# mi
## Translingual
### Symbol

mi
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Maori.

## English

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### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miː/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -iː
* Homophone: me

### Etymology 1

From Glover's solmization, from Middle English mi (“third degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian mi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin mīra (“miracles; the miraculous”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.

#### Noun

mi (uncountable)
* (music) A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.

##### Derived terms

* do-re-mi

##### See also

* see list of other syllables at solfège, sol-fa

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mi
* Alternative form of mi. .

### Anagrams

* 'im, I'm, I. M., I.M., IM, Im, im-

## Ajië
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mi]

### Verb

mi
* to come

### References

* Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Paris: Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
* Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

## Albanian
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *me-.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mi]

#### Pronoun

mi
* my

#### See also

* im

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *mūh-, from Proto-Indo-European *múh₂s (“mouse”).

#### Noun

mi m (plural minj, definite miu, definite plural minjtë)
* mouse

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

* miu i gjirizeve
* micë

## Ama
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mĩː/

### Noun

mi
* bone

## Amele
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
* John R. Roberts, Amele Organised Phonology Data (1998)

## Ampari Dogon
### Noun

mi
* water

### Further reading

* Roger Blench, Ampari Pa, a Dogon language in Northern Mali and its affinities (2005)

## Arikapú
### Noun

mi
* water

### Further reading

* E R Ribeiro, Nimuendajú Was Right: The Inclusion of the Jabutí Language Family (IJAL)

## Aromanian
### Etymology

From Latin me.

### Pronoun

mi (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of io)
* me (accusative)
* (reflexive pronoun) myself
    Mi-ashedz.I sit (seat myself).

#### Related terms

* mini
* io/iou

## Bagupi
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Baimak
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Bau
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Bavarian
### Etymology

Cognate with German mich.

### Pronoun

mi
* me (accusative)

### See also
## Berti
### Noun

mi
* water

### References

* Ehret, Christopher (2001) A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan (SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika: Beihefte; 12)‎, Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, →ISBN, →ISSN.

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/ [mi]

### Pronoun

mi (Basahan spelling ᜋᜒ)
* by us, of us
    Synonym: niyato
* Our—exclusive of person spoken to.
    Synonym: niyamo
    Yaon an harong mi sana sa may kanto.Our house is just around the corner.

## Bislama
### Etymology

From English me. Cognate with Tok Pisin mi and Pijin mi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi/
* Hyphenation: mi

### Pronoun

mi
* I, me, my
** 2008, Miriam Meyerhoff, Social lives in language--sociolinguistics and multilingual speech‎, →ISBN, page 344:Bang i wantem mi faen from mi ovaspen.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Usage notes

* In formal speech, mi is placed before a noun to denote a first-person possessor. In informal speech, the construction blong mi is used instead.

#### See also
### References

* Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 46

## Bourguignon
### Etymology

From Latin medius.

### Noun

mi m (mis)
* noon, midday
    El ât mi, noutre ovreire é dressai lai sopeIt's noon, our worker has prepared the soup

#### Synonyms

* mairande
* meidi
* mijor
* pregneire

### References

* Thomas Mignard (1870). Vocabulaire raisonné et comparé du dialecte et du patois de la province de Bourgogne.

## Buginese
### Particle

mi
* ᨆᨗ: which means only, e.g. ᨉᨘᨕᨆᨗ /duaːmi/ means only two.

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmi]
* Rhymes: -i

### Etymology 1

From Latin mī.

#### Pronoun

mi
* me; post preposition form of jo

##### Declension

See Template:ca-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mi m (plural mis)
* (music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

mi f (plural mis)
* mu; the Greek alphabet letter Μ (lowercase μ)

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

mi
* (colloquial) second-person singular imperative of mirar

##### Usage notes

* This form is an optional reduced form of the imperative mira that can see use when combined with one or more clitic pronouns attached to the end of the verb - for example:
* mi-te'l (“look at it, look at him”) for mira-te'l

##### Derived terms

* (Algherese) mi-lo, mi-la, mi-los, mi-les (behold!, here it is!, here they are!)

#### References

* “Imperatius amb forma molt reduïda: mi-te'l, mi-te-la, mi-te'ls, mi-te-les”, in Optimot‎, 2020 August 28, retrieved 4 July 2022
* El Català de l'Alguer : un model d'àmbit restringit, Barcelona, 2003, →ISBN, page 57
* “mi-lo, mi-la”, in Diccionari d'Alguerés, 2022 July 4 (last accessed)

## Central Franconian
### Alternative forms

* mei, mein (Moselle Franconian)

### Etymology

From Middle High German mīn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miː/, /mi/

### Determiner

mi (masculine menge or minge, feminine and plural meng or ming)
* (Ripuarian) my (first-person singular possessive)
    Wo hann ich dann mi Jlas henjestallt?Where did I put my glass?

#### Usage notes

* The form meng/ming is used for the neuter when strongly stressed: Dat es ming Jlas! (“That's my glass!”) Contrariwise, the form mi may be used for the masculine and feminine when unstressed, chiefly with words for relatives: mi Papp (“my father”, but less common than menge Papp).

## Chuukese
### Verb

mi
* (transitive, copulative) to be (precedes the adjective or adverb)

## Corsican
### Etymology

From Latin me.

### Pronoun

mi
* me (both direct and indirect subject)

#### References

* https://infcor.adecec.net/

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɪ]
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

mi
* clitic dative of já

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin meus.

