me

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Etymology 1

From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative mec), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”).

Cognate with Scots me, North Frisian me, Saterland Frisian mie, Dutch me, mij, Low German mi, German mir (dative only), Icelandic mér (also still dative), Latin mē, Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé), Sanskrit मा (mā), all meaning “me”.

Pronunciation

• (UK, Canada) enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /miː/

  • Audio (Australia):

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• (US) enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /mi/

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• (Northern England, Ottawa Valley) enPR: mĭ, IPA^(key): /mɪ/
• (some accents) enPR: mā, IPA^(key): /meɪ/
• (Early Modern) IPA^(key): /me/
• Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ, -ɪ
• Homophones: Me, mee, may (some accents)

Pronoun

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

1. The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
   1. As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.

      Can you hear me?

      He gave me this.

      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17, signature Fff, verso, column 2:

        Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, haſt holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.

   2. (archaic, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
      • 1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci:

        And I awoke, and found me here.

   3. (colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
      • 1993 April, Harper's Magazine:

        When I get to college, I'm gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.

   4. As the object of a preposition.

      Come with me.

2. Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).

   Who's there? —Me. (or:) It's only me.

   Who did this? —Me. I did it. (or:) It was me. I did it.)

   Who said that? —(It was) not me.

   • 2017, Theresa May, “Andrew Neil interviews Theresa May: full transcript”, in The Spectator‎^[2], archived from the original on 22 May 2017:

     It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.

3. (nonstandard or proscribed) I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
   1. (informal, with a conjunction, often proscribed) As the subject of a verb.

      Me and my friends played a game.

      [It was] literally all me and my astrophysicist colleagues could talk about.

      Stella and me have opted to take a course called ‘Autobiography and Fiction’.

      • 2025 June 14, Anna Holmes, “Wait, People Are Bringing Their Whole Family to Job Interviews?”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

        An employee was recently discussing her weekend on our Monday Zoom call (we go around the Zoom and share what we did over the weekend). She said, “Me and her went to the movies on Saturday night." I couldn’t contain it. I immediately responded with “X and I went to the movies on Saturday night, me and her never do anything, me can’t.”

   2. (nonstandard, not with a conjunction) As the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
      • 1844, Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, volume II:

        One of them, whose sobriquet was Big-headed Blackboy, was stretched out before the fire, and no answer could be obtained from him, but a drawling repetition, in grunts of displeasure, of "Bel (not) me want to go.

      • 1899 July 20, Mrs. A[lexander] J[effrey] McKelway [i.e., Lavinia Rutherford McKelway], “Children’s Department”, in A[lexander] J[effrey] McKelway, editor, Presbyterian Standard, volume XLI, number 28, Charlotte, N.C.: The Presbyterian Publishing Company, page 14, column 1:

        Well he said me mustn’t eat ’nanas cause ’nanas would make me sick.

      • 2005 October 10, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Teen Girl Squad Issue #10”, in Homestar Runner‎^[4], spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

        Whoa! That was about the coolest thing ever! Me gotta see that again.

   3. (nonstandard, in apposition) Would be the subject of a copula in standard English, though the copula is omitted; used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
      • 1932 June, Katherine Albert, “Hey! Hey! Here Comes Johnny”, in James R. Quirk, editor, Photoplay, volume XLII, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Photoplay Publishing Company, page 119, column 2:

        “I should stick to Tarzan,” he [Johnny Weissmuller] explains. “You see, I’m no actor. Well, I didn’t have to act in ‘Tarzan, the Ape Man’—just said, ‘Me Tarzan, you Jane.’ I'll never be able to act.”

        The words do not occur in the film itself, nor in the original book by Burroughs. Instead, Tarzan says “Tarzan” and “Jane” repeatedly.

      • 1954 February 3, Mrs. John F. Underhill, “The Last Leaf” (Chapter Three: Bear Tracks), in Lawrence Maxwell, editor, Junior Guide, volume 2, number 5, Washington, D.C., page 7, column 2:

        May opened the door, and a huge Indian walked into the room. “Me Bear Tracks,” he said. “Me hungry.”

Usage notes

Me is traditionally described as the objective pronoun, meaning it is used as the object of verbs and prepositions, while the subjective pronoun I should be used as the subject of verbs. However, “objective” pronouns are widely used as the subject of verbs in colloquial speech when they are accompanied by a conjunction, for example, me and her are friends. This usage is traditionally considered incorrect, and she and I are friends is the prescriptive construction.

Using me as the lone subject of a verb (without a conjunction, for example, 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 (for example, me likee, me wantee).

In some dialects, me is also used as a possessive in speech (see below), or put another way (because in writing those dialects often write my), those dialects pronounce my as /mi/, but in some of those dialects, my /maɪ/ may still be used when the word is emphasized, as in it’s my turn.

Some prescriptivists object to the use of me following the verb be, as in it wasn’t me; they prescribe phrase it was not I as the correct one, 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, moi (humorous)
• (indirect object): us (Australia, UK), moi (humorous)
• (marking ownership): my; mine (archaic)

Derived terms

• about me
• address me
• address me 🐘
• after me the deluge
• a little bird told me, a little birdie told me
• arrest-me-red
• arrest me red, arrest-me red
• ask me anything
• away-to-me
• believe you me
• cast-me-down
• choke-me
• come-and-cuddle-me
• come at me
• date-me doc
• dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians
• don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining
• don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining
• don't tread on me
• fellermelad
• fight me
• fixme
• fool me once
• for me
• for me and not for thee
• fuck me forewards
• give me a break
• gracious me
• hear me out
• hit me
• Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me
• kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
• let this cup pass from me
• little old me
• look-at-me, look at me
• make me
• marry me chicken
• me either
• meet me at McDonald's
• meet me at McDonald's haircut
• me-firstism
• meism
• me-me generation, me-me-me generation
• meness
• meself
• me-time
• Mii
• mini-me
• new year, new me
• odds me
• pinch-me moment
• put-me-up
• readme
• read-me file
• rot me
• silly me
• slap my ass and call me Susan
• stap me
• stap me vitals
• strike me blind
• strike me lucky
• strike me silly
• sue me
• that's all Greek to me, that's Greek to me
• that's me told
• that's news to me
• thee and me
• this is me
• Tommy come tickle me
• touch-me-not-ish
• touch-me-not-ishness
• trust me bro
• try me
• you had me at

Related terms

• meseems
• methinks
• noli me tangere

Descendants

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

Translations

See me/translations § Pronoun.

See also

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics. personal pronoun possessive pronoun possessive determiner subjective objective reflexive first person singular I me (colloquial) me myself me mysen mine my mine (before vowels, archaic) me plural we us ourselves ourself oursen ours ourn (obsolete outside dialects) our second person singular standard (historically formal) you you yourself yoursen yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) your archaic (historically informal) thou thee thyself theeself thysen thine thy thine (before vowels) plural standard you ye (archaic) you yourselves yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) your colloquial you all y'all you guys yous you all y'all you guys yous y'allselves all yours y'all's you guys' your guys' all your y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' informal / dialectal (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) third person singular masculine he him himself hisself (archaic) hissen his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) his feminine she her herself hersen hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) her neuter it hit it hit itself hitself its his (archaic) its his (archaic) hits genderless1 they them themself, themselves theirs their nonspecific (formal) one one oneself – one's plural they them hem, 'em themselves theirsen theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) their 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronouns.

