personal pronoun
Word replacing names
A personal pronoun stands in for a specific person or thing: I, me, you, he, him, she, her, it, we, us, they, them.
These words change form depending on their role in a sentence—subject or object, possessor or possessed.
She gave it to him.
They told us their story.
- themThird-person plural object
- wenot just me
- royal weRuler's self-referential plural
- usWe, as object
- sheThat woman there
possessive · myself · antecedent · you · point of view · it · me · who · plural · subject · he · gender neutral · singular they · anaphora · refer · singular · speak · first
part of speech specificity
personal pronounproper noun
Named person or place
noun · common noun · verb · noun phrase
part of speech
personal pronounverb
Action-expressing word
adjective · adverb · preposition · conjunction · interjection