German - Russian Dictionary
/ɪç/
Ich is the German first-person singular pronoun meaning 'I' in English, translated to Russian as я. It is the most common way to refer to oneself as the subject of a sentence.
| # | Type | German | Russian |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronoun | ich personal pronoun | я |
| 2 | pronoun | ich personal pronoun | аз archaic |
| 3 | noun | ich the self | эго |
| 4 | noun | ich the self | я |
| 5 | pronoun | ich subject of a verb with “and” | я |
Ich bin Lehrer.
Я учитель.
Mein Freund und ich gehen ins Kino.
Мой друг и я идём в кино.
Ich habe ein starkes Ego.
У меня сильное эго.
Ich is always capitalized in German, even when not at the beginning of a sentence. In Russian, я is the standard translation for the personal pronoun; эго and я as nouns referring to the self occur mainly in psychology or philosophy contexts and are less frequent in everyday speech.
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