Objective Cases

In English there is a case of pronouns called the objective case. Those are the pronouns to use when the noun you want to replace is either the direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition. Table 1 lists those pronouns.

Table 1. English Object Pronouns

Person

Singular

Plural

First person

me

us

Second person

you

you

Third person (masculine)

him

them

Third person (feminine)

her

them

Third person (no gender)

it

them

Spanish also has three distinct cases of object pronouns: direct object, indirect object, and object of the preposition.

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