мен

Akin to Avar мун (mun).

мен (men)

1. (women's speech) you

   Synonym: (men's speech) мин (min)

• IPA^(key): [mɛn]

мен • (men) (personal)

1. Alternative form of мене (mene) (the full form of the first-person singular pronoun in the accusative case, used as the direct object of a verb); me

   Избери мен вместо Петър.

   Izberi men vmesto Petǎr.

   Choose me instead of Peter.

   Мен ли търсиш?

   Men li tǎrsiš?

   Is it me you are looking for?

2. Alternative form of мене (mene) (the first-person singular pronoun in the prepositional case, used as the object of a preposition); me

   Ела с мен.

   Ela s men.

   Come with me.

   Не сядай до мен.

   Ne sjadaj do men.

   Don't sit next to me.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [meːn], [min]

мен (men) (Konda)

1. we (in the dual)

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

• E. A. Kuzakova (2001) “мен”, in Мансийско-русский словарь (кондинский диалект мансийского языка), По рассказу П. К. Чейметова «Ворыяп хумый» («Два охотника») [Mansi-Russian dictionary (Kondinsky dialect of the Mansi language), Based on the story by P. K. Cheymetov “Ворыяп хумый” (“Two Hunters”)]‎^[1], Kondinsky district: local history museum, →ISBN

 

From Proto-Samoyedic *wën.

мен (men)

1. dog

• Donner, Kai R. (1944) “mɛ̀ǹ”, in Kamassisches Wörterbuch nebst Sprachproben und Hauptzügen der Grammatik‎^[2], Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).

мен • (men)

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

Inherited from Kipchak [Term?], from Common Turkic *bän (“I”), from Proto-Turkic *ben- (“me”, oblique of *be (“I”)). Cognate with Armeno-Kipchak մեն (men); Old Uyghur 𐽹𐽺 (mn /⁠män⁠/), 𐽹𐽰𐽺 (mʾn /⁠män⁠/), Old Turkic 𐰋𐰤 (b²n² /⁠bän⁠/); etc.

• IPA^(key): /men/, [mje̘n]
• Hyphenation: мен

мен • (men)

1. I (first-person singular nominative and disjunctive pronoun)

Haplology of менен (menen). Spelled as برلان (birlān /⁠birlän⁠/) in İske imlâ, being transcribed as мі̥нӓн.^[1]

Cognate with Bashkir менән (menən); Kyrgyz менен (menen); Chagatai برلان, بلان, whence Uzbek bilan; Tuvan биле (bile); etc.

• IPA^(key): /men/, [mje̘n]
• Hyphenation: мен

мен • (men)

1. and (for nouns)

   ата мен ана ― ata men ana ― father and mother

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).

мен • (men)

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).

мен • (men) (Arabic spelling مەن)

1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

• “мен”, in Эл-Сөздүк [El-Sözdük] (in Russian)

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).

мен • (men)

1. I

From Proto-Turkic *ben. Cognate with Tuvan мен (men), Khakas мин (min), Shor мен (men), Chulym мӓн (män), Western Yugur men, Tofa мен (men), Karachay-Balkar мен (men), Kumyk мен (men), Southern Altai мен (men), Kazakh мен (men), Turkish ben, etc.

мен • (men)

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

• бин (bin)

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “мен”, in Severnyje dialekty Altajskovo (Ojrotskovo Jazyka- Dialekt kumandincev(Kumandin Kiži) [Northern Dialect of Altai -Kumandin Dialect(Kumandin kiži)], Moskva: glavnaja redakcija vostočnoja literatury, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [mʲen]

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мен • (men) f inan pl

1. genitive plural of ме́на (ména)

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).

мен • (men)

1. I

From Proto-Turkic *ben (“I”).

мен • (men)

1. I

From Proto-Turkic *ben. Cognate with Tuvan мен (men), Khakas мин (min), Southern Altai мен (men), Kazakh мен (men), Turkish ben, etc.

• IPA^(key): [mʲen]

мен (men)

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

From Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Tuvan мен (men), Old Turkic 𐰢𐰤 (mn²), etc.

• IPA^(key): [mʲen]

мен (men)

1. First-person singular predicative particle, used after predicates.

• -м (-m)

Inherited from Common Turkic *ben (“I”, with oblique *-n), from Proto-Turkic *be (“I”).

Cognate with Tofa мен (men, pronoun and predicative particle), Khakas мин (min, pronoun), Northern Altai мен (men, pronoun), мин (min); Southern Altai мен (men, pronoun), Kazakh мен (men, pronoun), -мін (-mın), -бін (-bın), -пін (-pın), -мын (-myn), -бын (-byn), -пын (-pyn); Turkish ben (pronoun); Old Turkic 𐰋𐰤 (b²n² /⁠bän⁠/, pronoun), 𐰢𐰤 (mn² /⁠män⁠/, predicative particle).

• IPA^(key): [mɛ̃n]
• Hyphenation: мен

мен • (men)

1. I (first-person singular subject pronoun)

мен • (men)

1. Forms the first-person singular predicative when used in conjunction with nouns, adjectives, and certain verb tenses, including the present-future and indefinite past.
   • 1921, “Тоорутукг долгай тандым”:

     Тос-ла чүзүн малымайны / Доруктурза, байыыр-ла мен.

     Tos-la çüzün malımaynı / Dorukturza, bayıır-la men.

     My livestocks of nine colours / If my taiga raises them, I’ll be rich.

   • 2011, “Мен — тыва мен”:

     .Мен — тыва мен, / Мөңге харлыг дагның оглу мен.

     .Men — tıva men, / Möñge xarlıg dagnıñ oglu men.

     I am a Tuvan, / I'm the son of the mountains capped with perpetual snow.

• бис (bis, first-person plural)
• сен (sen, second-person singular)
• силер (siler, second-person plural)
• ол (ol, third-person singular)
• -лар (-lar, third-person plural)
• -м (-m)