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Personal pronouns in Early Modern English
		Nominative	Oblique	Genitive	Possessive
1st person	singular	I	me	my/mine^{[# 1]}	mine
1st person	plural	we	us	our	ours
2nd person	singular informal	thou	thee	thy/thine^{[# 1]}	thine
	plural informal	ye	you	your	yours
	formal	you	you	your	yours
3rd person	singular	he/she/it	him/her/it	his/her/his (it)^{[# 2]}	his/hers/his^{[# 2]}
3rd person	plural	they	them	their	theirs

^ ^a ^b The genitives my, mine, thy, and thine are used as possessive adjectives before a noun, or as possessive pronouns without a noun. All four forms are used as possessive adjectives: mine and thine are used before nouns beginning in a vowel sound, or before nouns beginning in the letter h, which was usually silent (e.g. thine eyes and mine heart, which was pronounced as mine art) and my and thy before consonants (thy mother, my love). However, only mine and thine are used as possessive pronouns, as in it is thine and they were mine (not *they were my).
^ ^a ^b From the early Early Modern English period up until the 17th century, his was the possessive of the third-person neuter it as well as of the third-person masculine he. Genitive "it" appears once in the 1611 King James Bible (Leviticus 25:5) as groweth of it owne accord.

[thine-1] The genitives my, mine, thy, and thine are used as possessive adjectives before a noun, or as possessive pronouns without a noun. All four forms are used as possessive adjectives: mine and thine are used before nouns beginning in a vowel sound, or before nouns beginning in the letter h, which was usually silent (e.g. thine eyes and mine heart, which was pronounced as mine art) and my and thy before consonants (thy mother, my love). However, only mine and thine are used as possessive pronouns, as in it is thine and they were mine (not *they were my).

[its-2] From the early Early Modern English period up until the 17th century, his was the possessive of the third-person neuter it as well as of the third-person masculine he. Genitive "it" appears once in the 1611 King James Bible (Leviticus 25:5) as groweth of it owne accord.

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+! [[Nominative case|Nominative]]
-!'''Oblique'''
+! [[Oblique case|Oblique]]
-!'''Genitive'''
+! [[Genitive case|Genitive]]
-!'''Possessive'''
+! [[Possessive case|Possessive]]
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-!rowspan="2"|'''1st person'''
+! rowspan="2" | 1st person
-!''singular''
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-|I, ich
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-|me
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-|my/mine<ref group="#" name="thine">The possessive forms were used as genitives before words beginning with a [[vowel]] sound and letter ''h'' (e.g. ''thine eyes'', ''mine heire''). Otherwise, "my" and "thy" are attributive ''(my/thy goods)'' and "mine" and "thine" are predicative ''(they are mine/thine)''. Shakespeare pokes fun at this custom with an archaic plural for ''eyes'' when the character Bottom says "mine eyen" in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.</ref>
+| my/mine<ref group="#" name="thine">The genitives ''my'', ''mine'', ''thy'', and ''thine'' are used as [[possessive adjective]]s before a noun, or as possessive pronouns without a noun. All four forms are used as possessive adjectives: ''mine'' and ''thine'' are used before nouns beginning in a [[vowel]] sound, or before nouns beginning in the letter ''h'', which was usually silent (e.g. ''thine eyes'' and ''mine heart'', which was pronounced as ''mine art'') and ''my'' and ''thy'' before consonants (''thy mother'', ''my love''). However, only ''mine'' and ''thine'' are used as possessive pronouns, as in ''it is thine'' and ''they were mine'' (not *''they were my'').</ref>
-|mine
+| mine
 |-
-!''plural''
+! plural
-|we
+| we
-|us
+| us
-|our
+| our
-|ours
+| ours
 |-
-!rowspan="2"|'''2nd person'''
+! rowspan="3" | 2nd person
-!''singular informal''
+! singular informal
-|thou
+| thou
-|thee
+| thee
-|thy/thine<ref group="#" name="thine"/>
+| thy/thine<ref group="#" name="thine"/>
-|thine
+| thine
 |-
-!''plural or formal singular''
+! plural informal
+| rowspan="1" | ye
-|ye, you
-|you
+| rowspan="2" | you
-|your
+| rowspan="2" | your
-|yours
+| rowspan="2" | yours
 |-
+! formal
-!rowspan="2"|3rd person
+| rowspan="1" | you
-!''singular''
-|he/she/it
-|him/her/it
-|his/her/his (it)<ref group="#" name="its">From the early [[Early Modern English]] period up until the 17th century, ''his'' was the possessive of the third person neuter ''it'' as well as of the third person masculine ''he''. Genitive "it" appears once in the 1611 [[King James Bible]] (Leviticus 25:5) as ''groweth of it owne accord''.</ref>
-|his/hers/his<ref group="#" name="its"/>
 |-
+! rowspan="2" | 3rd person
-!''plural''
+! singular
-|they
+| he/she/it
-|them
+| him/her/it
-|their
+| his/her/his (it)<ref group="#" name="its">From the early [[Early Modern English]] period up until the 17th century, ''his'' was the possessive of the third-person neuter ''it'' as well as of the third-person masculine ''he''. Genitive "it" appears once in the 1611 [[King James Bible]] (Leviticus 25:5) as ''groweth of it owne accord''.</ref>
-|theirs
+| his/hers/his<ref group="#" name="its"/>
+|-
+! plural
+| they
+| them
+| their
+| theirs
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