood, followed by an infinitive) something, anything, nothing
    • Nincs mit hozzátennem. ― I have nothing to add.
    • Még szerencse, hogy volt mit enni! ― It's lucky there was something to eat!
    • Örülnék, ha lenne mit nézni a tévében. ― I would be glad if there were something to watch on TV.
    • Van mire tenni a vázát? ― Is there anything to put the vase on?

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of mi

Derived terms

Determiner

mi (interrogative)

  1. (now only in certain set phrases) what?
    • Synonyms: milyen, miféle
    • mi okból? ― for what reason?
    • mi célból? ― for what purpose/goal?
    • mi végből/végre? ― to what end?
    • mi módon? ― in what manner?
    • mi fán terem? ― what kind of thing is it? (literally, “on what tree is it produced?”)

Derived terms

Interjection

mi

  1. (poetic) how …!, what (a) …!
    • Mi gyönyörűség! ― What beauty!
    • Synonyms: (poetic) mily, (normal) milyen, (normal, slightly colloquial) micsoda, (poetic and archaic) minő

Noun

mi (plural mik)

  1. mi (a syllable used in solfège to represent the third note of a major scale)

Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of mi

or (as a means of distinction from the inflection of the interrogative pronoun)

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
Possessive forms of mi

mi - Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈmi]
  • Hyphenation: mi

Noun

mi (first-person possessive miku, second-person possessive mimu, third-person possessive minya)

  1. (food) noodle

Noun

mi (first-person possessive miku, second-person possessive mimu, third-person possessive minya)

  1. (music) mi, a syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.

mi - Ingrian

Pronunciation

  • (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
  • (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

mi

  1. (rare) Alternative form of mikä

Declension

Declension of mi: see mikä

mi - Interlingua

Determiner

mi

  1. (possessive) my

mi - Isebe

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Italian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

mi (first person, objective case)

  1. clitic accusative of io. me
    • Synonym: me (non-clitic)
    • m'ha colpito ― he hit me
  2. clitic dative of io. (to) me
    • Synonym: a me (non-clitic)
    • dammelo ― give it to me
    • dimmi tutto ― tell me anything
    • mi piace ― I like it (literally, “it's pleasing to me”)
    • non mi fai paura ― you don't scare me (literally, “you don't give fear to me”)
  3. (colloquial) Used as ethical dative.
    • stammi bene! ― keep well!
    • che mi combini? ― what are you doing?

Usage notes

  • Becomes me when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmi/, /ˈmi/*
  • Hyphenation: mì

Noun

mi

  1. (music) the third note, mi
  2. E (musical note or key)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmi/*
  • Hyphenation: mì

Noun

mi m or f (invariable)

  1. mu (Greek letter)

Anagrams

mi - Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmɪ/
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

mi

  1. I
    • Mi born a Westmoreland.
      • I was born in Westmoreland.
  2. me
    • Yuh can see mi?
      • Can you see me?
  3. my
    • A mi suitcase dat.
      • That's my suitcase.

mi - Japanese

Romanization

mi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of み
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ミ

mi - Jarawa

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I; we (both singular and plural first-person pronoun, usually not as the object of the verb)

Usage notes

The pronoun mi can be used in both the nominative and accusative case, but it is less common than ma for the latter. When used in possessive constructions, the choice of pronoun is largely determined by vowel harmony.

mi - Kabuverdianu

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me, my

mi - Kare (New Guinea)

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Karelian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. what?
  2. which, that

Declension

singular plural
nominative mi mit
genitive min min
partitive mitä mitä
inessive missä missä
elative mistä mistä
illative mih mih
adessive millä millä
ablative miltä miltä
essive minä minä
translative miksi miksi
abessive mittä mittä

Synonyms

mi - Laboya

Pronoun

mi

  1. second person plural independent pronoun

mi - Lashi

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/, [mi˧]

Numeral

mi

  1. four

Alternative forms

mi - Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA: /miː/, [miː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA: /mi/, [miː]

Pronoun

mī

  1. vocative masculine singular of meus

Pronoun

mī

  1. (poetic) Syncopated form of mihī̆, dative of egō

mi - Ligurian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me

mi - Livvi

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmi/
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

mi

  1. what?
  2. which?

mi - Lolopo

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mi³³]

Noun

mi 

  1. (Yao'an) ground, land, dirt

mi - Low German

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (dative of ik)
  2. me (accusative of ik)

Usage notes

  • Some Low German dialects in southern Westphalia differentiate between dative mi and accusative mik.

mi - Ludian

Pronoun

mi

  1. what

mi - Malay

Noun

mi (Jawi spelling مي‎, informal 1st possessive miku, 2nd possessive mimu, 3rd possessive minya)

  1. noodle

mi - Mandarin

Romanization

mi

  1. Nonstandard spelling of mī.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of mí.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of mǐ.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of mì.

