онъ

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *onъ.

Pronoun

онъ • (onŭ)

1. he (personal pronoun)
2. that one there, that one yonder

Usage notes

The nominative forms of онъ (onŭ) served as third-person personal pronouns. In all the other cases (and occasionally in the nominative as well), the forms of и (i) were used.

Declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
nominative	онъ	она (ona)	они (oni)
genitive	оного	оною	онѣхъ
dative	ономоу	онѣма	онѣмъ
accusative	онъ	она	онꙑ
instrumental	онѣмь	онѣма	онѣми
locative	ономь	оною	онѣхъ

See also

• и (i)

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Russian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [on]

Pronoun

онъ • (on)

1. (obsolete) Pre-1918 spelling of он (on).

See also

Pre-1918 declension of Russian personal pronouns

	singular						plural					reflexive
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person				1st person	2nd person	3rd person
			m	n	f				m or n	f
nominative	я (ja)	ты (ty)	онъ (on)	оно́ (onó)	она́ (oná)		мы (my)	вы (vy)	они́ (oní)	онѣ́ (oně́)
genitive	меня́ (menjá)	тебя́ (tebjá)	его́, него́1 2 (jegó, negó1 2)		ея́, нея́1 (jejá, nejá1)		насъ (nas)	васъ (vas)	ихъ, нихъ1 (ix, nix1)			себя́ (sebjá)
dative	мнѣ (mně)	тебѣ́ (tebě́)	ему́, нему́1 (jemú, nemú1)		ей, ней1 (jej, nej1)		намъ (nam)	вамъ (vam)	им, ним1 (im, nim1)			себѣ́ (sebě́)
accusative	меня́ (menjá)	тебя́ (tebjá)	его́, него́1 2 (jegó, negó1 2)		её, неё1 (jejó, nejó1)		насъ (nas)	васъ (vas)	ихъ, нихъ1 (ix, nix1)			себя́ (sebjá)
instrumental	мной, мно́ю (mnoj, mnóju4)	тобо́й, тобо́ю (tobój, tobóju4)	им, ним1 (im, nim1)		ей, е́ю4, ней1, не́ю1 4 (jej, jéju4, nej1, néju1 4)		на́ми (námi)	ва́ми (vámi)	и́ми, ни́ми1 (ími, ními1)			собо́й, собо́ю4 (sobój, sobóju4)
prepositional3	мнѣ (mně)	тебѣ́ (tebě́)	нёмъ1 (njom1)		ней1 (nej1)		насъ (nas)	васъ (vas)	нихъ1 (nix1)			себѣ́ (sebě́)
The alternative forms starting with "н-" (n-) are used after a preposition. Letter "г" (g) in the genitive/accusative case ending is pronounced as /v/ The prepositional case is never used without a preposition Instrumental forms ending in "-ю" (ju) are either dated, poetic, or dialectal.