him
Part of speech: pron
noun
Morphological type: simple
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).
Inflected forms:
form: hims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
pos: pron
tags: objective
personal
pronoun
examples: […]therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.
‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
gloss: A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
pos: pron
tags: objective
personal
pronoun
examples: She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
gloss: A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
pos: pron
tags: objective
personal
pronoun
examples: ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
gloss: As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
pos: pron
tags: colloquial
objective
personal
pronoun
uncommon
examples: Now him and Bernie are best friends.
He released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.
gloss: Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
pos: pron
tags: objective
personal
pronoun
examples: Who was there? —Him.
Who did this? —Him. He did it. (or:) It was him. He did it.)
Who did that? —(It was) not him: I was watching him the whole time.
gloss: Used reflexively: (to) himself.
pos: pron
tags: archaic
objective
personal
pronoun
examples: Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
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.
gloss: With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
pos: pron
tags: objective
personal
pronoun
examples: Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.
Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.
gloss: A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.
pos: pron
tags: objective
personal
pronoun
slang
examples: Stop trying that, you're not him bro.
Bro thinks he's him.
They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him.
Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.
gloss: A male person or animal.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
[…] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
Both hims took a good look at him.
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?”
Related words: Ime
me
myselfmemysen
mine
mymineme
we
us
ourselvesourselfoursen
oursourn
our
you
yourselfyoursen
yoursyourn
your
thou
thee
thyselftheeselfthysen
thine
thythine
youye
yourselves
you ally'all you guys yous
y'allselves
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
he
himselfhisselfhissen
hishisn
his
she
her
herselfhersen
hershern
ithit
itselfhitself
itshis
itshishits
they
them
themself
themselves
theirs
their
one
oneself
–
one's
themhem
'em
themselvestheirsen
theirstheirn
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
Derived words: himbo
himness
himpathetic
himpathize
himpathy
himselves
shim
stand up and give it to him
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