me

See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"

English

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Etymology 1

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”).

Cognates

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

Pronunciation

(UK) enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /miː/
(US) enPR: mē, IPA^(key): /mi/
(some accents) enPR: mā, IPA^(key): /meɪ/
Audio (US) (file)
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -iː, -eɪ
Homophones: mee, may (some accents)

Pronoun

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

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:
    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.
(sometimes proscribed) As the complement of the copula (be).
It wasn't me.
- 2017, Theresa May, “Andrew Neil interviews Theresa May: full transcript”, in The Spectator‎, archived from the original on 22 May 2017:
  It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.
Used for the pronoun in isolation or in apposition.
Who's there? —Me.

Who did this? —Me. I did it. (≈ It was me. I did it.)
(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.
  
  literally all me and my astrophysicist colleagues could talk about.
  
  Stella and me have opted to take a course called 'Autobiography and Fiction'.
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.
  - 2005 October 10, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Teen Girl Squad Issue #10”, in Homestar Runner‎, 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

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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, e.g. "me want", "me like") is a feature of various types of both pidgin English and that of infant English-learners, and is sometimes used by speakers of standard English for jocular effect (e.g. "me likee", "me wantee").

Although in some dialects 'me' is also used as a possessive, in writing, speakers of these dialects usually write my.

Some prescriptivists object to the use of me following the verb be, as in "It wasn't me". The phrase "It was not I" is prescribed as correct, though this may be seen as extreme and used for jocular effect.

Synonyms

(subject of a verb): I; my ass (vulgar)
(complement of the copula): I
(indirect object): us (Australia, UK)
(marking ownership): my; mine (archaic)

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

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

Translations

See me/translations § Pronoun.

Noun

me (plural mes)

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

Variant form.

Determiner

me

(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

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Noun

me

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

References

A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,

Anagrams

'em, EM, Em, em, em-

Akan

Pronoun

me

I
Mete Twi kasa.
I speak Twi.

Albanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

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)

with (accompanied by)
Shkoj me tim vëlla.
I'm going with my brother.
with (possessing)
E sheh djalin me sytë e kaltër?
Do you see the guy with blue eyes?
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)

insufficient, scanty, not full

Derived terms

Angloromani

Alternative forms

ma, mai, mei, mey, mi

Etymology

Inherited from Romani me.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key):

Pronoun

me

I
Synonyms: mandi, tutti

Annobonese

Etymology

From Portuguese mãe (“mother”).

Noun

me

mother

References

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

Aragonese

Etymology

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

Pronoun

me

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

Usage notes

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

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

me (first-person singular direct pronoun)
me (first-person singular indirect pronoun)

Atong (India)

Alternative forms

mai
mei

Etymology

From English (“May”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me/

Noun

me (Bengali script মে)

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

I, me

Carolinian

Conjunction

me

and

Catalan

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mē (accusative of ego).

Pronunciation

(Central) IPA^(key): /mə/
(Valencian) IPA^(key): /me/

Pronoun

me (enclitic, contracted 'm, proclitic em, contracted proclitic m')

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
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi³	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
1st person majestic¹	nós	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
2nd person formal¹	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person very formal²	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l’⁴	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal²	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive		en, n’	-ne, ’n
locative		hi	-hi
¹⁾ Behaves grammatically as plural. ²⁾ Behaves grammatically as third person.			³⁾ Only as object of a preposition. ⁴⁾ Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Related terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

me f (uncountable)

(colloquial, childish, euphemistic) poo

Chuukese

Conjunction

me

and

Preposition

me

from

Cimbrian

Article

me

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

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

(Standard Cornish) I, me

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mə/
Audio (file)

Pronoun

me

objective unstressed form of ik (“I”)

Inflection

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	zich	uwer, uws
3rd person masculine	hij	ie¹	hem	'm¹	zijn	z'n¹	zijne	zich	zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine	zij	ze	haar	h'r¹, 'r¹, d'r¹	haar	h'r¹, 'r¹, d'r¹	hare	zich	harer, haars
3rd person neuter	het	't¹	het	't¹	zijn	z'n¹	zijne	zich	zijner, zijns
plural
1st person	wij	we	ons	–	ons, onze²	–	onze	ons	onzer, onzes
2nd person	jullie	je	jullie	je	jullie	je	–	je	–
2nd person archaic or regiolectal⁶	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer, uws
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich	uwer, uws
3rd person	zij	ze	hen³, hun⁴	ze	hun	–	hunne	zich	hunner, huns
¹⁾ Not as common in written language. ²⁾ Inflected as an adjective. ³⁾ In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). ⁴⁾ In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).				⁵⁾ Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. ⁶⁾ To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural.