Noun

me (plural mes)

1. The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.

   Synonym: I

   • 1871, George MacDonald, “[At the Back of the North Wind] Out in the Storm”, in Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R[ichard] Stockton, Julian Hawthorne, editors, Masterpieces of the World’s Literature, Ancient and Modern: The Great Authors of the World with Their Master Productions, volume XIV, New York, N.Y.: American Literary Society, published 1899, pages 7514–7515:

     “Quite easily. Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other. It can’t be like you.” “Ah, but which is me? I can’t be two mes, you know.” “No. Nobody can be two mes.” “Well, which me is me?” “Now I must think. There looks to be two.” “Yes. That’s the very point—You can’t be knowing the thing you don’t know, can you?” “No.” “Which me do you know?” “The kindest, goodest, best me in the world,” answered Diamond, clinging to North Wind. […] “Do you know the other me as well?” “No. I can’t. I shouldn’t like to.” “There it is. You don’t know the other me. You are sure of one of them?” “Yes.” “And you are sure there can’t be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the me you don’t know must be the same as the me you do know—else there would be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the other me you don’t know must be as kind as the me you do know?”

   • 1948 January, Rog Phillips [pseudonym; Roger Phillip Graham], “Hate”, in Amazing Stories, volume 22, number 1, Chicago, Ill.: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, page 69, column 2:

     The question seems unanswerable, because if those same atoms were to be collected as they leave my body as waste in the normal process of metabolism, and in a year when my body contained all new atoms, those old atoms which were me a year ago were reformed into an exact replica of me down to the last thought and cell, would there be two mes?

   • 1990, Bei Dao [pseudonym; Zhao Zhenkai], translated by Bonnie S. McDougall and Susette Ternent Cooke, Waves, New York, N.Y.: New Directions Publishing, →ISBN, page 158:

     “In these last few days I keep feeling that I’m changing, changing into something I don’t quite recognize myself.” / “You’ve become more like yourself.” / “Could there be two mes?” / “Perhaps more than two.” / “It gets worse and worse. So which me do you actually love ?” / “All of them.” / “You’re being slippery.” Her lips curled slyly. “In fact you only love the me in your mind’s eye, and that me doesn’t exist, right?” / “No, that’s the combination of all the yous.” / She laughed. “It’s just as complicated as a mathematical calculation, if you end up with the three-headed, six-armed me, could you stand that?”

Etymology 2

A spelling representing the pronunciation (/miː/), which is the older pronunciation (see Middle English mi (“my”); Middle English me (“me”) was pronounced /meː/, similar to modern May); the Great Vowel Shift in the Middle Ages changed /iː/ to /aɪ/, but some dialects retained or reinnovated /iː/ in this word.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /miː/

Determiner

me

1. (UK regional, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of my.
   • a. 1918, Wilfred Owen, “The Letter”, in Douglas Kerr, editor, The Works of Wilfred Owen, page 54:

     There don't seem much to say just now. / (Yer what? Then don't, yer ruddy cow! / And give us back me cigarette!)

   • 1994, John Hodge, Shallow Grave, spoken by Alex Law (Ewan McGregor):

     I want me money back!

   • 1995, Nick Park, A Close Shave:

     Get off me cheese! Get off! Get off!

   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 99:

     "What have I ever done to prove me worth, or where I could at least say as I'd made a difference?"

Translations

my — see my

Etymology 3

From mi (“third note of a major scale”) +‎ -e (“flat”), from Glover's solmization, Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

Noun

me

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

Etymology 4

From Middle English me, an unstressed phonetic reduction of men, man (pronouns; q. v.). Compare German man (“one, you”, indefinite pronoun).

Pronoun

me (reflexive me's self, possessive adjective me's, plural mes)

1. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) (obsolete, Early Modern) Indefinite pronoun (usually singular); one; you; they; someone.

References

• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “me”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin, “me”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[5], archived from the original on 5 September 2024.

Anagrams

• 'em, EM, Em, em, em-

Abau

Particle

me

1. marks an object as plural

Interjection

me

1. of course

Adverb

me

1. in a manner that leaves something behind or left over
2. actually, as a matter of fact

Verb

me

1. to speak

Conjugation

Conjugation of me

	imperfective	perfective
∅	mê	mè
manner prefixes
nak (acc (accompaniment))	nakmê	nakmè
hiy (caus (causative))	hiymê	hiymè
non (du (dual accompaniment))	nonmê	nonmè
saw (spd (speed, urgency))	sawmê	sawmè
kor (lim (limitation))	kormê	kormè
kiy (act (actuality))	kiymê	kiymè
nuw (int (intensity))	nuwmê	nuwmè
ma (rpt (repetitive))	mamê	mamè
directional prefixes
a (at some distance)	amê	amè
amor (right there)	amormê	amormè
am (near)	ammê	ammè
ka (side)	kamê	kamè
kay (across)	kaymê	kaymè
lay (straight forward (horizontally))	laymê	laymè
lak (towards the river)	lakmê	lakmè
lam (away from the river)	lammê	lammè
lik (alongside the river, downstream)	likmê	likmè
lim (alongside the river, upstream)	limmê	limmè
kyor (downward (vertically))	kyormê	kyormè
ar (upward (vertically))	armê	armè

References

• Abau Dictionary © 2020 SIL International (Available online: [6])

Akan

Pronoun

me

1. I

   Mete Twi kasa.

   I speak Twi.

2. me
3. my

See also

Akan personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		me	yɛn yɛ-
2nd person		wo	mo
3rd person		ɔno (animate nominative) ɛno (inanimate nominative) ɛ- no (accusative) ne (possessive)	wɔn wɔ-

References

• LearnAkan (2018–present), “I”, in LearnAkanDictionary.com (overall work in English)

Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɛ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *me(t). Cognate to Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “after, beyond; in the middle, between”), Gothic miþ (“with”), Old Norse með.

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.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *manu, compare Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin”), Old Armenian մանր (manr, “small”). Alternatively it could represent a continuation of Proto-Indo-European *mṇi̯ō, to be compared with Latin minuō (“lessen”), Proto-Slavic *mьnь (“smaller”) and the like.

Adjective

me (feminine mee)

1. insufficient, scanty, not full

Derived terms

• mehem
• mej
• metë

Angloromani

Alternative forms

• ma, mai, mei, mey, mi

Etymology

Inherited from Romani me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meɪ]

Pronoun

me

1. I

   Synonyms: mandi, tutti

Annobonese

Etymology

From Portuguese mãe (“mother”).

Noun

me

1. mother

References

• John H. McWhorter (2005), Defining Creole (in Annobonese)

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin me. Akin to Spanish me and French me.

Pronoun

me

1. First-person singular dative, accusative and prepositional pronoun; me

Usage notes

• Takes the form m' before verbs beginning with vowel sounds.