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.

mi - Matepi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Mawan

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /miː/, /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. accusative/dative of ic

Descendants

mi - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /miː/
  • (unstressed) IPA: /mi/

Determiner

mi (nominative I)

  1. First-person singular genitive determiner: my.

Usage notes

mi is usually used before a consonant (other than h-), while min is usually used before a vowel or h-, much as with Modern English an vs a.

Descendants

mi - Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /miː/

Pronoun

mî

  1. (first person singular dative) me
  2. (first person singular accusative) me

Declension

See gml-perpron for declension.

Descendants

mi - Mosimo

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Munit

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Murupi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Nadëb

Noun

mi

  1. water

Synonyms

  • naʔɤy

mi - Nake

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Naxi

Noun

mi

  1. fire

mi - Nigerian Pidgin

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me (first-person singular pronoun)

mi - North Frisian

Pronoun

mi

  1. me

mi - Norwegian Bokmål

Determiner

mi

  1. feminine singular of min

mi - Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /miː/

Determiner

mi f

  1. feminine singular of min

Noun

mi m (definite singular mi-en, indefinite plural mi-ar, definite plural mi-ane)

  1. (music) mi, a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

Coordinate terms

  • (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, so (or sol), la, ti (or si), do

Anagrams

mi - Nzadi

Pronoun

mǐ`

  1. I (first-person singular pronoun)

mi - Old Frisian

Alternative forms

Pronoun

mī

  1. accusative/dative of ik

Inflection

See ofs-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

Descendants

  • North Frisian: me
  • Saterland Frisian: mie
  • West Frisian: my

mi - Old High German

Pronoun

mi

  1. (northern) Alternative form of mir, dative singular of ih

mi - Old Saxon

Alternative forms

  • mik (for the accusative)

Pronoun

mī

  1. dative/accusative of ik

Declension

See osx-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

Descendants

  • Middle Low German: mi

mi - Old Spanish

Determiner

mi

  1. my

Alternative forms

mi - Önge

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I; me (singular first-person pronoun)

mi - Palenquero

Adjective

mi

  1. my

Usage notes

Placed after the noun.

mi - Panim

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Papiamentu

Alternative forms

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me, my.

mi - Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I

mi - Pijin

Pronoun

mi

  1. I/me (first-person singular pronoun)

mi - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/
  • Syllabification: mi

Alternative forms

Pronoun

mi

  1. dative singular mute of ja
    • Daj mi rękę. ― Give me your hand.

Noun

mi n (indeclinable)

  1. Alternative form of my

mi - Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmi/
  • (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmi/
  • Hyphenation: mi

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

  1. mi (musical note)

Coordinate terms

Pronoun

mi

  1. Obsolete form of mim.

mi - Rapting

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Rempi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

  1. (music) mi, the note 'E'.

Declension

singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mi miul (niște) mi mii
genitive/dative (unui) mi miului (unor) mi milor
vocative miule milor

mi - Samosa

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Saruga

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Sassarese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. (accusative) me
  2. (dative) to me
  3. Alternative form of me

mi - Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmi/

Pronoun

mi (emphatic mise)

  1. I, me

mi - Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mîː/

Pronoun

mȋ (Cyrillic spelling ми̑)

  1. we (nominative plural of jȃ (“I”))
  2. we (vocative plural of jȃ (“I”))

Declension

See jȃ.

Pronoun

mi (Cyrillic spelling ми)

  1. to me (clitic dative singular of jȃ (“I”))
  2. (emphatic, possessive, dative) my, of mine (clitic dative singular of jȃ (“I”))
    • Gdje mi je auto?
      • Where is my car?

mi - Seta

Noun

mi

  1. water

mi - Sihan

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Silopi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Slovak

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mi]

Pronoun

mi

  1. dative of ja

mi - Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /míː/

Pronoun

mȋ

  1. we (masculine 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

mi - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/ [mi]
  • Syllabification: mi

Determiner

mi sg (first-person singular possessive singular, plural mis)

  1. (before the noun) Apocopic form of mío, my

Usage notes

The forms mi and mis are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of mío is used instead.

  • Son mis libros. ― They are my books.
  • Los libros son míos. ― The books are mine.

