personal pronoun

[ pur-suh-nl proh-noun ]

/ ˈpɜr sə nl ˈproʊˌnaʊn /

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noun Grammar.

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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Origin of personal pronoun

First recorded in 1660–70

Words nearby personal pronoun

personal loan, personally, personal-opinion telegram, personal organizer, personal pension, personal pronoun, personal property, personal rapid transit, personal shopper, personal space, personal staff

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How to use personal pronoun in a sentence

The email appears to have been a relatively common attempt to gain personal information from a wide range of unwitting victims.
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And, as Gow adds wryly from his own personal experience, “To a huge extent they achieved that aim very well.”
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Michael Steinbrick, a personal trainer with New York Sports Clubs, says he can always spot a newbie.
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Marrying another Jew was not just a personal simcha (joy), but one for the community.
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It was hard not to take it as a sign, a personal comment on my own Jewish dating failings.
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The feeling for the tiny things probably has in it the warmth of a young personal sympathy.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Make a personal appeal to your men and Godley's to make a supreme effort to hold their ground.
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The same two impulses are said to lie at the root of the elaborate art of personal adornment developed by savages.
Children's Ways|James Sully
One of the lower and mixed forms of artistic activity, in the case of the child and of the race alike, is personal adornment.
Children's Ways|James Sully
He respected her courage and obvious power to rise above the personal attitude of her sex.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton

British Dictionary definitions for personal pronoun

personal pronoun

noun

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

personal pronoun

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

personal pronoun

Origin of personal pronoun

Words nearby personal pronoun

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