i — meaning in English
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English meaning
- her det Belonging to her — used before a noun to show something is owned by or associated with a particular woman, girl, or (in older or poetic use) a ship, country, etc.
- i pronoun Used by a speaker or writer to refer to themself as the subject of a sentence.
- in prep Contained by, inside, or within the limits of something — spatially, in time, or in a more abstract sense.
- into preposition Moving toward the inside of something.
- Iona name A small island in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland, historically an important center of Celtic Christianity; also used as a female given name.
- it pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.
- she pronoun Used to refer to a female person or animal already mentioned.
- to particle Used before a verb to form the infinitive.
Senses
i is used for these senses in English:
- Iona A small island in the Inner Hebrides, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
- her The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc, or (dialect) as a subject without a conjunction.
- i The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.
- into (colloquial) Attacking or fighting a person.
- it The third-person singular neuter personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.
- it The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.
- she (personal) The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
- to (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
her — full definition
- det Belonging to her — used before a noun to show something is owned by or associated with a particular woman, girl, or (in older or poetic use) a ship, country, etc.
- pron The object form of "she" — used after a verb or preposition.
i — full definition
- pronoun Used by a speaker or writer to refer to themself as the subject of a sentence.
- noun The ninth letter of the English alphabet.
- noun The sense of one's own identity or self; the ego.
- numeral The Roman numeral for one.