# him
## Translingual
### Symbol

him
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 language code for Western Pahari languages.

## English
### Etymology

From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) enPR: hĭm, IPA: /ˈhɪm/, unstressed IPA: /əm/, [ɪ̈m]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophone: hymn,'em for unstressed in some pronunciations.
* Rhymes: -ɪm

### 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.]
*** 1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […] ‎:[…] therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.
*** 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
** Following a preposition. [from 9th c.]
*** 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
** With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
*** 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
* (colloquial) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
    Now him and Bernie are best friends.
    Released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.
* (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
** 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
** 1765, 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.
* With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene x]:Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.
** 2003 June 11, Claire Cozens, The Guardian:Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.
* (slang) A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.
    Synonyms: that guy, that nigga
    Stop trying that, you're not him bro.
    Bro thinks he's him.
** 2023 October 25, u/baggypantsman, “Super Mario 64 - 0 Star in 6:16 by Suigi”, in Reddit‎, r/speedrun, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.

#### Descendants

* Jamaican Creole: im
* Pijin: hem
* Pijin: -im

#### Translations

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#### See also

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
personal pronounpossessive pronounpossessive determiner
subjective
objective
reflexive
first personsingular
I me (colloquial)memyself me mysenminemy mine (before vowels, archaic) me
plural
weusourselves ourself oursenoursour
second personsingular
standard (historically formal)
youyouyourself yoursenyours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)your
archaic (historically informal)
thoutheethyself theeself thysenthinethy thine (before vowels)
plural
standard
you ye (archaic)youyourselvesyours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)your
colloquial
you all y'all you guysyou all y'all you guysy'allselvesy'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed)y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed)
informal / dialectal
(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person
singular
masculine
hehimhimself hisself (archaic) hissenhis hisn (obsolete outside dialects)his
feminine
sheherherself hersenhers hern (obsolete outside dialects)her
neuter
it hitit hititself hitselfits his (archaic)its his (archaic) hits
genderless
theythemthemself, themselvestheirstheir
nonspecific (formal)
oneoneoneself–one's
plural
theythem hem, 'emthemselves theirsentheirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)their :

#### See also

* he
* his
* her
* them

### Noun

him (plural hims)
* (informal) A male person or animal.
    Synonym: he
    I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
** 1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)
    […] 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?”

### References

* “Bro Thinks He's Him / I'm Him”, in Know Your Meme, website first launched 2007

### Anagrams

* mi/h, HMI

## Gayón
### Noun

him
* water

### References

* Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)

## Irish
### Noun

him m
* h-prothesized form of im

## Luxembourgish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /him/
* Audio:(file)

### Pronoun

him
* third-person masculine singular, dative: him, to him
    Ech baken him e Kuch.I'm baking him a cake.
* third-person neuter singular, dative: her, to her; (rarely: it, to it)
    Hie war gëschter mat him am Kino.He went to the cinema with her yesterday.

#### Usage notes

* For the use of the neuter for referring to female persons, see hatt.

#### Declension
## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English him. Originally a dative form; gradually displaced accusative hine.

#### Alternative forms

* himm, hym, im, ym, hime, hyme, hem

#### Pronoun

him (nominative he)
* Third-person singular masculine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: him.
* (reflexive) himself.
** c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)‎, folio 34, recto, lines 36-37; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:Stille þou be peter. Wel i þe icnowe. / þou wolt fur ſake me þrien . ar þe coc him crowe."Quiet now, Peter. I know you well; / You'll forsake me three times when the cock crows (himself)."
* Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.
* (impersonal) Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object one, you.

##### Descendants

* English: him
* Yola: ham, him, em

##### References

* “him, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

him
* Alternative form of hem (“them”)

## Mizo
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /him/

### Adjective

him
* safe
* unscathed

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hiːm/

### Adverb

him
* (dialectal) alternative form of heim

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* hym, heom, eom
* heom — Mercian

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xim/, [him]

### Pronoun

him
* dative of hē: him
* dative of hit: it
* dative of hīe: them
** late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
    Đyssum tidum Ongolcyningas þā æðelestan Ōswēo Norðanhymbra cyning ⁊ Eċġberht Contwarena cyning hæfdon betweoh him sprǣċe ⁊ ġeþēahte, hwæt tō donne wǣre bī þǣm stealle Ongolcynnes ċiriċan .At this time the most noble English kings, Oswiu of Northumbria and Ecgberht of Kent, held a discussion and conference between them about what was to be done about the state of the English church.

#### Descendants

* Middle English: him
** English: him
** Yola: ham, him, em
* Middle English: hem
** English: 'em, hem
** Fingallian: a'me
** Yola: aam

## Old Frisian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɪm/

### Pronoun

him
* dative of hī; him
* dative of hit; it
* dative of hiā; them

#### Declension
## Saterland Frisian
### Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɪm/

### Pronoun

him
* oblique of hie; him

#### See also
### References

* Marron C. Fort (2015) “him”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

## Sursurunga
### Verb

him
* to work

### Further reading

* Sursurunga Organised Phonology Data (2011)

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɪm/
* (unstressed) IPA: /(ə)m/

### Pronoun

him
* object of hy

## Yola
### Pronoun

him
* Alternative form of ham
** 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 108:Shoo zent him o' die.She sent him one day.
** 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 108:Shoo zent him anoor die a gozleen to keep;She sent him another day the goslings to keep;

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108