personal pronoun

noun Grammar.

any one of the pronouns used to refer to the speaker, or to one or more to or about whom or which he or she is speaking, as, in English, I, we, you, he, she, it, they.

Origin of personal pronoun

First recorded in 1660–70

Words nearby personal pronoun

personal foul, personal identification number, personal liberty, personal organizer, personal pension, personal pronoun, personal property, personal rapid transit, personal shopper, personal space, personal staff

British Dictionary definitions for personal pronoun

personal pronoun

noun

a pronoun having a definite person or thing as an antecedent and functioning grammatically in the same way as the noun that it replaces. In English, the personal pronouns include I, you, he, she, it, we, and they, and are inflected for case

Cultural definitions for personal pronoun

personal pronoun

A pronoun that represents a person in a sentence. Personal pronouns have different forms depending on their case, gender, and number, as follows: