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mi

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Translingual

Symbol

mi

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

English

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Pronunciation

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)

  1. (music) A syllable used in sol-fa (solfège) to represent the third note of a major scale.
Derived terms
Translations
See also

Etymology 2

Noun

mi

  1. Alternative form of mi. .

Anagrams

Ajië

Pronunciation

Verb

mi

  1. to come

References

Albanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *me-.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. my

See also

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *mūh-, from Proto-Indo-European *múHs (mouse).

Noun

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

  1. mouse
Declension
More information singular, plural ...
Declension of mi
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mi miu minj minjtë
accusative miun
dative miu miut minjve minjve
ablative minjsh
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See also

Ama

Pronunciation

Noun

mi

  1. bone

Amele

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Ampari Dogon

Noun

mi

  1. water

Further reading

Arikapú

Noun

mi

  1. water

Further reading

Aromanian

Etymology

From Latin me.

Pronoun

mi (unstressed accusative and reflexive form of io)

  1. me (accusative)
  2. (reflexive pronoun) myself
    Mi-ashedz.
    I sit (seat myself).

Bagupi

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Baimak

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Bau

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Bavarian

Etymology

Cognate with German mich.

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (accusative)

See also

More information nominative, accusative ...
Bavarian personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative
stressed unstressed stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
1st person singular i mi mia (mir) ma
2nd person singular informal du di dia (dir) da
formal Sie Eahna Eahna
3rd person singular m er a eahm 'n eahm 'n
n es, des 's des 's
f se, de 's se 's ihr
1st person plural mia (mir) ma uns uns
2nd person plural , ihr enk, eich enk, eich
3rd person plural se 's eahna eahna
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Berti

Noun

mi

  1. 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

Pronoun

mi (Basahan spelling ᜋᜒ)

  1. by us, of us
    Synonym: niyato
  2. 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(key): /ˈmi/
  • Hyphenation: mi

Pronoun

mi

  1. 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

More information singular, dual ...
Bislama personal pronouns
singular dual trial plural
1st person exclusive mi mitufala mitrifala mifala
inclusive yumitu, yumitufala yumitrifala yumi
2nd person yu yutufala yutrifala yufala
3rd person neutral hem, em tufala trifala ol1, olgeta
collective2 tugeta trigeta
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1 Used only as an object of a preposition or a verb.
2 The collective pronouns specify that the action is performed by all subjects together, rather than on their own.
Some speakers may not distinguish various plurality categories, using only one or two plural pronouns.

References

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

Bourguignon

Etymology

From Latin medius.

Noun

mi m (mis)

  1. noon, midday
    El ât mi, noutre ovreire é dressai lai sope
    It's noon, our worker has prepared the soup

Synonyms

References

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

Buginese

Particle

mi

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

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Latin .

Pronoun

mi

  1. me; post preposition form of jo
Declension

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

Etymology 2

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

  1. (music) mi (third note of diatonic scale)

Etymology 3

Noun

mi f (plural mis)

  1. mu; the Greek alphabet letter Μ (lowercase μ)

Etymology 4

Verb

mi

  1. (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

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

Etymology

From Middle High German mīn.

Pronunciation

Determiner

mi (masculine menge or minge, feminine and plural meng or ming)

  1. (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

  1. (transitive, copulative) to be (precedes the adjective or adverb)

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin me.

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (both direct and indirect subject)

See also

More information nominative, dative ...
Corsican personal pronouns
nominative dative accusative disjunctive
singular 1st person eiu mi
2nd person ti
3rd person m ellu li u, l' ellu
f ella a, l' ella
plural 1st person noi ci noi
2nd person voi vi voi
3rd person m elli li i, l' elli
f elle e, l' elle
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References

Czech

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. clitic dative of

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin meus.

Pronoun

mi m (feminine maja)

  1. mine; first-person masculine singular possessive pronoun
  2. my

See also

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

mi f (plural mi's)

  1. (music) mi

Egyptian

Romanization

mi

  1. Manuel de Codage transliteration of mj.

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mi (first-person singular nominative, accusative min, possessive mia)

  1. 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

More information singular, plural ...
Esperanto personal pronouns
singular plural
nominative accusative possessive nominative accusative possessive
first person  mi  min  mia  ni  nin  nia
second
person
formal  vi  vin  via  vi  vin  via
familiar1  ci  cin  cia
third
person
masculine  li  lin  lia
feminine  ŝi  ŝin  ŝia
neuter  ĝi  ĝin  ĝia
gender-neutral2  ri
ŝli
 rin
ŝlin
 ria
ŝlia
reflexive  si  sin  sia  si  sin  sia
indefinite  oni  onin  onia  oni  onin  onia
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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

Pronoun

mi

  1. you (plural)

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mi, from Latin mihi.

Pronoun

mi

  1. First person singular prepositional pronoun; me

See also

More information nominative, dative ...
Fala personal pronouns
nominative dative accusative disjunctive
singular first person ei me, -mi mi
second person te, -ti ti
third
person
m el le, -li uLV, oM el
f ela a ela
plural first
person
common nos musL
nusLV
nos, -nusM
nos
m noshotrusM noshotrusM
f noshotrasM noshotrasM
second
person
common vos vusLV
vos, -vusM
vos
m voshotrusM voshotrusM
f voshotrasM voshotrasM
third
person
m elis le, -li usLV, osM elis
f elas as elas
third person reflexive se, -si
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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(key): /ˈmi/, [ˈmi]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation(key): mi

Pronoun

mi (poetic)

  1. Alternative form of mikä (what) (especially as a relative pronoun)

Declension

More information noun case, singular ...
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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

Noun

mi m (plural mi)

  1. (music) mi, the note 'E'

Descendants

  • Persian: می (mi)

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

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

Pronoun

mi (first person direct object, indirect object)

  1. (direct object) me
  2. (indirect object) to me
  3. (reflexive pronoun) myself

Fula

Pronoun

mi

  1. 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

Pronoun

mi

  1. I, me (first-person pronoun; refers to the person speaking)

Gal

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Galician

Etymology 1

From Latin meus.

