Pronouns In Old English 11 класс

meaning but their use to that of a noun and

an adjective.

the 1st and the 2nd person
2. the absence of

possessive pronouns. Instead of them there is a form of Genitive case of the personal pronoun
3. the presence of a special group of the definite pronouns that have already (almost) lost their main meaning of definite pronoun, having formed in the definite article
4. the saving of Accusative case in the separate groups of pronouns

Proprieties of
Pronouns

‘she’ from the OE demonstrative ‘seo’ used in the north-East;

the 3rd person plural ‘hie’ was replaced by the Scandinavian ‘they’.

swilc, ǣlc, ǣȝber, sē ilca

Negative pronouns developed from the phrases:

ne+ān > nān, ne + ǣniȝ > nǣniȝ

and Dative cases, Singular, Feminine
3. –ne, Accusative case, Singular, Masculine
4.

–ra, Genitive case, Plural, three genders

Endings of
Pronouns