### Pronoun

mi m (feminine maja)
* mine; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun
* my

### See also

* to
* nuester
* vestro

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mi
* Rhymes: -i

### Noun

mi f (plural mi's)
* (music) mi

## Egyptian
### Romanization

mi
* Manuel de Codage transliteration of mj.

## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Italian mi, French moi, English me, etc., plus the i of personal pronouns.

### Pronunciation

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

### Pronoun

mi (first-person singular nominative, accusative min, possessive mia)
* I, the one who is speaking, me, myself
    Mi vidas lin. ― I see him.
    Li donis la hundon al mi. ― He gave the dog to me.
    Mi diris al mi. ― I said to myself.

### See also

| | | Singular | Singular | Singular | Plural | Plural | Plural |
| | | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive |
| First person | First person | mi | min | mia | ni | nin | nia |
| Second person | Formal | vi | vin | via | vi | vin | via |
| Second person | Familiar$^1$ | ci | cin | cia | vi | vin | via |
| Third person | Masculine | li | lin | lia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Feminine | ŝi | ŝin | ŝia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Neuter | ĝi | ĝin | ĝia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Gender-neutral$^2$ | ri ŝli | rin ŝlin | ria ŝlia | ili iŝi$^3$ | ilin iŝin$^3$ | ilia iŝia$^3$ |
| Third person | Reflexive | si | sin | sia | si | sin | sia |
| Indefinite | Indefinite | oni | onin | onia | oni | onin | onia |
| Notes ||||||||
| $^1$ The second person familiar pronouns are archaic. $^2$ The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used. $^3$ The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used. ||||||||

## Ewe
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪ/

### Pronoun

mi
* you (plural)

## Fala
### Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mi, from Latin mihi.

### Pronoun

mi
* First person singular prepositional pronoun; me

#### See also

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

## Finnish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
* Rhymes: -i
* Hyphenation: mi

### Pronoun

mi (poetic)
* Alternative form of mikä (“what”) (especially as a relative pronoun)

#### Declension

Declension of mi
noun case
singular
pluraladverbial form
singular
plural
nominative
mi
mitsuperessive
genitive
min
mindelative
partitive
mitä
mitäsublative
minne
accusative
mi, min
mitkälative
inessive
missä
missätemporal
milloin
elative
mistä
mistäcausative
miten
illative
mihin
mihinmultiplicative
adessive
millä
millädistributive
ablative
miltä
miltätemp. dist.
allative
mille
milleprolative
essive
minä
minäsituative
translative
miksi
miksioppositive
abessive
instructive
comitative

### Further reading

* “mi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/
* Audio (Paris):(file)

### Noun

mi m (plural mi)
* (music) mi, the note 'E'

#### Descendants

* → Persian: می (mi)

### Further reading

* “mi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Etymology

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

### Pronoun

mi (first person direct object, indirect object)
* (direct object) me
* (indirect object) to me
* (reflexive pronoun) myself

#### Related terms

* jo

## Fula
### Pronoun

mi
* I (first person singular subject pronoun; short form)

#### Usage notes

* Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).
* Used in all conjugations except the affirmative non-accomplished, where the long form is used instead.

### See also

* miɗo (first person singular subject pronoun; long form), hilan (variant used in the Pular dialect of Futa Jalon)
* min (emphatic form)
* mín (emphatic form (Adamawa))
* mi- (first person singular subject dependant pronoun (Adamawa))
* -yam (first person singular object dependant pronoun (Adamawa))
* -am (first person singular possessive pronoun)

## Ga
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* I, me (first-person pronoun; refers to the person speaking)

## Gal
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Galician
### Etymology 1

From Latin meus.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mi]

#### Determiner

mi (first-person singular possessive singular)
* (before the noun) unstressed form of meu and miña: my
** 1880, Rosalía de Castro, Follas novas, page 83:—Non mo preguntés, mi madre, Vale mais que nunca o sepás. Secretos d'esta feitura Deben dormir antr'as pedras.Don't ask me, my mother, better if thou never know. Secrets of this making should sleep among the stones.

##### Usage notes

The form mi is only used before padre (“father”), madre (“mother”), tío (“uncle”), señor (“lord, sir”), amo (“master”), as a form of respect.

##### Derived terms

* mi madriña

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmi]

#### Noun

mi m (plural mis)
* (music) mi (musical note)
* (music) E (the musical note or key)

#### See also

* dó
* fa
* la
* mi
* re
* si
* sol

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mi”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mi”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

## Garo
### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma-j ~ mej (“rice; paddy”).

### Noun

mi
* (botany) rice plant
* rice

## Garus
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Gaulish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mī.

### Pronoun

mī
* I; first-person singular personal pronoun, nominative case

#### Inflection

| Number | Singular | Plural |
| Nominative | mī | snīs |
| Accusative | me | snīs |
| Genitive | mon | ansron |
| Dative | moi | amē |
| Ablative | me | ame |
| Instrumental | moi | ? |
| Locative | moi | amē |

## Girawa
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
* Patricia Lillie, Girawa Dictionary

## Guerrero Amuzgo
### Verb

mi
* have

### Noun

mi
* cat

## Guinea-Bissau Creole
### Etymology

From Portuguese mim.

### Pronoun

mi
* I (first person singular)
* me
* my

## Gumalu
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Gun
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mĩ́/

#### Pronoun

mí
* we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mĩ̀/

#### Pronoun

mì
* you (second-person plural personal pronoun)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mĩ/

#### Pronoun

mi
* me (first-person singular personal object pronoun)

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mĩ́/

#### Pronoun

mí
* us (first-person plural personal object pronoun)

### Etymology 5
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mĩ̀/

#### Pronoun

mì
* you (second-person plural personal object pronoun)

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Etymology 1

From French mûr.

