mim
Portuguese, pronoun
mim is spelled M-I-M (3 letters) and appears 794 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 116th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Mim is a Portuguese pronoun meaning “first-person singular prepositional pronoun” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Mim is a different word: “Honorific alternative letter-case form of mim, sometimes used when…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “caso oblíquo do pronome pessoal da primeira pessoa, usado após preposições (a, ante, após, até, contra, de…”.
What does mim mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
first-person singular prepositional pronoun
- 2
proscribedused instead of eu as the subject of a subordinate clause following para, eg: para mim fazer instead of standard para eu fazer (for me to do)
pronoun
- 1
Honorific alternative letter-case form of mim, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. caso oblíquo do pronome pessoal da primeira pessoa, usado após preposições (a, ante, após, até, contra, de, desde, entre, para, por, sem, sobre)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of mim
- mi alternative archaic
- my alternative obsolete
- mym alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to mim
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mim in Portuguese?
mim appears 794 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).