him | Lernwerd

Forms

1.A male person or animal.(informal)
- Both hims took a good look at him.
- I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
- By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”

1.A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
- ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
- ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
- She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
2.As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.(colloquial)
- Now him and Bernie are best friends.
- He released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.
3.Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
- Who did that? , (It was) not him: I was watching him the whole time.
4.With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
- Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.
- Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.

Very common· #65

From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”).