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• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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i- ⁶ American  

1. variant of y-.

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i. ⁷ American  

abbreviation

1. imperator.

2. incisor.

3. interest.

4. intransitive.

5. island.

6. isle; isles.

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-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.

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I. ⁹ American  

abbreviation

1. Independent.

2. Island; Islands.

3. Isle; Isles.

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I ¹ British  

/ aɪ /

pronoun

1. (subjective) refers to the speaker or writer

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I ² 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

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abbreviation

1. Italy (international car registration)

I. ³ British  

abbreviation

1. International

2. Island or Isle

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-i ⁴ British  

suffix

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

   Iraqi

   Bangladeshi

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i ⁵ 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

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i ⁶ British  

symbol

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

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-i- ⁷ British  

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

   cuneiform

   coniferous

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i Scientific  

/ ī /

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

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i Idioms  

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

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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

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

The deal would mark Couche-Tard’s largest-ever acquisition after it abandoned a $47 billion takeover attempt of Seven & i, the Japanese owner of 7-Eleven, last year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

David Zwirner presents Roy DeCarava’s “the sound i saw,” bringing together photographs taken in the late 1940s and 1960s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

The Sussexes will fly back to the UK without a deal for taxpayer funded security, the i Paper reports.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

The i Paper also leads on the barbecue ban "to stop new UK wildfires".

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Serenity: soooo i guess u haven’t brought it up with your parents? still sneaking around? and he is good, we’re going camping later this week.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

“I did not want to leave The Voice as I love the show and really appreciate the audience,” Jones said in a statement posted to Instagram on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“It is with very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude that I announce my retirement,” Bunch said in a statement.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

"The last couple of weeks in training, he has been amazing. I think we have got a gem there, to be honest."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“They are offering a much-reduced role where I would make an appearance but without being actually involved from the start, and I’m not thrilled about that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Still, next morning, when the sun is fully risen, when the wagon’s rolling, its steady rhythm lulling, I ask: “How’d you meet Ma?”

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

By a change he had every thing to lose, and nothing to-129--vol i- gain.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

The-207--vol i- success of this collection was prodigious; edition after edition was given to the public under the inspection of different poetical revisers, by each of whom copious additions were made to the original work.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

The old ‘Minor Declensions’ had begun to pass over into the vocalic, especially into the i- and a-, declensions in the oldest OHG.

From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright

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

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

From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016

Properties i. and ii. say that line integrals are linear, which is true of single-variable integrals as well.

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

Grote, Hist. of Greece, pt. i. ch. xviii.;

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

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

Pearl diving has all but disappeared, particularly after the mass production of cultured pearls on farms after World War I. In Gulf countries, the extinction of this profession converges with a familiar story.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

So did I. The World Cup is over in less than two weeks, and France and Spain are currently the 1-2 favorites to win the thing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

Also in 2025, she was a finalist for the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards for her reporting and hosting of an audio investigation into a deadly U.S. refinery explosion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

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

“No, not I. What can they do for you? You should not be roving about now; it looks very ill.”

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

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

Thus final -o bespeaks a noun; -a, an adjective; -e, an adverb; -i, an infinitive, etc.

From International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar by Walter John Clark

In most words of this class the final -i of the stem is lost in the Nominative Singular; in others it appears as -e.

From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett

Judges were unmoved that Luitpold’s forebears had brewed in the region since 1260, written the purity law and invented Oktoberfest for his great-great-grandfather King Ludwig I’s 1810 wedding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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

“Yeah, it takes us a little longer, but we dot our I’s and we cross our Ts,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

“Mae Mobley, you know I’s just teasing you, about all them seventeen kids being mine? They ain’t really. I only had me one child.”

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

He typically records alone—This Is Lorelei is his solo project—and a feeling of solitary contemplation permeates his music.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Is Charles Leclerc's tendency to crash out of races starting to become a problem both for him and Ferrari?

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Is it a sight of pure, inhumane evil, or do their blank expressions merely reflect a corruption that can still be reversed?

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Is Antonelli win disrupting things for Italian fans?