Synonyms

mij

Pronoun

me (dependent possessive)

Pronunciation spelling of mijn (“my”).

Estonian

Etymology

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

Pronoun

me (genitive me, partitive meid)

we

Declension

Declension of me
1st person	singular		plural
1st person	long	short	long	short
nominative	mina	ma	meie	me
genitive	minu	mu	meie	me
partitive	mind		meid
illative	minusse	musse		meisse
inessive	minus	mus		meis
elative	minust	must		meist
allative	minule	mulle		meile
adessive	minul	mul		meil
ablative	minult	mult		meilt
translative	minuks	–	meieks	meiks
terminative	minuni	–	meieni	–
essive	minuna	–	meiena	–
abessive	minuta	–	meieta	–
comitative	minuga	muga	meiega	–

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese me, from Latin mē.

Pronoun

me

First person singular dative and accusative pronoun; me

Usage notes

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

References

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

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/,
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -e
Syllabification^(key): me

Pronoun

me

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”)).

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

compounds

me-henki

Descendants

Kven: met

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/
(Parisian) IPA^(key): /mø/
audio (file)
Rhymes: -ə

Pronoun

me (personal, objective case)

(direct object) me
Est-ce que tu me vois ? ― Do you see me?
(indirect object) to me
Émilien me donne un peu d’argent. ― Émilien gave some money to me.

Related terms

French personal pronouns

Number	Person	Gender	Nominative (subject)	Accusative (direct complement)	Dative (indirect complement)	Disjunctive (tonic)
Singular	First	—	je, j’	me, m’		moi
	Second	—	tu	te, t’		toi
	Third	Masculine	il	le, l’	lui	lui
		Feminine	elle	la, l’		elle
		Gender neutral⁵	iel	lea		ellui
		Indeterminate	on¹	—	—	—
		Reflexive	—	se, s’⁴		soi⁴
Plural	First	—	nous	nous		nous
	Second	—	vous²	vous²^,3		vous²
	Third	Masculine	ils³	les	leur	eux
		Feminine	elles			elles
		Gender neutral⁵	iels			elleux

¹ Also used as the first person plural.

² Also used as the polite singular form.

³ Also used when a group has both men and women.

⁴ Also used as third person plural reflexive.

⁵ Colloquial, and not in popular use.

Galician

Pronoun

me

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

Guaraní

Noun

me

male
husband

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French mai (“May”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me/

Noun

me

May

Hawaiian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me/

Preposition

me

with

Icelandic

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛː/
Rhymes: -ɛː

Interjection

me

baa (representing the bleating sound sheep make)

Ido

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me/, /mɛ/

Pronoun

me (first-person singular)

I, me
Me es tre felica.
I am very happy.

Ka vu parolas a me?
Are you talking to me?

Derived terms

mea (“my, mine”)

Noun

me (plural me-i)

The name of the Latin script letter M/m.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin mē, accusative singular of ego.

Pronoun

me

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)

(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

(clitic) Alternative form of mi

Usage notes

Used when followed by a third-person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

Jamaican Creole

Pronoun

me

Alternative spelling of mi.

Japanese

Romanization

me

Rōmaji transcription of め (hiragana)
Rōmaji transcription of メ (katakana)

Jingpho

Etymology

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

Noun

me

ballot

References

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

Kein

Noun

me

louse

Khasi

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me/

Pronoun

me

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.

