Appendix:Hebrew pronouns

Personal pronouns
The Hebrew personal pronouns — corresponding to English, , , and so on — are realized in some cases as full words, and in some cases as inflectional endings on other words (that is, as suffixes in conjugated and declined forms).

Standalone forms
The full-word, standalone personal pronouns are mainly used when the pronoun is the subject of a clause; for example,. However, subject pronouns are not quite as common in Hebrew as in English, because the form of the verb frequently indicates the subject.

The standalone pronouns are also used in various other cases, for example as predicate nouns.

These forms are as follows:


 * Notes:
 * The form occurs many times in the Hebrew Bible, but is basically obsolete today.
 * In Modern Israeli Hebrew, the form is the more formal,  the more colloquial.
 * In colloquial Modern Israeli Hebrew, the nominally masculine forms and  are sometimes taken as gender-neutral and substituted for  and, but this is commonly considered incorrect.

Suffix forms
The inflectional-ending personal pronoun suffixes are used: As may be inferred from the above, in Modern Israeli Hebrew, suffix pronouns usually appear as objects of prepositions.
 * when the pronoun is the object of a preposition. For example, +  =.
 * when the pronoun is the direct object of a verb. For example, +  = . However, this construction is extremely rare in Modern Israeli Hebrew, where this is expressed using the preposition, producing.
 * when the pronoun is the possessor of a noun. For example, +  = . However, in Modern Israeli Hebrew, especially in colloquial registers, this is usually expressed using the preposition, producing.
 * in certain other expressions. For example, +  = . However, in Modern Israeli Hebrew, especially in colloquial registers, these expressions are uncommon.

These forms depend on the word they attach to, much as how the English past participle ending is sometimes (as in “I have given”) and sometimes  (as in “I have received”). The following are fairly typical:

Other pronouns
In Hebrew, the distinction between noun and pronoun is less clear than in some languages, since indefinite nouns do not require any determiner. That said, the term "pronoun" can reasonably be applied to the Hebrew counterparts of English pronouns. Taking that approach, Hebrew has a variety of pronouns, including:


 * the demonstrative pronouns, , and so on.
 * the interrogative pronouns and.
 * the indefinite pronouns, , and so on.