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Meaning of him | Babel Free

Pronoun masculine CEFR A1 Common
ˈhɪm

Definitions

  1. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
    objective, personal, pronoun
  2. With dative effect or as an indirect object.
    objective, personal, pronoun
  3. Initialism of His Imperial Majesty.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  4. masculine singular definite article; the
  5. Honorific alternative letter-case form of him, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
    alt-of, honorific
  6. Following a preposition.
    objective, personal, pronoun
  7. Her (or His) Imperial Majesty
  8. Initialism of Her Imperial Majesty.
    abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
  9. feminine singular definite article used before nouns which start with a stressed /a/:
  10. With accusative effect or as a direct object.
    objective, personal, pronoun
  11. A male: The dog is a him.
  12. As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
    colloquial, objective, personal, pronoun, uncommon
  13. Her Imperial Majesty; His Imperial Majesty.
  14. Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
    objective, personal, pronoun
  15. (used as the object of a verb or preposition) a male person or animal already spoken about. I saw him yesterday; I gave him a book; I came with him. hom إياه: ضَمير المَفعول بِه него ele ho; mu; ním ihn, ihm ham τον, αυτόνél, le, lo tema, teda او را hänet/häntä/hänelle/häneen lui, leאותו उसको zamjenica-njega, njemu, njim őt, neki (hímnemben) dia hann lui, lo gli 彼を 그를(에게) jam, jį, juo, jame viņu; viņam (papildinātāja forma) dia hem han/ham go, mu دمفردمذكرغايب مفعولى ضمير( ده ته ele (pe) el, ...
  16. Used reflexively: (to) himself.
    archaic, objective, personal, pronoun
  17. Used as the direct object of a verb: They saw him at the meeting.
  18. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition.
    objective, personal, pronoun
  19. Used as the indirect object of a verb: They offered him a ride.
  20. A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.
    objective, personal, pronoun, slang
  21. Used as the object of a preposition: This telephone call is for him.
  22. Informal Used as a predicate nominative: It's him. See Usage Note at I1.
    Informal
  23. Nonstandard Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb: He bought him some new clothes. See Note at me.
    Nonstandard
  24. refers to a male person or animal: they needed him; she baked him a cake; not him again!.

Equivalents

العربية ـهُ إياه
Deutsch ihm ihn
Español el le lo
Français le lui
Italiano gli lo
Kurdî êl
Nederlands hem
Português bambambã bom lhe o o cara
Русский его ему

Examples

“[…]therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.”
“‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.”
“She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.”
“‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’”
“Now him and Bernie are best friends.”
“He released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.”
“Who was there? —Him.”
“Who did this? —Him. He did it. (or:) It was him. He did it.)”
“Who did that? —(It was) not him: I was watching him the whole time.”
“Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.”
“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.”
“Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.”
“Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.”
“Stop trying that, you're not him bro.”
“Bro thinks he's him.”
“They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him.”
“Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.”
“☐ Try a conversational journaling approach, where you talk with God about what you are learning and write what you 'hear' Him saying to you (see Appendix 1 for examples)”

CEFR level

A1
Beginner
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