Jump To:

• i
  i

  the imaginary number .
• I
  I

  noun

  the ninth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.
• i-
  i-

  variant of y-.
• i.
  i.

  abbreviation

  imperator.
• -i-
  -i-

  the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Latin words, as -o- is of Greek words, but often used in English with a first element of any origin, if the second element is of Latin origin.
• I.
  I.

  abbreviation

  Independent.
• -i
  -i

  suffix

  of or relating to a region or people, esp of the Middle East

i

¹ American  

Mathematics.

1. Also called imaginary unit.  the imaginary number .

2. a unit vector on the x -axis of a coordinate system.

---

I ² American  

[ahy] / aɪ /

Or i

noun

• I's,
  plural
• Is,
  plural
• i's,
  plural
• is
  plural

1. the ninth letter of the English alphabet, a vowel.

2. any spoken sound represented by the letter I or i, as in big, nice, or ski.

3. something having the shape of an I.

4. a written or printed representation of the letter I or i.

5. a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter I or i.

---

I ³ American  

[ahy] / aɪ /

pronoun

• we,
  plural nominative
• me,
  objective
• us,
  objective
• my,
  possessive
• mine,
  possessive
• our,
  possessive
• ours
  possessive

1. the nominative singular pronoun, used in referring to oneself, the person speaking, writing, or otherwise communicating.

---

noun

• I's
  plural

1. (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular.)

2. Metaphysics. the ego.

I ⁴ American  

abbreviation

1. interstate (used with a number to designate an interstate highway).

   I-95.

---

I ⁵ American  

Symbol.

1. the ninth in order or in a series.

2. (sometimes lowercase) the Roman numeral for 1.

3. Chemistry. iodine.

4. Biochemistry. isoleucine.

5. Electricity. current.

6. Logic. particular affirmative.

7. (italics) isotopic spin.

---

i- ⁶ American  

1. variant of y-.

---

i. ⁷ American  

abbreviation

1. imperator.

2. incisor.

3. interest.

4. intransitive.

5. island.

6. isle; isles.

---

-i- ⁸ American  

1. the typical ending of the first element of compounds of Latin words, as -o- is of Greek words, but often used in English with a first element of any origin, if the second element is of Latin origin.

   cuneiform; Frenchify.

---

I. ⁹ American  

abbreviation

1. Independent.

2. Island; Islands.

3. Isle; Isles.

---

I ¹ British  

symbol

1. chem iodine

2. physics current

3. physics isospin

4. logic a particular affirmative categorial statement, such as some men are married, often symbolized as SiP Compare A E O 1

5. one See Roman numerals

---

abbreviation

1. Italy (international car registration)

-i ² British  

suffix

1. of or relating to a region or people, esp of the Middle East

   Iraqi

   Bangladeshi

---

-i- ³ British  

1. used between elements in a compound word Compare -o-

   cuneiform

   coniferous

---

i ⁴ British  

/ aɪ /

noun

1. the ninth letter and third vowel of the modern English alphabet

2. any of several speech sounds represented by this letter, in English as in bite or hit

3. 1. something shaped like an I

   2. ( in combination )

      an I-beam

4. to pay meticulous attention to detail

---

I. ⁵ British  

abbreviation

1. International

2. Island or Isle

---

I ⁶ British  

/ aɪ /

pronoun

1. (subjective) refers to the speaker or writer

---

i ⁷ British  

symbol

1. Also called: j.  the imaginary number √–1

---

i Scientific  

/ ī /

1. The number whose square is equal to −1. Numbers expressed in terms of i are called imaginary or complex numbers.

---

i Idioms  

1. see dot the i's and cross the t's.

---

Grammar

See me.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• I's
  plural
• Is
  plural
• i's
  plural
• is
  plural
• mine
  possessive
• my
  possessive
• our
  possessive
• ours
  possessive

Etymology

Origin of I

First recorded before 900; Middle English ik, ich, i, Old English ic, ih; cognate with Gothic ik, German ich, Old Norse ek, Latin ego, Greek egṓ, Old Church Slavonic azŭ, Lithuanian aš, Sanskrit ahám

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

i I i- i. -i- I. -i I's Is i's is we me us mine my our ours

The i Paper says "sixteen million people could see their areas move into drought status this week", meaning that "car washes and swimming pools could face water bans" amid heatwave conditions.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

The deal, if successful, would be the largest-ever acquisition for the owner of Circle K, which abandoned a $47 billion takeover attempt of Seven & i, the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven, last July.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The move comes less than a week after Seven & i decided against proceeding with a potential investment in ⁠Zabka.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

