# my
## Translingual
### Etymology

Abbreviation of English Myanmar, formerly Burma, where Burmese is spoken.

### Symbol

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

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Burmese terms

## English
### Alternative forms

* ma, mah, me, muh, I's

### Pronunciation

* (stressed) enPR: mī IPA: /maɪ/
** (Canada, Dialectal) IPA: /mʌɪ/, [məi̯]
** Audio (US):(file)
* (unstressed) IPA: /maɪ/, /mə/
** (UK, Ottawa Valley) IPA: /mɪ/, /mi/
* (Ireland, Scouse, some speakers) IPA: /mi/
* Homophones: muh, me (some dialects)
* Rhymes: -aɪ

### Etymology 1

From Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (possessive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).
Cognate with West Frisian myn (“my”), Afrikaans my (“my”), Dutch mijn (“my”), German mein (“my”), Swedish min (“my”). More at me.

#### Determiner

my
* First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
** Belonging to me.
    I can't find my book.
** Associated with me.
    My seat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.
    Don't you know my name?
    I recognised him because he had attended my school.
** Related to me.
    My parents won't let me go out tonight.
*** 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 10, lines 165-166:From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'd my Son,
** In the possession of me.
    I have to take my books back to the library soon.

##### Derived terms

* ain't no shame in my game
* and I claim my five pounds
* cheers my dears
* did my back hurt your knife
* Draw My Life
* get out of my sight
* hold my milk
* I don't boil my cabbage twice
* I don't chew my cabbage twice
* it's all over my screen
* kiss my balls
* my arse
* my b
* my bad
* my brother in Christ
* my culture is not your costume
* my eye
* my eyeball
* my fellow Americans
* my foot
* my friend
* my giddy aunt
* my God
* my goodness
* my gosh
* my guy
* my heavens
* my lady's washbowl
* my land
* my people yearn for freedom
* my pleasure
* my point exactly
* my rear
* my sainted aunt
* my sainted uncle
* my sides
* my sister in Christ
* my son
* my stars
* my teeth are floating
* my thigh
* my very educated mother just served us nine pizzas
* my very excellent mother just served us nine pizzas
* my watch has ended
* my way or the highway
* my word
* no shame in my game
* oh my fucking God
* shiver my sides
* shiver my soul
* smoke my pole
* so help my tater
* thank you for coming to my TED Talk
* the dog ate my homework
* there's no shame in my game
* upon my soul
* welcome to my life
* wet my lips
* whoops, there go my trousers

##### Related terms

* mine

##### Translations

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 (ngo$^5$ ge$^3$), 我的 (ngo$^5$ dik$^1$) (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: ของผม (kɔ̌ɔng pǒm) (male speaker), ของดิฉัน (kɔ̌ɔng dì-chǎn) (female speaker), ของฉัน (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 :

##### See also

| | | | personal pronoun | personal pronoun | personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner |
| | | | subjective | objective | reflexive | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner |
| first person | singular | singular | I me (colloquial) | me | myself me mysen | mine | my mine (before vowels, archaic) me |
| first person | plural | plural | we | us | ourselves ourself oursen | ours | our |
| second person | singular | standard, formal | you | you | yourself yoursen | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
| second person | singular | archaic, informal | thou | thee | thyself theeself thysen | thine | thy thine (before vowels) |
| second person | plural | standard | you ye (archaic) | you | yourselves | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
| second person | plural | 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) |
| second person | plural | informal / dialectal | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | (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 |
| third person | singular | feminine | she | her | herself hersen | hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) | her |
| third person | singular | neuter | it hit | it hit | itself hitself | its his (archaic) | its his (archaic) hits |
| third person | singular | genderless | they | them | themself, themselves | theirs | their |
| third person | singular | genderless, nonspecific (formal) | one | one | oneself | – | one's |
| third person | plural | plural | they | them hem, 'em | themselves theirsen | theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) | their |

### Etymology 2

An abbreviation of an oath such as my word or my Lord

#### Interjection

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

##### Derived terms

* my my

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /məi/

### Etymology 1

From Dutch mij.

#### Pronoun

my (subject ek)
* me (object)

##### Alternative forms

* mij (obsolete)
* mijn (obsolete, rare)

#### See also
### Etymology 2

From Dutch mijn.

#### Determiner

my
* my; of me

##### Alternative forms

* mij (obsolete)
* mijn (obsolete)

#### See also
## Cameroon Pidgin
### Alternative forms

* ma

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ma/

### Determiner

my
* 1st person singular possessive determiner

#### See also
## Chinese Pidgin English
### Etymology

From English my.