Besides being a pronoun, because mi occurs in a noun phrase and expresses reference, it also grammatically classifies as a determiner (specifically a possessive/genitive determiner).

possessor preposed postposed or standalone
possessee possessee
singular plural singular plural
masculine feminine masculine feminine
First person: singular: mimismíomíamíosmías
plural: (same as postposed/standalone) nuestronuestranuestrosnuestras
Second person (informal): singular: tutustuyotuyatuyostuyas
plural: (same as postposed/standalone) vuestrovuestravuestrosvuestras
Third person: susussuyosuyasuyossuyas

Noun

mi f (plural míes)

  1. mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ
    • Synonym: mu

mi - Sranan Tongo

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I
  2. me
  3. my

mi - Sumerian

Romanization

mi

  1. Romanization of 𒈪 (mi)

mi - Tày

Pronunciation

  • (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [mi˧˧]
  • (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [mi˦˥]

Noun

mi (猸)

  1. bear

mi - Ter Sami

Pronoun

mi

  1. what

mi - Tok Pisin

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me. First person pronoun; refers to the person speaking.

mi - Torres Strait Creole

Pronoun

mi

  1. me

mi - Turkish

Particle

mi

  1. Used to form interrogatives.
    • Bugün okula gittin mi?
      • Did you go to school today?
    • Evli misin?
      • Are you married?

Usage notes

  • Personal suffixes are added to the interrogative particles, as well as the past tense suffixes.
  • This form is used when the last vowel of the previous word is "i" or "e". Other forms used with different vowels are: mu?, mü? and mı?

Inflection

See more at mı.

mi - Utu

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Veps

Pronoun

mi (genitive min, partitive midä)

  1. what (interrogative)

Inflection

Inflection of mi
nominative sing. mi
genitive sing. min
partitive sing. midä
partitive plur. —

Derived terms

Conjunction

mi

  1. than (in comparisons)

Synonyms

mi - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

mi • (眉)

  1. eyelashes

Alternative forms

Pronoun

mi • (𠋥)

  1. (archaic, literary) you (second person singular pronoun)
  2. (chiefly Central Vietnam, derogatory in other dialects) you (second person singular pronoun, referring to a person held in low esteem)

Noun

mi

  1. (music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)
    • đô, rê, mi ― do, re, mi

Verb

mi

  1. (slang) to kiss

Synonyms

Anagrams

mi - Walloon

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

mi

  1. me
  2. my

mi - Wamas

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /miː/

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me
    • Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi.
      • The old land of my fathers is dear to me.
    • Rhaid i mi fynd i weld Taid.
      • I have to go and see Granddad.

Usage notes

Mi is typically heard only after the preposition i (“to, for”) in formal language and in northern colloquial language. In southern colloquial language the form fi is used after the preposition i.

Particle

mi (triggers soft mutation on the following verb)

  1. (North Wales) used with inflected verbs to mark affirmative statements.
    • Mi werthes i hanner dwsin.
      • I sold half a dozen.

Usage notes

  • This particle is optional and may only be used before inflected verbs in the preterite, future or conditional in affirmative statements, e.g. mi fydda i'n mynd (“I will go”).
  • Some speakers may drop the particle but keep the resulting soft mutation, e.g. fydda i'n mynd (“I will go”) instead of bydda i'n mynd.

Synonyms

  • fe (South Wales)

mi - Yoidik

Noun

mi

  1. louse

mi - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • (high-tone): IPA: /mĩ́/
  • (mid-tone): IPA: /mĩ̄/
  • (low-tone): IPA: /mĩ̀/

Noun

mí

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

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (second-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a high-tone monosyllabic verb)

Pronoun

mí

  1. me (second-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a low- or mid-tone monosyllabic verb)

Determiner

mi

  1. my (first-person singular possessive pronoun)

Verb

mí

  1. (intransitive) to breathe

Derived terms

Verb

mi

  1. (transitive) to shake

Verb

mi

  1. (transitive) to swallow

Derived terms

Verb

mì

  1. (intransitive) to move
  2. (intransitive) to oscillate

Derived terms

  • ìmì, ìmìlẹ́gbẹ́

Pronoun

mi

  1. (Lagos) Alternative form of mo (“I”)

Alternative forms

  • (abbreviated): M, m

Noun

mí

  1. The syllable used to represent the high-tone and its diacritic (´)

mi - Zhuang

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /mi˨˦/
  • Tone numbers: mi1
  • Hyphenation: mi

Noun

mi (1957–1982 spelling mi)

  1. pubic hair
    • Synonym: (dialectal) moi

mi - Zou

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mî/
  • Hyphenation: mi

Noun

mì

  1. person, human being

mi - Zulu

Pronoun

-mi

  1. Combining stem of mina.

Verb

-mi?

  1. to be standing

Inflection

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Meaning and Definition of mi
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