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I'm

UK/aɪm/

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Northumbria/aːm/

I'm is the contraction of I.

Meaning of I

Pronoun

I (first person singular subject personal pronoun, objective me, possessive my, possessive pronoun mine, reflexive myself)

  1. (first-person, personal, pronoun, singular, subjective) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence.
    • I drove my sister and myself to school.
  2. (first-person, nonstandard, personal, pronoun, singular, subjective) The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical object, of a sentence.
    • Mom drove my sister and I to school.

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Synonyms of I'm

Forms of I'm

alternative form (obsolete)I 'm

Origin of I'm

Contraction of I am.

Phrases with I'm

101 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with I'm

31 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about I'm

What is I'm the contraction of?
I'm is the contraction of I.
How do you pronounce I'm?
I'm is pronounced /aɪm/ (UK).

Words near I'm in the dictionary

  1. I'll see you and raise you
  2. I'll show you
  3. I'll tell you
  4. I'll tell you what
  5. I'll've
  6. I'm
  7. I'm 'onna
  8. I'm ... year(s) old
  9. I'm 14 and this is deep
  10. I'm a
  11. I'm a Buddhist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: I'm (page history and authors); I (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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