Abbreviation ofEnglish My anmarBurma , whereBurmese is spoken.
my
( international standards ) ISO 639-1 language code forBurmese . FromMiddle English mi my min myn Old English mīn ( “ my, mine ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *mīn Proto-Germanic *mīnaz ( “ my, mine ” ,pron. ) (possessive of*ek ( “ I ” ) ), fromProto-Indo-European *méynos ( “ my; mine ” ) .
Cognate withWest Frisian myn ( “ my ” ) ,Afrikaans my ( “ my ” ) ,Dutch mijn ( “ my ” ) ,German mein ( “ my ” ) ,Swedish min ( “ my ” ) . More atme
my
First-person singular possessive determiner. SeeAppendix:Possessive#English .Belonging tome .I can't findmy book. Associated withme .My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.Don't you knowmy name? I recognised him because he had attendedmy school. Related to me.My parents won't let me go out tonight.1671 John Milton , “The First Book”, inParadise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes [ … ] J[ ohn] M[ acock] for John Starkey [ … ] →OCLC page10 , lines165-166 :From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'dmy Son,
In the possession of me.I have to takemy books back to the library soon. belonging to me
Afrikaans:my (af) Albanian:im (sq) Alutor:гымнин ( ɣəmnin ) American Sign Language:FlatB@Chest-PalmBack Arabic:ـِي (ar) ( -ī ) ( suffix, enclitic pronoun ) Egyptian Arabic:ـي ( -i ) ,ـيا ( ya ) Armenian:իմ (hy) ( im ) Aromanian:njeu m meu m nja f mea f Assamese:মোৰ ( mür ) Asturian:mio (ast) ,míu (ast) m mía (ast) f Azerbaijani:mənim Bashkir:минең ( mineñ ) Belarusian:мой ( moj ) Bengali:আমার (bn) ( amar ) Bikol Central:sako (bcl) ,sakuya (bcl) ( before a noun ) ;ko (bcl) ( after a noun ) Brahui:kanna Breton:ma (br) Bulgarian:мой (bg) ( moj ) Burmese:ကျွန်တော့် ( kywantau. ) ( male speaker ) ,ကျွန်မ (my) ( kywanma. ) ( female speaker ) Catalan:meu (ca) m Cebuano:aku Chakma:𑄟𑄧 ( ma ) Chinese:Cantonese:我嘅 ( ngo5 ge3 ) ,我的 ( ngo5 dik1 ) ( formal, written ) Mandarin:我的 (zh) ( wǒ de ) Coptic:ⲡⲁ m ( pa ) ,ⲧⲁ f ( ta ) ,ⲛⲁ m pl or f pl ( na ) Cornish:ow Crimean Tatar:menim Czech:můj (cs) m Danish:min (da) c Dutch:mijn (nl) Dzongkha:ངའི ( nga'i ) Egyptian: (.j m .j f .j m or f Esperanto:mia (eo) Estonian:minu mu (et) Faroese:mín Finnish:minun ...ni -ni (fi) ,minun (fi) French:mon (fr) m ma (fr) f mes (fr) pl Friulian:gno m Fula:am Galician:meu (gl) m miña (gl) f mi (gl) m or f ( honorific ) Georgian:ჩემი ( čemi ) German:mein (de) m Greek:μου (el) ( mou ) Ancient:ἐμός ( emós ) ,μου ( mou ) ( genitive personal pronoun ) Hawaiian:koʻu kaʻu Hebrew:שֶׁלִּי ( shelí ) Hindi:मेरा (hi) ( merā ) Hungarian:-m (hu) ,-om (hu) ,-am (hu) ,-em (hu) ,-öm Icelandic:minn (is) Ido:mea (io) Indonesian:saya (id) Interlingua:mi Irish:mo (ga) ( before a consonant ) ,m' ( before a vowel ) Istriot:meîo m mio m Italian:mio (it) m mia (it) f Japanese:私の (ja) ( わたしの, watashi no ) ,( male speaker ) 僕の (ja) ( ぼくの, boku no ) ,我が (ja) ( わが, waga ) (also written:我 (ja) ) Kabuverdianu:nha Kalmyk:мини ( mini ) Kazakh:менің ( menıñ ) Khmer:របស់ ខ្ញុំ ( rɔbɑh kñom ) Korean:나의 ( naui ) ,내 (ko) ( nae ) ,저의 (ko) ( jeoui ) ,제 (ko) ( je ) Kyrgyz:менин (ky) ( menin ) Ladino:mi Lao:ຂອງຂ້ອຍ ( khǭng khǭi ) Latin:meus (la) m Latvian:mans Lithuanian:mano (lt) Louisiana Creole French:mô m mâ f mê pl Low German:min (nds) Lü:ᦃᦸᧂᦃᦾᧉ ( ẋoangẋoay² ) Macedonian:мој ( moj ) Malay:saya (ms) Malayalam:എന്റെ (ml) ( enṟe ) Maltese:tiegħi Manchu:ᠮᡳᠨᡳ ( mini ) Maore Comorian:-angu Maori:tāku sg āku pl ( dominant ) ,tōku sg ōku pl ( subordinate ) Mazanderani:مه ( me ) Middle English:mi ( before a consonant ) ,min ( before a vowel ) Mirandese:miu m Mongolian:миний (mn) ( minii ) Nahuatl:noca no (nah) Navajo:shi- Nepali:मेरो m ( mero ) Nheengatu:se North Frisian:Föhr:man m Norwegian:min (no) m Occitan:meu (oc) m Odia:ମୋର (or) ( mora ) ,ମୋ (or) ( mo ) Ojibwe:nii- Old Church Slavonic:мои ( moi ) Old English:mīn Old Tupi:xe Persian:ـم ( -am ) ( suffix ) ,من (fa) ( ... man ) Pipil:nu- Pitjantjatjara:ngayuku Polish:mój (pl) m Portuguese:meu (pt) m minha (pt) f meus (pt) m pl minhas (pt) f pl Quechua:( possessive suffix ) -y Romani:mirro m mirri f mirre pl Romanian:meu (ro) m mea f Russian:мой (ru) m ( moj ) ,моя́ (ru) f ( mojá ) ,моё (ru) n ( mojó ) ,мои́ (ru) pl ( moí ) Sanskrit:मम (sa) ( mama ) Sardinian:meu m miu m Logudorese:meu m Scots:ma Scottish Gaelic:mo Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:мој Roman:moj Shor:меең Sicilian:meu (scn) m mìu m Sinhalese:මගේ ( magē ) Slovak:môj (sk) Slovene:mój (sl) Slovincian:mój Sorbian:Lower Sorbian:mój Southern Altai:мениҥ ( meniŋ ) Spanish:mi (es) ,mis (es) m pl or f pl Old Spanish:mi Swedish:min (sv) c mitt (sv) n Tagalog:( after noun ) ko (tl) ,( before noun ) aking Tajik:... ман (tg) ( ... man ) Talysh:چمن ( cəmən ) ,( for all persons ) اشتن ( əštan ) Tamil:என் (ta) ( eṉ ) Tarantino:mije Tatar:минем ( minem ) Telugu:నా (te) ( nā ) ,నా యొక్క ( nā yokka ) Thai:ของ ผม ( kɔ̌ɔng pǒm ) ( male speaker ) ,ของ ดิฉัน ( kɔ̌ɔng dì-chǎn ) ( female speaker ) ,ของ ฉัน ( kɔ̌ɔng chǎn ) ( generic, informal ) Tibetan:ངའི ( nga'i ) Tlingit:ax̱ Turkish:benim (tr) Turkmen:meniň Ukrainian:мій (uk) ( mij ) Urdu:میرا ( merā ) Uzbek:mening (uz) Vietnamese:của tôi tôi (vi) ( usually post-position ) Volapük:obik (vo) Welsh:fy West Frisian:myn (fy) White Hmong:please add this translation if you can Woiwurrung:ik ( suffix ) Yagara:ariba Yiddish:מײַן ( mayn ) Yup'ik:-qa/ka (sg), -gka (dual), -nka (pl.) Zhuang:duh gou Zulu: possessive concord +-mi
English personal pronouns Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are initalics .
An abbreviation of an oath such asmy word ormy Lord
my
Used to expresssurprise ,shock oramazement .My , what big teeth you have!
FromDutch mij
my (subject ek
me (object)1 The forms
jul and
hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.
FromDutch mijn
my
my 1 The forms
jul and
hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.
my
1st person singularpossessive determiner Cameroon Pidgin possessive determiners singular plural 1st person my we 2nd person your wuna 3rd person yi dia
Chinese Pidgin English [ edit ] FromEnglish my
my
I ( subject pronoun ) Synonyms: I me 1836 The Chinese Repository , volume IV, number 9, page433 :me ( object pronoun ) Synonym: me my ( possessive pronoun ) FromProto-Brythonic *mi Proto-Celtic *mī
my
I ,me Inherited fromOld Czech my Proto-Slavic *my Proto-Indo-European *wéy
my
we Declension ofmy (pl-only animate pronoun )
plural nominative my genitive nás dative nám accusative nás vocative — locative nás instrumental námi
1 animate referents only, for inanimate onesony is used.
