him
suomi-englanti sanakirjahim englanniksi
(ISO 639)
(non-gloss definition)
With dative effect or as an indirect object. (defdate)
(quote-book)|title=A piſtle to the Chriſten reader(..)|year=1529|passage=(..)therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.
(RQ:Stoker Dracula)
Following a preposition. (defdate)
(RQ:Austen Pride and Prejudice)
With accusative effect or as a direct object. (defdate)
(RQ:Dickens Bleak House)
Used reflexively: (to) himself. (defdate)
(RQ:Tyndale NT)
1765, Goldsmith|Oliver Goldsmith, ''Traveller, or, A Prospect of Society|The traveller, or, A prospect of society''
- 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.
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after (m), or following a preposition. (defdate)
(RQ:Shakespeare Macbeth)
2003, Claire Cozens, ''The Guardian'', 11 Jun 2003:
- Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.
(alternative case form of)
A male person or animal.
(ux)
1985, (w), ''Sorties'' (translated)
- (..) daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits (..)
2004, (w), I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel
- Both hims took a good look at him.
(quote-book)
(h-prothesis of)
''third-person masculine singular, dative'': him, to him
''Ech baken him e Kuch.''
I'm baking him a cake.
''third-person neuter singular, dative'': her, to her; (rarely: it, to it)
''Hie war gëschter mat him am Kino.''
He went to the cinema with her yesterday.
(senseid) (n-g) (l).
(RQ:Judas)
(n-g) (l).
(n-g) (l), you.
(alt form)
(alt form)
(inflection of): him
(inflection of): it
(inflection of): them
(inflection of); him
to work
(inflection of)