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personal pronoun

personal pronoun noun: a pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following.

Noun

personal pronoun (plural personal pronouns)

  1. A pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following
    • Mondays come with questions of couples
      Where and with whom did you go?
      Avoiding the personal pronoun
      She hopes it doesn't show
      Shopping with her lover in the city
      Two women holding hands don't get a stare
      If the kids at school knew what they do
      Would they hate her? Why should they care?1983, Fred Small, “Annie”, in The Heart of the Appaloosa
  2. The person or people speaking. (first person)
  3. The person or people spoken to. (second person)
  4. Another person or group of people. (third person)
  5. Any pronoun, with an antecedent, standing in as the subject or object of a verb.

personal pronoun meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Kannada and Tagalog

personal pronoun in Hindi

part of speech
पुरुषवाचक सर्वनाम puruṣvācak sarvanām

personal pronoun in Urdu

part of speech
ضَمِیرِ شَخْصِی zamīr-i śaxsī

personal pronoun in Kannada

ಆಡುಪದ

personal pronoun in Tagalog

part of speech
panghalip panao
More languagesFewer languages
personal pronoun in Indonesian
kata ganti orang, pronomina persona
personal pronoun in Persian
ضَمیرِ شَخصی
personal pronoun in Thai
บุรุษสรรพนาม bù-rùt-sà-sàp-pá-naam
personal pronoun in Vietnamese
đại từ nhân xưng, đại từ xưng hô, đại từ chỉ ngôi

Forms of personal pronoun

pluralpersonal pronouns

Questions about personal pronoun

What does personal pronoun mean?
Personal pronoun means a pronoun which, in English, refers to one or a combination of the following.
What is personal pronoun in Hindi?
Personal pronoun in Hindi is पुरुषवाचक सर्वनाम (puruṣvācak sarvanām). See Personal pronoun meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is personal pronoun?
Personal pronoun is a noun.
What is the plural of personal pronoun?
The plural of personal pronoun is personal pronouns.

Words near personal pronoun in the dictionary

  1. personal ordinariates
  2. personal organizer
  3. personal organizers
  4. personal pension
  5. personal pensions
  6. personal pronoun
  7. personal pronouns
  8. personal properties
  9. personal property
  10. personal property tax
  11. personal property taxes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: personal pronoun (page history and authors); personal pronoun (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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