Subject Pronounsכִּנּוּי גּוּף

Introduction

Also called personal pronouns, Hebrew subject pronouns tell you who is doing the action of a sentence.

In English, subject pronouns are words such as "you", "we" and "it".

Hebrew subject pronouns, however, differ from English in two important ways.

First, Hebrew has second-person plural subject pronouns used for addressing groups of people, אַתֶּם (masculine) and אַתֶּן (feminine). This is similar to "you all" or "y'all" in English.

Second, Hebrew has more gender flection than English. As seen in the example above, not only does Hebrew have a single, grammatically correct word for "you all", it has one for each gender. Likewise, the word "they" is translated as both הֵם (masculine) and הֵן (feminine).