See also

Aragonese personal pronouns

				nominative	disjunctive	dative	accusative
first person	singular			yo	me, m'2
	plural	masculine		nusatros1.1		nos1.6
		feminine		nusatras1.1
second person	singular	familiar		tú	te, t'2
		formal		vusté,1.2 vos
	plural	familiar	masculine	vusatros1.3		vos, tos3
			feminine	vusatras1.3
		formal		vustés,1.2 vos
third person	singular	masculine		él1.4		le1.7	lo,1.8 l'2
		feminine		ella1.5			la
	plural	masculine		els, ellos1.4		les1.7	los1.9
		feminine		ellas1.5			las
	reflexive			—		se, s'2

1. The forms shown in the table are the most widespread ones. Some varieties use different forms:
   1. nusotros/as (Ansotano, Cheso, Somontanos) and nusaltros/as (Benasquese and Belsetán).
   2. usté(s) (Benasquese), ustet(z) (Ansotano), vustet(z) (Tensino, Somontanos)
   3. vusotros/as (Ansotano, Cheso, Somontanos) and vusaltros/as (Benasquese and Belsetán).
   4. ell(s) (Benasquese) and er(s) (Belsetán).
   5. era(s) (Belsetán).
   6. mos (Ribagorçan). Before third-person pronouns and the adverbial pronoun en the contracted form mo' is used.
   7. li(s) (Cheso, Tensino).
   8. el (Ribagorçan). The contracted form l' is used before verbs beginning with vowel sounds and 'l after pronouns ending in vowels and no (“no, not”).
   9. es, els (Ribagorçan). These forms are contracted to 's and 'ls after pronouns ending in vowels and no (“no, not”).
2. The contracted forms are used before verbs beginning with vowel sounds.
3. In Ribagorçan the contracted form to' is used before third-person pronouns and the adverbial pronoun en.

References

• “me”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)

Asturian

Alternative forms

• m' (before a vowel)

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative singular of ego. As an indirect pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative singular of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronoun

me

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

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

• mai
• mei

Etymology

From English [Term?] (“May”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Noun

me (Bengali script মে)

1. May

Synonyms

• jetja

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary. Stated in Appendix 5.

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī, from Proto-Indo-European *me (“me”). Cognate to Welsh mi.

Pronoun

me

1. I, me

See also

Breton personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		me	ni
2nd person		te	c’hwi
3rd person	m	eñ	int
	f	hi

Carolinian

Conjunction

me

1. and

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mē (accusative of ego).

Pronunciation

• (Central) IPA^(key): /mə/
• (Valencia) IPA^(key): /me/

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

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

			strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
				proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
singular	1st person	standard	jo, mi3	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
		majestic1	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
		formal1	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		very formal2	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
	3rd person	m	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
		f	ella	la, l’4	-la	li	-li	seu
		n		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
plural
	1st person		nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
	2nd person	standard	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
		formal2	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
	3rd person	m	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
		f	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-.

Related terms

• em
• jo
• mi

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈme̞]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈmə]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈme]

Noun

me f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial, childish, euphemistic) poo

Chuukese

Conjunction

me

1. and

Preposition

me

1. from

Cimbrian

Article

me

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

See also

Cimbrian definite articles

	singular			plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dar	de / di	's / z	de / di
accusative	in	de / di	's / z	de / di
dative	me	dar	me	in

References

• “me” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974), Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Cornish

Alternative forms

• my (Standard Cornish, Standard Written Form)

Pronoun

me

1. (Standard Cornish) I, me

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/

• Audio:

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Pronoun

me

1. unstressed form of mij (“me”)

   Kun je me zien? ― Can you see me?

2. myself; first-person singular reflexive pronoun

   Ik was me. ― I wash myself.

3. (colloquial) me, myself (the ethical dative)

   Ik heb me toch een leuke dag gehad! ― I've had myself a fun day!

Declension

Dutch personal pronouns

	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	u, zich7	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
3rd person gender-neutral8	hen	–	hen	–	hun	–	hunne	zich	hunner, huns
plural	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	pred.
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	u, zich7	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, gelle (object form elle) and variants are commonly used colloquially in Belgium. Archaic forms are gijlieden and gijlui ("you people").
⁷⁾ Zich is preferred if the reflexive pronoun immediately follows the subject pronoun u, e.g. Meldt u zich aan! 'Log in!', and if the subject pronoun u is used with a verb form that is identical with the third person singular but different from the informal second person singular, e.g. U heeft zich aangemeld. 'You have logged in.' Only u can be used in an imperative if the subject pronoun is not overt, e.g. Meld u aan! 'Log in!', where u is the reflexive pronoun. Otherwise, both u and zich are equally possible, e.g. U meldt u/zich aan. 'You log in.'
⁸⁾ Not officially recognized in standard Dutch. It has gained popularity, especially in mainstream media and queer circles, as a respectful term for non-binary individuals.

Pronoun

me (dependent possessive)

1. pronunciation spelling of mijn (“my”)

Estonian

Etymology

Short form of meie, from Proto-Finnic *mek.

Pronoun

me (genitive me, partitive meid)

1. we

Declension

Declension of the Estonian personal pronouns

	singular						plural
	1st person		2nd person		3rd person		1st person		2nd person		3rd person
	long	short	long	short	long	short	long	short	long	short	long	short
nominative	mina	ma	sina	sa	tema	ta	meie	me	teie	te	nemad	nad
genitive1	minu	mu	sinu	su	tema	ta	meie	me	teie	te	nende
partitive	mind		sind		teda		meid		teid		neid
illative	minusse	musse	sinusse	susse	temasse	tasse	–	meisse	–	teisse	nendesse	neisse
inessive	minus	mus	sinus	sus	temas	tas	–	meis	–	teis	nendes	neis
elative	minust	must	sinust	sust	temast	tast	–	meist	–	teist	nendest	neist
allative	minule	mulle	sinule	sulle	temale	talle	–	meile	–	teile	nendele	neile
adessive	minul	mul	sinul	sul	temal	tal	–	meil	–	teil	nendel	neil
ablative	minult	mult	sinult	sult	temalt	talt	–	meilt	–	teilt	nendelt	neilt
translative	minuks	–	sinuks	–	temaks	–	meieks	meiks	teieks	teiks	nendeks	neiks
terminative	minuni	–	sinuni	–	temani	–	meieni	–	teieni	–	nendeni	–
essive	minuna	–	sinuna	–	temana	–	meiena	–	teiena	–	nendena	–
abessive	minuta	–	sinuta	–	temata	–	meieta	–	teieta	–	nendeta	–
comitative	minuga	muga	sinuga	suga	temaga	taga	meiega	–	teiega	–	nendega	–

1) Also used possessively.
Forms in italics are nonstandard.

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese me, from Latin mē.

Pronoun

me

1. First person singular dative and accusative pronoun; me

Usage notes

• Takes the form -mi when suffixed to an impersonal verb form.

