Anglo-Saxon Primer, With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary / Eighth Edition Revised

by Henry Sweet

	SINGULAR.
	Masc.	Neut.	Fem.
Nom.	hē (he),	hit (it),	hēo (she).
Acc.	hine,	hit,	hīe.
Dat.	him,	him,	hiere.
Gen.	his,	his,	hiere.
	PLURAL.
Nom.		hīe (they).
Dat.		him.
Gen.		hiera.

There are no reflexive pronouns in O.E., and the ordinary

personal pronouns are used instead:—hīe ġe·samnodon hīe (they collected themselves, assembled); hīe ā·bǣdon him wīf (they asked for wives for themselves). Self is used as an emphatic reflexive adjective agreeing with its pronoun:—swā swā hīe wȳsċton him selfum (as they wished for themselves).

POSSESSIVE.

Mīn (my), þīn (thy), ūre (our), ēower (your), and the dual uncer and incer are declined like other adjectives. The genitives his (his, its), hiere (her), hiera (their) are used as indeclinable possessives.

INTERROGATIVE.

Masc. and Fem.		Neut.
Nom.	hwā (who),	hwæt (what).
Acc.	hwone,	hwæt.
Dat.	hwǣm,	hwǣm.
Gen.	hwæs,	hwæs.
Instr.	hwȳ,	hwȳ.

Hwelc (which) is declined like a strong adjective: it is used both as a noun and an adjective.

DEMONSTRATIVE.

	SINGULAR.
	Masc.	Neut.	Fem.
Nom.	se (that, the),	þæt,	sēo.
Acc.	þone,	þæt,	þā.
Dat.	þǣm,	þǣm,	þǣre.
Gen.	þæs,	þæs,	þǣre.
Instr.	þȳ, þon,	þȳ,	(þǣre).
	PLURAL.
Nom.		þā.
Dat.		þǣm.
Gen.		þāra.