#### Adjective

mi
* ripe, mature

### Etymology 2

From French mur.

#### Noun

mi
* wall

##### Synonyms

* miray

### References

* Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmi]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -mi

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *me.

#### Pronoun

mi
* (personal) we

##### Declension

declension of mi
nominative
mi
accusative
minket
dative
nekünk
instrumental
velünk
causal-final
értünk
inessive
bennünk
superessive
rajtunk
adessive
nálunk
illative
belénk
sublative
ránk
allative
hozzánk
elative
belőlünk
delative
rólunk
ablative
tőlünk :

##### Alternative forms

* mink (dialectal)

##### Derived terms

Note: In all these forms, mi is optional and only serves for emphasis.
* mialattunk, mielőttünk etc. (mi + a postposition with the first-person plural personal suffix; see Appendix:Hungarian postpositions)
* minekünk, mihozzánk etc. (mi + one of the declined forms listed in the table above; see Appendix:Hungarian pronouns)

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

#### Pronoun

mi
* (interrogative) what?
    Mi van a kezedben? ― What is in your hand?
* (after van or nincs in any tense and mood, followed by an infinitive) something, anything, nothing
    Nincs mit hozzátennem. ― I have nothing to add.
    Még szerencse, hogy volt mit enni! ― It's lucky there was something to eat!
    Örülnék, ha lenne mit nézni a tévében. ― I would be glad if there were something to watch on TV.
    Van mire tenni a vázát? ― Is there anything to put the vase on?

##### Derived terms

* mialatt
* miáltal
* micsoda
* midőn
* mielőtt
* miféle
* mihaszna
* miképpen
* miközben
* mióta
* miszerint
* akármi
* ami
* bármi
* némi
* semmi
* valami
* mi újság? (pronoun/determiner)

##### See also

See the table of pronominal adverbs from case suffixes for more terms.

#### Determiner

mi (interrogative)
* (now only in certain set phrases) what?
    Synonyms: milyen, miféle
    mi okból? ― for what reason?
    mi célból? ― for what purpose/goal?
    mi végből/végre? ― to what end?
    mi módon? ― in what manner?
    mi fán terem? ― what kind of thing is it? (literally, “on what tree is it produced?”)

##### Derived terms

* mi járatban vagy?
* mi újság? (pronoun/determiner)

#### Interjection

mi
* (poetic) how …!, what (a) …!
    Synonyms: (poetic) mily, (normal) milyen, (normal, slightly colloquial) micsoda, (poetic and archaic) minő
    Mi gyönyörűség! ― What beauty!

#### See also

See the table of Hungarian correlatives for more terms.

### Etymology 3

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

#### Noun

mi (plural mik)
* mi (a syllable used in solfège to represent the third note of a major scale)
    Coordinate terms: dó, ré, fá, szó, lá, ti

##### Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.
or (as a means of distinction from the inflection of the interrogative pronoun)

### Further reading

* (we): mi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (what): mi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (mi [in music]): mi in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (Hungarian) An article on solfège with hand signs

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmi]
* Hyphenation: mi

### Etymology 1

From Malay mi (“noodle”), from Hokkien 麵 / 面 (mī, “noodle, flour”).

#### Noun

mi (plural mi-mi)
* (food) noodle

### Etymology 2

From Latin mīra, from the first word of the third line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn which solfège was based on because its lines started on each note of the scale successively.

#### Noun

mi (plural mi-mi)
* (music) mi, a syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.

### Further reading

* “mi” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Ingrian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
* Rhymes: -i
* Hyphenation: mi

### Pronoun

mi
* (rare) Alternative form of mikä
** 1937, N. A. Iljin, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (kolmas osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 25:„Katso, mi kumma seel ono?“ Hää hiljaa karhulle saoi.„Look, what kind of wonder is there?“ It quietly asked the bear.

#### Declension
### References

* Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 309

## Interlingua
### Determiner

mi
* (possessive) my

## Isebe
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Italian
### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* -mi (enclitic)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/$^°$
* Rhymes: -i
* Hyphenation: mi

#### Pronoun

mi (first person, objective case)
* clitic accusative of io. me
    Synonym: me (non-clitic)
    m'ha colpito ― he hit me
* clitic dative of io. (to) me
    Synonym: a me (non-clitic)
    dammelo ― give it to me
    dimmi tutto ― tell me anything
    mi piace ― I like it (literally, “it's pleasing to me”)
    non mi fai paura ― you don't scare me (literally, “you don't give fear to me”)
* (colloquial) Used as ethical dative.
    stammi bene! ― keep well!
    che mi combini? ― what are you doing?

##### Usage notes

* Becomes me when followed by a third person direct object clitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).

