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Evolution of English pronouns

"Who" and "whom", "he" and "him", "she" and "her", etc. are remnants of both the old nominative versus accusative and also of nominative versus dative. In other words, "her" (for example) serves as both the dative and accusative version of the nominative pronoun "she". In Old English as well as modern German and Icelandic as further examples, these cases had distinct pronouns.

This collapse of the separate case pronouns into the same word is one of the reasons grammarians consider the dative and accusative cases to be extinct in English — neither is an ideal term for the role played by "whom". Instead, the term objective is often used; that is, "whom" is a generic objective pronoun which can describe either a direct or an indirect object. The nominative case, "who", is called simply the subjective. The information formerly conveyed by having distinct case forms is now mostly provided by prepositions and word order.

Modern English morphologically distinguishes only one case, the possessive case — which some linguists argue is not a case at all, but a clitic (see the entry for genitive case for more information). With only a few pronominal exceptions, the objective and subjective always have the same form.

Interrogative pronouns

Case

OldEnglish

MiddleEnglish

ModernEnglish

Masculine/Feminine (Person)

Nominative

hwā

who

who

Accusative

hwone / hwæne

whom

who / whom1

Dative

hwām / hwǣm

Instrumental

Genitive

hwæs

whos

whose

Neuter (Thing)

Nominative

hwæt

what

what

Accusative

hwæt

what / whom

Dative

hwām / hwǣm

Instrumental

hwȳ / hwon

why

why

Genitive

hwæs

whos

whose2

1 - In some dialects who is used where Formal English only allows whom, though variation among dialects must be taken into account.

2 - Usually replaced by of what (postpositioned).

First person personal pronouns

Case

OldEnglish

MiddleEnglish

ModernEnglish

Singular

Nominative

I / ich / ik

I

Accusative

mē / meċ

me

me

Dative

Genitive

mīn

min / mi

my, mine

Plural

Nominative

we

we

Accusative

ūs / ūsiċ

us

us

Dative

ūs

Genitive

ūser / ūre

ure / our

our, ours

(Old English also had a separate dualwit ("we two") etcetera; however, no later forms derive from it.)

Second person personal pronouns

Old and Middle English singular to the Modern English archaic informal

Case

OldEnglish

MiddleEnglish

ModernEnglish

Singular

Nominative

þū

þu / thou

thou (you)

Accusative

þē / þeċ

þé / thee

thee (you)

Dative

þē

Genitive

þīn

þi / þīn / þīne / thy /thin / thine

thy, thine (your)

Plural

Nominative

ġē

ye / ȝe / you

you

Accusative

ēow / ēowiċ

you, ya

Dative

ēow

Genitive

ēower

your

your, yours

Note that the ye/you distinction still existed, at least optionally, in Early Modern English: "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free" from the King James Bible.

Here the letter þ (interchangeable with ð in manuscripts) corresponds to th.

Formal and informal forms of the second person singular and plural

OldEnglish

MiddleEnglish

ModernEnglish

Singular

Plural

Singular

Plural

Singular

Plural

Case

Formal

Informal

Formal

Informal

Formal

Informal

Formal

Informal

Formal

Informal

Formal

Informal

Nominative

þū

ġē

you

thou

you

ye

you

Accusative

þē / þeċ

ēow / ēowiċ

thee

you

Dative

þē

ēow

Genitive

þīn

ēower

your, yours

thy, thine

your, yours

your, yours

(Old English also had a separate dual, ȝit ("ye two") etcetera; however, no later forms derive from it.)

Third person personal pronouns

Case

OldEnglish

MiddleEnglish

ModernEnglish

MasculineSingular

Nominative

he

he

Accusative

hine

him

him

Dative

him

Genitive

his

his

his

FeminineSingular

Nominative

hēo

heo / sche / ho / he / ȝho

she

Accusative

hīe

hire / hure / her / heore

her

Dative

hire

Genitive

hire

hir / hire / heore / her / here

her, hers

NeuterSingular

Nominative

hit

hit / it

it

Accusative

hit

hit / it / him

Dative

him

Genitive

his

his / its

its

Plural

Nominative

hīe

he / hi / ho / hie / þai / þei

they

Accusative

hīe

hem / ham / heom / þaim / þem / þam

them

Dative

him

Genitive

hira

here / heore / hore / þair / þar

their, theirs

(The origin of the modern forms is generally thought to have been a borrowing from Old Norse forms þæir, þæim, þæira.
The two different roots co-existed for some time, although currently the only common remnant is the shortened form 'em.
Cf. alsothedemonstrativepronouns.)




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