personal pronoun

per·son·al pro·noun

P p

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [pur-suh-nl proh-noun]
- /ˈpɜr sə nl ˈproʊˌnaʊn/
- /ˈpɜːsənl ˈprəʊ.naʊn/

Definitions of personal pronoun words

noun personal pronoun any one of the pronouns used to refer to the speaker, or to one or more to or about whom or which he or she is speaking, as, in English, I, we, you, he, she, it, they. 1
noun personal pronoun grammar: I, you, our, his, etc. 1
countable noun personal pronoun A personal pronoun is a pronoun such as 'I', 'you', 'she', or 'they' which is used to refer to the speaker or the person spoken to, or to a person or thing whose identity is clear, usually because they have already been mentioned. 0
noun 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 0
noun personal pronoun any of a group of pronouns referring to the speaker(s), the person(s) spoken to, or any other person(s) or thing(s) 0

before 1660

One of the 46% oldest English words

First recorded in 1660-70

noun

adjective

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adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

This term is known only to a narrow circle of people with rare knowledge. Only 3% of English native speakers know the meaning of this word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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