##### See also

| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Combined | Disjunctive | Locative | Partitive |
| Singular | first | — | io | mi, m', -mi | mi, m', -mi | mi, m', -mi | me | me | — | — |
| Singular | second | — | tu | ti, t', -ti | ti, t', -ti | ti, t', -ti | te | te | — | — |
| Singular | third | m | lui | si$^2$, s', -si | lo, l', -lo | gli, -gli | glie, se$^2$ | lui, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| Singular | third | f | lei, Lei$^1$ | si$^2$, s', -si | la, La$^1$, l', L'$^1$, -la, -La$^1$ | le$^3$, Le$^1$, -le$^3$, -Le$^1$ | glie, se$^2$ | lei, Lei$^1$, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| Plural | first | — | noi | ci, c', -ci | ci, c', -ci | ci, c', -ci | ce | noi | — | — |
| Plural | second | — | voi, Voi$^4$ | vi, Vi$^4$, v', V'$^4$, -vi, -Vi$^4$ | vi, Vi$^4$, v', V'$^4$, -vi, -Vi$^4$ | vi, Vi$^4$, v', V'$^4$, -vi, -Vi$^4$ | ve | voi, Voi$^4$ | — | — |
| Plural | third | m | loro, Loro$^1$ | si, s', -si | li, Li$^1$, -li, -Li$^1$ | gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro$^1$ | glie, se | loro, Loro$^1$, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| Plural | third | f | loro, Loro$^1$ | si, s', -si | le, Le$^1$, -le, -Le$^1$ | gli, -gli, loro (formal), Loro$^1$ | glie, se | loro, Loro$^1$, sé | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) | ne, n' |
| $^1$ | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (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. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (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. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (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. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (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. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (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. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (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. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (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. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (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. | Third person pronominal forms used as formal terms of address to refer to second person subjects (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. |
| $^2$ | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. |
| $^3$ | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. | Often replaced by gli, -gli in informal language. |
| $^4$ | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). | Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous). |

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi/$^°$, (traditional) /ˈmi/$^*$
* Rhymes: -i
* Hyphenation: mì

#### Noun

mi
* (music) the third note, mi
* E (musical note or key)

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi/$^*$, $^*$/ˈmi/$^*$
* Rhymes: -i
* Hyphenation: mì

#### Noun

mi m or f (invariable)
* mu (Greek letter)

### References

* 1 2 3 4 5 mi in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Anagrams

* im-

## Jamaican Creole
### Alternative forms

* me

### Etymology

From English me.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɪ/
* Hyphenation: mi

### Pronoun

mi
* I
    Mi born a Westmoreland.I was born in Westmoreland.
** 2020, Carolyn Cooper, “Junjo inna di judge wig”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎ (in Jamaican Creole):“Mi nearly dead wid laugh wen mi read wa Fieldgar post pon Gleaner website bout mi column, "Hair Policy Infested With Racism". […] ”I nearly died of laughter when I read what Fieldgar posted about my column on Gleaner's website, "Hair Policy Infested with Racism" […]
* me
    Yuh can see mi?Can you see me?
** 2019, “Hello Mi Neighbour - Reduce your speed on the roads”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎ (in English):“Si dat now! If yuh did only listen to mi!” […] ”Shucks! If only you had listened to me […]
* my
    A mi suitcase dat.That's my suitcase.
** 2020, Andre Williams, “PORK POT SAFE - Senior glad after receiving COVID compassionate grant”, in The Jamaica Gleaner‎ (in English):“Mi just done cook mi pork and mi rice and peas 'cause I didn't get to cook yesterday […] ”I've just finished cooking my pork and my Jamaican rice and peas because […]

#### Related terms

* yuh
* im
* har
* shi
* wi
* unnu
* dem

### Further reading

* Richard Allsopp, editor (1996), Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 377
* mi – jamaicans.com Jamaican Patois dictionary

## Japanese
### Romanization

mi
* The hiragana syllable み (mi) or the katakana syllable ミ (mi) in Hepburn romanization.

## Jarawa
### Etymology

Cognate to Önge mi (“I; me”). Not related to English.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* I; we (both singular and plural first-person pronoun, usually not as the object of the verb)

#### Usage notes

The pronoun mi can be used in both the nominative and accusative case, but it is less common than ma for the latter. When used in possessive constructions, the choice of pronoun is largely determined by vowel harmony.

#### See also

Jarawa pronouns :
| Person | Default form | Accusative form | Prefixed form |
| 1st | mi | ma | m- |
| 2nd | ŋi | ŋa | ŋ- |
| 2nd | ni | na | n- |
| 2nd | ən | | ən- |
| 3rd | hi, əhi | hiwa | h-, hi-, ih-, he-, əh- |
| 3rd | ən (for generic third-person) | | |

### References

* Kumar, Pramod (2012) Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa (PhD). Jawaharlal Nehru University. Page 76—85.

## Kabuverdianu
### Etymology

From Portuguese mim.

### Pronoun

mi
* I, me, my

## Kare (New Guinea)
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Karelian

Regional variants of mi :
| North Karelian (Viena) | mi |
| South Karelian (Tver) | mi |

### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi. Cognates include Veps mi and Finnish mi-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi/
* Hyphenation: mi

### Pronoun

mi
* (interrogative) what?
* (relative) whatever
* (indefinitve) whatever

#### Derived terms

* minih
* nimi

### References

* A. V. Punzhina (1994) “mi”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
* P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “mi”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

## Kari'na
### Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *mitɨ (“root”); compare Apalaí mity, Trió mitï, Trió mi, Wayana mit, Akawaio mi', Pemon mük, Ye'kwana michü.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mi]

### Noun

mi (possessed mity)
* root
* offshoot
* vein
* nerve bundle
* tendon, sinew

### References

* Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 317
* Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “mi”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 292; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎, Paris, 1956, page 286

## Laboya
### Pronoun

mi
* second person plural independent pronoun

#### See also
## Ladino
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Spanish mi (“my”), from Latin meus, when it was eliding before a vowel-initial word in speech.

