English-Thai Dictionary

him

PRON เขา ผู้ชาย  kao-phu-chai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

HIM

pron. The objective case of he, L. eum, anciently em or im. Him that is weak in the faith receive. Romans 14:1.
Him and his were formerly used for nouns of the neuter gender, but the practice is obsolete.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

HIM

HIM Him, pron.

 

Defn: Them. See Hem. [Obs. ] Chaucer.

 

HIM

Him, pron. Etym: [AS. him, dat. of he. sq. root183. See He. ]

 

Defn: The objective case of he. See He. Him that is weak in the faith receive. Rom. xiv. 1. Friends who have given him the most sympathy. Thackeray.

 

Note: In old English his and him were respectively the genitive and dative forms of it as well as of he. This use is now obsolete. Poetically, him is sometimes used with the reflexive sense of himself. I never saw but Humphrey, duke of Gloster, Did bear him like a noble gentleman. Shak.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

HIM

HIM ▶abbreviation Brit. Her or His Imperial Majesty.

 

him

him |him hɪm | ▶pronoun [ third person singular ] 1 used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a male person or animal previously mentioned or easily identified: his wife survived him | he took the children with him. Compare with he. • referring to a person or animal of unspecified sex (in modern use chiefly replaced by “him or her ” or “them ”): withdrawing your child from school to educate him at home may seem drastic. • often used in place of “he ” after the verb “to be ” and after “than ” or “as ” to refer to a male person or animal: that's him all right | I could never be as good as him. 2 archaic or dialect himself: in the depths of him, he too didn't want to go. ORIGIN Old English, dative singular form of he, hē ‘he ’ and hit ‘it. ’ usage: On whether him or he is the correct pronoun in a comparative construction ( smarter than him or smarter than he ? ), see usage at personal pronoun and than. See also usage at he .

 

Oxford Dictionary

HIM

HIM ▶abbreviation Brit. Her or His Imperial Majesty.

 

him

him |hɪm | ▶pronoun [ third person singular ] 1 used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a male person or animal previously mentioned or easily identified: his wife survived him | he took the children with him. Compare with he. • referring to a person or animal of unspecified sex: withdrawing your child from school to educate him at home may seem drastic. • used after the verb ‘to be ’ and after ‘than ’ or ‘as ’: that's him all right | I could never be as good as him. • W. Indian he: him was a tall, bow-legged man. 2 archaic or N. Amer. dialect himself: in the depths of him, he too didn't want to go. ORIGIN Old English, dative singular form of he, hē ‘he ’ and hit ‘it ’. usage: Why do people tell us that it is wrong to say I could never be as good as him (rather than I could never be as good as he )? If they are right, why does he in this context sound so odd? For a discussion of this issue, see usage at personal pronoun .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

him

him /(h )ɪm , ｟強 ｠hɪm / (! hymnと同音 ) (! heの目的格 ) 代名詞 1 〖他動詞 の直接目的語として 〗彼を, 彼に ▸ I'll take him with me .彼を連れていこう (!先行する男性を示す 名詞 , あるいはその場でだれかわかる男性をさして用いる ) 2 〖他動詞 の間接目的語として 〗彼に , 彼のために ▸ Kevin's father bought him a bat .ケビンの父は彼にバットを買ってやった 3 〖前置詞 の目的語として 〗彼 (!訳語は 前置詞 の意味に合わせ 「に, を, ために, から 」など ) ▸ I received this letter from him yesterday .昨日この手紙を彼からもらいました 4 ｟くだけた話 ｠〖be /than /as ～〗彼 (!than [as ] heよりも普通; →me コーパスの窓 ) ▸ It was him [｟かたく ｠he ] who introduced me to Tom .私をトムに紹介したのは彼だった ▸ You're older than him .君は彼よりも年上だ 5 ｟くだけた話 ｠〖動名 の前で 〗彼が (!動名 の意味上の主語で, 所有格のhisのかわりに; →my 代名詞 2 ) ▸ I don't mind him [｟ややかたく 主に書 ｠his ] smoking .彼がタバコを吸っても気にしません 6 ｟やや古 ｠(その )人を , 人に (!someone, everyoneなどの不定代名詞, およびperson, studentなど性別不特定の語をさして用いる; →he 2 語法 ) ▸ If you forget someone's name, apologize and ask him [｟男女共用 ｠him or her, them ] what it is .もしだれかの名前を忘れてしまったら, 謝ってから, どなただったか聞きなさい 7 〖H- 〗神を , 神に .