See also

Fala personal pronouns

			nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
singular	first person		ei	me, -mi		mi
	second person		tú	te, -ti		ti
	third person	m	el	le, -li	uLV, oM	el
		f	ela		a	ela
plural	first person	common	nos	musL nusLV nos, -nusM		nos
		m	noshotrusM			noshotrusM
		f	noshotrasM			noshotrasM
	second person	common	vos	vusLV vos, -vusM		vos
		m	voshotrusM			voshotrusM
		f	voshotrasM			voshotrasM
	third person	m	elis	le, -li	usLV, osM	elis
		f	elas		as	elas
third person reflexive			—	se, -si		sí

Dialects:  ^L Lagarteiru   ^M Mañegu   ^V Valverdeñu

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 197

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mek, from Proto-Uralic *me. The word is inflected as plural, but there is no plural marker in the nominative, except in dialects (met).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme/, [ˈme̞]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification^(key): me
• Hyphenation^(key): me

Pronoun

me

1. we

   Me emme unohda. ― We will not forget.

   Näin meidän kesken... ― Just between us...

   Mennäänkö meille? ― Should we go over to our place?

Usage notes

• When the verb shows both the person and the number, the pronoun may be left out in written Finnish and is usually only used for emphasis. However, the inflected forms are often used. In colloquial Finnish, the pronoun is almost always used, even with a verb. (compare the usage of minä (“I”)).
• See this appendix for information on the dialectal variants of me.

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.

Declension of me noun case singular plural nominative minä me genitive minun meidän partitive minua meitä accusative minut meidät inessive minussa meissä elative minusta meistä illative minuun meihin adessive minulla meillä ablative minulta meiltä allative minulle meille essive minuna meinä translative minuksi meiksi abessive minutta meittä instructive – – comitative – –

Synonyms

• met (dialectal)
• myö (dialectal)

Derived terms

• meidänlainen
• meidänlaisemme
• meikäläinen

compounds

• me-henki

Descendants

• Kven: met

See also

Finnish personal pronouns

	first	second		third
		familiar	polite
singular	minä	sinä	Te	hän
plural	me	te		he

Further reading

• “me”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[7] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Anagrams

• em.

French

Etymology

From Middle French me, from Old French me, from Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”). Northern dialects have preserved a form mi for the indirect object (also found in Old French in the Oaths of Strasbourg), from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a Vulgar Latin *mi, whereas in standard French, it has merged into me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/
• (Paris) IPA^(key): /mø/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Rhymes: -ə

Pronoun

me (personal, objective case)

1. me (direct object)

   Est-ce que tu me vois ? ― Do you see me?

2. (to) me (indirect object)

   Émilien m'a donné un peu d'argent. ― Émilien gave me a little money.

Related terms

French personal pronouns

number	person	gender	nominative (subject)	accusative (direct complement)	dative (indirect complement)	locative (at)	genitive (of)	disjunctive (tonic)1	emphatic reflexive
singular	first	—	je, j’	me, m’		—	—	moi	moi-même
	second	—	tu	te, t’		—	—	toi	toi-même
	third	masculine	il2	le, l’	lui	y	en	lui	lui-même
		feminine	elle	la, l’				elle	elle-même
		indeterminate	on3, l’on (formal), ce4, c’, ça	—	—	—	—	—	—
		reflexive	—	se, s’5		—	—	soi	soi-même
plural	first	—	nous	nous		—	—	nous	nous-mêmes
	second6	—	vous	vous		—	—	vous	vous-mêmes, vous-même6
	third	masculine	ils7	les	leur	y	en	eux7	eux-mêmes7
		feminine	elles					elles	elles-mêmes

¹ The disjunctive (tonic) forms are also used after an explicit preposition (de/d’, à, pour, chez, dans, vers, sur, sous, ...), instead the accusative, dative, genitive, locative, or reflexive forms, where a preposition is implied.
² Il is also used as an impersonal nominative-only pronoun.
³ On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
⁴ The nominal indeterminate form ce (demonstrative) can also be used with the auxiliary verb être as a plural, instead of the proximal or distal gendered forms.
⁵ The reflexive third person singular forms (se or s’) for accusative or dative are also used as third person plural reflexive.
⁶ Vous is also used as the polite singular form, in which case the plural disjunctive tonic vous-mêmes becomes singular vous-même.
⁷ Ils, eux and eux-mêmes are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.

Further reading

• “me”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Pronoun

me

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

Gullah

Alternative forms

• (as determiner) muh

Etymology

From English me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miː/, (as determiner) /mə/

Determiner

me

1. (first person singular) my

Inflection

Gullah Geechee possessive pronouns

Numbuh	Adjectival		Nominal
Puss'n	singular	plural	singular	plural
Fus	me, muh1	we	me-own	we-own
Sekint	ya, yuh1	oona, oonuh1	ya-own	oona-own
Tud	e	dey	e-own	dey-own

¹ alternate spelling

Pronoun

me

1. (first person singular object-oblique case) me

Inflection

Gullah Geechee personal pronouns

Number	singular		plural
puss'n	subject	object-oblique	subject	object-oblique
fus	Uh, A1	me	we
sekint	yuh, ya1		oonuh, oona1
tud	e, i1	um	dey	dem

¹ alternate spelling

References

• Virginia Mixson Geraty, Gulluh fuh oonuh: Gullah for You (1997)
• Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)
•  Seminole Indian Scouts Cemetery Association. Afro-Seminole Creole Wikitongues Language Class 
•  David B. Frank. Gullah Grammar Sketch

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mai (“May”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Noun

me

1. May

References

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[8], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 127

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian [Term?]. Cognate with Māori me (“and, with, must”) and Samoan ma (“and, with”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Preposition

me

1. with

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː]
• Rhymes: -ɛː

Interjection

me

1. baa (representing the bleating sound sheep make)

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/, /mɛ/

Etymology 1

From English me, French me, Italian me, Spanish me, from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-, *(e)me-n- (“me”).

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”)

See also

Personal pronouns in Ido

		singular			plural
		nominative	possessive		nominative	possessive
			singular	plural		singular	plural
first person		me	mea	mei	ni	nia	nii
second person	formal	vu	vua	vui	vi	via	vii
	familiar	tu	tua	tui
third person	masculine	ilu, il	ilua	ilui	ili	ilia	ilii
	feminine	elu, el	elua	elui	eli	elia	elii
	neuter	olu, ol	olua	olui	oli	olia	olii
	common	lu	lua	lui	li	lia	lii
	reflexive	su	sua	sui	su	sua	sui
indefinite		onu, on	onua	onui	onu, on	onua	onui

• The possessive plurals are seldom used.
• The shortened forms are preferred.
• The pangendered forms are preferred to the gendered or neuter forms in most scenarios.

Etymology 2

From m +‎ -e.

Noun

me (plural me-i)

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

See also

• Latin script letter names: literi: a · be · ce · che · de · e · fe · ge · he · i · je · ke · le · me · ne · o · pe · que · re · se · she · te · u · ve · we · xe · ye · ze ^[edit]

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative singular of ego.

Pronoun

me

1. objective of i; me; to me
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Ti me pari oûna dea infra li dai,

     You seem to me a goddess among the gods,

Italian

Etymology

From Latin mē.

Pronunciation

• (standard, clitic) IPA^(key): /me/^°
  • Hyphenation: me
• (standard, disjunctive) IPA^(key): /ˈme/^*
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: mé
• 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).

