Template: Early Modern English personal pronouns (table) Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! {| class="wikitable" |+ [[Early Modern English#Pronouns|Personal pronouns in Early Modern English]] ! colspan="2" | ! [[Nominative case|Nominative]] ! [[Oblique case|Oblique]] ! [[Genitive case|Genitive]] ! [[Possessive case|Possessive]] |- ! rowspan="2" | 1st person ! singular | I | me | my/mine<ref group="#" name="thine">The genitives ''my'', ''mine'', ''thy'', and ''thine'' are used as [[possessive adjective]]s before a noun, or as possessive pronouns without a noun. All four forms are used as possessive adjectives: ''mine'' and ''thine'' are used before nouns beginning in a [[vowel]] sound, or before nouns beginning in the letter ''h'', which was usually silent (e.g. ''thine eyes'' and ''mine heart'', which was pronounced as ''mine art'') and ''my'' and ''thy'' before consonants (''thy mother'', ''my love''). However, only ''mine'' and ''thine'' are used as possessive pronouns, as in ''it is thine'' and ''they were mine'' (not *''they were my'').</ref> | mine |- ! plural | we | us | our | ours |- ! rowspan="3" | 2nd person ! singular informal | thou | thee | thy/thine<ref group="#" name="thine"/> | thine |- ! singular formal | rowspan="2" | ye, you | rowspan="2" | you | rowspan="2" | your | rowspan="2" | yours |- ! plural |- ! rowspan="2" | 3rd person ! singular | he/she/it | him/her/it | his/her/his (it)<ref group="#" name="its">From the early [[Early Modern English]] period up until the 17th century, ''his'' was the possessive of the third-person neuter ''it'' as well as of the third-person masculine ''he''. Genitive "it" appears once in the 1611 [[King James Bible]] (Leviticus 25:5) as ''groweth of it owne accord''.</ref> | his/hers/his<ref group="#" name="its"/> |- ! plural | they | them | their | theirs |} <references group="#"/><noinclude> [[Category:Early Modern English personal pronouns|*]] </noinclude> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page