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Meaning of him in English

him

pronoun

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strong /hɪm/ weak /ɪm/ us

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strong /hɪm/ weak /ɪm/

him pronoun (MALE)

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used, usually as the object of a verb or preposition, to refer to a man, boy, or male animal that has just been mentioned or is just about to be mentioned:

If you see Kevin give him my love.

What's Terry up to - I haven't seen him for ages.

Why don't you give him his present?

We've just got a new cat, but we haven't named him yet.

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She has one son and she adores him.
He'd completely changed - I didn't recognize him.
His passport was confiscated by the police to prevent him from leaving the country.
If I criticize him, he gets aggressive and starts shouting.
Ted asked me if I could help him fix his car.

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him pronoun (EITHER GENDER)

used after a verb or preposition to refer to a person or animal that has just been mentioned, or is just about to be mentioned, and whose sex is not known or not considered to be important. Many people consider this use to be offensive and prefer to use him or her or them instead, or it for an animal:

A human being's ability to talk makes him unlike any other animal.

If anyone comes to see me, ask him to wait.

Note:

Many people prefer to use them, and this can sometimes mean changing other words in the sentence: Human beings' ability to talk makes them unlike any other animal.It can be used for animals.

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Grammar

Pronouns: personal (I, me, you, him, it, they, etc.)

We use personal pronouns in place of noun phrases. We often use them to refer back to people and things that we have already identified (underlined): …

Subject and object pronouns

Personal subject pronouns act as the subject of a clause. We use them before a verb to show who is doing the verb. We do not usually leave out the pronoun: …

We use I and me to refer to the speaker or writer. I is the subject form and me is the object form: …

We use you to refer to the listener or reader. It is both the subject and the object form. You can refer to one person or more than one person. It is usually clear from the context whether you is singular or plural: …

He, him; she, her

He, him, she and her are singular third person pronouns. He and him are the masculine forms. She and her are the feminine forms: …

We use it to refer to things: …

We use we and us to refer to different groups of people, but always including the speaker. We and us can refer to the speaker + the listener, or the speaker + other people but not the listener, or people in general including the speaker: …

We use they and them to refer to specific groups of people, things and animals: …

He, she, him, her, his, hers

In writing, we can use (s)he, he/she, him/her or his/her to refer to both sexes at the same time. When speaking formally, we say he or she and his or her: …

(Definition of him from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

him | American Dictionary

him

pronoun

male

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/hɪm, ɪm/

the male being spoken about, who has already been mentioned; the objective form of he:

Why don’t you give him his present?

We’ve just got a new cat, but we haven’t thought of a name for him yet.

Him is also used to refer to a person whose sex is not known:

If anyone causes a problem, get rid of him.

Note:

Some people find this use of him to be offensive.

(Definition of him from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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陽性, 他（指男性）, 它（指雄性動物）…

彼に, 彼を（男性の代名詞・単数・目的格）…

(erkek) onu/ona…

le, l’, lui…

el, li, ell…

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ho, mu, ním…

ham…

dia…

เขาผู้ชาย…

nó, ông ấy, anh ấy…

go, jego…

dia…

ihn, ihm…

ham, han/ham…

그를…

ele…

阳性, 他（指男性）, 它（指雄性动物）…

lui, lo, gli…

его, ему (косв. пад. местоимения he)…

lo, le, él…

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