my

See also: Appendix:Variations of "my"

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Translingual

Etymology

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

Symbol

my

1. (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^(key): /maɪ/
  • (Canada, Dialectal) IPA^(key): /mʌɪ/, [məi̯]

  • Audio (US):

    (file)

• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /maɪ/, /mə/
  • (UK, Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): /mɪ/, /mi/
• (Ireland, Liverpool, some speakers) IPA^(key): /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

1. First-person singular possessive determiner. See Appendix:Possessive#English.
   1. Belonging to me.

      I can't find my book.

      • 2022 October 14, Justin Curto, “The 1975’s Matty Healy Prefers Writing Lyrics He’s Afraid Of”, in Vulture‎^[2], archived from the original on 18 October 2022:

        Everyone always asks what my advice is, and my advice is don’t overintellectualize your art.

   2. 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.

   3. 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,

   4. 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
• black as my hat
• blow my buttons
• cheers my dears
• did my back hurt your knife
• don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining
• don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining
• Draw My Life
• easy as kiss my hand
• elementary, my dear Watson
• flat as my hat
• forgive my French
• get out of my sight
• hippity hoppity get off my property
• hold my milk
• I don't boil my cabbage twice
• I don't chew my cabbage twice
• I'll go to the foot of my stairs
• it's all over my screen
• Jesus is my boyfriend
• kiss my balls
• meeple
• milady
• milord
• my arse
• my aunt
• my b
• my bad
• my brother in Christ
• my culture is not your costume
• my day
• my eye
• my eyeball
• my fellow Americans
• my foot
• my friend
• my giddy aunt
• my God
• my good man
• my goodness
• my gosh
• my guy
• my hat
• my heavens
• my lady's washbowl
• my land
• my learned friends
• my nabs
• my pleasure
• my point exactly
• my rear
• my sainted aunt
• my sainted uncle
• myselves
• my sibling in Christ
• myside bias
• my sides
• my sister in Christ
• my son
• my stars
• mystorical
• mystory
• mytacism
• 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
• not my Nigel
• oh my fucking God
• ohmygosh
• shiver my sides
• shiver my soul
• slap my ass and call me Susan
• smoke my pole
• so help my tater
• stap my vitals
• 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

Descendants

• → Japanese: マイ (mai-)

Translations

belonging to me

• Afrikaans: my (af)
• Ainu: クコㇿ
• Albanian: im (sq)
• Altai:

  Southern Altai: мениҥ (meniŋ)

• Alutor: гымнин (ɣəmnin)
• American Sign Language: FlatB@Chest-PalmBack
• Arabic: ـِي (ar) (-ī) (suffix, enclitic pronoun)

  Egyptian Arabic: ـي (-i) (after a consonant), ـيا (ya) (after a vowel)

• 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 Bikol: 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)
• Chichewa: -anga
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 我嘅 (yue) (ngo⁵ ge³), 我的 (yue) (ngo⁵ dik¹) (formal, written)

  Mandarin: 我的 (zh) (wǒ de)

• Chuvash: ман (man), манӑн (manăn)
• Comorian:

  Maore Comorian: -angu

• 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
• Frisian:

  North Frisian:

  Föhr: man m

  West Frisian: myn (fy)

• 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 Greek: ἐμός (emós), μου (mou) (genitive personal pronoun)

• Hawaiian: koʻu, kaʻu
• Hebrew: שֶׁלִּי (shelí)
• Hindi: मेरा (hi) (merā)
• Hmong:

  White Hmong: please add this translation if you can

• 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))
• Jeju: 나(이) (na(-i)), 내 (nae)
• Kabuverdianu: nha
• Kalmyk: мини (mini)
• Kazakh: менің (meniŋ)
• 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: 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)
• Māori: 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
• 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
• Réunion Creole French: mon
• 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

  Latin: moj

• Shor: меең
• Sicilian: meu (scn) m, mìu m
• Sinhalese: මගේ (magē)
• Slovak: môj (sk)
• Slovene: mój (sl)
• Slovincian: mój
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mój

