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Webster 1913 Edition


Me

Me

(mē̍)
,
p
ron.
One. See
Men
,
p
ron.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Me

(mē)
,
p
ers.
p
ron.
[AS.
mē
, dat. & acc.,
mec
, acc. only ; akin to D.
mij
, G.
mich
, Icel. & Goth.
mik
, L.
me
, Gr.
μέ
,
ἐμέ
, Skr.
mā
,
mām
. √187. Cf. 2d
Mine
.]
The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I;
as, he struck
me
; he gave
me
the money, or he gave the money to
me
; he got
me
a hat, or he got a hat for
me
.
☞ In methinks, me is properly in the dative case, and the verb is impersonal, the construction being, it appears to me. In early use me was often placed before forms of the verb to be with an adjective; as, me were lief.
Me
rather had my heart might frrl your love
Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Me

ME

, pron. pers.; the objective case of I, answering to the oblique cases of ego, in Latin. [L. mihi.] Follow me; give to me; go with me. The phrase 'I followed me close,' is not in use. Before think, as in methinks, me is properly in the dative case,and the verb is impersonal; the construction is, it appears to me.

Definition 2024


See also: Appendix:Variations of "me"

Czech

Pronoun

  1. me (possessive, genitive case)
    To máš ode .
  2. me (direct object of a verb, accusative case)
    Vidíš ?

Synonyms

See also


Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mʲiɪ̯/, (after a stressed preposition) /mʲɛ/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *jьmę, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Noun

 n (genitive mjenja)

  1. name
Declension
  • Alternative dative singular: mjenju

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

  • mnjo (used after a preposition)

Pronoun

  1. genitive and dative and accusative of ja