14. This is thilk disciple that bereth witnessyng of these thingis, and wroot them.—Wicliffe, John xxi.
15. Seye to us in what powers thou doist these thingis, and who is he that gaf to thee this power.—Wicliffe, Luke xx.
[§ 233]. Those.—Perhaps the Anglo-Saxon þá with s added. Perhaps the þás from þis with its power altered. Rask, in his Anglo-Saxon Grammar, writes "from þis we find, in the plural, þæs for þás. From which afterwards, with a distinction in signification, these and those." The English form they is illustrated by the Anglo-Saxon form ðage = þá. The whole doctrine of the forms in question has yet to assume a satisfactory shape.
The present declension of the demonstrative pronouns is as follows:—
A.
She.—Defective in the oblique cases.
B.
He.
| Masc. | Neut. | Fem. | |
| Nom. | He | It (from hit) | — |
| Acc. | Him | It | Her. |
| Dat. | Him | — | Her. |
| Gen. | His | — | Her. |
| Secondary Gen. | — | Its | Hers. |
| No plural form. | |||
C.