See also

Italian personal pronouns

			nominative		atonic (clitic)11						tonic12
					accusative / dative-reflexive	accusative	dative		locative	partitive	prepositional-reflexive	oblique
singular
	first		io		mi, m', -mi, me9				―		―	me
	second		tu		ti, t', -ti, te9							te
	second formal / polite5		Lei, Ella8		―	La, -La, L'	Le, -Le					Lei
	third	m	lui, egli,8 ello,8 elli,3, 8 esso8		si,6 s', -si, se,9 ci13	lo, l', -lo, il4	glie9	gli, -gli, il4	ci, c', vi,1 v'1	ne, n'	sé	lui, esso8
		f	lei, ella,8 essa8			la, l', -la		le, -le, gli,2 -gli2				lei, essa8
plural
	first		noi		ci, c', -ci, ce,9 ne,4 n'4				―		―	noi
	second		voi, Voi7		vi, Vi,7 v', V',7 -vi, -Vi,7 ve9							voi, Voi7
	second formal / polite5		Loro		―	Le, -Le	Loro10					Loro
	third	m	loro	elli,3, 8 ellino,4, 8 eglino,4, 8 essi8	si, s', -si, se9	li, -li	loro,10 gli,2 -gli,2 glie9		ci, c', vi,1 v'1	ne, n'	sé	loro	essi8
		f		elle,3, 8 elleno,4, 8 esse8		le, -le							elle,8 esse8

¹ Formal.
² Informal.
³ Archaic.
⁴ Obsolete or literary.
⁵ Grammatically third person forms used semantically in the second person as a formal or polite way of addressing someone (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
⁶ Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
⁷ Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).
⁸ Traditional grammars still indicate the forms egli (animate), ello / ella (animate), esso / essa and their plurals as the nominative forms of the third person pronouns; outside of very formal or archaizing contexts, all such forms have been replaced by the obliques lui, lei, loro.
⁹ Forms used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
¹⁰ Used after verbs.
¹¹ Unstressed forms, stand alone forms are found proclitically (except dative loro / Loro), others enclitically (-mi, -ti, etc.).
¹² Disjunctive, emphatic oblique forms used as direct objects placed after verbs (or before them, chiefly in literary Italian), in exclamations, along prepositions (prepositional) and some adverbs (come, quanto, etc.); also used with a to create alternative emphatic dative forms.
¹³ Only in "ci si", replaces indefinite si (“one”) before reflexive si (“oneself”).

Jamaican Creole

Pronoun

me

1. alternative spelling of mi

Japanese

Romanization

me

1. The hiragana syllable め (me) or the katakana syllable メ (me) in Hepburn romanization.

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese မဲ (mai:, “mai:”).

Noun

me

1. ballot

References

• Kurabe, Keita (31 December 2016), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[9], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Kapampangan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme/ [ˈmɛ]
• Hyphenation: me

Pronoun

me

1. alternative spelling of muya
2. alternative spelling of mu

Kapampangan personal pronouns

		absolute		ergative	oblique
		disjunctive	enclitic
first person	singular	aku/i aku/yaku	ku		kanaku
	plural inclusive	ikatamu	katamu/tamu	tamu/ta	kekatamu
	plural exclusive	ikami, ike	kami/ke	mi	kekami/keke
second person	singular	ika	ka	mu	keka
	plural	ikayu/iko	kayu/ko	yu	kekayu/keko
third person	singular	iya/ya	ya	na	keya/kaya
	plural	ila	la	da/ra	karela

Kein

Noun

me

1. louse

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975) (as mɛ)
• Bemal Organized Phonology Data (as me)

Khasi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Pronoun

me

1. you (singular and masculine), thou
   • 1891, “Jenesis 3:19”, in Ka Baibl (Khasi Bible):

     Naba ka 'dewmet me long, bad sha ka 'dewmet men leit phai pat.

     For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

   • 1891, “Salm 37:6”, in Ka Baibl (Khasi Bible):

     Bad un pynmih noh ïa ka hok jong me kum ka jingshai[.]

     And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light.

See also

• tun

Khasi personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		nga	ngi
2nd person	m	me	phi
	f	pha
3rd person	m	u	ki
	f	ka

References

• Bars, E. (1973), “me”, in Khasi-English Dictionary, Shillong, Meghalaya: Don Bosco Press

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish me (“me”), from Latin mē (accusative singular of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-. As an indirect object, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronoun

me (objective case, Hebrew spelling מי)

1. (personal) accusative of yo: me
   • 2019 May 22, Silvio & Eyal Ovadya, “Un evenimyento, una dicha/un proverbo”, in Şalom‎^[10]:

     Me demando: de ke no azesh este konserto en Estanbol. Es mas kolay de ir i vinir.

     She asked me: why don’t you do this concert in Istanbul. It’s easier to go and come.

2. (personal, dative pronoun) dative of yo: to me, for me
3. (personal, reflexive pronoun) reflexive of yo: myself
   • 2006, Matilda Koén-Sarano, Por el plazer de kontar‎^[11], page 142:

     […] mos fuimos en luna de miel a París, i yo empesí a engodrarme … i engodrarme. El prenyado a mí me yakishea muncho.

     we left to have our honeymoon in Paris, and I started to fatten myself … and fatten myself. I look so much like I am pregnant.

Latin

Alternative forms

• 𐌌𐌄𐌃 (mēd), mēd (Old Latin)
• mēmē (emphatic, rare)

Etymology

From a merger of:

• Proto-Italic *mē, accusative of *egō; from Proto-Indo-European *h₁mé, accusative of *éǵh₂ (“I”)
• Proto-Italic *med, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁méd, the corresponding ablative singular.

Cognate with Ancient Greek με (me), ἐμέ (emé, “me”), Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”), Old English me, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺 (mik), Old Irish mé, Proto-Slavic *mene (Old Church Slavonic мене (mene), Russian меня́ (menjá)), Lithuanian mi, Albanian mua.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmeː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɛː]

Pronoun

mē (personal pronoun)

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

Derived terms

• mēcum, mēmet

Descendants

• Aromanian: mi
• Catalan: me
• Ligurian: mi
• Corsican: mi
• Franco-Provençal: mè
• French: me, moi
• Galician: me
• Italian: me, mi
• Judeo-Italian: מִי (mi)
• Mirandese: me
• Mozarabic: ם (m)
• Old Galician-Portuguese: me
  • Galician: me
  • Portuguese: me
• Romanian: mă
• Sicilian: mi
• Spanish: me

References

• me in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• me in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Lolopo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mɯ³³]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Loloish *ʔ-mwe³ (Bradley), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s/r-m(u/i/ja)l. Cognate with Nuosu ꂯ (mix), Burmese အမွေး (a.mwe:), Drung meul (“body hair”), Jingpho mun, Tedim Chin mul¹.

Noun

me

1. (Yao'an) body hair

Etymology 2

From Proto-Loloish *s-mo¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꂥ (hmu), Burmese မှို (hmui), Gong มู๋, Naxi mul, Japhug tɤjmɤɣ and Jingpho kämu.

Noun

me

1. (Yao'an) mushroom

Mandarin

Romanization

me (me⁵ / me⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄜ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 么
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚜
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 末
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麼 / 么, 麽 / 么
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚒

me

1. 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.

