m'

See also: Appendix:Variations of "m"

English

Etymology 1

Contraction

m'

  1. (colloquial) Clitic form of I'm.
    • 1968, Barry England, part 1, in Figures in a Landscape, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57:
      When MacConnachie let go, he put a hand to his head and muttered, “M’tired.”
    • 1982 [1979], Antonine Maillet, translated by Philip Stratford, chapter 1, in Pélagie, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company; Toronto, Ont.: Doubleday Canada, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 10:
      No one had ever been able to fathom the origin of this little girl, barely three, who by way of baggage had only a nickname, the Beaubassin she came from, and but one word in her mouth: “M’hungry!”
      [original: On n’avait jamais réussi a défricher les origines de cette petite fille d’à peine trois ans, qui n’apportait pour tout bagage qu’un surnom, le nom de sa terre de Beaubassin et un cri : « Zé faim! »]
    • 2005, John Aberdein, “The Speckled Slope”, in Amande’s Bed, Edinburgh: Thirsty Books, →ISBN, page 303:
      – Heave me up that haversack, Annie. / – What’s in? / – Ye’ll see. / – M’hungry.
    • 2009 October 13, Charlie Huston, My Dead Body: A Novel (Joe Pitt Casebooks; 5), New York, N.Y.: Del Rey, →ISBN, page 291:
      ―Baby. / She pulls her face from where it’s buried in my neck. / ―M’tired.
    • 2010, Daniel Homan, chapter 5, in The Queen of Hearts, [Rockville, Md.]: Prime Books, →ISBN, page 127:
      “M’tired of the thing,” the man yells. “Tired of the Manor.”
    • 2015, Matthew J. Metzger, chapter 11, in The Suicidal Peanut, Glen Allen, Va.: JMS Books, →ISBN, page 86:
      “M’tired,” Nick said, and yawned again.
Derived terms
  • 'm (“am”)

Etymology 2

Determiner

m'

  1. (archaic or colloquial) Clitic form of my.
    • 1985, Stuart Seaton, “Randolph”, in Inheritance, London: Collins, →ISBN, section 1, page 131:
      ‘Guess I feel like sleepin’ meself,’ he said. ‘Trouble is, I’m on next watch. Guess I’ll change thet with m’tired friend there. […]”
    • 2015, Brian Staveley, chapter 7, in The Providence of Fire (Chronicle of the Unhewn Thrown; 2), London: Tor, →ISBN, page 107:
      “That’s what he thinks,” she said finally, waving the cane at her brother. “Hopes the goddess might unscramble his egg. I told ’im she’s just as likely ta hoist up m’tired old tits, and I ain’t countin’ on that, either.”
  2. (poetic, rare) Prevocalic form of my.
Derived terms

Catalan

Pronoun

m'

  1. contraction of em

Usage notes

  • m' is the elided (elida) form of the pronoun. It is used before verbs beginning with a vowel.
    M'avorreixo. ― I'm bored.

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
singular 1st
person 		standard jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd
person 		standard tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd
person 		m ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
f ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
n ho -ho li -li seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd
person 		standard vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd
person 		m ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
f elles les -les els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
adverbial ablative/genitive en, n’ -ne, ’n
locative hi -hi

1 Behaves grammatically as plural.   2 Behaves grammatically as third person.
3 Only as object of a preposition.   4 Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

Franco-Provençal

Pronoun

m' (ORB, broad)

  1. apocopic form of mè

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m‿/
  • Audio (France (Lyon)):(file)

Pronoun

m'

  1. prevocalic form of me
    Je m'appelle Marcel. — I'm called Marcel.
  2. (in certain contexts) prevocalic form of moi
    Donne-m'en deux. — Give me two.
French personal pronouns
number person gender nominative
(subject) 		accusative
(direct complement) 		dative
(indirect complement) 		locative
(at) 		genitive
(of) 		disjunctive
(tonic)1 		emphatic
reflexive
singular first — je, j’ me, m’ — — moi moi-même
second — tu te, t’ — — toi toi-même
third masculine il2 le, l’ lui y en lui lui-même
feminine elle la, l’ elle elle-même
indeterminate on3, l’on (formal), ce4, c’, ça — — — — — —
reflexive — se, s’5 — — soi soi-même
plural first — nous nous — — nous nous-mêmes
second6 — vous vous — — vous vous-mêmes,
vous-même6
third masculine ils7 les leur y en eux7 eux-mêmes7
feminine elles elles elles-mêmes

1 The disjunctive (tonic) forms are also used after an explicit preposition (de/d’, à, pour, chez, dans, vers, sur, sous, ...), instead the accusative, dative, genitive, locative, or reflexive forms, where a preposition is implied.
2 Il is also used as an impersonal nominative-only pronoun.
3 On can also function as a first person plural (although agreeing with third person singular verb forms).
4 The nominal indeterminate form ce (demonstrative) can also be used with the auxiliary verb être as a plural, instead of the proximal or distal gendered forms.
5 The reflexive third person singular forms (se or s’) for accusative or dative are also used as third person plural reflexive.
6 Vous is also used as the polite singular form, in which case the plural disjunctive tonic vous-mêmes becomes singular vous-même.
7 Ils, eux and eux-mêmes are also used when a group has a mixture of masculine and feminine members.