• Spanish: mi (es), mis (es) m pl or f pl

  Old Spanish: mi

• Swahili: -angu (sw)
• 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
• Tooro: -ange
• Turkish: benim (tr)
• Turkmen: meniň
• Udmurt: мынам (mynam)
• Ukrainian: мій (uk) (mij)
• Urdu: میرا (merā)
• Uzbek: mening (uz)
• Vietnamese: của tôi, tôi (vi) (usually post-position)
• Volapük: obik (vo)
• Welsh: fy
• Woiwurrung: ik (suffix)
• Yagara: ariba
• Yao (Africa): -angu
• Yiddish: מײַן (mayn)
• Yoruba: mi
• Yup'ik: -qa/ka (sg), -gka (dual), -nka (pl.)
• Zhuang: duh gou
• Zulu: possessive concord + -mi

See also

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics. personal pronoun possessive pronoun possessive determiner subjective objective reflexive first person singular I me (colloquial) me myself me mysen mine my mine (before vowels, archaic) me plural we us ourselves ourself oursen ours ourn (obsolete outside dialects) our second person singular standard (historically formal) you you yourself yoursen yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) your archaic (historically informal) thou thee thyself theeself thysen thine thy thine (before vowels) plural standard you ye (archaic) you yourselves yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) your colloquial you all y'all you guys yous you all y'all you guys yous y'allselves all yours y'all's you guys' your guys' all your y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' informal / dialectal (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) third person singular masculine he him himself hisself (archaic) hissen his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) his feminine she her herself hersen hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) her neuter it hit it hit itself hitself its his (archaic) its his (archaic) hits genderless1 they them themself, themselves theirs their nonspecific (formal) one one oneself – one's plural they them hem, 'em themselves theirsen theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) their 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronouns.

Etymology 2

An abbreviation of an oath such as my word or my God.

Interjection

my

1. Used to express surprise, shock or amazement.

   My, what big teeth you have!

   My, you’re a pretty one!

Derived terms

• my my

Translations

interjection)

• Japanese: まあ (ja) f (maa)

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məi/

Etymology 1

From Dutch mij.

Pronoun

my (subject ek)

1. me (object)

Alternative forms

• mij (obsolete)
• mijn (obsolete, rare)

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

			subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st		ek	my		myne
	2nd		jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal		u			u s’n
	3rd	masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
		fem	sy	haar		hare
		neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st		ons			ons s’n
	2nd		julle / jul1			julle s’n
	3rd		hulle / hul1			hulle s’n

¹ The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

Etymology 2

From Dutch mijn.

Determiner

my

1. my; of me

Alternative forms

• mij (obsolete)
• mijn (obsolete)

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

			subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st		ek	my		myne
	2nd		jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal		u			u s’n
	3rd	masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
		fem	sy	haar		hare
		neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st		ons			ons s’n
	2nd		julle / jul1			julle s’n
	3rd		hulle / hul1			hulle s’n

¹ The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

Cameroon Pidgin

Alternative forms

• ma

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma/

Determiner

my

1. 1st person singular possessive determiner

See also

Cameroon Pidgin possessive determiners

		singular	plural
1st person		my	we
2nd person		your	wuna
3rd person		yi	dia

Chinese Pidgin English

Etymology

From English my.

Pronoun

my

1. 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)

2. me (object pronoun)

   Synonym: me

3. my (possessive pronoun)

Cornish

Alternative forms

• me (Revived Late Cornish)

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *mi, from Proto-Celtic *mī. Cognate with Breton me, Irish mé, Manx mee, Scottish Gaelic mi, and Welsh mi.

Pronoun

my

1. I, me

   My a welas.

   I saw.

See also

Cornish personal pronouns

number	person		independent (subject)	suffixed			infixed	possessive (dependent)
				enclitic	emphatic	reduced
singular	first		my	vy	evy	ma, a	'm	owA
	second		ty	jy, sy1	tejy	ta, a	'thM	dhaS
	third2	m	ev	ev	eev	va, a	'n	yS
		f	hi	hi	hyhi	—	's	hyA
plural	first		ni	ni	nyni		'gan, 'n	agan, 'gan
	second3		hwi	hwi	hwyhwi		'gas, 's	agas, 'gas
	third		i	i	ynsi		's	agaA, 'gaA

¹ Uncommon.
² hun and ins have been suggested as non-binary 3rd person singular pronouns, though these have not yet officially adopted.
³ Infrequently used as a formal alternative to the singular.

