See Lecture 14 for the categories of the personal pronouns.
Personal Pronouns possessed (and still do) a very vivid Indo-European feature – suppletivity (i.e. they build their forms with the help of different roots (see also Lecture 4)).
Personal pronouns in OE changed in Gender, Number, Case, Person:
| Pers. | Case | Number | ||
| Singular | Plural | Dual | ||
| 1st | Nom | ic | wē | wit |
| Gen | min | ūre | uncer | |
| Dat | mē | ūs | unc | |
| Acc | mec/mē | ūsic | uncit | |
| 2nd | Nom | þu* | ζē* | ζit |
| Gen | þin | ēower | incer | |
| Dat | þe | ēow* | inc | |
| Acc | þec/þe | ēowic | incit |
| Pers. | Case | Gender, Number | |||
| M, Sg | F, Sg | N, Sg | Plural | ||
| 3rd | Nom | hē* | hēo/hīo* | hit* | hēo/hīe* |
| Gen | his | hire | his | hira | |
| Dat | him | hire | him | him | |
| Acc | hine | hīe | hit | hēo/hīe |
Later the following changes happened to the personal pronouns (some of them are marked with * in the table above so that one can trace the connection easily):