Further reading

Haitian Creole

Etymology

Contraction of mwen, from French moi.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

m'

  1. alternative spelling of m; contraction of mwen

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)

  1. apocopic form of mo

See also

Irish personal pronouns
person conjunctive
(emphatic) 		disjunctive
(emphatic) 		possessive
determiner
singular first mé
(mise) 		mo L
m' before vowel sounds
second tú
(tusa)1 		thú
(thusa) 		do L
d' before vowel sounds
third m sé
(seisean) 		é
(eisean) 		a L
f sí
(sise) 		í
(ise) 		a H
n — ea —
plural first muid, sinn
(muidne, muide), (sinne) 		ár E
second sibh
(sibhse)1 		bhur E
third siad
(siadsan) 		iad
(iadsan) 		a E

L Triggers lenition   E Triggers eclipsis   H Triggers h-prothesis

1 Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun.
For instance, "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

Italian

Pronoun

m' (apocopated)

  1. apocopic form of mi

Usage notes

Commonly elides before a vowel, especially i and e.

See also

Italian personal pronouns
singular plural
first second second formal / polite5 third first second second formal / polite5 third
m or f m f m or f m f
nominative io tu Lei, Ella8 lui, egli8, elli3, 8, esso8 lei, ella8, essa8 noi voi, Voi7 Loro loro
elli3, 8, ellino4, 8, eglino4, 8, essi8 elle3, 8, elleno4, 8, esse8
atonic (clitic)11 accusative / dative-reflexive mi, m', -mi, me9 ti, t', -ti, te9 ― si6, s', -si, se9 ci, c', -ci, ce9 vi, Vi7, v', V'7, -vi, -Vi7, ve9 ― si, s', -si, se9
accusative La, -La, L' lo, l', -lo, il4 la, l', -la Le, -Le li, -li le, -le
dative Le, -Le glie9 Loro10 loro10, gli2, -gli2, glie9
gli, -gli le, -le, gli2, -gli2
locative ― ci, c',
vi1, v'1 		― ci, c',
vi1, v'1
partitive ne, n' ne, n'
tonic12 prepositional-reflexive ― sé ― sé
oblique me te Lei lui, esso8 lei, essa8 noi voi, Voi7 Loro loro,
essi8 elle8, esse8
1 Formal.
2 Informal.
3 Archaic.
4 Obsolete.
5 Grammatically third person forms used semantically in the second person as a formal or polite way of addressing someone (with the first letter frequently capitalised as a sign of respect, and to distinguish them from third person subjects). Unlike the singular forms, the plural forms are mostly antiquated terms of formal address in the modern language, and second person plural pronouns are almost always used instead.
6 Also used as indefinite pronoun meaning “one”, and to form the passive.
7 Formal (capitalisation optional); in many regions, can refer to just one person (compare with French vous).
8 Traditional grammars still indicate the forms egli (animate), ella (animate), esso (inanimate), essa (inanimate), essi, esse as the nominative forms of the third person pronouns; outside of very formal or archaizing contexts, all such forms have been replaced by the obliques lui, lei, loro.
9 Forms used when followed by a third-person direct object proclitic (lo, la, li, le, or ne).
10 Used after verbs.
11 Unstressed forms, stand alone forms are found proclitically (except dative loro / Loro), others enclitically (-mi, -ti, etc.).
12 Disjunctive, emphatic oblique forms used as direct objects placed after verbs, in exclamations, along prepositions (prepositional) and some adverbs (come, quanto, etc.); also used with a to create alternative emphatic dative forms.

Louisiana Creole

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m‿/

Pronoun

m'

  1. prevocalic form of mo (“I”)
    M'ap bwa labyèr. ― I'm drinking beer.

Middle French

Pronoun

m' (apocopate)

  1. (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'

  1. prevocalic form of me (“me, myself”)
  2. 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

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Determiner

m' (triggers lenition of a following noun)

  1. apocopic form of mo

Sassarese

Pronoun

m'

  1. apocopic form of mi, used before a vowel

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /m/

Determiner

m'

  1. apocopic form of mo

See also

Scottish Gaelic possessive determiners
singular plural
+ C + V + C + V
first person moL m' ar arN
second person doL d' ur urN
third person m aL — an, am1 an
f a aH

L Triggers lenition; H Triggers H-prothesis; N Triggers eclipsis
1 Used before b-, f-, m- or p-

References

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