Overview
In Modern English, he is a singular, masculine, third-person pronoun.
Morphology
In Standard Modern English, he has four shapes representing five distinct word forms:
he: the nominative (subjective) form
him: the accusative (objective) form (also called the oblique case)
his: the dependent and independent genitive (possessive) forms
himself: the reflexive form
History
Old English had a single third-person pronoun — from the Proto-Germanic demonstrative base -, from PIE *ko- "this" — which had a plural and three genders in the singular. The modern pronoun it developed out of the neuter singular, starting to appear without the h in the 12th century. Her developed out of the feminine singular dative and genitive forms, while the other feminine forms and the plural were replaced with other words. The older pronoun had the following forms:
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