FYI

FYI

See also: fyi

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛfwaɪˈaɪ/
• Rhymes: -aɪ

Phrase

FYI

1. Initialism of for your information.
   • 1948, "Don Burke, chief of TIME Inc.'s Cairo bureau," Time, 14 Jun.,

     At the close of a recent cable describing the recovery of his censor-held photographs of the fighting in the Holy Land, LIFE Photographer John Phillips added the casual postscript: "FYI, Burke narrowly escaped death outside Jerusalem a few days ago."

Translations

for your information

Chinese: Mandarin: 供您参考 Dutch: ter informatie Finnish: tiedoksesi, tiedoksenne French: pour info (fr) German: zu deiner Information, zu Ihrer Information Hungarian: tájékoztatásul Italian: per vostra informazione

Korean: 참고로 (chamgoro) Persian: جهت اطلاع‎ (jahat-e ettelâ') Polish: do twojej wiadomości Portuguese: para a sua informação Russian: к вашему сведению (k vašemu svedeniju) Spanish: para tu información, (Usted form) para su información Turkish: bilginize, bilgilerinize

Usage notes

• Although its usage long predates the internet and text messaging, FYI is now probably used most frequently in electronic communications.

Anagrams

• -ify