#### Determiner

mi sg (first-person singular possessive singular, plural mis, Hebrew spelling מי)
* (before the noun) Apocopic form of mío, my
** (Can we date this quote?), Alicia Sisso Raz, “Unas membranzas de momentos pascuales”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎:En mi corassón están grabadas con muncho cariño unos recuerdos endiamantados de la pascua enca de mis padres, ya ḥasrá.Advantageous memories of my parents’ home Seder are kept so dearly in my heart; those were the days.

##### Usage notes

* The forms mi and mis are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of mío is used instead.
    Son mis livros. ― They are my books.
    Los livros son míos. ― The books are mine.
Besides being a pronoun, because mi occurs in a noun phrase and expresses reference, it also grammatically classifies as a determiner (specifically a possessive/genitive determiner).

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Spanish mi (“me”), from Latin mihi, dative of ego.

#### Pronoun

mi (Hebrew spelling מי)
* me (declined form of yo used as the object of a preposition)
    Hanuka linda sta aki; ocho kandelas para mi.Beautiful Hanukkah is here, so eight candles for me.

##### Alternative forms

* mí

#### References

* 1 2 “mi”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈmiː/, [ˈmiː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈmi/, [ˈmiː]

### Pronoun

mī
* vocative masculine singular of meus

### Pronoun

mī
* (poetic) Syncopated form of mihī̆, dative of egō
** c. 84 BCE – 54 BCE, Catullus, Carmina 5.7:Dā mī basia mille, deinde centum.Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred.

### References

* mi in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* mi in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* mi in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
* mi in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

## Ligurian
### Etymology

From Latin mē.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* I, me

### See also

* ti
* lê
* noî, niâtri
* voî, viâtri
* lô, liâtri

## Livvi
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi/
* Hyphenation: mi

### Pronoun

mi
* what?
* which?

### References

* Tatjana Boiko (2019) “mi”, in Suuri Karjal-Venʹalaine Sanakniigu (livvin murreh) [The Big Karelian-Russian dictionary (Livvi dialect)], 2nd edition, →ISBN

## Lolopo
### Etymology

From Proto-Loloish *ʔ-mre¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Burmese မြေ (mre).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mi³³]

### Noun

mi
* (Yao'an) ground, land, dirt

## Low German
### Alternative forms

* my (older orthography)
* mie
* mek, meck, mik, mick (Eastphalian)
* mui (Eastwestphalian)

### Etymology

From Middle Low German mî from Old Saxon mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* me (dative of ik)
* me (accusative of ik)

#### Usage notes

* Some Low German dialects in southern Westphalia differentiate between dative mi and accusative mik.

#### References

* ↑ Charles V. J. Russ (editor): The Dialects of Modern German: A Linguistic survey. First published in 1990, reprinted 2000, page 61, note (e): „[...] southern Westphalian dialects, alone of the Low German dialects, do distinguish acc. mik and dik from dat. mi and di.“
* ↑ Ein Sohn der rothen Erde (a son of the red earth): Niu lustert mol! Plattdeutsche Erzählungen und Anekdoten im Paderborner Dialekt. Celle, 1870, page 7: „Fürwörter. Die persönlichen lauten: ik, meyner, mey, mik; diu oder du, deyner, dey, dik [...]“. Translation: „Pronouns. The personal pronouns are: ik, (genitive) meyner, (dative) mey, (accusative) mik; diu or du, deyner, dey, dik [...])“

## Ludian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

### Pronoun

mi
* what

## Macanese
### Etymology

From Portuguese mim with denasalization.

### Pronoun

mi
* (archaic) prepositional form of iou: me
    Desde idade de doze ano ganhá pà unsong vesti; lavá ropa de sua pai, judá cô ancusa pà mi.From the age of twelve earned money to dress herself; washed her father's clothes helped with something for me.

#### Usage notes

* For the most part, Macanese does not have pronoun inflections (accusative, dative, etc.). The exception is mi, the prepositional form of iou, but even this is extremely rare in modern Macanese. pà mi in the above poem would be pa iou in modern Macanese.

### See also

# Dated.   * Rare.

### References

* https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm#f_ancusa
* https://comotavai.com/2012/02/02/pronomes-pessoais/

## Malay
### Etymology

From Hokkien 麵 / 面 (mī, “noodle, flour”).

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -i

### Noun

mi (Jawi spelling مي, informal 1st possessive miku, 2nd possessive mimu, 3rd possessive minya)
* noodle

### References

* Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “mi”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, page 139

### Further reading

* “mi” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Mandarin
### Romanization

mi
* Nonstandard spelling of mī.
* Nonstandard spelling of mí.
* Nonstandard spelling of mǐ.
* Nonstandard spelling of mì.

#### 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.

## Matepi
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Mawan
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Middle Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miː/, /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* accusative/dative of ic

#### Descendants

* Dutch: mij, me (muted)
** Afrikaans: my
** Jersey Dutch: māi
** Negerhollands: mi, mie
* Limburgish: mir

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* me, mie, my

### Etymology

An apocopic form of min, myn, from Old English mīn (“my, mine”), from Proto-Germanic *mīnaz (“my, mine”, pron.).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miː/
* (unstressed) IPA: /mi/

### Determiner

mi (nominative I)
* First-person singular genitive determiner: my.
** c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Joon 2:16, page 45r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:And he ſeide to hem þat ſelden culueris / take ȝe awei from hennes þeſe þingis .· ⁊ nyle ȝe make þe hous of my fadir an hows of marchaundiſeAnd he said to those who sold doves: "Take those things out of here; you won't make my father's house a place of business!"

#### Usage notes

mi is usually used before a consonant (other than h-), while min is usually used before a vowel or h-, much as with Modern English an vs a.

