Template:Early Modern English personal pronouns (table)
From Textus Receptus
| Nominative | Objective | Genitive | Possessive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Person | singular | I | me | my / mine[1] | mine |
| plural | we | us | our | ours | |
| 2nd Person | singular informal | thou | thee | thy / thine[1] | thine |
| plural or formal singular | ye | you | your | yours | |
| 3rd Person | singular | he / she / it | him / her / it | his / her / his (it)[2] | his / hers / his[2] |
| plural | they | them | their | theirs | |
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- 1. The possessive forms were used as genitives before words beginning with a vowel sound and letter h (e.g. thine eyes, mine heire). Otherwise, "my" and "thy" is attributive (my/thy goods) and "mine" and "thine" are predicative (they are mine/thine). Shakespeare pokes fun at this custom with an archaic plural for eyes when the character Bottom says "mine eyen" in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- 2. 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 3rd person masculine he. Genitive "it" appears once in the 1611 King James Bible (Leviticus 25:5) as groweth of it owne accord.
