Define:Ich

Alemannic German eedit

Alternative forms eedit

i
ig (Bern)

Etymology eedit

Frae Middle High German ich.

Pronunciation eedit

(Zurich) /ix/ (unstressed), [ɪːx] (stressed)

Pronoun eedit

Ich

A

Declension eedit

Alemannic German personal pronoons

		nominative	accusative	dative	possessive
1st person seengular		ich, i	mich, mi	mir, mer	miin
2nt person seengular	familiar	du	dich	dir	diin
2nt person seengular	polite	Si		Ine, Ene	Ire
3rd person seengular	m	er	in	im	siin
	f	si		ire
	n	es		im	siin
1st person plural		mir	öis		öise
2nt person plural		ir	öi		öie
3rd person plural		si		ine, ene	ire

Central Franconian eedit

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eich (Moselle Franconian, stressed)
ech (some dialects of Ripuarian; Moselle Franconian, unstressed, enclitic)

Etymology eedit

Frae Old High German ih. The expected form is ech; the variant ich is frae a form *īh wi expressive lenthenin (compare the correspondin diphthong in Moselle Franconian).

Pronunciation eedit

/iɕ/
- [eɕ] → [əɕ] → [ɕ] (unstressed; enclitic afore a consonant)
- [ij] (enclitic afore a vouel)
The enclitic pronunciation is uised efter verbs and conjunctions (unless the pronoon is stressed).

Pronoun eedit

Ich

(some dialects of Ripuarian, including Kölsch) A; nominative o the first-person seengular personal pronoon
Dat senn ich op däm Fotto.
That’s A (or: me) in this photo.

Crimean Gothic eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Germanic *ik, frae Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronoun eedit

Ich

A
- 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
  Ich malthata. Ego dico.

German eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Middle High German ich, frae Old High German ih, frae Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik, frae Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation eedit

Pronoun eedit

Ich

A

Inflection eedit

German personal pronoons

		nominative	accusative	genitive	dative	possessive
1st person seengular		ich	mich	meiner († mein)	mir	mein
2nt person seengular (familiar)¹		du	dich	deiner († dein)	dir	dein
3rd person seengular	m	er	ihn	seiner († sein)	ihm	sein
	f	sie		ihrer	ihr
	n	es		seiner († sein)	ihm	sein
1st person plural		wir	uns	unser	uns	unser
2nt person plural (familiar)¹		ihr	euch	euer	euch	euer
3rd person plural		sie		ihrer	ihnen	ihr
polite address	naiturally: 2nt person sg. or pl.; grammatically: 3rd person pl.	Sie		Ihrer	Ihnen	Ihr

¹Eften caipitalised, especially in letters

In contemporary German, the genitive forms o personal pronoons are restrictit tae formal style an are unfrequent even thare. Thay mey be uised

for the genitive object still foond in a haundfu o verbs: Er erbarmte sich meiner. – "He haed mercy on me". (Colloquially ane wad either uise the dative case, or a preposeetional object, or replace the verb wi anither.)
efter the preposition statt ("instead o, in place o"): Er kam statt meiner in die Mannschaft. – "He jyned the team in my place." This soonds antiquatit, an an meiner Statt or an meiner Stelle is preferable (in which case meiner is nae a genitive, but a form o the possessive determiner mein).

Forder readin eedit

Ich in Duden online

Hunsrik eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Middle High German ich, frae Old High German ih, frae Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik, frae Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation eedit

/iç/

Pronoon eedit

Ich

A
Ich sin en Fraa.
a am a wumman.

Inflection eedit

Hunsrik personal pronoons

	nominative		accusative		dative
	Proclitic	Enclitic	str.	unstr.	str.	unstr.
1st person singular	ich	-ich	mich		meer	mer
2nt person seengular (informal)	du	-du, -de	dich		deer	der
3rd person singular (m)	er, där	-er	ihn	en	ihm	em
3rd person singular (f)	sie, die	-se	sie / ihns	se	eer	re
3rd person seengular (n)	es, das	's	es		ihm	em
1st person plural	meer	mer	uns		uns
2nt person plural	deer	der	eich		eich
3rd person plural	sie, die	-se	sie	se	denne