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Personal Pronouns: Third Person

We saw in the second lesson that the inflectional change that occurs from the nominative to the accusative case for the pronoun he (hine in accusative) is similar to the change in the masculine demonstrative pronoun se (þone). The similarity here actually carries on throughout the third person personal pronouns, as you can see in the following tables:

Third Person Feminine Singular Personal Pronoun

Case(Demonstr. Pron.)Pers. PronMod. Engl.
Nom(séo)héoshe
Acc(þá)híeher (obj.)
Gen(þære)hireher (poss.)
Dat(þære)hire(to) her

Third Person Neuter Singular Personal Pronoun

Case(Demonstr. Pron.)Pers. PronMod. Engl.
Nom(þæt)hitit
Acc(þæthitit (obj.)
Gen(þæs)hisits
Dat(þæm)himto it

Third Person Masculine Personal Pronoun

Case(Demonstr. Pron.)Pers. PronMod. Engl.
Nom(sé)he
Acc(þone)hinehim (obj.)
Gen(þæs)hishis
Dat(þæm)him(to) him

Third Person Plural Personal Pronoun (same for all genders)

CaseDemonstr. Pron.Pers. PronMod. Engl.
Nom(þá)híethey
Acc(þá)híethem (obj.)
Gen(þara)hiratheir
Dat(þæm)him(to) them

These similarities should make learning the personal pronouns relatively painless, especially since so many of the forms are close to the Modern English forms anyway.


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