my

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The Polish subject pronoun for the speaker's group, and also the Polish name of the Greek letter μ.

Examples

  • Grecką literę my zapisuje się jako μ.
    The Greek letter mu is written as μ.
  • My zostajemy tutaj do wieczora.
    We are staying here until evening.
  • W tej sprawie my odpowiadamy za decyzję.
    In this matter we are responsible for the decision.
  • Czy my możemy zacząć bez nich?
    Can we start without them?
  • To my przygotowaliśmy raport.
    It was we who prepared the report.

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mi

Meanings

Speaker's group

pronoun
everyday
neutral
The nominative first-person plural pronoun for the speaker together with one or more other people.

Examples

  • My zostajemy tutaj do wieczora.
    We are staying here until evening.
  • To my przygotowaliśmy raport.
    It was we who prepared the report.
  • Czy my możemy zacząć bez nich?
    Can we start without them?
  • W tej sprawie my odpowiadamy za decyzję.
    In this matter we are responsible for the decision.
  • Jeśli my się zgodzimy, plan ruszy jutro.
    If we agree, the plan will start tomorrow.

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Greek letter mu

noun
language
neutral
The Polish name for the twelfth letter of the Greek alphabet, written Μ or μ and used in science and notation.

Examples

  • Grecką literę my zapisuje się jako μ.
    The Greek letter mu is written as μ.
  • W równaniu symbol μ odczytujemy po polsku jako my.
    In the equation, the symbol μ is read in Polish as mu.
  • Małe my oznacza w fizyce współczynnik tarcia.
    Lowercase mu denotes the coefficient of friction in physics.
  • Przedrostek mikro zapisuje się znakiem małego my.
    The prefix micro is written with the sign of lowercase mu.
  • W alfabecie greckim my stoi po lambdzie.
    In the Greek alphabet, mu comes after lambda.

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Etymology

The pronoun is inherited from Proto-Slavic my. The letter name comes through the Greek letter name mu, also rendered in Polish as mi.

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Calm Camel
Jul 12
Dont read it like English my. Polish y in my is that hard vowel learners hate, much closer to mih than mai. If you say mai, people may need a second to parse it.
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Soft Quail
Jun 13
English speakers put my everywhere at first, because we do it with we. In Polish idziemy already has the we inside it. My idziemy is more like WE are going, not you lot, not them.
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Cobalt Impala
Jul 6
also Polish does not split inclusive and exclusive we, context has to do that job
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