my

See also:Appendix:Variations of "my"

Translingual

Etymology

AbbreviationofEnglishMyanmar,formerlyBurma,whereBurmeseis spoken.

Symbol

my

1. (international standards)ISO 639-1language codeforBurmese.

English

Alternative forms

• ma,mah,me,muh,I's

Pronunciation

• (stressed)enPR:mīIPA^(key):/maɪ/

  • Audio(US):

    (file)

• (unstressed)IPA^(key):/maɪ/,/mə/
  • (unstressed,UK)IPA^(key):/mɪ/,/mi/
• (Ireland,Scouse,some speakers)IPA^(key):/mi/
• Homophones:muh,me(some dialects)
• Rhymes:-aɪ

Etymology 1

FromMiddle Englishmi,my,apocopated form ofmin,myn,fromOld Englishmīn(“my, mine”),fromProto-West Germanic*mīn,fromProto-Germanic*mīnaz(“my, mine”,pron.)(possessive of*ek(“I”)), fromProto-Indo-European*méynos(“my; mine”).

Cognate withWest Frisianmyn(“my”),Afrikaansmy(“my”),Dutchmijn(“my”),Germanmein(“my”),Swedishmin(“my”).More atme.

Determiner

my

1. First-person singular possessive determiner. SeeAppendix:Possessive#English.
   1. Belonging tome.

      I can't findmybook.

   2. Associated withme.

      Myseat at the restaurant was uncomfortable.

      Don't you knowmyname?

      I recognised him because he had attendedmyschool.

   3. Related to me.

      Myparents won't let me go out tonight.

      • 1671,John Milton,“The First Book”, inParadise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes,London:[…]J[ohn]M[acock]for John Starkey[…],→OCLC,page10,lines165-166:

        From what conſummate vertue I have choſe / This perfect Man, by merit call'dmySon,

   4. In the possession of me.

      I have to takemybooks back to the library soon.

Derived terms

• ain't no shame in my game
• cheers my dears
• did my back hurt your knife
• I don't boil my cabbage twice
• I don't chew my cabbage twice
• kiss my balls
• my arse
• my b
• my bad
• my brother in Christ
• my eye
• my eyeball
• my fellow Americans
• my foot
• my friend
• my giddy aunt
• my God
• my goodness
• my gosh
• my guy
• my lady's washbowl
• my land
• my people yearn for freedom
• my pleasure
• my point exactly
• my rear
• my sainted aunt
• my sainted uncle
• my sides
• my sister in Christ
• my son
• my stars
• 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
• shiver my sides
• shiver my soul
• so help my tater
• 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
• whoops, there go my trousers

Related terms

• mine

Translations

belonging to me

• Afrikaans:my(af)
• Albanian:im(sq)
• Alutor:гымнин(ɣəmnin)
• American Sign Language:FlatB@Chest-PalmBack
• Arabic:ـِي(ar)(-ī)(suffix, enclitic pronoun)

  Egyptian Arabic:ـي(-i),ـيا(ya)

• Armenian:իմ(hy)(im)
• Aromanian:njeum,meum,njaf,meaf
• 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: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)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese:Ngã khái(ngo⁵ge³),Ngã đích(ngo⁵dik¹)(formal, written)

  Mandarin:Ngã đích(zh)(wǒ de)

• Coptic:ⲡⲁm(pa),ⲧⲁf(ta),ⲛⲁmplorfpl(na)
• Cornish:ow
• Crimean Tatar:menim
• Czech:můj(cs)m
• Danish:min(da)c
• Dutch:mijn(nl)
• Dzongkha:ངའི(nga'i)
• Egyptian:(.jm),(.jf),(.jmorf)
• 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
• Friulian:gnom
• Fula:am
• Galician:meu(gl)m,miña(gl)f,mi(gl)morf(honorific)
• Georgian:ჩემი(čemi)
• German:mein(de)m
• Greek:μου(el)(mou)

  Ancient:ἐμός(emós),μου(mou)(genitive personal pronoun)

• Hawaiian:koʻu,kaʻu
• Hebrew:שֶׁלִּי(shelí)
• Hindi:मेरा(hi)(merā)
• 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:meîom,miom
• Italian:mio(it)m
• Japanese:Tư の(ja)(わたしの, watashi no),(male speaker)Phó の(ja)(ぼくの, boku no),Ngã が(ja)(わが, waga)(also written:Ngã(ja))
• Kabuverdianu:nha
• Kalmyk:мини(mini)
• Kazakh:менің(menıñ)
• Khmer:របស់​ខ្ញុំ(rɔbɑh kñom)
• Korean:나의(naui),내(ko)(nae),저의(ko)(jeoui),제(ko)(je)
• Kyrgyz:менин(ky)(menin)
• Lao:ຂອງຂ້ອຍ(khǭng khǭi)
• Latin:meus(la)m
• Latvian:mans
• Lithuanian:mano(lt)
• Louisiana Creole French:môm,mâf,mêpl
• Low German:min(nds)
• Lü:ᦃᦸᧂᦃᦾᧉ(ẋoangẋoay²)
• Macedonian:мој(moj)
• Malay:saya(ms)
• Malayalam:എന്റെ(ml)(enṟe)
• Maltese:tiegħi
• Manchu:ᠮᡳᠨᡳ(mini)
• Maore Comorian:-angu
• Maori:tākusg,ākupl(dominant),tōkusg,ōkupl(subordinate)
• Mazanderani:مه(me)
• Middle English:mi(before a consonant),min(before a vowel)
• Mirandese:mium
• Mongolian:миний(mn)(minii)
• Nahuatl:noca,no(nah)
• Navajo:shi-
• Nepali:मेरोm(mero)
• North Frisian:

  Föhr:manm

• 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
• Persian:ـم(-am)(suffix),من(fa)(... man)
• Pipil:nu-
• Pitjantjatjara:ngayuku
• Polish:mój(pl)m
• Portuguese:meu(pt)m,minha(pt)f,meus(pt)mpl,minhas(pt)fpl
• Quechua:(possessive suffix)-y
• Romani:mirrom,mirrif,mirrepl
• Romanian:meu(ro)m
• Russian:мой(ru)m(moj),моя́(ru)f(mojá),моё(ru)n(mojó),мои́(ru)pl(moí)
• Sanskrit:मम(sa)(mama)
• Sardinian:meum,mium

  Logudorese:meum

• Scots:ma
• Scottish Gaelic:mo
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic:мој

  Roman:moj

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

  Lower Sorbian:mój

• Southern Altai:мениҥ(meniŋ)
• Spanish:mi(es),mis(es)mplorfpl
• 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
• Turkish:benim(tr)
• Turkmen:meniň
• Ukrainian:мій(uk)(mij)
• Urdu:میرا(merā)
• Uzbek:mening(uz)
• Vietnamese:củatôi,tôi(vi)(usually post-position)
• Volapük:obik(vo)
• Welsh:fy
• West Frisian:myn(fy)
• White Hmong:please add this translation if you can
• Yagara:ariba
• Yiddish:מײַן(mayn)
• 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 initalics.

			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	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn(obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, 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	you all y'all you guys	y'allselves	y'all's you guys' your guys'(proscribed)	y'all's your all's(nonstandard) you guys' your guys'(proscribed)
		informal/dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms atyouand 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
		genderless	they	them	themself,themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem,'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn(obsolete outside dialects)	their

Etymology 2

An abbreviation of an oath such asmy wordormy Lord

Interjection

my

1. Used to expresssurprise,shockoramazement.

   My,what big teeth you have!

Derived terms

• my my

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/məi/

Etymology 1

FromDutchmij.

Pronoun

my(subjectek)

1. me(object)

Alternative forms

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

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessivedeterminer	possessivepronoun
singular	1st	ek	my		myne
	2nd	jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal	u			us’n
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
	3rd, fem	sy	haar		hare
	3rd, neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st	ons			onss’n
	2nd	julle/jul1			julles’n
	3rd	hulle/hul1			hulles’n
1. The formsjulandhulare unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

Etymology 2

FromDutchmijn.

Determiner

my

1. my;of me

Alternative forms

• mij(obsolete)
• mijn(obsolete)

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessivedeterminer	possessivepronoun
singular	1st	ek	my		myne
	2nd	jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal	u			us’n
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
	3rd, fem	sy	haar		hare
	3rd, neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st	ons			onss’n
	2nd	julle/jul1			julles’n
	3rd	hulle/hul1			hulles’n
1. The formsjulandhulare 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 singularpossessive determiner

See also

Cameroonian Pidgin possessive determiners

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

Chinese Pidgin English

Etymology

FromEnglishmy.

Pronoun

my

1. I(subject pronoun)

   Synonyms:I,me

   • 1836January, “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”, inThe Chinese Repository,volume IV, number 9, page433:

     ‘Mywanchee takee go away alla this cover, putee nother piece,’ replied I.

     (pleaseadd an English translationof this quotation)

2. me(object pronoun)

   Synonym:me

3. my(possessive pronoun)

Cornish

Alternative forms

• (Standard Cornish)me

Etymology

FromProto-Brythonic*mi,fromProto-Celtic*mī.

Pronoun

my

1. I,me

Czech

Etymology

InheritedfromOld Czechmy,fromProto-Slavic*my,fromProto-Indo-European*wéy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[ˈmɪ]

• Audio:

  (file)

Pronoun

my

1. we

Declension

Declension ofmy(pl-only animate pronoun)

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

Related terms

Czech personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		já	my
2nd person	familiar	ty	vy
	polite	vy
3rd person	m	on	oni*
	f	ona	ony
	n	ono	ona
reflexive		sebe,se(clitic)
* animate referents only, for inanimate onesonyis used.