#### Related terms

* min

#### Descendants

* English: my
* Geordie English: my, maw
* Scots: my, ma, me
* Yola: mee

#### References

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

## Middle Low German
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miː/

### Pronoun

mî
* (first person singular dative) me
* (first person singular accusative) me

#### Declension

See Template:gml-perpron for declension.

#### Descendants

* Low German: my, mie, mui
** German Low German: mi
    Plautdietsch: mie

## Mosimo
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Munit
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Murupi
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Nadëb
### Etymology

Related to Dâw miʔ (“in (liquid)”).

### Noun

mi
* water

#### Synonyms

* naʔɤy

### References

* Language at Large: Essays on Syntax and Semantics (Aikhenvald, Dixon), citing Martins (1994)

## Nake
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Naxi
### Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej.

### Noun

mi
* fire

### References

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

## Nigerian Pidgin
### Etymology

From English me.

### Pronoun

mi
* I, me (first-person singular pronoun)

## North Frisian
### Pronoun

mi (Föhr-Amrum, Sylt)
* Object case of ik: me, myself

#### Alternative forms

* me (Mooring)

### See also

* The reduced forms with an apostrophe are enclitic; they immediately follow verbs or conjunctions. Dü is deleted altogether in such contexts.
* At is not enclitic; it can stand in any unstressed position and refers mostly to things. In reflexive use, only full object forms occur.
* Dual forms wat / onk and jat / jonk are obsolete, as is feminine jü / hör.
* Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.
* The forms üsens, jamens, hörens are used optionally (and decreasingly) when the possessor is a larger community, such as a village, city or nation.
* 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.
* The dual forms are dated, but not obsolete as in other dialects.
* Independent possessives are distinguished from attributive ones only with plural referents.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse mín.

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Determiner

mi
* feminine singular of min

### References

* “mi” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miː/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse mín f.

#### Determiner

mi f
* feminine singular of min

### Etymology 2

From Latin mīra, from the first word of the fourth line of Ut queant laxis, the medieval hymn on which solfège was based because its lines started on each note of the scale successively. Through Italian.

#### Noun

mi m (definite singular mi-en, indefinite plural mi-ar, definite plural mi-ane)
* (music) mi, a syllable used in solfège to represent the seventh note of a major scale.

##### Coordinate terms

* (scale of solfège): do, re, mi, fa, so (or sol), la, ti (or si), do

### References

* “mi” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

### Anagrams

* im

## Nzadi
### Pronoun

mǐ`
* I (first-person singular pronoun)

#### See also

| | singular | plural |
| 1st person | mǐ` | bǐ |
| 2nd person | yǎ` | byɛ̌n |
| 3rd person human | ndé | bɔ̌ |
| 3rd person nonhuman | nɔ̌ | mɔ̌ |

## Old Frisian
### Alternative forms

* mē

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

### Pronoun

mī
* accusative/dative of ik

#### Descendants

* North Frisian: me
* Saterland Frisian: mie
* West Frisian: my

## Old High German
### Pronoun

mi
* (northern) Alternative form of mir, dative singular of ih

## Old Saxon
### Alternative forms

* mik (for the accusative)

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *miz.

### Pronoun

mī
* dative/accusative of ik

#### Declension

See Template:osx-decl-ppron for more pronouns.

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: mi
** Low German: my, mie, mui
*** German Low German: mi
    Plautdietsch: mie

## Old Spanish
### Determiner

mi
* my

#### Alternative forms

* mio

## Önge
### Etymology

Cognate to Jarawa mi (“I; we”). Not related to English.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* I; me (singular first-person pronoun)

#### See also

Önge pronouns :
| Person | Independent singular | Independent plural | Prefixed singular | Prefixed plural |
| 1st | mi | eti | m- | et-, ot- |
| 2nd | ṅi | ni | ṅ- | n- |
| 3rd | gi | ekwi | g- | ek-, ok-, ekw- |
| 3rd | ëni (for generic third-person) | ëni (for generic third-person) | on-, ën- | on-, ën- |

### References

* D. Dasgupta, S. R. Sharma (1982) A Handbook of Onge Language, Anthropological Survey of India

## Palenquero
### Etymology

From Spanish mi.

### Adjective

mi
* my

#### Usage notes

Placed after the noun.

## Panim
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
* Panim Talking Dictionary

## Papiamentu
### Alternative forms

* ami (synonym)

### Etymology

From Portuguese mim and Spanish mi and Kabuverdianu mi.

### Pronoun

mi
* I, me, my.

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* I

## Pijin
### Etymology

From English me.

### Pronoun

mi
* I/me (first-person singular pronoun)
** 1988, Geoffrey Miles White, Bikfala faet: olketa Solomon Aelanda rimembarem Wol Wo Tu‎, page 41:Mi wande stori lebebet abaot tupela man blong America hemi foldaon long Baolo.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### See also
## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmi/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: mi

### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Alternative forms

* (stressed) mnie

#### Pronoun

mi
* dative singular mute of ja
    Daj mi rękę. ― Give me your hand.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mi n (indeclinable)
* Alternative form of my

### Further reading

* mi in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈmi/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈmi/
* Rhymes: -i
* Hyphenation: mi

### Etymology 1

From Latin mi(ra) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist.

#### Noun

mi m (plural mis)
* mi (musical note)

##### Coordinate terms

* (C major scale) escala de dó maior; dó, ré, mi, fá, sol, lá, si

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

mi
* Obsolete form of mim.