^S Triggers soft mutation ^A Triggers aspirate mutation ^M Triggers mixed mutation

Mutation

Mutation of my

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
my	vy	unchanged	unchanged	fy, vy*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Czech

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪ]

• Audio:

  (file)

Pronoun

my

1. we

Declension

Declension of my (pl-only animate pronoun)

	plural
nominative	my
genitive	nás
dative	nám
accusative	nás
vocative	—
locative	nás
instrumental	námi, náma1

¹When referring to dual nouns, e.g. oči, ruce.

Related terms

Czech personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		já	my
2nd person	familiar	ty	vy
	polite	vy
3rd person	m	on	oni1
	f	ona	ony
	n	ono	ona
reflexive		sebe, se (clitic)

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), 2008–2026

Danish

Noun

my n (singular definite myet, plural indefinite myer)

1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

Declension

Declension of my

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	my	myet	myer	myerne
genitive	mys	myets	myers	myernes

Noun

my c

1. micron
2. (informal) a very small margin, distance or amount

Synonyms

• mikrometer
• mikron

References

• “my” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛi̯
• Homophone: mei

Pronoun

my

1. 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^(key): /miː/
  • Conventional anglicization: my

Adverb

1. likewise
2. 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

1. we

Declension

Declension of the first-person pronouns

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ja	mej	my
genitive	mě (after preposition) mnjo	naju	nas
dative	mě (after preposition) mnjo	nama	nam
accusative	mě (after preposition) mnjo	naju	nas
instrumental	mnu	nama	nami
locative	mnjo	nama	nas
possessive determiner	mój	naju	naš

Manx

Etymology 1

From Old Irish má, from Proto-Celtic *mā, *ma (compare Cornish and Breton mar), see there for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/, /ma/

Conjunction

my

1. if

Usage notes

Counterfactual conditional questions take dy.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Irish mo (“my”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mə/

Determiner

my (triggers lenition)

1. my

Middle English

Determiner

my (subjective pronoun I)

1. alternative form of mi

Old Czech

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *n̥smés

Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes

Proto-Slavic *my

Old Czech my

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *my.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈmɨ/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈmi/

Pronoun

my

1. we (first person plural)

Declension

Old Czech personal pronouns

Singular	1st person	2nd person	3rd person			Reflexive
			m	f	n
Nominative	já(z)	ty	on	ona	ono	—
Genitive	mne, mě	tebe, tě	j(e)ho, ň(e)ho	jie, nie	j(e)ho, ň(e)ho	sebe, sě
Dative	mně, mi	tobě, ti	j(e)mu, ňemu	jí, ní, jiej, niej	j(e)mu, ňemu	sobě, si
Accusative	mě, mne	tě, tebe	jej, jen, ji, j(e)ho, -ň, ňej, ňen, ni, ň(e)ho	ju, ňu	je, ňe	sě, sebe
Locative	mně	tobě	ňem	ní, niej	ňem	sobě
Instrumental	mnú	tobú, tebú	jím, ním	jú, ňú	jím, ním	sobú, sebú
Possessive	mój	tvój	jeho	(je)jie	jeho	svój
Dual	1st person	2nd person	3rd person			Reflexive
			m	f	n
Nominative	vě, va (ma)	vy	ona	oně		—
Genitive	najú	vajú	jú, ňú			sebe, sě
Dative	náma	váma	jima, nima			sobě, si
Accusative	ny, najú	vy, vajú	jě, ně	ji, ni		sě, sebe
Locative	najú	vajú	ňú			sobě
Instrumental	náma	váma	jima, nima			sobú, sebú
Possessive	náš, najú	váš, vajú	(je)jú			svój
Plural	1st person	2nd person	3rd person			Reflexive
			m	f	n
Nominative	my	vy	oni	ony	ona	—
Genitive	nás	vás	jich, nich			sebe, sě
Dative	nám, nem	vám, vem	jim, nim			sobě, si
Accusative	ny, nás	vy, vás	jě, ně			sě, sebe
Locative	nás	vás	nich			sobě
Instrumental	námi	vámi	jimi, nimi			sobú, sebú
Possessive	náš	váš	(je)jich			svój

