me
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: mē
ipa: /miː/
enpr: mē
ipa: /mi/
note: Northern England, Ottawa Valley
enpr: mĭ
ipa: /mɪ/
note: Northern England, Ottawa Valley
note: some accents
enpr: mā
ipa: /meɪ/
note: some accents
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -ɪ
homophone: Me
homophone: mee
homophone: may (some accents)
Etymology: From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative, supplanting accusative mec), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”).
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”).
Senses: examples: text: Can you hear me?
text: He gave me this.
text: 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.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 86:17, signature Fff, verso, column 2:
glosses: The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.
examples: text: And I awoke, and found me here.
ref: 1819, John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci:
glosses: The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
examples: text: When I get to college, I'm gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.
ref: 1993 April 23, Harper's Magazine:
glosses: The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
examples: text: Come with me.
glosses: The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
As the object of a preposition.
examples: text: Who said that? -(It was) not me.
text: It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.
ref: 2017, Theresa May, “Andrew Neil interviews Theresa May: full transcript”, in The Spectator, archived from the original on 22 May 2017:
glosses: As the complement of the copula (be).
examples: text: Who's there? —Me.
text: Who did this? —Me. I did it. (≈ It was me. I did it.)
glosses: Used for the pronoun in isolation or in apposition.
examples: text: Me and my friends played a game.
text: [It was] literally all me and my astrophysicist colleagues could talk about.
text: Stella and me have opted to take a course called ‘Autobiography and Fiction’.
text: An employee was recently discussing her weekend on our Monday Zoom call (we go around the Zoom and share what we did over the weekend). She said, “Me and her went to the movies on Saturday night." I couldn’t contain it. I immediately responded with “X and I went to the movies on Saturday night, me and her never do anything, me can’t.”
ref: 2025 June 14, Anna Holmes, “Wait, People Are Bringing Their Whole Family to Job Interviews?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
As the subject of a verb.
raw_tags: with a conjunction
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1844, Charles Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, volume II:
text: Well he said me mustn’t eat ’nanas cause ’nanas would make me sick.
ref: 1899 July 20, Mrs. A[lexander] J[effrey] McKelway [i.e., Lavinia Rutherford McKelway], “Children’s Department”, in A[lexander] J[effrey] McKelway, editor, Presbyterian Standard, volume XLI, number 28, Charlotte, N.C.: The Presbyterian Publishing Company, page 14, column 1:
text: Whoa! That was about the coolest thing ever! Me gotta see that again.
ref: 2005 October 10, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Teen Girl Squad Issue #10”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):
glosses: I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
As the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
raw_tags: not with a conjunction
examples: text: “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.”
ref: 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:
text: May opened the door, and a huge Indian walked into the room. “Me Bear Tracks,” he said. “Me hungry.”
ref: 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:
glosses: I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
Would be the subject of a copula in standard English, though the copula is omitted; used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
raw_tags: in apposition
Synonyms: sense: subject of a verb
word: I
sense: subject of a verb
word: my ass
sense: complement of the copula
word: I
word: us
sense: marking ownership
word: my
sense: marking ownership
word: mine
Derived terms: about me
after me the deluge
a little bird told me
arrest-me-red
arrest me red
arrest-me red
ask me anything
believe you me
cast-me-down
come-and-cuddle-me
come at me
date-me doc
dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians
don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining
don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining
don't tread on me
fellermelad
fight me
fixme
fool me once
for me
for me and not for thee
fuck me forewards
gracious me
hear me out
hit me
Jack-jump-up-and-kiss-me
kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate
let this cup pass from me
little old me
look-at-me
look at me
make me
marry me chicken
meet me at McDonald's
meet me at McDonald's haircut
me-firstism
meism
me-me generation
me-me-me generation
meness
meself
me-time
Mii
mini-me
put-me-up
readme
read-me file
rot me
silly me
stap me
stap me vitals
strike me blind
strike me lucky
strike me silly
sue me
that's all Greek to me
that's Greek to me
that's me told
that's news to me
thee and me
this is me
Tommy come tickle me
touch-me-not-ish
touch-me-not-ishness
try me
you had me at
Related terms: meseems
methinks
noli me tangere