jeg

Jeg is a term with multiple potential meanings, most commonly serving as the first-person singular pronoun in Danish and Norwegian. In these languages, it means "I" and is used as the subject of verbs in everyday speech and writing. It is written in lowercase within sentences and only capitalized at the beginning of a sentence or in proper names.

In Danish, jeg functions as the subject pronoun, with related forms for objects and possessives such as mig (me) and min/mine (my). In practical usage, it participates in phrases like Jeg elsker dig, meaning “I love you.” In Norwegian, the same form jeg is standard in Bokmål; in Nynorsk, the corresponding first-person pronoun is eg, not jeg.

Beyond personal pronouns, Jeg may appear as an acronym or a proper name in various contexts. When capitalized as JEG, it can refer to organizations, projects, or entities specific to a domain, and its meaning is entirely context-dependent. There is no universal single interpretation for JEG outside linguistic use as a pronoun.

Because of its role in language, the primary significance of Jeg is linguistic rather than encyclopedic. In any given text, the intended meaning is typically clear from the language context: Danish or Norwegian pronoun usage versus any unrelated acronym or name.

See also: related language pronouns and regional variations in Norwegian and Danish.