Subject Pronouns

כִּנּוּי גּוּף

Introduction

Also called personal pronouns, Hebrew subject pronouns tell you who is doing the action of a sentence.

In English, subject pronouns are words such as "you", "we" and "it".

Hebrew subject pronouns, however, differ from English in two important ways.

First, Hebrew has second-person plural subject pronouns used for addressing groups of people, אַתֶּם (masculine) and אַתֶּן (feminine). This is similar to "you all" or "y'all" in English.

Second, Hebrew has more gender flection than English. As seen in the example above, not only does Hebrew have a single, grammatically correct word for "you all", it has one for each gender. Likewise, the word "they" is translated as both הֵם (masculine) and הֵן (feminine).
Singular First-person
Play אֲנִי
ani
I
Second-person
Play אַתָּה
ata
you masculine singular
Play אַתְּ
at
you feminine singular
Third-person
Play הוּא
hu
he
Play הִיא
hi
she
Play זֶה
ze
it
Plural First-person
Play אֲנַחְנוּ
anahnu
we
Second-person
Play אַתֶּם
atem
you masculine plural
Play אַתֶּן
aten
you feminine plural
Third-person
Play הֵם
hem
they masculine
Play הֵן
hen
they feminine

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