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m’
m'
See also: Appendix:Variations of "m"
Catalan
Pronoun
m'
- Contraction of em.
Declension
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m/
Pronoun
m'
- prevocalic form of me
- Je m'appelle Marcel. — I'm called Marcel.
- (in certain contexts) prevocalic form of moi
- Donne-m'en deux. — Give me two.
Related terms
French personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative (subject) |
Reflexive | Accusative (direct complement) |
Dative (indirect complement) |
Locative (at) |
Genitive (of) |
Disjunctive (tonic) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | — | je, j’ | me, m’ | — | — | moi | ||
| Second | — | tu | te, t’ | — | — | toi | |||
| Third | Masculine | il | se, s’ | le, l’ | lui | y | en | lui | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle | ||||||
| — | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
| Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
| Third | Masculine | ils | se, s’ | les | leur | y | en | eux | |
| Feminine | elles | elles | |||||||
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mˠ/ (before a word starting with a, o, u, fha, fho, or fhu)
- IPA(key): /mʲ/ (before a word starting with e, i, fhe, or fhi)
Determiner
m' (triggers lenition of a following noun)
- apocopic form of mo
See also
Irish personal pronouns
| Number | Person (and gender) | Conjunctive (emphatic) |
Disjunctive (emphatic) |
Possessive determiner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | mé (mise) |
mo L m' before a vowel or fh- |
|
| Second | tú (tusa) |
thú (thusa) |
do L d' before a vowel or fh- |
|
| Third masculine | sé (seisean) |
é (eisean) |
a L | |
| Third feminine | sí (sise) |
í (ise) |
a H | |
| Plural | First | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) |
ár E | |
| Second | sibh (sibhse) |
bhur E | ||
| Third | siad (siadsan) |
iad (iadsan) |
a E | |
Middle French
Pronoun
m' (apocopate)
- (before vowel sound) apocopic form of me
Usage notes
- The apostrophe may be omitted in older manuscripts
- il menvoia ― he sent me
Old French
Pronoun
m'
- prevocalic form of me (“me, myself”)
- prevocalic form of mon, ma (“my, mine”)
- 13th century, Herman de Valenciennes, Assomption Nostre Dame, page 7, column 2, lines 16-17:
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ceo sacez m'amie tuit cil que te requerunt
a tun commandement merci auvrunt- this you know, my friend, that all those who are looking for you
upon your command will have mercy
- this you know, my friend, that all those who are looking for you
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ceo sacez m'amie tuit cil que te requerunt
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