Pronunciation

Determiner

mi (first-person singular possessive singular)

  1. (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

Noun

mi m (plural mis)

  1. (music) mi (musical note)
  2. (music) E (the musical note or key)

See also

musical solfège notes: notas musicaisedit

References

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

mi

  1. (botany) rice plant
  2. rice

Garus

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Gaulish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *.

Pronoun

  1. I; first-person singular personal pronoun, nominative case

Inflection

More information Number, Singular ...
NumberSingularPlural
Nominativesnīs
Accusativemesnīs
Genitivemonansron
Dativemoiamē
Ablativemeame
Instrumentalmoi?
Locativemoiamē
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Girawa

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Guerrero Amuzgo

Verb

mi

  1. have

Noun

mi

  1. cat

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese mim.

Pronoun

mi

  1. I (first person singular)
  2. me
  3. my

Gumalu

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Gun

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Pronoun

  1. we (first-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Pronoun

  1. you (second-person plural personal pronoun)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. me (first-person singular personal object pronoun)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Pronoun

  1. us (first-person plural personal object pronoun)

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

Pronoun

  1. you (second-person plural personal object pronoun)

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From French mûr.

Adjective

mi

  1. ripe, mature

Etymology 2

From French mur.

Noun

mi

  1. wall
Synonyms

References

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

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Uralic *me.

Pronoun

mi

  1. (personal) we
Declension
More information nominative, accusative ...
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
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Alternative forms
Derived terms

Note: In all these forms, mi is optional and only serves for emphasis.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Uralic *mi.

Pronoun

mi

  1. (interrogative) what?
    Mi van a kezedben?What is in your hand?
  2. (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?
Declension
More information Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony), singular ...
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More information Possessive forms of, possessor ...
Possessive forms of mi
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mim mijeim
2nd person sing. mid mijeid
3rd person sing. mije mijei
1st person plural mink mijeink
2nd person plural mitek mijeitek
3rd person plural mijük mijeik
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Derived terms
Compound words with this term at the end
Expressions
See also

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

Determiner

mi (interrogative)

  1. (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
Expressions

Interjection

mi

  1. (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)

  1. mi (a syllable used in solfège to represent the third note of a major scale)
    Coordinate terms: , , , szó, , ti
Declension

Its inflected forms are uncommon.

More information singular, plural ...
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More information Possessive forms of, possessor ...
Possessive forms of mi
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mim mijeim
2nd person sing. mid mijeid
3rd person sing. mije mijei
1st person plural mink mijeink
2nd person plural mitek mijeitek
3rd person plural mijük mijeik
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or (as a means of distinction from the inflection of the interrogative pronoun)

More information singular, plural ...
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative mi mi-k
accusative mi-t mi-ket
dative mi-nek mi-knek
instrumental mi-vel mi-kkel
causal-final mi-ért mi-kért
translative mi-vé mi-kké
terminative mi-ig mi-kig
essive-formal mi-ként mi-kként
essive-modal mi-ül
inessive mi-ben mi-kben
superessive mi-n mi-ken
adessive mi-nél mi-knél
illative mi-be mi-kbe
sublative mi-re mi-kre
allative mi-hez mi-khez
elative mi-ből mi-kből
delative mi-ről mi-kről
ablative mi-től mi-ktől
non-attributive
possessive singular
mi-é mi-ké
non-attributive
possessive plural
mi-éi mi-kéi
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More information possessor, single possession ...
Possessive forms of mi
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. mi-m mi-jeim(or mi-im)
2nd person sing. mi-d mi-jeid(or mi-id)
3rd person sing. mi-je mi-jei(or mi-i)
1st person plural mi-nk mi-jeink(or mi-ink)
2nd person plural mi-tek mi-jeitek(or mi-itek)
3rd person plural mi-jük mi-jeik(or mi-ik)
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Further reading

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Malay mi (noodle), from Hokkien  / (, noodle, flour).

Noun

mi (plural mi-mi)

  1. (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)

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

Further reading

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mi.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mi

  1. (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

More information Declension of : see mikä ...
Declension of mi: see mikä
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References

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

Interlingua

Determiner

mi

  1. (possessive) my

Isebe

Noun

mi

  1. louse

Further reading

Italian

Jamaican Creole

Japanese

Jarawa

Kabuverdianu

Kare (New Guinea)

Karelian

Kari'na

Laboya

Ladino

Latin

Ligurian

Livvi

Lolopo

Low German

Ludian

Macanese

Malay

Mandarin

Matepi

Mawan

Middle Dutch

Middle English

Middle Low German

Mosimo

Munit

Murupi

Nadëb

Nake

Naxi

Nigerian Pidgin

North Frisian

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Old Frisian

Old High German

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Önge

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Panim

Papiamentu

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Rempi

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Seta

Sihan

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Torres Strait Creole

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