me
Part of speech: pron
noun
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Cognate with Scots me, North Frisian me, Saterland Frisian mie, Dutch me, mij, Low German mi, German mir (dative only), Icelandic mér (also still dative), Latin mē, Ancient Greek μέ (mé), ἐμέ (emé), Sanskrit मा (mā), all meaning “me”.
Inflected forms:
form: mes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
pos: pron
tags: first-person
pronoun
singular
examples: Can you hear me?
He gave me this.
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.
gloss: The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
pos: pron
tags: archaic
first-person
pronoun
proscribed
singular
examples: And I awoke, and found me here.
gloss: The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
pos: pron
tags: colloquial
first-person
pronoun
proscribed
singular
examples: When I get to college, I'm gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.
gloss: The first-person singular, as the object (of a verb, preposition, etc).
pos: pron
tags: first-person
pronoun
singular
examples: Come with me.
gloss: Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
pos: pron
tags: first-person
pronoun
singular
examples: Who's there? —Me. (or:) It's only me.
Who did this? —Me. I did it. (or:) It was me. I did it.)
Who said that? —(It was) not me.
It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.
gloss: I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
pos: pron
tags: first-person
informal
nonstandard
often
pronoun
proscribed
singular
examples: Me and my friends played a game.
[It was] literally all me and my astrophysicist colleagues could talk about.
Stella and me have opted to take a course called ‘Autobiography and Fiction’.
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.”
gloss: I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
pos: pron
tags: first-person
nonstandard
pronoun
proscribed
singular
examples: 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.
Well he said me mustn’t eat ’nanas cause ’nanas would make me sick.
Whoa! That was about the coolest thing ever! Me gotta see that again.
gloss: I, the first-person singular, as the subject.
pos: pron
tags: first-person
nonstandard
pronoun
proscribed
singular
examples: “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.”
May opened the door, and a huge Indian walked into the room. “Me Bear Tracks,” he said. “Me hungry.”
gloss: The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.
pos: noun
examples: “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?”
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?
“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?”
Synonyms: I
my ass
us
my
mine
Related words: meseems
methinks
noli me tangere
Ime
myselfmemysen
mine
mymineme
we
us
ourselvesourselfoursen
oursourn
our
you
yourselfyoursen
yoursyourn
your
thou
thee
thyselftheeselfthysen
thine
thythine
youye
yourselves
you ally'all you guys yous
y'allselves
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
he
him
himselfhisselfhissen
hishisn
his
she
her
herselfhersen
hershern
ithit
itselfhitself
itshis
itshishits
they
them
themself
themselves
theirs
their
one
oneself
–
one's
themhem
'em
themselvestheirsen
theirstheirn
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
Derived words: about me
address me
address 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
choke-me
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
give me a break
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
me either
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
new year, new 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
trust me bro
try me
you had me at
Translations:
lang: American Sign Language
word: 1@Sternum-FingerBack
lang: Czech
word: já
lang: Danish
word: jeg
lang: Esperanto
word: mi
lang: Finnish
word: minä
lang: French
word: moi
lang: German
word: ich
lang: Icelandic
word: ég
lang: Latin
word: ego
lang: Macedonian
word: јас
roman: jas
lang: Norwegian
word: jeg
lang: Portuguese
word: eu
lang: Russian
word: я
roman: ja
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: mise
lang: Slovak
word: ja
lang: Spanish
word: yo
lang: Swedish
word: jag
lang: Armenian
word: ես
roman: es
lang: Danish
word: jeg
lang: Dutch
word: ik
lang: Esperanto
word: mi
lang: Finnish
word: minä
lang: Finnish
word: mä
lang: French
word: moi
lang: German
word: ich
lang: Latin
word: ego
lang: Macedonian
word: јас
roman: jas
lang: Norwegian
word: jeg
lang: Portuguese
word: eu
lang: Russian
word: я
roman: ja
lang: Slovak
word: ja
lang: Spanish
word: yo
lang: Swedish
word: jag