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

“Remember, Chip, she was the only one from the witnesses list who seemed kind of, I don’t know, regretful about hanging up on us. Is regretful a word?”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

“No matter what the federal government was doing, they knew that if they weren’t dotting their i’s and crossing their t’s, they were going to get called to account,” Hilton said.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

"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

Sometimes, he says, “dotting i’s and crossing t’s has to come second to right and wrong.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

"Your proposal does not adequately acknowledge the multiple and significant challenges such a transaction would face from US competition law enforcement agencies," Seven & i's letter added.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024

I recognized your tiny handwriting right away, all wobbly and with those weird loops you put on top of your t's and i's.

From "When You Reach Me" by Rebecca Stead

“That is extremely humid by anyone’s definition, this isn’t just ‘Oh, it never gets humid in Southern California we aren’t acclimated,” said climate scientist Daniel Swain said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the fourteenth secretary in 173 years of the institution, but also the first Black man and first historian to serve as head of the Smithsonian.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Jones is among the coaches for “The Voice UK” Season 14, which is currently airing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Rosanne Cash is pausing performances on doctor’s orders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

As a result, it is the only predominantly Christian country in Asia.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

“While he will no longer be a full-time coach on series 15, we continue to talk to Sir Tom and his team about his involvement in the next series.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

"When we approached him, he was wearing a kilt and even had a polo shirt with the Haggis Waggons Tour logo printed on it, so it looked legit at the time."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“That is extremely humid by anyone’s definition, this isn’t just ‘Oh, it never gets humid in Southern California we aren’t acclimated,” said climate scientist Daniel Swain said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Some fans do like what Amanda Staveley did at Newcastle but Kretinsky puts the right people in place and Karim is talking with fans, which is what we have wanted.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Did I tell you how brave, how strong your pa was when we left Louisiana?”

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

"And it just really concerns me that he has personal details of me, and I don't want that coming back on me."

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

"The Man in the Red Bandana. He's become more famous than me, I don't like it," Trump said with a chuckle.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The streets outside 3rd St. Market Hall fill with music, food and crowds, but what stands out most to me is the art.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Then I began to worry that the van would run me over, so I crawled out from underneath and banged on the window.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Her body heat warms me, calms my shivering.

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

Its actors sat down with us to discuss how they did it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

"I think to this day none of us have actually seen the buses. They don't exist, do they?"

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

That is the binding agent China has given us.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

First, Mr. President, thank you so much for having us.

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

It’s as if they think the drawn river will come alive, bursting and showering us with venom and water.

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

The number made the library feel more mine, not less.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

"It's changed mine and my children's lives... I've been able to save, I've bought my own car, and it's given me so much more confidence," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

The union has accused De Beers management of attempting to portray the mine closure “as a sudden and unavoidable crisis,” when it has been aware for some time of the challenges facing the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

And I’m going to keep learning, because financial education has genuinely become a major interest of mine.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Betsie told me about each of her cellmates—and I told her about mine and the little hole into which they scrambled at any emergency.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Taquería El Cabrito — The best carnitas tacos in the area, in my opinion, can be found at Taquería El Cabrito on Milwaukee’s South Side.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

"One thing that's close to my heart is an endometriosis charity," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Bach was my favorite composer as an eighth grader,” he tells us, “and remains so to this day.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

On my most recent visit with Morgan, I could have eaten several portions of an end-of-summer stone fruit and tomato salad served over creamy ricotta.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Father jostles my knee and points at the skyline.

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

“But that’s not in our hands, but rather in God’s and the California justice system,” the family added.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Fewer sulphate particles mean less sunlight is reflected away - in our greenhouse analogy, the windows are cleaner.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

"Europeans have had enough of tech companies exploiting our children, but we also expect more from our leaders than quick-fix bans on kids," said Leanda Barrington-Leach, executive director of 5Rights Foundation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

When Bilton was tapped, Weiss said in a statement that he “is one of the most entrepreneurial journalists of our time.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Flashing has been with our family for generations. It’s an important tradition, and I won’t apologize for caring about it,” she replies.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Dolly was one of us, ours, but of course she was also much more.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

Liam on Marcus Rashford's future at United: I love Marcus, and the fact he is one of ours, and I would love him to come back and be as good as he was for us.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

But if we don’t sustain their vitality, how will they sustain ours?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

"Only studies like ours offer an overview of these traditions which bear witness to genuine know-how and diverse traditions."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026

Some burial societies poured buckets of water over the dead to ritually purify them, but ours had a mikveh built specifically for that purpose.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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