Ge
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This article is about the Old English personal pronoun. For other uses, see Ge (disambiguation).
Ge (IPA: /jeː/) was the second-person, plural, personal pronoun (subject case) in Old English. Modern scholars write this word ġē, to mark that the g was pronounced gently (IPA: [j]), and then e long (IPA: [e:]). The whole word would probably have sounded something like Modern English Yay!
| Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Genitive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Singular | ic | me(c) | me | min | |
| Dual | wit | unc | uncer | |||
| Plural | we | us | ure | |||
| 2nd | Singular | þu | þe | þin | ||
| Dual | git | inc | incer | |||
| Plural | ge | eow | eower | |||
| 3rd | Singular | Masculine | he | hine | him | his |
| Neuter | hit | hit | him | his | ||
| Feminine | heo | hie | hire | hire | ||
| Plural | hie | hie | him | hira | ||
| Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Genitive | |||
[edit] External links
- Baker, Peter S. 'Pronouns'. In Peter S. Baker. The Electronic Introduction to Old English. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, c. 5.
