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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