References

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

Latin

Alternative forms

mēd (Early Latin)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”). Cognate with Ancient Greek με (me), ἐμέ (emé, “me”), Sanskrit मा (mā, “me”), Old English me, Old Frisian mi, Old Saxon mī, Dutch mij, Old High German mih (German mich), Old Norse mik, Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌺 (mik). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin me, Greek με (me), Old Irish mé (Irish mí, Welsh mi), Proto-Slavic *mene (Old Church Slavonic мене (mene), Russian меня́ (menjá)), Lithuanian mi, Albanian mua.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /meː/,
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me/,

Pronoun

mē (personal pronoun)

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

Derived terms

mēcum, mēmet

Descendants

Aromanian: mi
Catalan: me
Ligurian: mi
Corsican: mi
French: me, moi
Galician: me
Italian: me, mi
Mozarabic: ם (m)
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):

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

(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

(Yao'an) mushroom

Mandarin

Romanization

me (me⁵／me⁰, Zhuyin ˙ㄇㄜ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 么
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚜
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 末
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麼／么, 麽／么
Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嚒

me

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.

Maori

Etymology

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

Particle

me

Conjunctive
1. and (joins two noun phrases)
2. with (indicates people or things present when an event occurs)
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)
Comparative
1. if only (reverses what is stated)
2. as if, like (simile)
3. to see whether

References

"me" - Maori Dictionary

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French mai.

Noun

me

May

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

me

husband

Mengen

Noun

me

(drinkable) water
any liquid
(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)

me (first-person singular accusative pronoun)
(reflexive) myself

Descendants

English: me
Scots: me
Yola: mee, me

References

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

Etymology 2

Determiner

me (nominative I)

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

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

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

me, first-person singular object pronoun
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

Nalca

Noun

me

son
child

Nauruan

Conjunction

me

and

Naxi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma.

Adverb

me

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

me (accusative or dative or reflexive or prepositional)

Coordinate terms

Number	Person	Nominative	Accusative	Dative	Reflexive	Possessive	Prepositional
singular	first-person	io (i')	me			mìo, mìa, mieje, meje	me, méne
	second-person, familiar	tu	te			tùjo, tòja, tùoje, tòje	te, téne
	second-person, formal	vuje	ve			vuósto, vósta, vuóste, vóste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsso	'o, 'u (lo, lu)	'i, 'e (li, le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	ìsso
	third-person, feminine	éssa	'a (la)	'e (le)	se	sùjo, sòja, sùoje, sòje	éssa
plural	first-person	nuje	ce			nuósto, nòsta, nuóste, nòste	nuje
	second-person, plural	vuje	ve			vuósto, vòsta, vuóste, vòste	vuje
	third-person, masculine	ìsse	'i, 'e (li, le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro
	third-person, feminine	llòro	'e (le)	llòro	se	llòro (invariable)	llòro

Norman

Alternative forms

mé (continental Normandy, Jersey)
maïr (Guernsey)

Noun

me f (plural mes)

(Sark) sea

North Frisian

Pronoun

me

First-person singular, objective: me

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

Pronoun

me

oblique form of em: us, we

Etymology 2

Verb

me

first-person singular present indicative of bûn
Synonym: im

Northern Qiang

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mə/

Noun

me

fire

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meː/
Rhymes: -eː
Homophone: med

Pronoun

me (object case oss)

we
Kva skal me gjera?
What shall we do?

Alternative forms

vi

Etymology 2

Pronoun

me

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.

Anagrams

EM

Old English

Alternative forms

mæ — Northumbrian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *miʀ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /meː/

Pronoun

mē

(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

myself (first-person singular reflexive pronoun)
me (first-person singular direct object pronoun)
to me (first-person singular indirect object pronoun)

Related terms

moi/mei

Descendants

Middle French: me
- French: me

Pali

Alternative forms

𑀫𑁂 (Brahmi script)
मे (Devanagari script)
মে (Bengali script)
මෙ (Sinhalese script)
မေ (Burmese script)
เม (Thai script)
ᨾᩮ (Tai Tham script)
ເມ (Lao script)
មេ (Khmer script)
𑄟𑄬 (Chakma script)

Pronoun

me

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, 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)‎, 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.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German einem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mə/

Article

me

dative masculine/neuter singular of en: a, an

Declension

Declension of en
	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative	en	en	en	–
dative	emme me	re	emme me	–
accusative	en	en	en	–

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mɛ/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ɛ
Syllabification: me

Pronoun

me

Alternative form of moje

Interjection

me

(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/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /me/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɨ/

Hyphenation: me

Pronoun

me

first-person singular objective direct personal pronoun; me
Meus amigos me ligaram.
My friends called me.
- 2005, J. K. Rowling, 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?
first-person singular objective indirect personal pronoun; (to) me
Dê-me o copo.
Give me the glass.
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.
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.

