Sche (pronounced [ʃeː]) was the feminine, third-person, singular, personal pronoun (subject case) in Middle English.[citation needed]
Person (gender) | Subject | Object | Possessive determiner | Possessive pronoun | Reflexive | |
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Singular | ||||||
First modern |
ic / ich / I I |
me / mi me |
min / minen [pl.] my |
min / mire / minre mine |
min one / mi selven myself |
|
Second modern (archaic) |
þou / þu / tu / þeou you (thou) |
þe you (thee) |
þi / ti your (thy) |
þin / þyn yours (thine) |
þeself / þi selven yourself (thyself) |
|
Third | Masculine modern |
he he |
him[a] / hine[b] him |
his / hisse / hes his |
his / hisse his |
him-seluen himself |
Feminine modern |
sche[o] / s[c]ho / ȝho she |
heo / his / hie / hies / hire her |
hio / heo / hire / heore her |
- hers |
heo-seolf herself |
|
Neuter modern |
hit it |
hit / him it |
his its |
his its |
hit sulue itself |
|
Plural | ||||||
First modern |
we we |
us / ous us |
ure[n] / our[e] / ures / urne our |
oures ours |
us self / ous silve ourselves |
|
Second modern (archaic) |
ȝe / ye you (ye) |
eow / [ȝ]ou / ȝow / gu / you you |
eower / [ȝ]ower / gur / [e]our your |
youres yours |
Ȝou self / ou selve yourselves |
|
Third | From Old English | heo / he | his / heo[m] | heore / her | - | - |
From Old Norse | þa / þei / þeo / þo | þem / þo | þeir | - | þam-selue | |
modern | they | them | their | theirs | themselves |
Many other variations are noted in Middle English sources due to difference in spellings and pronunciations. See Francis Henry Stratmann (1891). A Middle-English dictionary. [London]: Oxford University Press. and A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 TO 1580, A. L. Mayhew, Walter W. Skeat, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1888.