Grammatical Person - Grammatical Person in Nominative Case English Pronouns

Grammatical Person in Nominative Case English Pronouns

Pronoun Person/plurality Gender
Standard
I First person singular -
We First person plural -
You Second person singular / second person plural -
He Third person masculine singular masculine
She Third person feminine singular feminine
It Third person neutral singular -
They Third person plural / third person gender-neutral singular -
Colloquial
Youse Second person plural, dialect Scouse, Australian English, Scottish English
Ye Second person plural, dialectal Hiberno-English
You guys Second person plural, dialectal American English and Canadian English -
Y'all Second person plural, dialectal Southern American and African American English -
Yinz Second person plural, dialectal Scottish English, Pittsburgh English Archaic
Thou Second person singular, archaic -
Ye Second person plural, archaic -

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