Romani

Pronoun

me

I

Descendants

Angloromani: me
Vlax Romani: me

Romanian

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Interjection

me

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

(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 spring
  (literally, “The spring to me is not pleasant”)

Related terms

References

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

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

m.e.

Etymology

From mar eisimpleir.

Adverb

me

e.g.

Serbo-Croatian

Pronoun

me (Cyrillic spelling ме)

of me (genitive singular of jȃ (“I”))
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

we (feminine and neuter plural, more than two)

Inflection

Declension of me (irregular, suppletive)

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

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/
Rhymes: -e
Syllabification: me

Pronoun

me (objective case)

(personal) accusative of yo: me
(personal, dative pronoun) dative of yo: to me, for me
(personal, reflexive) reflexive of yo: myself

Sumerian

Romanization

me

Romanization of 𒈨 (me)

Swedish

Preposition

me

(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/,
Rhymes: -eʔ

Noun

mê (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)

maa (bleat cry of a goat or sheep)
Synonym: (obsolete) ii

Alternative forms

mee

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈme/,
Rhymes: -e

Particle

me (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒ)

Pronunciation spelling of may.

Turkish

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

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

Noun

me

baa (sound of a sheep)

Derived terms

melemek

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈme/

Noun

me

The name of the Latin-script letter M.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Compare Acehnese mè (“tamarind”).

Noun

(classifier cây, trái, quả) me • (楣)

tamarind

Etymology 2

Noun

me

mother
Synonyms: mẹ, ma
- 1936, Vũ Trọng Phụng, chapter 3, in Số đỏ, Hà Nội báo:
  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!"

West Makian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me/

Pronoun

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

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

References

Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

White Hmong

Etymology

This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “From the same kind of sound-symbolic reasoning as Ancient Greek νᾶνος (nânos, “dwarf”)? This is so funny to think about LOL - words like "me" and "nano-" potentially coming from labial playground-tier teases like "neener meener neener"”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /me˧/

Adjective

me

little; small (size or quantity)

Derived terms

me nyuam

References

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

Yola

Pronoun

me

Alternative form of mee
- 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 106:
  A plaauge apan Portheare! Hea'de luther me waal,
  A plague upon Porter, he'd hide me well,

References

Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 106

Zazaki

Pronoun

me

me

Zou

Noun

me

curry

References

http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive	possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
first person	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
	singular	archaic, 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	you all y'all you guys	y'allselves	y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed)
		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
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their

Cimbrian definite articles
	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter	Plural
Nominative	dar	de / di	's / z	de / di
Accusative	in	de / di	's / z	de / di
Dative	me	dar	me	in

			nominative	dative	accusative	disjunctive
first person	singular		ei	me, -mi		mi
	plural	common	nos	mus^L nus^LV nos, -nus^M		nos
		masculine	noshotrus^M			noshotrus^M
		feminine	noshotras^M			noshotras^M
second person	singular		tú	te, -ti		ti
	plural	common	vos	vus^LV vos, -vus^M		vos
		masculine	voshotrus^M			voshotrus^M
		feminine	voshotras^M			voshotras^M
third person	singular	masculine	el	le, -li	u^LV, o^M	el
	singular	feminine	ela		a	ela
	plural	masculine	elis		us^LV, os^M	elis
	plural	feminine	elas		as	elas
	reflexive		—	se, -si		sí

		Singular			Plural
		Nominative	Possessive		Nominative	Possessive
		Nominative	Singular	Plural	Nominative	Singular	Plural
First person		me	mea	mei	ni	nia	nii
Second person	Formal	vu	vua	vui	vi	via	vii
Second person	Familiar	tu	tua	tui	vi	via	vii
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
Notes
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.