Māori

Etymology

Cognate with Hawaiian me (“with”) and Samoan ma (“and, with”).

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

References

• "me" - Maori Dictionary

Mauritian Creole

Etymology 1

From French mai.

Noun

me

1. May

Etymology 2

From French mais.

Conjunction

me

1. but

References

• Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN, page 223
• Carpooran, Arnaud (2011), Diksioner Morisien [Mauritian Dictionary] (in Mauritian Creole), second edition, Éditions Le Printemps, →ISBN, page 692

Mbya Guarani

Noun

me

1. husband

Mengen

Noun

me

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

References

• F. Madden, Mengen Dictionary (2006)
• Dan Rath, Mengen Dialect Survey (1991) (me, mee)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mē, from Proto-Indo-European. More at English me.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/
• Rhymes: -eː

Pronoun

me (nominative I)

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

Descendants

• English: me
• Scots: me
• Yola: mee, me

See also

Middle English personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive	possessive
singular	1st person		I, ich, ik	me		min mi1	min
	2nd person		þou	þe		þin þi1	þin
	3rd person	m	he	him hine2	him	his	his hisen
		f	sche, heo	hire heo	hire		hire hires, hiren
		n	hit		hit him2	his, hit	—
dual3	1st person		wit	unk		unker
	2nd person		ȝit	inc		inker
plural	1st person		we	us, ous		oure	oure oures, ouren
	2nd person4		ye	yow		your	your youres, youren
	3rd person	inh.	he	hem he2	hem	here	here heres, heren
		bor.	þei	þem, þeim		þeir	þeir þeires, þeiren

¹ Used preconsonantally or before h.
² Early or dialectal.
³ Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
⁴ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

References

• “me, pron.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Etymology 2

Determiner

me (nominative I)

1. alternative form of mi

References

• “min, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Etymology 3

From man/men, by way of phonemic reduction in unstressed positions.

Pronoun

me

2. typically singular, indefinite pronoun: one, you (indefinite)

Descendants

• English: me (obsolete)

See also

• man
• ei

References

• “me, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

Middle French

Alternative forms

• m' (before a vowel)

Etymology

From Old French me.

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

Nafri

Pronoun

me

1. we two (first person dual)

References

• H.K.J. Cowan, Grammar of the Sentani Language (2014), footnote on page 16 (spelled mi, me)
• transnewguinea.org/language/nafri (spelled mei)

Nalca

Noun

me

1. son
2. child

Nauruan

Conjunction

me

1. and

Naxi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma.

Adverb

me

1. not

References

• Naxi Dictionary by T.M. Pinson, Lijiang 2012

Neapolitan

Alternative forms

• mme, m', mm'

Etymology

From Latin mē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/
• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

me

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

Coordinate terms

Neapolitan personal pronouns

number	person		nominative	prepositional	accusative	dative	reflexive
				tonic	clitic
singular	1st		io	me, méne	m' (me)
	2nd		tu, vuje1	te, téne, vuje1	t' (te), v' (ve)1
	3rd	m	ìsso	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	'i, 'e (li, le)	se
		f	éssa	éssa	'a (la)	'e (le)
		n	ésso	ésso	'o (lo)	'e (le)
plural	1st		nuje	nuje	c' (nce, ce)
	2nd		vuje	vuje	v' (ve)
	3rd	m	ìsse / llòro	ìsse / llòro	'e, 'i (le, li)	le, li / llòro	se
		f	ésse / llòro	ésse / llòro	'e (le)	le / llòro
		n	éssa / llòro	éssa / llòro	'a (la)	le / llòro

¹ Formal.

Norman

Alternative forms

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

Noun

me f (plural mes)

1. (Sark) sea

North Frisian

Pronoun

me (Mooring)

1. Object case of ik: me, myself

Alternative forms

• mi (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt)

See also

Personal and possessive pronouns (Mooring dialect)

			personal					possessive
			subject case		object case			masculine referent	feminine / neuter / plural referent
			full	reduced	full	reduced
singular	1st		ik	'k	me			man	min
	2nd		dü	–	de			dan	din
	3rd	m	hi	'r	ham	'n		san	sin
		f	jü	's	har	's		harn	har
		n	hat	et, 't	ham	et, 't		san	sin
plural	1st		we		üs			üüsen	üüs
	2nd		jam	'm	jam			jarnge
	3rd		ja	's	ja, jam	's		jare

The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
Et is not enclitic and can stand in any unstressed position; the full subject form hat is now rarely used. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
Dual forms wat / unk and jat / junk are obsolete. Attributive and independent possessives are not distinguished in Mooring.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

Pronoun

me

1. oblique form of em: us, we

Etymology 2

Verb

me

1. first-person singular present indicative of bûn

   Synonym: im

Northern Qiang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/

Noun

me

1. fire

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

In some dialects, inherited from Middle Norwegian mið, from Old Norse mit, a form of vit (“we two, the both of us”) influenced by the final -m in Old Norse verbs inflected in the first person plural. In other dialects, inherited from Middle Norwegian mer, from Old Norse mér, a form of vér.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/, /miː/
• Rhymes: -eː
• Homophone: med (in some dialects)

Pronoun

me (object case oss)

1. we

   Kva skal me gjera?

   What shall we do?

Alternative forms

• vi (from Old Norse vit)

See also

Norwegian Nynorsk personal pronouns

		first person	second person	reflexive	third person
					masculine	feminine	neuter
singular	nominative	eg, je1	du	—	han	ho	det, dat2
	accusative	meg	deg	seg	han, honom1	ho, henne	det, dat2
	dative2	meg	deg	seg	honom1	henne	di2
	genitive	min	din	sin	hans	hennar, hennes1	dess3
plural	nominative	me, vi, mid2	de, dokker, did2	—	dei
	accusative	oss, okker2	dykk, dokker, øder2	seg	dei, deim2
	dative2	oss, okker2	dykk, dokker, øder2	seg	deim2
	genitive	vår, okkar2	dykkar, dokkar, ødar2	sin	deira, deires1

¹Obsolete. ²Landsmål. ³Rare or literary. Italic forms unofficial today.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

me

1. eye dialect spelling of meg (“me”)
   • 1879, Hallvard Berg, Segner fraa Bygdom, Christiania: Samlaget, page 93:

     "No, Unga, kunne de slutte mæ Lesnae ei Stund o høyre paa me."

     "Now, kids, you stop with the reading for a while and listen to me."

References

• “me” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “me”, in Norsk Ordbok: Ordbok over det Norske Folkemålet og det Nynorske Skriftmålet (in Norwegian Nynorsk), Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget, 1950–2016, →ISBN.
• “me” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring
• “mi” at Vallemål.no

Anagrams

• EM

Old English

Alternative forms

• mæ — Northumbrian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *miʀ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meː/
• Rhymes: -eː

Pronoun

mē

1. (personal) accusative/dative of iċ
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 29:19

     Lēofre mē is þæt iċ hīe selle þē þonne ōðrum menn. Wuna mid mē!

     I'd rather give her to you than to someone else. Stay with me!

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

Old French

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative of ego. As an indirect object pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi, dative singular of ego, through a Vulgar Latin *mi (compare the form mi in particular, found in early Old French in the Oaths of Strasbourg).

