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moi

/mwa/

pronoun/mwa/

moi is feminine in French.

me (first-person singular disjunctive pronoun); me (first-person singular object pronoun of imperative verbs)

“L'État, c'est moi.” — I am the State.

Inherited from Middle French moy, from Old French mei, moi, mi (“me”), tonic form of me, from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-, *(h₁)me-n- (“me”). More at me. See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman mei, Gallo mai, Picard moè and Bourguignon moi from Old French; Corsican and Franco-Provençal mè.

noun, masculine/mwa/

moi is masculine in French.

the ego; the me

Related: non-moi

Inherited from Middle French moy, from Old French mei, moi, mi (“me”), tonic form of me, from Latin mē (“me”), from Proto-Indo-European *(h₁)me-, *(h₁)me-n- (“me”). More at me. See cognates in regional languages in France: Norman mei, Gallo mai, Picard moè and Bourguignon moi from Old French; Corsican and Franco-Provençal mè.