personal pronoun

[ pur-suh-nl proh-noun ]

noun

, Grammar.

1. any one of the pronouns used to refer to the speaker, or to those to or about whom the speaker is speaking, as, in English, I, me, we, us, you, he, she, it, they, him, her, them.

personal pronoun

noun

1. a pronoun having a definite person or thing as an antecedent and functioning grammatically in the same way as the noun that it replaces. In English, the personal pronouns include I, you, he, she, it, we, and they, and are inflected for case

personal pronoun

1. A pronoun that represents a person in a sentence. Personal pronouns have different forms depending on their case , gender , and number , as follows:

Word History and Origins

Origin of personal pronoun¹

First recorded in 1660–70