him
English
Etymology
From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (compare West Frisian him, North Frisian ham, höm (Sylt) Dutch hem).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
him (personal pronoun, objective case)
- A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
- With dative effect or as an indirect object. [from 9th c.]
- '1897' (578 m), Bram Stoker, Dracula:
- ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
- '1897' (578 m), Bram Stoker, Dracula:
- Following a preposition. [from 9th c.]
- '1813' (553 m), Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
- '1813' (553 m), Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:
- With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
- '1853' (565 m), Charles Dickens, Bleak House:
- ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
- '1853' (565 m), Charles Dickens, Bleak House:
- With dative effect or as an indirect object. [from 9th c.]
- (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
- '1526' (465 m), William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XII:
- Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
- '1765' (538 m), Oliver Goldsmith, The traveller, or, A prospect of society
- Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
- He sees his little lot the lot of all;
- [...]
- But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
- Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
- '1526' (465 m), William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XII:
- With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
- 'c. 1616' (493 m), William Shakespeare, Macbeth, First Folio 1623, V.10:
- Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.
- '2003' (611 m), Claire Cozens, The Guardian, 11 Jun 2003:
- Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.
- 'c. 1616' (493 m), William Shakespeare, Macbeth, First Folio 1623, V.10:
- Alternative letter-case form of Him
Translations
dative / indirect object
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objective after preposition
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accusative / direct object
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he — see he
himself — see himself
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English personal pronouns
personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner | |||||
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subjective | objective | reflexive | |||||
first person | singular | I | me | myself | mine | my mine (before vowels, archaic) | |
plural | we | us | ourselves ourself | ours | our | ||
second person | singular | standard | you | you | yourself | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
archaic, informal | thou | thee | thyself theeself | thine | thy thine (before vowels) | ||
plural | standard | you you all ye (archaic) | you you all | yourselves | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your | |
informal / dialectal | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | ||||||
third person | singular | masculine | he | him | himself hisself (archaic) | his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) | his |
feminine | she | her | herself | hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) | her | ||
neuter | it | it | itself | its his (archaic) | its his (archaic) | ||
genderless | they | them | themself, themselves | theirs | their | ||
genderless, nonspecific (formal) |
one | one | oneself | – | one's | ||
plural | they | them | themselves | theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) | their |
Noun
him (plural hims)
- (informal) A male person.
- I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
- Hélène Cixous
- […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
- 2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
- Both hims took a good look at him.
- 2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival (page 68)
- By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”
Synonyms
Gayón
References
- Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)
Irish
Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /him/
Pronoun
him
Usage notes
- For the use of the neuter for referring to female persons, see hatt.
Declension
Luxembourgish personal pronouns
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | |||||
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str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | |||
1st person singular | ech | — | mech | — | mir | mer | like dat. and acc. | |
2nd person singular (informal) |
du | de | dech | — | dir | der | like dat. and acc. | |
2nd person singular (formal) |
Dir | Der | Iech | Iech [əɕ] | Iech | Iech [əɕ] | Iech | |
3rd person singular (m) | hien | en | hien | en | him | em | sech | |
3rd person singular (f) | si | se | si | se | hir | er | sech | |
3rd person singular (n) | hatt | et ('t) | hatt | et ('t) | him | em | sech | |
1st person plural | mir | mer | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | — | eis (ons) | |
2nd person plural | dir | der | iech | iech [əɕ] | iech | iech [əɕ] | iech | |
3rd person plural | si | se | si | se | hinnen | en | sech |
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English him. Originally a dative form; gradually displaced accusative hine.
Pronoun
him (nominative he)
Descendants
- English: him
See also
References
- “him, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.
Etymology 2
References
- “hem, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /him/
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɪm/
- (unstressed) IPA(key): /(ə)m/
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