person, number, gender, case

BUT not all forms are marked for all of them. Rather:

* ALL pronouns distinguish “person” =1st, 2nd or 3rd

e.g., 1st – I, we; 2nd – you; 3rd – he, they

* All FIRST & THIRD person pronouns distinguish “number” =singular vs. plural

e.g. 1st – I vs. we

3rd – he (she, it) vs. they

(archaic forms of the 2nd person also distinguish –

‘thou’ vs. ‘ye’/ ‘thee’ vs. ‘you’)

*MOST FIRST & THIRD person prouns distinguish “case”

— subject (‘nominative’)/object (‘accusative’) = I/me, we/us, he

+ possessive (‘genitive’) pronouns – my, our, his, her, their

… mine, ours, his, hers, its, theirs

* 2nd person pronouns also distinguish case for the possessive form “yours”

* ONLY 3rd person SINGULAR distinguishes GENDER, and even that not in all cases of the neuter:

(gender – subject/object/possessives)

masculine – he/him/his, his

feminine – she/her/her, hers

neuter – it/it/its

Pronouns change for case – in other words, whether they are the subject or the object. They also change if they are possessive.

number

gender and

case