personal pronoun

American  

[pur-suh-nl proh-noun] / ˈpɜr sə nl ˈproʊˌnaʊn /

noun

Grammar.

personal pronouns plural

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.

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personal pronoun British  

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

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personal pronoun Cultural  

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• personal pronouns
  plural

Etymology

Origin of personal pronoun

First recorded in 1660–70

Example Sentences

“But for any artist to achieve personal progress, you’ve got to grow and change, and that’s what R.E.M. did.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 5, 2024

The son of a college baseball coach, Raleigh learned at an early age that pitchers and their preparation were his first priority, and any personal progress remained secondary.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2023

But while Heinicke said he’s proud of his personal progress, he knows that it wasn’t enough.

From Washington Times • Jan. 9, 2022

How do you balance the idea of personal progress — the successes you’ve found — and broader, institutional progress?

From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2021

As it had been before, so it was in this zenith of my personal progress.

From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)