him

[…]therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.

1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […] :

‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.

With dative effect or as an indirect object.

She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’

1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

With accusative effect or as a direct object.

Now him and Bernie are best friends.

Released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.

(colloquial) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.

Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.

1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:

Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
He sees his little lot the lot of all;
[...]
But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.

1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The traveller, or, A prospect of society:

(now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself.

Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene x]:

Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.

2003 June 11, Claire Cozens, The Guardian:

With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.

Stop trying that, you're not him bro.

Bro thinks he's him.

Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.

2023 October 25, u/baggypantsman, “Super Mario 64 - 0 Star in 6:16 by Suigi”, in Reddit, r/speedrun, archived from the original on 2023-12-23:

(slang) A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.

Jamaican Creole: im

Pijin: hem

Pijin: -im

(after preposition that governs accusative) αὐτόν (autón)

(after preposition that governs dative) αὐτῷ (autôi)

(after preposition that governs genitive) αὐτοῦ (autoû)

(after preposition that governs the accusative) eum

(after preposition that governs the dative) eī

(after preposition that governs ablative) eō

niemu (only after ku, przeciw, przeciwko and dzięki)

l'

before or after vowel; the 3 placed before verb

The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun

including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete

'em for unstressed in some pronunciations.

From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).


him

I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.

[…] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)

Both hims took a good look at him.

2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel:

By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”

2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival, page 68:


him

Ech baken him e Kuch.

third-person masculine singular, dative: him, to him

Hie war gëschter mat him am Kino.

He went to the cinema with her yesterday.

third-person neuter singular, dative: her, to her; (rarely: it, to it)

ech (first-person nominative singular stressed)
mech (accusative first-person singular stressed)
mir (dative first-person singular stressed)
mer (dative first-person singular)
like dat. and acc. (first-person reflexive singular)
du (informal nominative second-person singular stressed)
de (informal nominative second-person singular)
dech (accusative informal second-person singular stressed)
dir (dative informal second-person singular stressed)
like dat. and acc. (informal reflexive second-person singular)
Dir (formal nominative second-person singular stressed)
Der (formal nominative second-person singular)
Iech (accusative formal second-person singular stressed)
Iech [əɕ] (accusative formal second-person singular)
Iech (dative formal second-person singular stressed)
Iech [əɕ] (dative formal second-person singular)
Iech (formal reflexive second-person singular)
hien (masculine nominative singular stressed third-person)
en (masculine nominative singular third-person)
hien (accusative masculine singular stressed third-person)
en (accusative masculine singular third-person)
him (dative masculine singular stressed third-person)
em (dative masculine singular third-person)
sech (masculine reflexive singular third-person)
si (feminine nominative singular stressed third-person)
se (feminine nominative singular third-person)
si (accusative feminine singular stressed third-person)
se (accusative feminine singular third-person)
hir (dative feminine singular stressed third-person)
er (dative feminine singular third-person)
sech (feminine reflexive singular third-person)
hatt (neuter nominative singular stressed third-person)
et (neuter nominative singular third-person)
't (neuter nominative singular third-person clitic)
hatt (accusative neuter singular stressed third-person)
et (accusative neuter singular third-person)
't (accusative neuter singular third-person clitic)
him (dative neuter singular stressed third-person)
em (dative neuter singular third-person)
sech (neuter reflexive singular third-person)
mir (first-person nominative plural stressed)
mer (first-person nominative plural)
eis (ons) (accusative first-person plural stressed)
eis (ons) (dative first-person plural stressed)
eis (ons) (first-person plural reflexive)
dir (nominative plural second-person stressed)
iech (accusative plural second-person stressed)
iech [əɕ] (accusative plural second-person)
iech (dative plural second-person stressed)
iech [əɕ] (dative plural second-person)
iech (plural reflexive second-person)
si (nominative plural stressed third-person)
se (nominative plural third-person)
si (accusative plural stressed third-person)
se (accusative plural third-person)
hinnen (dative plural stressed third-person)
en (dative plural third-person)
sech (plural reflexive third-person)


him

Third-person singular masculine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: him.

Stille þou be peter. Wel i þe icnowe. / þou wolt fur ſake me þrien . ar þe coc him crowe.

c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39), folio 34, recto, lines 36-37; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 2019 May 29:

"Quiet now, Peter. I know you well; / You'll forsake me three times when the cock crows (himself)."

Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.

(impersonal) Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object one, you.

he (nominative)
himm (alternative)
hym (alternative)
im (alternative)
ym (alternative)
hime (alternative)
hyme (alternative)
hem (alternative)

English: him

Yola: him, ham, em

From Old English him. Originally a dative form; gradually displaced accusative hine.


him

late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
Đyssum tidum Ongolcyningas þā æðelestan Ōswēo Norðanhymbra cyning ⁊ Eċġberht Contwarena cyning hæfdon betweoh him sprǣċe ⁊ ġeþēahte, hwæt tō donne wǣre bī þǣm stealle Ongolcynnes ċiriċan .

At this time the most noble English kings, Oswiu of Northumbria and Ecgberht of Kent, held a discussion and conference between them about what was to be done about the state of the English church.

desctree

Middle English: him
English: him
Yola: him, ham, em

Middle English: hem
English: 'em, hem
Fingallian: a'me
Yola: aam

hym (alternative)
heom (alternative)
eom (alternative)
heom (alternative)


him

ik (first-person nominative singular)
mī (accusative first-person singular)
mī (dative first-person singular)
mīn (first-person genitive singular)
thū (nominative second-person singular)
thī (accusative second-person singular)
thī (dative second-person singular)
thīn (genitive second-person singular)
hī (masculine nominative singular third-person)
hine (accusative masculine singular third-person)
him (dative masculine singular third-person)
sīn (genitive masculine singular third-person)
hiū (feminine nominative singular third-person)
hiō (feminine nominative singular third-person)
hiā (accusative feminine singular third-person)
hire (dative feminine singular third-person)
hiāre (dative feminine singular third-person)
hire (feminine genitive singular third-person)
hiāre (feminine genitive singular third-person)
hit (neuter nominative singular third-person)
hit (accusative neuter singular third-person)
him (dative neuter singular third-person)
sīn (genitive neuter singular third-person)
wī (first-person nominative plural)
ūs (accusative first-person plural)
ūs (dative first-person plural)
ūser (first-person genitive plural)
jī (nominative plural second-person)
jū (accusative plural second-person)
jō (accusative plural second-person)
jū (dative plural second-person)
jō (dative plural second-person)
jūwer (genitive plural second-person)
hiā (nominative plural third-person)
hiā (accusative plural third-person)
him (dative plural third-person)
hirem (dative plural third-person)
hiārem (dative plural third-person)
hira (genitive plural third-person)
hiāra (genitive plural third-person)


him

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


him

(international standards) ISO 639-2 language code for Western Pahari languages.


him

From Old Frisian him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.


him

Shoo zent him o' die.

1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 108:

Shoo zent him anoor die a gozleen to keep;

1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 108:

She sent him another day the goslings to keep;

From Middle English him, from Old English him.