## Rapting
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Rempi
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Romanian
### Etymology

From Italian mi or French mi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Noun

mi m (plural mi)
* (music) mi, the note 'E'.

#### Declension
## Samosa
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Saruga
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Sassarese
### Alternative forms

* m' (apocopic)
* -mi, -mmi (enclitic)

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* (accusative) me
** 1866, chapter X, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎ (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, verse 38, page 37:E ca no piglia la so’ crozi, e mi sighi, no è dignu di me.And whoever doesn't take his own cross, and follow me, is not worthy of me.
** c. 19th century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 4, page 69:Nisciunu mi cunsola Nisciunu vibendi n’ha di me firizzaNo one consoles me. No one alive is proud of me.
** 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Femmina [Woman]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others], Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 21:Cand’eri giobanedda mi pugnì cument’e mura mura.When you were young, you used to prickle me like a blackberry
* (dative) to me, me
** 1866, chapter XVIII, in Giovanni Spano, transl., L'ebagneliu sigundu S. Matteju [The Gospel according to St. Matthew]‎ (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), London, translation of Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, verse 28, page 72:Isciddu però lu silvidori incuntresi un altru silvidori cumpagnu soju, chi li dibia zentu dinà: e affarrenddilu l’affogaba, dizendi: Pagami lu chi mi debi.Having gone out, however, the servant met another fellow servant, who owed him a hundred denarii; and, grabbing him, he choked him, saying: "Pay what you owe me".(literally, “Gone out however the servant met another servant fellow of his, who to him owed a hundred denarii: and grabbing him he choked him, saying: Pay me that which to me you owe.”)
** c. 19th century, anonymous author, “[untitled song]”, in Giovanni Spano, editor, Canti popolari in dialetto sassarese‎, volume 1 (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Cagliari, published 1873, song 15, page 89:Forsi mi dizarè Chi chiddu in lu so fà no ha uguali Nè forsi timarè Ch’ un altru possia fatti tantu mali Ma eju diggu cun dolu Chi tal’ omu in lu mondu no è solu.Maybe you'll tell me that he, in his actions, has no peers. And maybe you won't fear that someone else might hurt you so much. But I say, pained, that that man is not alone in the world.
** 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Bocca [Mouth]”, in La poesia di l'althri [The poetry of others] (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 25:O bocca di pizzinna, bocca bedda, chi mi dizì paràuri pruibiddi e chi basgèndimi eri cussì dozzi!Oh, young woman's lips, beautiful lips, that spoke forbidden words to me, and was so sweet in kissing me!(literally, “Oh, mouth of girl, beautiful mouth, who to me spoke forbidden words, and that kissing me was so sweet!”)
* Alternative form of me

#### Related terms

* me
* meggu
* méiu

### See also

* eu

### References

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

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish mé.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/, (accented) /mĩː/

### Pronoun

mi (emphatic mise)
* first-person singular pronoun; I, me

#### See also

$^1$ Used when following a verb ending in -n, -s or -dh. $^2$ sibh and sibhse also act as the polite singular pronouns. To mark a direct object of a verbal noun, the derivatives of gam are used.

### References

* ↑ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
* ↑ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
* ↑ Mac Gill-Fhinnein, Gordon (1966) Gàidhlig Uidhist a Deas, Dublin: Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath
* ↑ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mîː/

### Pronoun

mȋ (Cyrillic spelling ми̑)
* we (nominative plural of jȃ (“I”))
* we (vocative plural of jȃ (“I”))

#### Declension

See jȃ.

### Pronoun

mi (Cyrillic spelling ми)
* to me (clitic dative singular of jȃ (“I”))
* (emphatic, possessive, dative) my, of mine (clitic dative singular of jȃ (“I”))
    Gdje mi je auto?Where is my car?

## Seta
### Noun

mi
* water

### References

* transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

## Sihan
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Silopi
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Slovak
### Alternative forms

* mne

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mi]

### Pronoun

mi
* dative of ja

## Slovene
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *my.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /míː/

### Pronoun

mȋ
* we (masculine plural, more than two)

#### Inflection
### See also
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/ [mi]
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: mi

### Etymology 1

From Latin meus, when it was eliding before a vowel-initial word in speech.

#### Determiner

mi sg (first-person singular possessive singular, plural mis)
* (before the noun) Apocopic form of mío, my

##### Usage notes

* The forms mi and mis are only used before and within the noun phrase of the modified noun. In other positions, a form of mío is used instead.
    Son mis libros. ― They are my books.
    Los libros son míos. ― The books are mine.
Besides being a pronoun, because mi occurs in a noun phrase and expresses reference, it also grammatically classifies as a determiner (specifically a possessive/genitive determiner).

##### Related terms
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mi f (plural míes)
* mu; the Greek letter Μ, μ
    Synonym: mu

### Further reading

* “mi”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English me.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* I
* me
* my

## Sumerian
### Romanization

mi
* Romanization of 𒈪

## Tày
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmwɯjᴬ (“bear”). Cognate with Thai หมี (mǐi), Northern Thai ᩉ᩠ᨾᩦ, Lao ໝີ (mī), Lü ᦖᦲ (ṁii), Tai Dam ꪢꪲ, Shan မီ (mǐi), Ahom 𑜉𑜣 (mī), Zhuang mui, Nong Zhuang mue, Bouyei moil. Compare Old Chinese 羋 (*meʔ).

### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [mi˧˧]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [mi˦˥]

### Noun

mi (猸)
* bear

#### References

* Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội

## Ter Sami
### Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

### Pronoun

mi
* what

#### Further reading

* Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English me.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* I, me. First person pronoun; refers to the person speaking.