“my ”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957 “my ”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989 “my ”, inInternetová jazyková příručka (in Czech),2008–2025 my n singular definite myet plural indefinite myer
The Greek letterμ (mu ) my c
micron my
Obsolete spelling ofmij Frommj ( “ like ” ) +-j ( adverbializing suffix ) .
likewise accordingly James P[eter] Allen (2010 )Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs , 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN page86 FromProto-Slavic *my Proto-Indo-European *nos
my pl
we Declension of the first-person pronouns
FromOld Irish má Proto-Celtic *mā *ma Cornish Breton mar Proto-Indo-European *meh₂
my
if my (subjective pronoun I
Alternative form ofmi Inherited fromProto-Slavic *my
my
we ( first person plural ) Declension of the personal pronouns
Singular 1st person 2nd person Reflexive Nominative jáz já ty — Genitive mne mě tebe tě sebe sě Dative mně mi tobě ti sobě si Accusative mě mne tě tebe sě sebe Locative mně tobě sobě Instrumental mnú tobú tebú sobú sebú Possessive mój tvój svój Dual 1st person 2nd person Reflexive Nominative vě va ma vy — Genitive najú vajú sebe sě Dative náma váma sobě si Accusative ny najú vy vajú sě sebe Locative najú vajú sobě Instrumental náma váma sobú sebú Possessive náš najú váš vajú svój Plural 1st person 2nd person Reflexive Nominative my vy — Genitive nás vás sebe sě Dative nám nem vám vem sobě si Accusative ny nás vy vás sě sebe Locative nás vás sobě Instrumental námi vámi sobú sebú Possessive náš váš svój
Inherited fromProto-Slavic *my
my
we ;first person plural we ;I royal first person plural B. Sieradzka-Baziur , Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015 ), “my, ny (?) Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish IJP PAN ,→ISBN Rhymes:-ɘ Syllabification:my Inherited fromOld Polish my
my
we ;first person plural we ;I royal first person plural we ;I editorial first person plural Declension ofmy
plural nominative my genitive nas dative nam accusative nas instrumental nami locative nas vocative —
Learned borrowing fromAncient Greek μῦ ( mû ) , fromPhoenician 𐤌 ( m /mēm/ ) .
my n indeclinable
mu ( Greek letter Μ, μ ) According toSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990),my is one of the 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, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 875 times, making it the 49th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[ 1]
^ Ida Kurcz (1990 ) “my Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language 259 my inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANmy in Polish dictionaries at PWNMaria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023 ) “my ”, inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish “MY ”, inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814 ) “my Słownik języka polskiego Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861 ) “my Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861 J. Karłowicz ,A. Kryński ,W. Niedźwiedzki , editors (1902 ), “my ”, inSłownik języka polskiego 1081 my
Obsolete form ofmim Inherited fromMiddle English mi my min myn Old English mīn ( “ my, mine ” ) , fromProto-West Germanic *mīn Proto-Germanic *mīnaz ( “ my, mine ” ,pron. ) (possessive of*ek ( “ I ” ) ), fromProto-Indo-European *méynos ( “ my; mine ” ) .
my
my Synonym: mine Scots personal pronouns
personal pronoun possessive possessive 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 ane ane – – ane's plural thay thaim thaimsel thaimsels thairs thair
“my,possess. pron. ”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language Scottish Language Dictionaries , 2004–present,→OCLC 23 May 2024 , reproduced fromWilliam A[ lexander] Craigie ,A[ dam] J[ ack] Aitken [ et al. ] , editors,A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: [ … ] Oxford University Press , 1931–2002,→OCLC “my,poss. adj. ”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language Scottish Language Dictionaries , 2004–present,→OCLC 23 May 2024 , reproduced from W[ illiam] Grant and D[ avid] D. Murison, editors,The Scottish National Dictionary Scottish National Dictionary Association , 1931–1976,→OCLC Inherited fromOld Polish my
IPA (key ) : /ˈmɪ/ Rhymes:-ɪ Syllabification:my my
we ;first person plural Inherited fromProto-Slavic *my Proto-Indo-European *nos
my
we Declension ofmy
plurale tantum nominative my genitive nás dative nám accusative nás locative nás instrumental nami
* masculine animate only,ony
“my ”, inSlovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk ,2003–2025 my n
The Greek letterμ (mu ) FromProto-Slavic *my Proto-Indo-European *wéy
my
we Upper Sorbian personal pronouns
FromOld Frisian mī Proto-Germanic *miz
my
object ofik 
