Template:Early Modern English personal pronouns (table)
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| 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 (its)[2] | his / hers / his (its)[2] |
| plural | they | them | their | theirs | |
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- Template:Note labelTemplate:Note labelIn a deliberately archaic style, the possessive forms are used as the genitive before words beginning with a vowel sound (for example, thine eyes) similar to how an is used instead of a in an eye. This practice is followed irregularly in the King James Bible, but is more regular in earlier literature, such as the Early Modern English texts of Geoffrey Chaucer. 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 when the character Bottom says "mine eyen" in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
- Template:Note labelTemplate:Note labelFrom 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. Later, the neologism its became common. "Its" appears only once in the 1611 King James Bible ({{#if:| }}Leviticus 25:5).
