I

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 Scottish Gaelic 9.1 Pronoun 9.1.1 Related terms 9.1.2 Translations 10 Slovak 10.1 Conjunction 11 Swedish 11.1 Pronoun 11.2 Preposition 12 Tok Pisin 12.1 Syntactic particle 13 Tupinambá 13.1 Personal pronoun 14 Volapük 14.1 Conjunction

Translingual Symbol

I

1. iodine
2. , (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 and ι — Greek
• І and і — Cyrillic I, used in Belarusian and Ukrainian
• Ӏ — Cyrillic palochka, used in the Caucasian languages
• ا — Arabic (alif)
• 1 — Arabic numeral
• Ꭵ — Cherokee (IPA: ə̃) (SAMPA: @~)
• 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 keǵóm, *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) Bambara: ne Basque: ni, nik Blackfoot: niisto Bosnian: ja Bulgarian: аз (az) Catalan: jo Mandarin Chinese: 我 (wǒ) Hakka Chinese: 𠊎 (ngài) Minnan Chinese: 我 (góa) Cree: niya 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 Irish: mé 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 Limburgish: ich 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) Scottish Gaelic: mi (normal), mise (emphatic) 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 Eve 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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Scottish Gaelic

Pronoun

i

1. 3rd person singular feminine non-emphatic pronoun

Related terms

• ise (emphatic)

Translations

• English: she, it

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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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