personal pronoun
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.
Origin of personal pronoun
1Words Nearby personal pronoun
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How to use personal pronoun in a sentence
The relative object pronoun is often repeated as a personal pronoun, so that the verb has its object expressed twice.
Frdric Mistral | Charles Alfred DownerThe third personal pronoun—he, she, it—in all its cases is especially uncertain in its references.
English: Composition and Literature | W. F. (William Franklin) WebsterThat is my excuse for the free use of the personal pronoun, not to make prominent the person, but to emphasize the reality.
Silver Chimes in Syria | W. S. NelsonA personal pronoun has two cases the nominative and the objective.
A Week of Instruction and Amusement, | Mrs. HarleyOne of them was a burlesque report of an egotistical lecturer who was referred to as "Professor personal pronoun."
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete | Albert Bigelow Paine
British Dictionary definitions for personal pronoun
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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Cultural definitions for personal pronoun
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