Grammatical Person in Nominative Case English Pronouns
| Pronoun | Person/plurality | Gender | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | ||||
| I | First person singular | - | ||
| We | First person plural | - | ||
| You | Second person singular / second person plural | - | ||
| He | Third person masculine singular | masculine | ||
| She | Third person feminine singular | feminine | ||
| It | Third person neutral singular | - | ||
| They | Third person plural / third person gender-neutral singular | - | ||
| Colloquial | ||||
| Youse | Second person plural, dialect Scouse, Australian English, Scottish English | |||
| Ye | Second person plural, dialectal Hiberno-English | |||
| You guys | Second person plural, dialectal American English and Canadian English | - | ||
| Y'all | Second person plural, dialectal Southern American and African American English | - | ||
| Yinz | Second person plural, dialectal Scottish English, Pittsburgh English | Archaic | ||
| Thou | Second person singular, archaic | - | ||
| Ye | Second person plural, archaic | - | ||
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