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Table of contents

1 Translingual Symbol 1.1 See also 2 English 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Etymology 1 2.2.1 Noun 2.3 Etymology 2 2.3.1 Personal pronoun 2.3.2 Inflection 2.3.3 Translations 3 Catalan 3.1 Conjunction 3.2 Etymology 4 Danish 4.1 Preposition 5 Italian 5.1 Article 6 Judeo-Spanish - Ladino 6.1 Conjunction 7 Lojban 7.1 Syntactic particle 8 Polish 8.1 Conjunction 9 Slovak 9.1 Conjunction 10 Swedish 10.1 Pronoun 10.2 Preposition 11 Tok Pisin 11.1 Syntactic particle 12 Tupinambá 12.1 Personal pronoun 13 Volapük 13.1 Conjunction

Translingual Symbol

I

1. (chemistry) iodine
2. (physics, electronics) electrical current (German Intensität)
3. (license plate codes) Italy
4. I or i — (Roman numerals) the number one; (also Ⅰ, ⅰ)

i

1. i or i (mathematics) symbol representing the square root of -1.
2. (linguistics) IPA symbol representing a high tense front unrounded vowel, such as the sound of i in Spanish or Italian, or in the English word machine.

See also

Similar and Related Symbols

• Ι — Greek
• І — Cyrillic I, used in Belarusian and Ukrainian
• Ӏ — Cyrillic Palochka
• ا — Arabic (alif)
• 1 - Arabic numeral
• Ꭵ - Cherokee
• ᛁ - Runic
• [[]] - Old Italic
• [[]] - Gothic
• ɪ - IPA
• İ and ı — Turkish

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English

Pronunciation

IPA	SAMPA	Dictionary
/aɪ/	/aI/	/ī/

• Homophones: aye, eye
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Etymology 1

Old French i, from Latin ī, from Etruscan [[]] (i).

Noun

I or i (plural: Is, is, I's, i's)

1. The ninth letter of the English alphabet.

Etymology 2

Middle English I, ich, from Old English ic, from common Germanic *ik, possibly from a preform *ekaⁿ from Proto-Indo-European *eǵHóm, or directly from *éǵoH. Near cognates include Gothic ik, German ich, Frisian ik, and Dutch ik.

Personal pronoun

I (plural: we; possessive adjective: my)

1. The first person, I, refers to the speaker alone.

Inflection

object	me
reflexive	myself
possessive	mine

Translations

• Arabic: أَنَا (’ána)
• Basque: ni, nik
• Bosnian: ja
• Bulgarian: аз (az)
• Catalan: jo
• Chinese: 我 (wǒ)
• Czech: já
• Danish: jeg
• Dutch: ik
• Dyirbal: ŋaɖa
• Esperanto: mi
• Estonian: mina, ma
• Fijian: au
• Finnish: minä
• French: je
• Frisian: ik
• German: ich
• Greek, Ancient: ἐγώ (egó)
• Greek, Modern: εγώ (eghó)
• Guaraní: che
• Hawaiian: au / wau, a‘u
• Hebrew: אני (aní)
• Hindi: मैं (maĩ)
• Hungarian: én
• Icelandic: ég
• Ido: me
• Indonesian: saya (formal), aku (familiar)
• Interlingua: io
• Interlingue Occidental: yo
• Italian: io
• Japanese: 私 (わたし, watashí; わたくし, watakushí) (formal), 私 (あたし, atashi) (humble, female only) , 僕 (ぼく, bóku) (close, usually male), 俺 (おれ, ore) (slang, male only)
• Kabyle: nekk
• Korean: 나 (na)
• Latin: ego
• Latino sine Flexione: me
• Latvian: es
• Lingua Franca Nova: me
• Lithuanian: aš
• Lojban: pami
• Low Saxon: ik
• Manchu: (bi)
• Norwegian (bokmål): jeg
• Norwegian (nynorsk): eg
• Ojibwe: niin
• Persian: مَن (mæn)
• Pitjantjatjara: ngayulu
• Polish: ja
• Portuguese: eu
• Quechua: ñuqa
• Romanian: eu
• Romanica: io, ego
• Russian: я (ja)
• Slovak: ja
• Spanish: yo
• Swahili: mimi
• Swedish: jag
• Tagalog: ko (ng form), akin (sa form), ako (unmarked form)
• Thai: ผม (pom, masculine), ดิฉัน (di-chan, feminine), ฉัน (chan, informal)
• Tok Pisin: mi
• Toki Pona: mi
• Tupinambá: ixé, xe
• Turkish: ben
• Urdu: میں (maĩ)
• Vietnamese: tôi
• Volapük: ob
• !Xũ: mi
• Yiddish: איך (ich)
• Yoruba: mo, n, mi, mà
• Yup'ik: wiinga

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Catalan

Conjunction

i

1. and; used to connect two similar words, phrases, sentences, etc; as well as; together with; in addition to.

   Hi ha moltes colomes i teuladins - There are many pigeons and sparrows.

   Ella escriu els articles i ell els il·lustra amb els seus dibuixos - She writes the articles and he illustrates them with his drawings.

Etymology

From Latin et, "and".

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Danish

Preposition

i

1. in, inside.

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Italian

Article

i

1. Masculine plural definite article, used before words beginning with a single consonant other than z (gli used in other cases)

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Judeo-Spanish - Ladino

Conjunction

i

1. and
2. too

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Lojban

Syntactic particle

.i

1. Separates two sentences. Sometimes combined with a conjunction or a tense marker.

   mi klama le briju .icabo le karce cu se nutspo - I was going to the office. At that time, the car had an accident.

Polish

Conjunction

i

1. and; used to connect two similar words, phrases, sentences, etc; as well as; together with; in addition to. cf a

   Adam i Ewa tylko zjadli jabłko - Adam and Ewa only ate an apple.

   Patrzę na niej i oczom nie wierzę – I look at her and can't believe my eyes.

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Slovak

Conjunction

i

1. and
2. as well as

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Swedish

Pronoun

i

1. (Archaic or very formal) you plural.

Preposition

i

1. in

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Tok Pisin

Syntactic particle

i

1. Separates the subject of a sentence from the predicate, used when the subject is em, ol, or a noun.

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Tupinambá

Personal pronoun

i

1. He, she, it, they (with descriptive verbs)

   i porang (he/she/it is / they are beautiful)

2. Him, her, it, them (with transitive verbs)

   a-i-kuab (i know him/her/it/them)

3. His, her, its, their (with nouns)

   i py (his/her/its/their foot/feet)

4. Him, her, it, them (before postpositions)

   i xupé (to him/her/it/them)

   Translations

   • Guaraní: i (1,2,3)
   • Interlingua: ille m, illa f, illo n (singular), illes m, illas f, illos n (plural) (1,4); le m, la f, lo n (singular), les m, las f, los n (plural) (2); su (singular), lor (plural) (3)
   • Portuguese: ele m, ela f (singular), eles m, elas f (plural) (1,4); o m, a f (singular), os m, as f (plural) (2); seu m, sua f (3)
   • Spanish: él m, ella f (singular), ellos m, ellas f (plural) (1,4); el m, la f (singular), los m, las f (plural) (2); su m & f (3)

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Volapük

Conjunction

i

1. also
2. too

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