"Race against time" says the i Paper, next to a photo of a French firefighter standing in front of a burning row of trees and tall grass.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

I am nearly sixteen when i look around the store and realize that it has barely changed in all the time I’ve been here.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

I was using an open-weight Chinese model with its guardrails removed, which I accessed through a free account on an American website.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

I had just one thing in mind when I arrived, however: cooling herbs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

"I don't know the issue yet in detail, but in some ways, as I understand it, it is about creating secure space," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

In 2020, I calculated that repealing the firewall would lead to $2.2 trillion in higher subsidy spending over a decade for the estimated 24 million people who would switch from employer coverage to the exchanges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Reading is something I can do that Father and Grandpa can’t.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Yet that doesn't make its turnaround solely the work of one heavily stubbled mastermind, who saved a company through his singular vision, taste and liberal use of the i- prefix.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2011

But it wasn't until Cipla came out with the i- pill in 2007, marketing it to modern young women through television and magazine advertising, that women took to it.

From Time ● May 26, 2010

Your majesty's humble sister to commandment, "Elizabeth." -107--vol i-

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

Happy would it have been for England in more ages than one, had the sentiment of the following humble-124--vol i- stanza been indelibly inscribed on the hearts of children.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

A remarkable incident soon served to intimate the coolness and caution with which it was her intention-254--vol i- to proceed in re-establishing the maxims of the reformers.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

And a lot of people, not just the Gilbreths, were very worried that the “best women” i. e. highly educated women were not reproducing.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

For each of the following functions, determine the i. domain and ii. range.

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

Combining the results from parts i. and ii., draw a rough sketch of f .

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

Within minutes, I got my answer: “@sethporges yes. my girlfriend cathy and i. and i used to do puppet shows.”

From Forbes ● Jun. 26, 2012

Hist. of Latin Christianity, vol. i. pp. 314-318.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

It may be a connecting sound, like the -i- in nacht-i-gale.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

The concord of the 4th prefix, Mi-, is gi-, -i-, -ji-, and sometimes -mi-.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various

Born in Oregon to Taiwanese immigrants, Wang is herself a beneficiary of the doctrine she defended during the historic oral argument—as am I. Following the argument, interest in her background exploded.

From Slate ● May 26, 2026

Guy Fieri didn’t know about it, and neither did I. Oh no, he did.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2026

Jef I. Richards is a professor emeritus of advertising and public relations at Michigan State University’s College of Communication Arts and Sciences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

In a recent study, Purusharth I. Rajyaguru and colleagues used Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a type of yeast commonly used in research, to explore how life might respond to Mars-like stress.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2026

We have words over that, Karin and I. Very broken words in German and Polish.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

Then, when you get to the step where you’re actually running the check-backup command, add -i ~/Downloads/pegasus.stix2 into the option section.

From The Verge ● Jul. 21, 2021

Singular masculine words end in -us, plurals end in -i.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2010

The suffix -i, added to a noun stem, forms generally a neuter verb.

From The Mafulu Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson

Every Esperanto verb has three Moods—the Conditional, the Imperative, and the Infinitive, which are formed respectively by means of the endings -us, -u, and -i.

From Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation by William W. Mann

First log on as root, and then type dpkg -i icewm_0.8.12-1.deb, and icewm version 0.8.12 will be installed.

From Debian GNU/Linux : Guide to Installation and Usage by John Goerzen

The medieval Cloth Hall and St. Martin’s Church were two of the most prominent monuments in Ypres, Belgium, and among World War I’s early casualties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

The company taking the top spot on Gauntlet I’s leaderboard External link was Skycutter, a British startup that partnered with Ukrainian drone company SkyFall.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

"I's a very different offering up there. You've still got beaches, but then you've got greenery and mountains and wildlife."

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026

Queen Elizabeth I’s elaborate mask-like daily makeup ritual not only hid her smallpox scars but was also meant to project a preternatural agelessness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 24, 2024

If I’s to worry ’bout bones choking me, it’d happen every time I et fish.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

That also raises an even bigger question: Is paying off this $1,000 actually an emergency?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

"Is he simply going to ramp up the name of Liverpool in order to make as much money as possible?"

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Is your company becoming more always-on in nature?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Only three Ramones songs ever made it to the Billboard Hot 100 — “Rockaway Beach,” “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker,” and “Do You Wanna Dance,” all absolute bangers that should be enshrined in the culture.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

‘I’m going out to play with the girls. Is that okay?’

