Before revision: Morphology In Standard Modern English, he has four shapes representing five distinct word forms: he: the nominative (subjective) form him: the accusative (objective) form (also called the oblique case)) his: the dependent and independent genitive (possessive) forms himself: the reflexive form History Old English had a single third-person pronoun — from the Proto-Germanic demonstrative base *khi- , from PIE *ko- "this" — which had a plural and three genders in the singular.
After revision: Morphology In Standard Modern English, he has four shapes representing five distinct word forms: he: the nominative (subjective) form him: the accusative (objective) form (also called the oblique case)) his: the dependent and independent genitive (possessive) forms himself: the reflexive form History Old English had a single third-person pronoun — from the Proto-Germanic demonstrative base - , from PIE *ko- "this" — which had a plural and three genders in the singular.