mı

mı

1. ergative of az: I

   Mı əvım vinde

   I saw him

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *-mi.

• IPA^(key): (sense 1) /mɯ/, (sense 2) /ˈmɯ/

mı

1. Used to form interrogatives.

   Arabanı sattın mı? ― Did you sell your car?

   Aptal mısın? ― Are you stupid?

   Dondurma alacak mıyız? ― Are we going to buy ice cream?

2. (colloquial) once, as soon as

   Güven kağıt gibidir; bir kere buruştu mu, hırpalandı mı bir daha eskisi gibi olmayacaktır.

   Trust is like paper; once it's wrinkled, once it's battered it'll never be like it once was.

Slightly irregular conjugation despite mi being a particle. Aorist are the same with future (but imperfective -yor > muyum). Past, inferential, and conditional tenses instead of having normal endings (*mıdım, *mısam, ..), this particle instead has -y-. This irregularity arose from the compounding with *imek, of which has past idi, conditional ise, and inferential imiş, later suiting to the Turkish vowel harmony.

This particle follows vowel harmony from the previous word (see below), thus sever miyim, not *sever mıyım.

• mın, me

mı

1. oblique of ez (“I”): me, my