meie

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *meiden, the genitive of Proto-Finnic *mek, which has become the nominative.

Pronoun

meie (short form me)

  1. we

Declension
Declension of meie
1st person singular plural
long short long short
nominative mina ma meie me
genitive minu mu meie me
partitive mind meid
illative minusse musse meisse
inessive minus mus meis
elative minust must meist
allative minule mulle meile
adessive minul mul meil
ablative minult mult meilt
translative minuks – meieks meiks
terminative minuni – meieni –
essive minuna – meiena –
abessive minuta – meieta –
comitative minuga muga meiega –

See also
Estonian personal pronouns
singular plural
long short long short
1st person mina ma meie me
2nd person familiar sina sa teie te
polite Teie Te
3rd person animate tema ta nemad nad
inanimate see need

Hunsrik

Verb

meie

  1. Alternative form of meue

Latin

Verb

mēie

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of mēiō

Portuguese

Verb

meie

  1. inflection of mear:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian muga, from Proto-West Germanic *magan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(me)mógʰe.

Pronunciation
  • (Clay) IPA(key): /ˈmai̯ə/
  • (Wood) IPA(key): /ˈmɛi̯ə/

Verb

meie

  1. may, can, to be allowed to
  2. to like, to find nice

Inflection
Strong class 1
infinitive meie
3rd singular past mocht
past participle mocht
infinitive meie
long infinitive meien
gerund meien n
auxiliary hawwe
indicative present tense past tense
1st singular mei mocht
2nd singular meist mochtst
3rd singular meit mocht
plural meie mochten
imperative mei
participles meiend mocht

Further reading
  • “meie (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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