Etimology
From Middle English me, from Old English mē (“me”, originally dative, but later also accusative), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me- (“me”).
pronoun
me (first-person singular pronoun, referring to the speaker)
As the object (direct or indirect) of a verb.
(archaic, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive direct object of a verb.
As the object of a preposition.
(informal, with a conjunction, often proscribed) As the subject of a verb.
(colloquial, proscribed) Myself; as a reflexive indirect object of a verb; the ethical dative.
As the complement of the copula (be or is).
(nonstandard, not with and) As the subject of a verb. Sometimes used to indicate or imitate limited English fluency.
Used for the pronoun in isolation.
Examples
Can you hear me?
He gave me this.
Shew me a token foꝛ good, that they which hate me may ſee it, and bee aſhamed: becauſe thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comfoꝛted me.
And I awoke, and found me here.
Come with me.
Me and my friends played a game.
[It was] literally all me and my astrophysicist colleagues could talk about.
Stella and me have opted to take a course called 'Autobiography and Fiction'.
When I get to college, I'm gonna get me a white Nissan Sentra.
It wasn't me.
It's either me or Jeremy Corbyn.
One of them, whose sobriquet was Big-headed Blackboy, was stretched out before the fire, and no answer could be obtained from him, but a drawling repetition, in grunts of displeasure, of "Bel me want to go.
Whoa! That was about the coolest thing ever! Me gotta see that again.
Who's there? —Me.
Related words
synonyms
(subject of a verb): I; my ass (vulgar)
(complement of the copula): I
(indirect object): us (Australia, UK)
(marking ownership): my; mine (archaic)
related terms
meseems
methinks
noli me tangere
noun
me (plural mes)
The self or personality of the speaker, especially their authentic self.
Examples
Synonym: I
“Quite easily. Here you are taking care of a poor little boy with one arm, and there you are sinking a ship with the other. It can’t be like you.” “Ah, but which is me? I can’t be two mes, you know.” “No. Nobody can be two mes.” “Well, which me is me?” “Now I must think. There looks to be two.” “Yes. That’s the very point—You can’t be knowing the thing you don’t know, can you?” “No.” “Which me do you know?” “The kindest, goodest, best me in the world,” answered Diamond, clinging to North Wind. […] “Do you know the other me as well?” “No. I can’t. I shouldn’t like to.” “There it is. You don’t know the other me. You are sure of one of them?” “Yes.” “And you are sure there can’t be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the me you don’t know must be the same as the me you do know—else there would be two mes?” “Yes.” “Then the other me you don’t know must be as kind as the me you do know?”
The question seems unanswerable, because if those same atoms were to be collected as they leave my body as waste in the normal process of metabolism, and in a year when my body contained all new atoms, those old atoms which were me a year ago were reformed into an exact replica of me down to the last thought and cell, would there be two mes?
“In these last few days I keep feeling that I’m changing, changing into something I don’t quite recognize myself.” / “You’ve become more like yourself.” / “Could there be two mes?” / “Perhaps more than two.” / “It gets worse and worse. So which me do you actually love ?” / “All of them.” / “You’re being slippery.” Her lips curled slyly. “In fact you only love the me in your mind’s eye, and that me doesn’t exist, right?” / “No, that’s the combination of all the yous.” / She laughed. “It’s just as complicated as a mathematical calculation, if you end up with the three-headed, six-armed me, could you stand that?”
Etimology
Variant form.
determiner
me
(UK regional, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Alternative form of my
Examples
There don't seem much to say just now. /
I want me money back!
Get off me cheese! Get off! Get off!
"What have I ever done to prove me worth, or where I could at least say as I'd made a difference?"
Etimology
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noun
me
(music) The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the flat of the third note of a major scale.