Personal Pronouns
preservation of gender, number, case, and person categories; merger of dative and accusative into single object case; dual number disappeared
| Number | Case | 1st Person | 2nd Person | 3rd Person m. | 3rd Person n. | 3rd Person f. |
| Singular | Nominative | ic, I ("I") | þu, thou ("you") | he ("he") | hit, it ("it") | heo, sche ("she") |
| Accusative/Dative | me | þe, thee | him | hit, it | hire, her | |
| Genitive | min, mi | þin, thin | his | his | hire, her | |
| Plural | Nominative | we | ʒe, ge, ye | hi(e), þei | hi(e), þei | hi(e), þei |
| Accusative/Dative | us | ʒou, you | hem, þem | hem, þem | hem, þem | |
| Genitive | ure, our | ʒur, your | here, þair | here, þair | here, þair |
use of 2nd person plural (ye) to address one person as polite form (French influence), eventual loss of singular forms in 18th c.
First-person singular: ich/I; loss of unstressed final consonant led to first person singular form I (pronounced as the 'i' in "kid");
feminine third person singular, heo/sche, -- [š] appeared first in North and East Midlands and allowed distinction from masculine forms
Third person plural, he, hem, here; then borrowing of pronouns from Old Norse (nom. þeir, dat. þeim, gen. þeira> they, them, their) to prevent confusion with other forms, especially in the singular and feminine
