Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns

Standard English personal pronouns: You | Thou | We | | | It Dialect & Slang: Informal 2nd person plural Ye Y'all | Yinz Constituents of a clause &c.: Subjective Possessive Prepositional Objective Determinacy: Dummy Generic you Singular they Inclusive and exclusive we Pluralis majestatis T-V distinction Gender issues: Androgynous Gender-specific Gender-neutral Invented (ve, xe, ze, sie/hir) Spivak Other languages: Proto-Indo-European Bulgarian Cantonese Catalan personal French, personal German Macedonian Middle English personal Middle High German Portuguese, personal Slovene Spanish Burmese Chinese Korean Japanese Vietnamese

Standard English personal pronouns:

Dialect & Slang:

Constituents of a clause &c.:

Determinacy:

Gender issues:

Other languages:

Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they). Personal pronouns may also take different forms depending on number (usually singular or plural), grammatical or natural gender, case, and formality. The term "personal" is used here purely to signify the grammatical sense; personal pronouns are not limited to people and can also refer to animals and objects (as the English personal pronoun it usually does).

The re-use in some languages of one personal pronoun to indicate a second personal pronoun with formality or social distance – commonly a second person plural to signify second person singular formal – is known as the T–V distinction, from the Latin pronouns tu and vos. Examples are the majestic plural in English and the use of "vous" in place of "tu" in French

For specific details of the personal pronouns used in the English language, see English personal pronouns.

Languages typically have personal pronouns for each of the three grammatical persons:

As noted above, within each person there are often different forms for different grammatical numbers, especially singular and plural. Languages which have other numbers, such as dual (e.g. Slovene), may also have distinct pronouns for these.

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