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“i” – English explanatory dictionary

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Example of using - I shall be late!
I have no idea what I'm doing.
I have no idea what I'm doing.
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Sorry, the number one question I've gotten
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- I think it's time for us to leave. - Don't do that.
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pronoun
used by a speaker when talking about himself or herself
○ She said, ‘I can do it’, and she did it.
○ He told me I could go home early.
○ She and I come from the same town. 
○ I said I was going to be late. (NOTE: When it is the object of a verb, I becomes me: I gave it to him – he gave it to me; I hit him – he hit me. When it follows the verb be, I usually becomes me: Who is it? – It’s me!)
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1
noun
the Roman numeral for one or first
○ King Charles I
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I noun the ninth letter of the alphabet, between H and J
 □ to dot one’s i’s and cross one’s t’s to be very careful to get the final details right
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(i).
1. I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phœnician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phœnician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. þynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon. In English I has two principal vowel sounds: the long sound, as in pine, ice; and the short sound, as in pin. It has also three other sounds: (a) That of e in term, as in thirst. (b) That of e in mete (in words of foreign origin), as in machine, pique, regime. (c) That of consonant y (in many words in which it precedes another vowel), as in bunion, million, filial, Christian, etc. It enters into several digraphs, as in fail, field, seize, feign. friend; and with o often forms a proper diphtong, as in oil, join, coin. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 98-106. The dot which we place over the small or lower case i dates only from the 14th century. The sounds of I and J were originally represented by the same character, and even after the introduction of the form J into English dictionaries, words containing these letters were, till a comparatively recent time, classed together.
2. In our old authors, I was often used for ay (or aye), yes, which is pronounced nearly like it.
3. As a numeral, I stands for 1, II for 2, etc.
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(i), pron. [poss. My (mi) or Mine (min); object. Me (me). pl. nom. We (we); poss. Our (our) or Ours (ourz); object. Us (us).] [OE. i, ich, ic, AS. ic; akin to OS. & D. ik, OHG. ih, G. ich, Icel. ek, Dan. jeg, Sw. jag, Goth. ik, OSlav. az’, Russ. ia, W. i, L. ego, Gr. ’egw•, ’egw•n, Skr. aham. rad.179. Cf. Egoism.] The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.
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I watched The Lion King, and I loved it.

The scentence about “The Lion King”.

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