him.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: hĭm, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪm/, unstressed IPA^(key): /əm/, [ɪ̈m]
• 韻: -ɪm
• Homophone: hymn,'em for unstressed in some pronunciations.

代名詞

him (personal pronoun, objective case)

1. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
   1. With dative effect or as an indirect object. [from 9th c.]
      • 1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […] ‎^[1]:

        […] therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.

      • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

        ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.

   2. Following a preposition. [from 9th c.]
      • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:

        She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

   3. With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
      • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:

        ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’

2. (colloquial) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.

   Now him and Bernie are best friends.

   Released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.

3. (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts ]:

     Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.

   • 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The traveller, or, A prospect of society:

     Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
     He sees his little lot the lot of all;
     [...]
     But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,
     Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.

4. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene x]:

     Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.

   • 2003 June 11, Claire Cozens, The Guardian:

     Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.

派生した語

• Jamaican Creole: im
• Pijin: hem
• Pijin: -im

参考

参考

• he
• his
• her
• them

名詞

him (複数形 hims)

1. (informal) A male person or animal.

   I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.

   • 1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)

     […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

   • 2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel‎^[2]:

     Both hims took a good look at him.

   • 2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival, page 68:

     By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”

2. (slang) A person of elevated skill at a sport/activity/game.

   Stop trying that, you're not him bro.

同意語

• he

アナグラム

• HMI

別の表記

• hym, heom, eom
• heom — Mercian

発音

• IPA^(key): /him/

代名詞

him

1. dative of hē: him
2. dative of hit: it
3. dative of hīe: them

派生した語

• Middle English: him
  • English: him
  • Yola: ham, him, em
• Middle English: hem
  • English: 'em, hem
  • Yola: aam