Table of Basic Personal Pronouns
The basic personal pronouns of modern English are shown in the table below. (For the distinction between the forms, see the previous section, and Case usage below.)
| Singular | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Object | Possessive determiner | Possessive pronoun | Reflexive | Subject | Object | Possessive determiner | Possessive pronoun | Reflexive | ||
| First | I | me | my | mine | myself | we | us | our | ours | ourselves | |
| Second | you | your | yours | yourself | you | your | yours | yourselves | |||
| Third | Masculine | he | him | his | himself | they | them | their | theirs | themselves | |
| Feminine | she | her | hers | herself | |||||||
| Neuter | it | its | - | itself | |||||||
Other English pronouns which have distinct forms of the above types are the indefinite pronoun one, which has the reflexive oneself (the possessive form is written one's, like a regular English possessive); and the interrogative and relative pronoun who, which has the objective form whom (now confined mostly to formal English) and the possessive whose (which in its relative use can also serve as the possessive for which).
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