Further reading

• “my”,inPříruční slovník jazyka českého(in Czech),1935–1957
• “my”,inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého(in Czech),1960–1971, 1989
• “my”,inInternetová jazyková příručka(in Czech)

Danish

Noun

myn(singular definitemyet,plural indefinitemyer)

1. The Greek letterμ(mu)

Declension

Declension ofmy

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	my	myet	myer	myerne
genitive	mys	myets	myers	myernes

Noun

myc

1. micron

Synonyms

• mikrometer
• mikron

References

• “my”inDen Danske Ordbog

Egyptian

Etymology

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,page86.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

FromProto-Slavic*my,fromProto-Indo-European*nos.

Pronoun

mypl

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

FromOld Irishmá,fromProto-Celtic*mā,*ma(compareCornishandBretonmar), fromProto-Indo-European*meh₂.

Conjunction

my

1. if

Middle English

Determiner

my(subjective pronounI)

1. Alternative form ofmi

Old Czech

Etymology

InheritedfromProto-Slavic*my.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

my

1. we(first person plural)

Declension

Declension of the personal pronouns

Singular	1st person	2nd person	Reflexive
Nominative	jáz,já	ty	—
Genitive	mne,mě	tebe,tě	sebe,sě
Dative	mně,mi	tobě,ti	sobě,si
Accusative	mě,mne	tě,tebe	sě,sebe
Locative	mně	tobě	sobě
Instrumental	mnú	tobú,tebú	sobú,sebú
Possessive	mój	tvój	svój
Dual	1st person	2nd person	Reflexive
Nominative	vě,va,ma	vy	—
Genitive	najú	vajú	sebe,sě
Dative	náma	váma	sobě,si
Accusative	ny,najú	vy,vajú	sě,sebe
Locative	najú	vajú	sobě
Instrumental	náma	váma	sobú,sebú
Possessive	náš,najú	váš,vajú	svój
Plural	1st person	2nd person	Reflexive
Nominative	my	vy	—
Genitive	nás	vás	sebe,sě
Dative	nám,nem	vám,vem	sobě,si
Accusative	ny,nás	vy,vás	sě,sebe
Locative	nás	vás	sobě
Instrumental	námi	vámi	sobú,sebú
Possessive	náš	váš	svój

Descendants

• Czech:my

References

• Jan Gebauer(1903–1916) “my”,inSlovník staročeský(in Czech), Prague:Česká grafická společnost "unie",Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Old Polish

Etymology

InheritedfromProto-Slavic*my.First attested in the 14th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):(10^th–15^thCE)/mɨ/
• IPA^(key):(15^thCE)/mɨ/

Pronoun

my

1. we;first person plural
2. we;Iroyal 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

• B. Sieradzka-Baziur,Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “my, ny (?)”,inSłownik 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:

  (file)

• Rhymes:-ɘ
• Syllabification:my

Etymology 1

InheritedfromOld Polishmy.

Pronoun

my

1. we;first person plural
2. we;Iroyal first person plural
3. we;Ieditorial first person plural

Declension

Declension ofmy

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

See also

• Appendix:Polish pronouns

Etymology 2

Learned borrowingfromAncient Greekμῦ(mû),fromPhoenician𐤌(m‬/⁠mēm⁠/).

Alternative forms

• mi

Noun

myn(indeclinable)

1. mu(Greek letter Μ, μ)

Trivia

According toSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej(1990),myis 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

• myinWielki słownik języka polskiego,Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• myin Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “my”,inSłownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku[A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “MY”,inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku[Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 2021 June 22
• Samuel Bogumił Linde(1807–1814) “my”,inSłownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz(1861) “my”,inSłownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz,A. Kryński,W. Niedźwiedzki,editors (1902), “my”,inSłownik języka polskiego(in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page1081

Portuguese

Pronoun

my

1. Obsoleteform ofmim.

Scots

Alternative forms

• ma,me

Etymology

InheritedfromMiddle Englishmi,my,apocopated form ofmin,myn,fromOld Englishmīn(“my, mine”),fromProto-West Germanic*mīn,fromProto-Germanic*mīnaz(“my, mine”,pron.)(possessive of*ek(“I”)), fromProto-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.”,inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language,Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries,2004–present,→OCLC,retrieved23 May 2024,reproduced fromWilliam 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.”,inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language,Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries,2004–present,→OCLC,retrieved23 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

InheritedfromOld Polishmy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈmɪ/
• Rhymes:-ɪ
• Syllabification:my

Pronoun

my

1. we;first person plural

Declension

Declension of my

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

Further reading

• myin silling.org

Slovak

Etymology

InheritedfromProto-Slavic*my,fromProto-Indo-European*nos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):[mi]

Pronoun

my

1. we

Declension

Declension ofmy

	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,onyotherwise.

Further reading

• “my”,inSlovníkový 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,2024

Swedish

Noun

myn

1. The Greek letterμ(mu)

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

FromProto-Slavic*my,fromProto-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

FromOld Frisianmī,fromProto-Germanic*miz.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

my

1. objectofik