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Pronouns often retain more case distinctions than nouns – this is true of both German and English, and also of the Romance languages, which (with the exception of Romanian) have lost the Latin grammatical case for nouns, but preserve certain distinctions in the personal pronouns.
The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...
The English pronouns form a relatively small category of words in Modern English whose primary semantic function is that of a pro-form for a noun phrase. [1] Traditional grammars consider them to be a distinct part of speech, while most modern grammars see them as a subcategory of noun, contrasting with common and proper nouns.
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English personal pronouns (4 C, 1 P) G. Gender-neutral pronouns (19 P) S. ... Pages in category "Personal pronouns" The following 19 pages are in this category, out ...
Middle English personal pronouns Below each Middle English pronoun, the Modern English is shown in italics (with archaic forms in parentheses) Person / gender Subject Object Possessive determiner Possessive pronoun Reflexive; Singular First ic / ich / I I: me / mi me: min / minen [pl.] my: min / mire / minre mine: min one / mi seluen myself: Second
Modern English personal pronouns (1 C, 21 P) O. Old English personal pronouns (3 P) S. Second-person plural pronouns in English (10 P)
Old English pronouns; Nominative IPA Accusative Dative Genitive 1st Singular iċ: mec / mē: mē: mīn Dual wit: uncit: unc: uncer Plural wē: ūsic: ūs: ūser / ūre