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Encyclopedia > I (pronoun)
This article is about the English personal pronoun. For other uses, see I (disambiguation).
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I (IPA: /aɪ/) is the first-person, singular personal pronoun (subject case) in Modern English. I is the ninth letter in the latin alphabet. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... For other uses, see Point of view (literature). ... In linguistics, grammatical number is a morphological category characterized by the expression of quantity through inflection or agreement. ... Personal pronouns are pronouns often used as substitutes for proper or common nouns. ... The nominative case is a grammatical case for a noun, which generally marks the subject of a verb, as opposed to its object or other verb arguments. ... Note: This page or section contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ...

Personal pronouns in standard Modern English
Singular Plural
Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
First I me mine we us ours
Second you you yours you you yours
Third Feminine she her hers they them theirs
Masculine he him his
Impersonal it it its

Contents

This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... Look up we in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the Modern English personal pronoun. ... This article is about the Modern English personal pronoun. ... For other uses, see She (disambiguation). ... Look up they in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up he in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the Modern English personal pronoun. ...

Usage

In orthography, this pronoun is comparable to proper nouns; in most writing I is always capitalised. However, internet slang on comment sites frequently shows a lower-case i. The orthography of a language specifies the correct way of using a specific writing system to write the language. ... A proper noun is a noun that picks out a unique entity. ... Ttyl redirects here. ...


The oblique cases of I are me (object) and my (possessive). An oblique case (Latin: ) in linguistics is a noun case of analytic languages that is used generally when a noun is the predicate of a sentence or a preposition. ...


A first person subjunctive can be used as a circumlocution, to avoid direct criticism in the second person. In grammar, the subjunctive mood (sometimes referred to as the conjunctive mood) is a verb mood that exists in many languages. ... Periphrasis is a figure of speech where the meaning of a word or phrase is expressed by many or several words. ...

  • I wouldn't believe all you read. You shouldn't believe all you read.
  • I wouldn't do that [if I were you]. Don't you do that!

Compare:

  • One wouldn't do that oneself.

Etymology

Further information: Proto-Indo-European pronouns

English I originates from Old English (OE) ic, the continuation of Proto-Germanic ik, ek, ek being attested in Elder Futhark inscriptions (in some cases notably showing the variant eka; see also ek erilaz); ik is assumed to have developed from the unstressed variant of ek. Proto-Indo-European pronouns and particles. ... Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon[1], Old English: ) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... The Järsberg Runestone is from the 6th century and contains the statemenet: ek erilaz. ...


Germanic cognates are: Old Frisian ik, Old Norse ek (Danish, Norwegian jeg), Old High German ih (German ich) and Gothic ik. Old Frisian was the West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries by the people who, from their ancient homes in North Germany and Denmark, had settled in the area between the Rhine and Elbe on the European North Sea coast in the 4th and 5th centuries. ... Old Norse or Danish tongue is the Germanic language once spoken by the inhabitants of the Nordic countries (for instance during the Viking Age). ... The (Late Old High) German speaking area of the Holy Roman Empire around 950. ... Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. ...


The Proto-Germanic root came, in turn, from the Proto Indo-European language (PIE). The reconstructed PIE pronoun is *egō, egóm, with cognates including Sanskrit aham, Hittite uk, Latin ego, Greek ἐγώ egō and Old Slavonic azъ. The oblique forms are formed from a stem *me- (English me), the plural from *wei- (English we), the oblique plural from *ns- (English us). See Pie (disambiguation) for other uses of PIE. The Proto-Indo-European language (PIE) is the hypothetical common ancestor of the Indo-European languages. ... Sanskrit ( , for short ) is a classical language of India, a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism, and one of the 23 official languages of India. ... Hittite is the extinct language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who created an empire centered on ancient Hattusas (modern BoÄŸazkale) in north-central Anatolia (modern Turkey). ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Old Slavonic may refer to: Old Church Slavonic language Common Slavonic language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Old English

Personal pronouns in Old English
Nom Acc Dat Gen
1st Sing ic me(c) me min
Dual wit unc uncer
Plur we us ure
2nd Sing þu þe þin
Dual git inc incer
Plur ge eow eower
3rd Sing M he hine him his
N hit hit him his
F heo hie hire hire
Plur hie hie him hira
Nom Acc Dat Gen

Old English personal pronouns. ... IC or ic may stand for: -ic suffix The IATA airline designator for Indian Airlines In chatting terms, it stands for I See. Also see Internet Slang Identity card Illinois Central Railroad (AAR reporting mark IC) Immediate constituent (IC), in morphology Imperial College London - The famous science university is often... Look up wit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up we in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up thu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up git in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Ge may refer to: Gê, a group of indigenous Brazilian tribes and their Ge languages Ge (Cyrillic) (Г, г), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet Ge with upturn (Ґ, ґ), a letter of the Ukrainian alphabet Nikolai Ge, a Russian painter Gē, an ancient Chinese dagger-axe Ge (genus), a genus of butterflies Also... Look up he in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up hit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up heo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up hie in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Middle English

By 1137 ic was reduced to i in Northern England. By around 1250 capitalisation began, to distinguish I as a distinct word. // Groups BL1137 is the (now defunct) Unix group at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ where Unix and C were invented. ... The north, the midlands and the south Northern England, The North or North of England is a rather ill-defined term, with no universally accepted definition. ... // April 30 - King Louis IX of France released by his Egyptian captors after paying a ransom of one million dinars and turning over the city of Damietta. ...

Personal pronouns in Middle English
Singular Plural
Subject Object Possessive Subject Object Possessive
First I me mi(n) we us ure
Second thou thee thy ye you your
Third Impersonal hit it/him his he
they		 hem
them		 hir
their
Masculine he him his
Feminine sche hire hir

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See also

Modern English personal pronouns
I • you • he • she • it • one • we • you • they

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