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

"I had really dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's of the experiment," he said.

From Science Daily ● May 18, 2026

And I don’t tend to favor biographies, because there generally are some tedious sections in the middle as the writer dots the i’s and crosses the t’s of the subject’s life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

“I know sometimes people feel like, why hasn’t there been more information? But again, just trying to make sure we have i’s dotted and t’s crossed.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025

The i's Anna Bonet added Intermezzo is "mature and profound and feels like a culmination of everything she has done before".

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024

She wrote in big curling script, and she dotted her letter i’s with stars.

From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon

CEO Michael Hurlston said in a statement that Lumentum is positioned “at the heart of a secular industry shift.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

The drifting “Other Plans” is so minimal that much of Ms. Bridgers’s melody line consists of a single repeated note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

For Oracle, the “top priority” is maintaining an investment-grade credit rating, Deutsche Bank analyst Brad Zelnick wrote in a note last week.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Which is fine, but one likes a mix.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

But if she’s going to succeed in her adopted country—one for which she played such a pivotal wartime role—she’ll have to remind them who she is.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“Customer demand is accelerating as enterprise adoption broadens and we continue to deepen our technology platform.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

But it is Philippa Northeast as Sybylla who is the shiny thing from which we cannot avert our eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

“All of the traditions, including European, we involve in the blending of formulas,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

"When we hopefully play in the way they want to see us - intense football, a vertical approach, aggressive, front-footed - there is a great synergy between the fans and the team."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“It’ll be busier, less lonely, than when we walked.”

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

What are they going to do with me?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

A shop attendant shuttled me into a shady spot by the tonic bar, where the mixologist began mixing me cooling drinks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

But I’m not Brad Pitt, and no one is doing sycophantic cover stories on me in Esquire.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

Daniell stared at me, his eyes burning with indignation.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

If Ma were here, she’d remind me to eat one and save one for later.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

“For us, for geographical reasons, Russia is our first priority.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Presidents rightly expect more security than the rest of us, but that typically comes with greater scrutiny of their locations and activities too.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

Goalkeeper Lukas Hornicek said Newcastle want to "show the opponents that they will have a hard time against us", while defender Malick Thiaw has spoken about the intensity under Jaissle being "really high".

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

There are more pressing issues that await us all.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

“Also, I meant to tell you kids yesterday—Candace is having a gallery opening for an exhibit and invited us all to come. It’s Saturday at noon,” he says.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

So when I take mine at 70, she would get half of my $4,200, or $2,100, at 70.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

To investigate, the team collected mine water from a flooded uranium mine in the Ore Mountains belonging to Wismut GmbH.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026

The bank raises its share-price target to A$13.00 from A$12.00 to reflect increased expected mine life and output at some operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“I would be crazy to say that I don’t want to win an MVP, but if we’re talking about having priorities straight, I think mine are pretty straight,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

He widens his stance, brings his face closer to mine, tucks a loose strand of hair behind my ear.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Finally, my wife plans to file for Social Security when she turns 62 next May.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

“In the snap of fingers, my best friend, my confidant, my partner, my soul mate was transitioned to another dimension — a higher plane,” she wrote in her post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

“I can’t get the image out of my mind … him standing on the gate, screaming, ‘Help me!

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

You might drop this paper with an “ick” if you knew how many readers proved my point by shrieking “denier” at me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

Moving my mouth sideways across the harmonica reeds, I make up tunes.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

“Customer demand is accelerating as enterprise adoption broadens and we continue to deepen our technology platform.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

But it is Philippa Northeast as Sybylla who is the shiny thing from which we cannot avert our eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

“For too long, our gender equity work has been siloed without a central entity responsible for coordinating and advancing this work,” Horvath said during the meeting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

Egerton said: "I do love him. I just don't think we work very well in terms of our relationship. So, there was a point where I pushed the ejector seat and haven't seen him since."

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

He offers the bottom plank from the cedar chest that held our clothes and Bible.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Salzburg’s worries are our worries; its triumphs can be ours as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

As much as we might wish otherwise, Kylie Jenner and Taylor Swift are not like us, and we cannot measure their autonomy and power on the same scale as ours.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

“Whirlpool has been a great partner of ours for decades and decades,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Her world looks and operates like ours, and that means there are no free lunches.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

The FBI is supposed to protect families like ours.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Related Words

• he
• it
• she
• sie
• they
• ve
• xe
• you
• ze
• zie