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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. Pron | Mod. Engl. |
Nom | (séo) | héo | she |
Acc | (þá) | híe | her (obj.) |
Gen | (þære) | hire | her (poss.) |
Dat | (þære) | hire | (to) her |
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Third Person Neuter Singular Personal Pronoun
Case | (Demonstr. Pron.) | Pers. Pron | Mod. Engl. |
Nom | (þæt) | hit | it |
Acc | (þæt | hit | it (obj.) |
Gen | (þæs) | his | its |
Dat | (þæm) | him | to it |
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Third Person Masculine Personal Pronoun
Case | (Demonstr. Pron.) | Pers. Pron | Mod. Engl. |
Nom | (sé) | hé | he |
Acc | (þone) | hine | him (obj.) |
Gen | (þæs) | his | his |
Dat | (þæm) | him | (to) him |
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Third Person Plural Personal Pronoun (same for all genders)
Case | Demonstr. Pron. | Pers. Pron | Mod. Engl. |
Nom | (þá) | híe | they |
Acc | (þá) | híe | them (obj.) |
Gen | (þara) | hira | their |
Dat | (þæm) | him | (to) them |
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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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