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)

Related terms

• moi/mei

Descendants

• Middle French: me
  • French: me

Old Irish

Pronoun

me

1. alternative spelling of mé (“I”)

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 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
   • c. 50 BC, The Buddha, Dhammapada(pāḷi), Yamakavagga, page 26; republished in The Eighteenth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Khuddaka-Nikāya‎^[12], Colombo, 2009:

     3. අක‍්කොච‍්ඡි මං අවධි මං අජිනි මං අහාසි මෙ
     යෙ තං උපනය‍්හන‍්ති වෙරං තෙසං න සම‍්මති

     3. akkocchi maṃ avadhi maṃ ajini maṃ ahāsi me
     ye taṃ upanayhanti veraṃ tesaṃ na sammati

     He abused me, he struck me, he defeated me, he robbed me.
     Hatred does not subside for those who nurse grudges thus.

     (Wiktionary translation adapted from translation of the Pali by Ajahn Sujato.)

   • 2006, The Fourth Book in the Suttanta-Pitaka: Majjhimanikāya (I)‎^[13], page 192:

     සෙය්‍යථාපි නාම ජරසාලාය ගොපානසියො ඔලුග‍්ගවිලුග‍්ගා භවන‍්ති, එවමෙවස‍්සු මෙ ඵාසුළියො ඔලුග‍්ගවිලුග‍්ගා භවන‍්ති තායෙවප‍්පාහාරතාය.

     Seyyathāpi nāma jarasālāya gopānasiyo oluggaviluggā bhavanti, evamevassu me phāsuḷiyo oluggaviluggā bhavanti tāyevappāhāratāya.

     Truly, just as in a decrepit outhouse the rafters are crumbling, my ribs were just that way, they were crumbling from just this fasting.

Paraguayan Guarani

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mẽ/, [ˈmẽ]
• Rhymes: -ẽ

Noun

me

1. male
2. husband

References

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “me”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 62, column 1

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German einem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/

Article

me

1. dative masculine/neuter singular of en: a, an

Declension

Declension of en

	singular				plural
	m	f	n
nominative	en	en	en		–
dative	emme me	re	emme me		–
accusative	en	en	en		–

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• 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

• ani be, ani me

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese me, from Latin mē (accusative of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)me-. As an objective indirect pronoun, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mi/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ/

• Audio (Brazil (São Paulo)):

  (file)

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: me

Pronoun

me

2. first-person singular objective direct personal pronoun; me

   Meus amigos me ligaram.

   My friends called me.

   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, translated by Lia Wyler, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 228:

     Você está me chamando de maluco?

     Are you calling me crazy?

4. first-person singular objective indirect personal pronoun; (to) me

   Dê-me o copo.

   Give me the glass.

6. 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.

8. 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 Citations:me.

See also

Portuguese personal pronouns

number	person		nominative (subject)	accusative (direct object)	dative (indirect object)	prepositional	prepositional with com	non-declining
singular	1st		eu	me		mim	comigo	—
	2nd		tu	te		ti	contigo	você o senhor m a senhora f
	3rd	m	ele	o (lo, no)	lhe	ele	com ele	o mesmo
		f	ela	a (la, na)		ela	com ela	a mesma
plural	1st		nós	nos		nós	connosco (Portugal) conosco (Brazil)	a gente
	2nd		vós	vos		vós	convosco com vós	vocês os senhores m as senhoras f
	3rd	m	eles	os (los, nos)	lhes	eles	com eles	os mesmos
		f	elas	as (las, nas)		elas	com elas	as mesmas
reflexive 3rd / indefinite			—	se		si	consigo	o mesmo etc. (reflexive)

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Apabhramsa मइं (maïṃ), from Prakrit 𑀫𑀏 (mae), from Ashokan Prakrit 𑀫𑀬𑀸 (mayā), from Sanskrit मया (mayā), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máyaH. Cognate with Gujarati મેં (mẽ).

Pronoun

me

1. I

Descendants

• Angloromani: me

See also

Romani personal pronouns

number	person		nominative	accusative	dative	locative	ablative	instrumental	possessive
singular	first		me	man	manqe	manθe	manθar	mança	miro, -i, -e
	second		tu	tut	tuqe	tuθe	tuθar	tuça	tiro, -i, -e
	reflexive third		—	pes	pesqe	pesθe	pesθar	peça	pesqero, -i, -e
	third	m	ov	les	lesqe	lesθe	lesθar	leça	lesqero, -i, -e
		f	oj	la	laqe	laθe	laθar	laça	laqero, -i, -e
plural	first		amen		amenqe	amenθe	amenθar	amença	amaro, -i, -e
	second		tumen		tumenqe	tumenθe	tumenθar	tumença	tumaro, -i, -e
	reflexive third		—	pen	penqe	penθe	penθar	pença	penqero, -i, -e
	third		on	len	lenqe	lenθe	lenθar	lença	lenqero, -i, -e

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Kalderash Romani personal pronouns

number	person		nominative	accusative (long and short forms)	dative	locative	ablative	instrumental	possessive
singular	first		me	man, ma	mánge	mánde	mándar	mánsa	múrro, -i, -e
	second		tu	tut, tu	túke	túte	tútar	túsa	tíro, -i, -e
	reflexive third		—	pês, pe	pêske	pêste	pêstar	pêsa	pêsko, -i, -e
	third	m	wo	lês, le	lêske	lêste	lêstar	lêsa	lêsko, -i, -e
		f	woi	la, la	láke	láte	látar	lása	láko, -i, -e
plural	first		ame	amên, ame	amênge	amênde	amêndar	amênsa	amáro, -i, -e
	second		tume	tumên, tume	tumênge	tumênde	tumêndar	tumênsa	tumáro, -i, -e
	reflexive third		—	pên, pe	pênge	pênde	pêndar	pênsa	pêngo, -i, -e
	third		won	lên, le	lênge	lênde	lêndar	lênsa	lêngo, -i, -e

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “ma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

me

1. baa (sound made by sheep or goats)

Sassarese

Alternative forms

• mi

Etymology

From Latin mē and, as an indirect object pronoun, possibly in part from mihi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Pronoun

me

1. (preceded by a preposition) me
   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Primabéra [Spring]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 13:

     Lu branu a me no piazi.

     I don't like springtime.

     (literally, “The spring doesn't please me.”)

Related terms

• meggu
• mi
• méiu

Related terms

• meggu
• mi
• méiu

See also

• eu

References

• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006), Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Scots

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”).

Pronoun

me

1. me

Etymology 2

Determiner

me

1. alternative form of my

See also

Scots personal pronouns

personal pronoun possessive pronoun possessive determiner subjective objective reflexive first person singular A, I, Ik me mysel mine, mines mine, my plural we us, we oorsel, oorsels oors our second person singular standard (formal) ye you, yow ye you, yow yersel yoursel yers yours yer your Insular (informal) thoo thee thysel, theesel thines thy, thee, thees plural ye, yese you, youse ye, yese you, youse theer yesels yoursels yers yours yer your third person singular masculine he, e him, im himsel, hissel his, is his, is feminine scho, she, shu her, er hersel hers her, er neuter it hit it hit itsel hitsel its hits its hits genderless, nonspecific (formal) ane ane – – ane's plural thay thaim thaimsel, thaimsels thairs thair

References

• “I, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
• “me, pers. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “me, possess. pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
• “my, poss. adj.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 23 May 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• m.e.

