Appendix:Middle English personal pronouns

The following is a table of Middle English personal pronouns. Due to wide dialectical variation and lack of standard orthography, many variations exist for each pronoun; those given here are variants that represent major formal classes. The modern equivalents of each are given in italics below.

Unlike in Modern English, where reflexive pronouns are consistently formed with the suffix -self appended to the genitive/possessive pronoun, a variety of strategies could be used to mark reflexivity in Middle English. The word self could be appended to either the genitive or accusative (giving rise to the Modern English suffix), or used alone. Finally, much as in Old English, a pronoun can be used without any special marking for reflexivity.

There exist in Middle English as well several indefinite pronouns, corresponding to the Modern English one or generic you: the three main forms are man, men and me, each formed by phonetic reduction from the former.

• Francis Henry Stratmann, A Middle-English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1891. link
• A.L. Mayhew, Walter W. Skeat, A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1888. link