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I'm
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Appendix:Variations of "im"
English
Alternative forms
en I 'm obsolete
Etymology
en :af I am 1
Contraction of en I en am.
Pronunciation
en UK
en /aɪm/ RP
en /aːm/ Northumbria
en /a(ɪ)m/ US
en en-us-I'm.ogg US
unstressed also en /əm/ /ʌm/
en aɪm 1
Contraction
contr
en I am en I am.
en you're<id:you are> he's<id:he is> she's<id:she is> it's<id:it is> they're<id:they are>
Usage notes
The contraction I'm is not used when the word en am would act as an auxiliary (and fall at the end of a clause). For example, in response to the question "Are you okay?", the reply "Yes, I'm okay" is widely used, while "Yes, I'm" (as a complete sentence) or even "Yes, I'm, but..." are never used, and would always be said as "Yes, I am" or "Yes, I am, but..." respectively. This is in keeping with a general rule that certain contractions are never used at the end of a clause.
Synonyms
en am informal or dialectal
en cham West Country obsolete
Translations
Contraction
Arabic: ar أنا أَنَا ...; ar أَكُونُ verb ar كان is rarely used in the present tense
Catalan: ca jo sóc
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 是 wǒ shì 我是, cmn 我 wǒ ... 我... (cmn 是 Hani is not used with adjectives)
Danish: da jeg er
Dutch: nl ik ben ...
Esperanto: eo mi estas
Faroese: fo eri eg eri
Finnish: fi minä olen, fi olla olen; fi minulla on, fi olla oon colloquial
French: fr chuis informal
Georgian: ka ვარ მე ვარ
German: de ich bin ...
Greek: el είμαι
Hebrew: he אני aní ... אני ...
Hindi: hi हूँ मैं... हूँ
Hungarian: hu vagyok ... vagyok
Icelandic: is er ég er
Ido: io me esas
Italian: it sono
Japanese: ja です watashi wa ... desu 私は...です
Korean: ko 이다 저-는 ...(이)예요
Latin: la sum s
Low German:
German Low German: nds-de ik bün
Macedonian: mk сум јас сум
Mongolian: mn би би ...
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb er jeg er
Nynorsk: nn er eg er
Persian: fa هستم ... hastam ... هستم, fa ام ... am ... ام / fa ـم ... -am ... ـم
Polish: pl jestem jestem ... the following noun is in the instrumental, adjective is in the nominative case
Portuguese: pt (eu) sou, pt (eu) estou
Romanian: ro eu sunt, ro sunt
Scots: sco A'm
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh сам ја сам
Latin: sh sam ja sam
Slovak: sk som som ...
Slovene: sl sem jaz sem
Spanish: es (yo) soy, es (yo) estoy
Swedish: sv jag är
Tagalog: tl ako si
Thai: th เป็น m pom bpen ... ผมเป็น..., th เป็น f dichan bpen ... ดิฉันเป็น..., (th เป็น is not used with adjectives) th ผม m pom ... ผม..., th ดิฉัน f dichan ... ดิฉัน...
Ukrainian: uk я я ... verb бути is not used in the present tense
Vietnamese: vi là tôi là ..., (vi là is not used with adjectives) vi tôi tôi ...
Volapük: vo binob ...
Yiddish: yi כ׳בין
Yup'ik: esu wiinga ...-augua
Anagrams
en im MI mi mi.