Etymology

From mar eisimpleir.

Adverb

me

1. e.g.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

me (Cyrillic spelling ме)

1. of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“I”))
2. me (accusative singular of jȃ (“I”))

Declension

Declension of me

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

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /méː/

Pronoun

mẹ̑

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

Declension

Slovene personal pronouns

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

See also

Slovene personal pronouns

			singular	dual	plural
1st person		m	jaz	midva	mi
		f or n		medve, midve	me
2nd person familiar (tikanje)		m	ti	vidva	vi
		f or n		vedve, vidve	ve
3rd person		m	on	onadva	oni
		f	ona	onedve, onidve	one
		n	ono	onedve, onidve	ona
Polite forms			singular (not differentiated in dual and plural)
polite (vikanje)			vi, Vi + 2nd person plural masculine
very polite (onikanje)			oni + 3rd person plural masculine (archaic)
hyper polite (onokanje)			ono + 3rd person singular neuter (obsolete)
patriarchal (onkanje)			on + 3rd person singular masculine (obsolete)

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mē (accusative singular of ego), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-. As an indirect object, possibly in part from Latin mihi (dative of ego), through a Vulgar Latin *mi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/ [me]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: me

Pronoun

me (objective case)

1. (personal) accusative of yo: me

   No me molestes hoy, estoy ocupado.

   Don't bother me today, I'm busy.

2. (personal, dative pronoun) dative of yo: to me, for me

   ¿Me das tu contraseña?

   Can you give me your password?

3. (personal, reflexive pronoun) reflexive of yo: myself
4. (colloquial, Latin America) Used as an emphatic pronoun or as an expletive.

   ¡Te me sientas ahora mismo!

   Sit down right now!

See also

Spanish personal pronouns

				Nominative	Disjunctive	Dative	Accusative	Comitative
First-person	Singular			yo	mí	me		conmigo
	Plural	Masculine1		nosotros		nos		—
		Feminine		nosotras
Second-person	Singular	Tuteo		tú	ti	te		contigo
		Voseo		vos	—
		Formal2	Masculine1	usted		le, se3	lo
			Feminine				la
	Plural	Familiar4	Masculine1	vosotros		os
			Feminine	vosotras
		Formal/ general2	Masculine1	ustedes		les, se3	los
			Feminine				las
Third-person	Singular	Masculine1		él		le, se3	lo
		Feminine		ella			la
		Neuter		ello5			lo
	Plural	Masculine1		ellos		les, se3	los
		Feminine		ellas			las
	Reflexive			—	sí	se		consigo

1. Like other masculine words, masculine pronouns can be used when the gender of the subject is unknown or when the subject is plural and of mixed gender.
2. Treated as if it were third person for purposes of conjugation and reflexivity.
3. If le or les precedes lo, la, los, or las in a clause, it is replaced with se (e.g. se lo dije instead of *le lo dije).
4. Used primarily in Spain.
5. Only used in certain circumstances and rarely as a subject pronoun.

Further reading

• “me”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Sumerian

Romanization

me

1. romanization of 𒈨 (me)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeː/
• Rhymes: -eː

Preposition

me

1. (colloquial) apocopic form of med (“with”)

   Ja vill inte va me (Jag vill inte vara med)

   I don't wanna join

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmeʔ/ [ˈmɛʔ]
• Rhymes: -eʔ
• Syllabification: me

Noun

mê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)

1. maa (bleat cry of a goat or sheep)

   Synonym: (obsolete) ii

Alternative forms

• mee

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈme/ [ˈmɛ]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: me

Particle

me (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)

1. pronunciation spelling of may

Preposition

me (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)

1. pronunciation spelling of may

Further reading

• “me”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Anagrams

• em

Tera

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Central Chadic *maj (“mouth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mé/
• Hyphenation: me

Noun

me

1. mouth

Turkish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Noun

me

1. baa (sound of a sheep)

Derived terms

• melemek

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈme/

Noun

me

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

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [mɛ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [mɛ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [mɛ˧˧]

Etymology 1

Compare Acehnese mè (“tamarind”).

Noun

me • (楣) (classifier cây, trái, quả)

1. tamarind

Derived terms

• chua me đất

Etymology 2

Noun

me

1. mother

   Synonyms: mẹ, má

   • 1936, Vũ Trọng Phụng, chapter 3, in Số đỏ [Dumb Luck], Hà Nội báo [Hanoi Newspaper]:

     Bà chủ vừa đặt con chó xuống vừa nhanh nhẩu nói: – À cậu tắm ! Cậu của me ngoan. Me đi vắng, ở nhà có đứa nào đánh cậu không ? Loulou Huýt! Huýt...

     The mistress of the house set down the dog and promptly said, "Ah, you are bathing! Mommy's son is nice. While mommy went away, did anyone hit you? Loulou, whee whee!"

Waigeo

Verb

-me

1. (intransitive) to be shallow
2. (intransitive) to be dry

Conjugation

Class IV conjugation of me

		singular	dual	paucal	plural
1st person	inclusive	yame	tutame	(a)tútame	tame
	exclusive		umame	atúmame	ámame
2nd person		nyame	mumame	matúmame	mame
3rd person	animate	name	ulame	atúlame	lame
	inanimate	amme	sime

References

• Arnold, Laura (2018), Grammar of Ambel, an Austronesian language of Raja Ampat, west New Guinea (PhD thesis)‎^[14]

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me/

Pronoun

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

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

See also

West Makian personal pronouns

		independent	possessive prefix
1st person singular		de	ti
2nd person singular		ni	ni
3rd person singular		me	mVan., dVinan.
1st person plural	inclusive	ene	nV
	exclusive	imi	mi
2nd person plural		ini	fi
3rd person plural		eme	di

V indicates the expected assimilated vowel of the following noun,
following standard West Makian vowel harmony.

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[15], Pacific linguistics

White Hmong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me˧/

Adjective

me

1. little; small (size or quantity)

Derived terms

• me nyuam

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[16], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 125-6.

Yimchungru Naga

Noun

me

1. shadow

Usage notes

Not in the dictionaries, but attested in Job 40:22 and 1 Chronicles 29:15.

Derived terms

• alamme

Yola

Etymology 1

Pronoun

me

1. alternative form of mee
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, numbers 3:

     A plaauge apan Portheare! Hea'de luther me waal,

     A plague upon Porter, he'd hide me well,

Etymology 2

Determiner

me

1. alternative form of mee
   • 1788, A YOLA ZONG.:

     Yith Muzlere had ba hole, t'was me Tommeen,

     If good for little had been buried, it had been my Tommy,

Zazaki

Pronoun

me

1. me

See also

Zazaki personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		ez mı	ma
2nd person	familiar	tı to	şıma
	polite	şıma
3rd person		o a	ê

Zou

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *meʔ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mêː]
• Hyphenation: me

Noun

mȅ

1. curry

References

• Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, page 25
• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 59