m'
See also: Appendix:Variations of "m"
English
Pronoun
m'
Derived terms
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, soi | |
| Feminine | elle | la, l’ | elle, soi | ||||||
| — | on | — | — | — | — | soi | |||
| Plural | First | — | nous | nous | — | — | nous | ||
| Second | — | vous | vous | — | — | vous | |||
| Third | Masculine | ils | se, s’ | les | leur | y | en | eux, soi | |
| Feminine | elles | elles, soi | |||||||
Further reading
- “m'” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Haitian Creole
Etymology
Pronoun
m'
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 vowel sounds | |
| Second | tú (tusa) |
thú (thusa) |
do L d' before vowel sounds | |
| 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 | |
Italian
Pronoun
m'
- Apocopic form of mi
Usage notes
Commonly elides before a vowel, especially i and e.
See also
Italian personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Nominative | Reflexive | Accusative | Dative | Locative | Genitive | Disjunctive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | first | — | io | mi, m' | — | me | |||
| second | — | tu | ti, t' | te | |||||
| third | m | lui | si,2 s' | lo, l' | gli | ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | lui, sé | |
| f 1 | lei, Lei | la, l', La | le,3 Le | lei, Lei, sé | |||||
| Plural | first | — | noi | ci, c' | — | noi | |||
| second | — | voi | vi, v' | voi | |||||
| third | m | loro, Loro | si, s' | li | gli, loro (formal), Loro |
ci, c', vi, v' (formal) |
ne, n' | loro, Loro, sé | |
| f 1 | le | ||||||||
| 1 | The feminine gender forms are also used as formal terms of address, often capitalised as Lei, Loro etc. to distinguish them. | ||||||||
| 2 | Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive. | ||||||||
| 3 | In informal speech sometimes replaced with gli (nonstandard). | ||||||||
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:
- 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
- ceo sacez m'amie tuit cil que te requerunt
-
Scottish Gaelic
Pronoun
m'
Usage notes
- Used before words beginning with a vowel or f followed by a vowel.
Related terms
- mo (used before words beginning with a consonant)
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