He, She, It: is, ea, id

Level 3

A plain he, she or it, and a plain that.

How It Works

Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	is	ea	id
accusative	eum	eam	id
genitive	eius	eius	eius
plural nominative	ei	eae	ea
plural accusative	eos	eas	ea

Eius does not agree with anything. Liber eius means his book or her book. To say his own, Latin uses suus, in the next entries.

The dative is ei for every gender, as in Dicit ei Iesus, Jesus says to him. The same spelling is also the masculine plural nominative. The sentence tells you which.

Is, ea, id is a light word. When Latin wants to stress he, she or it, it often uses ille or hic instead.

Examples (5)

Ea in horto est.
She is in the garden.
Ea is the feminine nominative: she.
Marcus eam videt.
Marcus sees her.
Eam is the feminine accusative: the object.
Eum audio.
I hear him.
Eum is the masculine accusative. The ending -m shows the object.
Liber eius bonus est.
His book is good.
Eius is the genitive, so liber eius is his book.
Et misericordia eius.
And his mercy.
From Mary's song, the Magnificat. Eius stands for God.

Common Mistakes

Using the subject form for the object.
Is video.
Eum video.
Is is the subject form, he. I see him needs the object form eum.

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He, She, It: is, ea, idLevel 3

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Is, ea, id follows ille and stands for a person or thing.

That: ille, illa, illud
Know ille, because is, ea, id also agrees in gender and number, and it stands for he, she and it.
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