### Pronoun

my
* I (subject pronoun)
    Synonyms: I, me
** 1836 January, “Jargon spoken at Canton: how it originated and has grown into use; mode in which the Chinese learn English; examples of the language in common use between foreigners and Chinese”, in The Chinese Repository, volume IV, number 9, page 433:‘My wanchee takee go away alla this cover, putee nother piece,’ replied I.(please add an English translation of this quotation)
* me (object pronoun)
    Synonym: me
* my (possessive pronoun)

## Cornish
### Alternative forms

* (Standard Cornish) me

### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī.

### Pronoun

my
* I, me

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech my, from Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɪ]
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

my
* we

#### Related terms

$^1$ animate referents only, for inanimate ones ony is used.

### Further reading

* “my”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “my”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “my”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Danish
### Noun

my n (singular definite myet, plural indefinite myer)
* The Greek letter μ (mu)

#### Declension
### Noun

my c
* micron

#### Synonyms

* mikrometer
* mikron

### References

* “my” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛi̯/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛi̯
* Homophone: mei

### Pronoun

my
* Obsolete spelling of mij.

#### Usage notes

* The spelling my was deprecated in a Dutch spelling reform.

## Egyptian
### Etymology

From mj (“like”) +‎ -j (adverbializing suffix).

### Pronunciation

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

### Adverb

* likewise
* accordingly

### References

* James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86.

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos.

### Pronoun

my pl
* we

#### Declension
## Manx
### Etymology

From Old Irish má, from Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton mar), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂.

### Conjunction

my
* if

## Middle English
### Determiner

my (subjective pronoun I)
* Alternative form of mi

## Old Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (13th CE) /ˈmɨ/
* IPA: (15th CE) /ˈmi/

### Pronoun

my
* we (first person plural)

#### Descendants

* Czech: my

### References

* Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “my”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my. First attested in the 14th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /mɨ/
* IPA: (15th CE) /mɨ/

### Pronoun

my
* we; first person plural
* we; I royal first person plural

#### Descendants

* Polish: my
* Silesian: my

### References

* 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 (?)”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɘ/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /mɨ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɘ
* Syllabification: my

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish my.

#### Pronoun

my
* we; first person plural
* we; I royal first person plural
* we; I editorial first person plural

##### Declension
#### See also

* Appendix:Polish pronouns

### Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μῦ (mû), from Phoenician 𐤌 (m‬ /⁠mēm⁠/).

#### Alternative forms

* mi

#### Noun

my n (indeclinable)
* mu (Greek letter Μ, μ)

### Trivia

According to Słownik 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.

### References

* ↑ Ida Kurcz (1990) “my”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 259

### Further reading

* my in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* my in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “my”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* “MY”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2021 June 22
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “my”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “my”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “my”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 1081

## Portuguese
### Pronoun

my
* Obsolete form of mim.

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* ma, me

### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English mi, my, apocopated form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-West Germanic *mīn, from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.) (possessive of *ek (“I”)), from Proto-Indo-European *méynos (“my; mine”).

### Determiner

my
* my
    Synonym: mine

### See also

| | | | personal pronoun | personal pronoun | personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner |
| | | | subjective | objective | reflexive | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner |
| first person | singular | singular | A, I, Ik | me | mysel | mine, mines | mine, my |
| first person | plural | 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 |
| second person | singular | Insular (informal) | thoo | thee | thysel, theesel | thines | thy, thee, thees |
| second person | plural | 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 |
| third person | singular | feminine | scho, she, shu | her, er | hersel | hers | her, er |
| third person | singular | neuter | it hit | it hit | itsel hitsel | its hits | its hits |
| third person | singular | genderless, nonspecific (formal) | ane | ane | – | – | ane's |
| third person | plural | plural | thay | thaim | thaimsel, thaimsels | thairs | thair |

### References

* “my, 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.

## Silesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish my.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪ
* Syllabification: my

### Pronoun

my
* we; first person plural

#### Declension
### Further reading

* my in silling.org

## Slovak
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *nos.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mi]
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

my
* we

#### Related terms

* masculine animate only, ony otherwise

### Further reading

* “my”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

## Swedish
### Noun

my n
* The Greek letter μ (mu)

## Upper Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my, from Proto-Indo-European *wéy.

### Pronoun

my
* we

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “my” in Soblex

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.

### Pronunciation

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

### Pronoun

my
* object of ik