woe is me

Nghĩa (Tiếng Anh)

Used to show that the speaker feels distress or misery.

Từ đồng nghĩa

woe

oh no

ah

Bản dịch

οίμοι

o weh

weh mir

ai de mim

ay de mí

Phát âm là (IPA)

/ˌwəʊ ɪz ˈmiː/

Từ nguyên (Tiếng Anh)

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Đức: Weh ist mir

Có liên quan đến Tiếng Yiddish: וויי איז מיר

In summary

Here, the oblique pronoun me denotes not an informal copulative complement (as in this is me), but an indirect object, wherefore it literally means woe is to me, an obsolete way of saying I feel woe; compare German mir ist traurig (“I feel sad”, literally “to-me [it] is sad”). Idiomatically, it means woe is upon me. See also German weh ist mir and its descendant, Yiddish וויי איז מיר (vey iz mir), which are identical in form and meaning to the English expression.