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my

See also: Variations of "my"

my - Translingual

Symbol

my

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

my - English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (unstressed) IPA: /maɪ/, /mə/
    • (unstressed, UK) IPA: /mɪ/, /mi/
  • (Ireland, Scouse, some speakers) IPA: /mi/
  • Homophones: muh, me (some dialects)

Determiner

my

  1. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Possessive#English.
    1. Belonging to me.
      • I can't find my book.
    2. Associated with me.
      • My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.
      • Don't you know my name?
      • I recognised him because he had attended my school.
    3. Related to me.
      • My parents won't let me go out tonight.
    4. In the possession of me.
      • I have to take my books back to the library soon.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

my

  1. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.
    • My, what big teeth you have!

Derived terms

my - Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /məi/

Pronoun

my (subject ek)

  1. me (object)

Alternative forms

  • mij (obsolete)
  • mijn (obsolete, rare)

Determiner

my

  1. my; of me

Alternative forms

my - Cameroon Pidgin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ma/

Determiner

my

  1. 1st person singular possessive determiner

my - Chinese Pidgin English

Pronoun

my

  1. I (subject pronoun)
    • Synonyms: I, me
  2. me (object pronoun)
    • Synonym: me
  3. my (possessive pronoun)

my - Cornish

Alternative forms

  • (Standard Cornish) me

Pronoun

my

  1. I, me

my - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈmɪ]

Pronoun

my

  1. we

Declension

plural
nominative my
genitive nás
dative nám
accusative nás
vocative —
locative nás
instrumental námi
singular plural
1st person já my
2nd person familiar ty vy
polite vy
3rd person m on oni
f ona ony
n ono ona
reflexive sebe, se (clitic)

my - Danish

Noun

my n (singular definite myet, plural indefinite myer)

  1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

Declension

neuter gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative my myet myer myerne
genitive mys myets myers myernes

Noun

my c

  1. micron

Synonyms

my - Egyptian

Pronunciation

  • (modern Egyptological) IPA: /miː/
    • Conventional anglicization: my

Adverb

  1. likewise
  2. accordingly

my - Lower Sorbian

Pronoun

my pl

  1. we

Declension

Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ja mej my
Genitive mě (after preposition) mnjo naju nas
Dative mě (after preposition) mnjo nama nam
Accusative mě (after preposition) mnjo naju nas
Instrumental mnu nama nami
Locative mnjo nama nas
Possessive determiner mój naju naš

my - Manx

Conjunction

my

  1. if

my - Middle English

Determiner

my (subjective pronoun I)

  1. Alternative form of mi

my - Old Czech

Pronoun

my

  1. we; first person plural

Declension

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

my - Old Polish

Pronoun

my

  1. we; first person plural
  2. we; I royal first person plural

Declension

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Polish: my

my - Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mɨ/
  • (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈmɨ/
  • Syllabification: my

Pronoun

my

  1. we; first person plural
  2. we; I royal first person plural
  3. we; I editorial first person plural

Declension

plural
nominative my
genitive nas
dative nam
accusative nas
instrumental nami
locative nas
vocative —

Alternative forms

Noun

my n (indeclinable)

  1. mu (Greek letter Μ, μ)

Trivia

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), my is one of the top 10,355 most used words in Polish, appearing 88 times in scientific texts, 30 times in news, 138 times in essays, 200 times in fiction, and 419 times in plays, totaling 875 times, making it the 49th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

my - Portuguese

Pronoun

my

  1. Obsolete form of mim.

my - Silesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈmɨ/
  • Syllabification: my

Pronoun

my

  1. we; first person plural

my - Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [mi]

Pronoun

my

  1. we

my - Swedish

Noun

my n

  1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

my - Upper Sorbian

Pronoun

my

  1. we

Declension

First person pronouns
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ja mój my
Genitive mje (after preposition) mnje naju nas
Dative mi (after preposition) mni namaj nam
Accusative mje (after preposition) mnje naju nas
Instrumental mnu namaj nami
Locative mni nas
Second person pronouns
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ty wój wy
Genitive æe (after preposition) tebje waju was
Dative æi (after preposition) tebi wamaj wam
Accusative æe (after preposition) tebje waju was
Instrumental tobu wamaj wami
Locative tebi was
Third person pronouns
Masculine singular Feminine singular Neuter singular Dual virile Dual nonvirile Plural virile Plural nonvirile
Nominative wón wona wono wonaj wonej woni wone
Genitive jeho (after preposition) njeho jeje (after preposition) njeje jeho (after preposition) njeho jeju jich (after preposition) nich
Dative jemu (after preposition) njemu jej (after preposition) njej jemu (after preposition) njemu jimaj (after preposition) nimaj jim (after preposition) nim
Accusative jón (after preposition) njón (animate) jeho (animate after preposition) njeho ju (after preposition) nju jo, je (after preposition) njo, nje jeju (after preposition) njeju jej (after preposition) njej jich (after preposition) nich je (after preposition) nje
Instrumental nim njej nim nimaj nimi
Locative nich

my - West Frisian

Pronunciation

  • (Clay) IPA: /mɛi̯/
  • (Wood) IPA: /mi/

Pronoun

my

  1. object of ik
Meaning and Definition of my
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