### See also

See Template:tpi-personal pronouns for more pronouns.

## Torres Strait Creole
### Etymology

From English me.

### Pronoun

mi
* me

### See also

* ai

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Particle

mi
* Used to form interrogatives.
    Bugün okula gittin mi?Did you go to school today?
    Evli misin?Are you married?

#### Usage notes

* Personal suffixes are added to the interrogative particles, as well as the past tense suffixes.
* This form is used when the last vowel of the previous word is "i" or "e". Other forms used with different vowels are: mu?, mü? and mı?

#### Inflection

See more at mı.

## Utu
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Veps
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

#### Pronoun

mi (genitive min, partitive midä)
* what (interrogative)

##### Derived terms

* mi-se
* koje-mi
* nimi

### Etymology 2

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

#### Conjunction

mi
* than (in comparisons)

##### Synonyms

* ku

### References

* Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “чем, что”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎, Petrozavodsk: Periodika

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [mi˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [mɪj˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [mɪj˧˧]
* (Vinh) IPA: [mi˧˥]

### Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from 眉 (“eyebrows”). Doublet of mày. Probably unrelated to mí (“eyelid”).

#### Noun

mi • (眉)
* eyelashes
    Synonym: lông mi

##### Related terms

* mày

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *miː, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *miiʔ. This is the native form in the Central dialects, Northern and Southern dialects borrowed this neutral pronoun with added hostile connotation, probably due to their native mày/mầy.

#### Alternative forms

* (Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) mày
* (originally Northern Vietnam, Southern Vietnam, now chiefly Nẫu) mầy

#### Pronoun

mi • (眉)
* (chiefly Central Vietnam, derogatory in other dialects) you (second person singular pronoun, referring to a peer or person held in low esteem)
* (literary) thou/thee (used against an adversary)

##### Related terms

* ta
* tau; tao

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from French mi or Italian mi.

#### Noun

mi
* (music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)
    đô, rê, mi ― do, re, mi

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

mi
* (slang) to kiss

##### Synonyms

* hôn; hun; thơm

### Anagrams

* im

## Walloon
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mi/

### Pronoun

mi
* me
* my

## Wamas
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Welsh
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /miː/
* Rhymes: -iː

### Pronoun

mi
* I, me
    Mae hen wlad fy nhadau yn annwyl i mi.The old land of my fathers is dear to me.
    Rhaid i mi fynd i weld Taid.I have to go and see Granddad.

#### Usage notes

Mi is typically heard only after the preposition i (“to, for”) in formal language and in northern colloquial language. In southern colloquial language the form fi is used after the preposition i.

#### See also

* fi (“I, me”)
* i (“I, me”)

### Particle

mi (triggers soft mutation on the following verb)
* (North Wales) used with inflected verbs to mark affirmative statements.
    Mi werthes i hanner dwsin.I sold half a dozen.

#### Usage notes

* This particle is optional and may only be used before inflected verbs in the preterite, future or conditional in affirmative statements, e.g. mi fydda i'n mynd (“I will go”).
* Some speakers may drop the particle but keep the resulting soft mutation, e.g. fydda i'n mynd (“I will go”) instead of bydda i'n mynd.

#### Synonyms

* fe (South Wales)
* y (literary)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Yoidik
### Noun

mi
* louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)

## Yoruba
### Pronunciation

* (high-tone): IPA: /mĩ́/
* (mid-tone): IPA: /mĩ̄/
* (low-tone): IPA: /mĩ̀/

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mí
* The name of the Latin-script letter M/m.

#### See also

* (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

mi
* me (first-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a high-tone monosyllabic verb)

#### Pronoun

mí
* me (first-person singular non-honorific object pronoun following a low- or mid-tone monosyllabic verb)

#### Determiner

mi
* my (first-person singular possessive pronoun)

#### See also
### Etymology 3
#### Verb

mí
* (intransitive) to breathe

##### Derived terms

* ìmí, mímí

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

mi
* (transitive) to shake

### Etymology 5

From an old Niger-Congo root, see Proto-Niger-Congo *-mi

#### Verb

mi
* (transitive) to swallow

##### Derived terms

* mímì

### Etymology 6
#### Verb

mì
* (intransitive) to move
* (intransitive) to oscillate

##### Derived terms

* ìmì, ìmìlẹ́gbẹ́

### Etymology 7
#### Pronoun

mi
* (Lagos) Alternative form of mo (“I”)

### Etymology 8

From mi used in solfège to represent the third note of a major scale.

#### Alternative forms

* (abbreviated): M, m

#### Noun

mí
* The syllable used to represent the high-tone and its diacritic (´)

#### See also

* dò
* re

## Zhuang
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʰmwuːjᴬ (“pubic hair”). Cognate with Thai หมอย (mɔ̌ɔi), Lao ໝອຍ (mǭi), Shan မွႆ (mǎui), Ahom 𑜉𑜨𑜩 (moy).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /mi˨˦/
* Tone numbers: mi$^1$
* Hyphenation: mi

### Noun

mi (1957–1982 spelling mi)
* pubic hair
    Synonym: (dialectal) moi

## Zou
### Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *mii, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *r-miy.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mî/
* Hyphenation: mi

### Noun

mì
* person, human being

### References

* Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 42

## Zulu
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronoun

-mi
* Combining stem of mina.

### Etymology 2

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

#### Verb

-mi$^?$
* to be standing

##### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “-mi”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “-mi”