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Definition of I pronoun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

I

pronoun
 
 
/aɪ/
 
/aɪ/
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  1. used as the subject of a verb when the speaker or writer is referring to himself/herself
    • I think I'd better go now.
    • When they asked me if I wanted the job, I said yes.
    • He and I are old friends.
    • I'm not going to fall, am I?
    • I'm taller than her, aren't I?
    • Jen and I went to London yesterday.
    In informal spoken English people sometimes say ‘Jen and me went…’, which is wrong because the subject pronoun I is needed in this position. This sometimes leads people to use ‘and I’ in the phrase ‘between you and I’, which is also wrong, because the object pronoun me is needed after the preposition between: Between you and me… see also me
    Word Originpronoun Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ik and German ich, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin ego and Greek egō.
See I in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee I in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
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