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moi.

me (first-person singular disjunctive pronoun)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

pron/mwa//mwe/

  1. me (first-person singular disjunctive pronoun)

    L'État, c'est moi.
    Ce n'est pas à moi !

  2. me (first-person singular object pronoun of imperative verbs)

    Donne-moi ça !
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French moy, from Old French mei, moi, mi (“me”), tonic form of me, from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-, *(h₁)me-n- (“me”). More at me. See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman mei, Gallo mai, Picard moè and Bourguignon moi from Old French; Corsican and Franco-Provençal mè.

noun/mwa//mwe/

  1. the ego; the me

    masculine · uncountable
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French moy, from Old French mei, moi, mi (“me”), tonic form of me, from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-, *(h₁)me-n- (“me”). More at me. See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman mei, Gallo mai, Picard moè and Bourguignon moi from Old French; Corsican and Franco-Provençal mè.

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