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *n̥smés

Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes

Proto-Slavic *my

Old Polish my

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /mi/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /mi/

Pronoun

my

1. we; first person plural
2. we; I royal first person plural

Declension

Declension of my

	plural	dual
nominative	my	wa
genitive	nas	naju
dative	nam	nama
accusative	nas	wa
instrumental	nami	nama
locative	nas	naju

Descendants

• Polish: my
• Silesian: my

References

• Bożena Sieradzka-Baziur, et al., editors (2011–2015), “my, ny (?)”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɘ/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /mɨ/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -ɘ
• Syllabification: my

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *n̥smés

Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes

Proto-Slavic *my

Old Polish my

Polish my

Inherited from Old Polish my.

Pronoun

my

1. we; first person plural
2. we; I royal first person plural
3. we; I editorial first person plural

Declension

Declension of my

	plural
nominative	my
genitive	nas
dative	nam
accusative	nas
instrumental	nami
locative	nas
vocative	—

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Afroasiatic *maʔ-

Proto-Semitic *may-

Phoenician 𐤌‬𐤌 (m‬m‬)bor.

Ancient Greek μῦ (mû)lbor.

Polish my

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek μῦ (mû).

Alternative forms

• mi

Noun

my n (indeclinable)

1. 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.

Further reading

• “my”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “my”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, et al., editors (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], 22 June 2021
• 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

1. 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

1. my

   Synonym: mine

See also

Scots personal pronouns

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

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *n̥smés

Proto-Balto-Slavic *mes

Proto-Slavic *my

Old Polish my

Silesian my

Inherited from Old Polish my.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɪ
• Syllabification: my

Pronoun

my

1. first-person plural pronoun; we

   Coordinate term: (singular) jŏ

Declension

Declension of my

	plural
nominative	my
genitive	nŏs, nas
dative	nōm, nam
accusative	nŏs, nas
instrumental	nami
locative	nŏs, nas

Further reading

• my in silling.org

Slovak

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mi/, [ˈmi]
• Rhymes: -i

• Audio (Bratislava):

  (file)

Pronoun

my

1. we

Declension

Declension of my

	plurale tantum
nominative	my
genitive	nás
dative	nám
accusative	nás
locative	nás
instrumental	nami

Related terms

Slovak personal pronouns

		substantive		possessive
		singular	plural	singular	plural
1st person		ja	my	môj	náš
2nd person	familiar	ty	vy	tvoj	váš
	polite	vy		váš
3rd person	m	on	oni* / ony	jeho	ich
	f	ona		jej
	n	ono		jeho
reflexive		seba, sa (clitic)		svoj

* 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, 2003–2026

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmyː/
• Rhymes: -yː

Noun

my n

1. The Greek letter μ (mu)

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

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

Pronoun

my

1. we

Declension

Upper Sorbian personal pronouns

First person pronouns
	singular			dual		plural
nominative	ja			mój		my
genitive	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
dative	mi (after preposition) mni			namaj		nam
accusative	mje (after preposition) mnje			naju		nas
instrumental	mnu			namaj		nami
locative	mni					nas
Second person pronouns
	singular			dual		plural
nominative	ty			wój		wy
genitive	će (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
dative	ći (after preposition) tebi			wamaj		wam
accusative	će (after preposition) tebje			waju		was
instrumental	tobu			wamaj		wami
locative	tebi					was
Third person pronouns
	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	dual virile	dual nonvirile	plural virile	plural nonvirile
nominative	wón	wona	wono	wonaj	wonej	woni	wone
genitive	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeje (after preposition) njeje	jeho (after preposition) njeho	jeju		jich (after preposition) nich
dative	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jej (after preposition) njej	jemu (after preposition) njemu	jimaj (after preposition) nimaj		jim (after preposition) nim
accusative	jón (after preposition) njón (animate) jeho (animate after preposition) njeho	ju (after preposition) nju	jo, je (after preposition) njo, nje	jeju (after preposition) njeju	jej (after preposition) njej	jich (after preposition) nich	je (after preposition) nje
instrumental	nim	njej	nim	nimaj		nimi
locative						nich

Further reading

• “my” in Soblex

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /mɛi̯/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /mi/

Pronoun

my

1. object of ik