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Old English Pronoun Exercises

This document provides a fill-in-the-blank exercise on Old English first- and second-person pronouns. It contains 15 sentences with blanks to be filled in with the correct Old English pronoun. The correct forms are given as answer choices "a", "b", or "c". Footnotes provide additional context on Old English grammar points illustrated by some of the sentences.

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Old English Pronoun Exercises

This document provides a fill-in-the-blank exercise on Old English first- and second-person pronouns. It contains 15 sentences with blanks to be filled in with the correct Old English pronoun. The correct forms are given as answer choices "a", "b", or "c". Footnotes provide additional context on Old English grammar points illustrated by some of the sentences.

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Chapter 5.

First- and second-person pronouns: Fill in the


blanks and translate
A.
1. _______ hæfst ānne scilling.
a. Þū b. Þē c. Þīn
2. _______ hæbbe ān pund.
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
3. Ætla _______ ġeaf þisne scild.
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
4. Hwæt ġeaf hē _______?
a. þū b. þē c. þīn
5. Iċ wille _______ helpan.
a. þū b. þē c. þīn 1
6. Þū wēnde _______ lange þrāge.
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
7. _______ etað þone hlāf and drincað þā meolc.
a. Ġē b. Ēow c. Ēower
8. _______ sōhton þīn horse, ac hit nā ne fundon.
a. Wē b. Ūs c. Ūre
9. Hæbbe ġē _______ ġeseġen?
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
10. Canst þū _______ ġehelpan?
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
11. Se lǣċe _______ ġehǣlde.
a. iċ b. mē c. mīn
12. Se wælhrēowa wiga wille _______ ofslēan.
a. þū b. þē c. þīn
13. Se goldsmiþ _______ ġeworhte gyldenne bēag.
a. wē b. ūs c. ūre
14. God _______ ġifð forġifenesse ēowra synna.
a. ġē b. ēow c. ēower
15. —

1
As some examples in this exercise show, there are verbs that take direct objects in cases other than the
accusative (see also Baker [2007: 38]). However, unless informed otherwise by the Glossary or the question,
assume that direct objects should be in the accusative case in questions in exercises and on the exam.
B.
1. I do not wish to obey my lord’s killer.

2. A shining angel came to me.

3. /The/Those/ people chose you as (their) king.2

4. —

5. We come from the same family.3

6. The king gave us these shields.

7. —

8. —

9. The priest sent us to you.

10. Your lord feeds you, and you fight for him.

2
In Present-day English, people is always plural (except when it refers to a particular ethnic group, as in The
Swedes are a proud people), so those must be used as a demonstrative; in Old English, however, folc was singular,
so it takes the neuter nominative singular þæt instead of nominative plural þā. Note the similarity with the
Present-day Swedish construction välja någon till kung (literally, ‘choose someone to king’).
3
Note the importance of vowel length: mǣġþ ’family’ vs. mæġþ ’maiden’. As both nouns are feminine, they
would also have taken the same forms of pronouns and adjectives in the noun phrases (though the dental-
stem noun mæġþ exceptionally has the dative singular mæġþ rather than mæġþe, so there would have been an
additional difference in the dative singular form of the two nouns).

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