him
/ˈhɪm/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 6.11 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
pron
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
pron
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
pron
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
pron
Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
pron
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
Example Sentences
- "[…]therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf."
- "‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers."
- "She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak."
- "‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’"
- "Now him and Bernie are best friends."
- "He released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup."
Etymology
From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: him, *himmai, -
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
stand up and give it to him
you ally'all you guys yous
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.