🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Bin ich

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bɪn ɪç

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Am I/æm aɪ/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Bin ich zu spät?"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    First-person singular present indicative form of the verb to be, used with the first-person singular pronoun.

    "Am I invited to the meeting?"
As pronoun
  1. 1

    The subjective pronoun representing the speaker or writer, used in interrogative inversion.

    "What am I supposed to do now?"

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Synonyms (3)
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'eom' (first-person singular present of the verb 'be') combined with Old English 'ic' (pronoun referring to the speaker). Over the centuries, through Middle English development, the forms standardized into the modern auxiliary verb and personal pronoun combination.

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