pronoun
he
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Er is the third-person singular masculine subject pronoun meaning he. It is used in the nominative; other cases use different forms: accusative ihn, dative ihm, genitive seiner. It functions as the subject before verbs. Not reflexive and has no auxiliary; lowercased except at sentence start.
Examples
Er ist mein Bruder und wohnt nebenan.
He is my brother and lives next door.
Er sagte, dass er den Brief gelesen hatte, bevor die Sitzung begann.
He said that he had read the letter before the meeting began.
Details
Mnemonics
visualize a man with an arrow labeled 'er' pointing at him.
sounds like 'air' — imagine pointing to a man and saying 'air' → er.