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I am guessing "she" even if the most common way to express this is "her" - I think we use nominative case since the woman is the subject of the sentence.

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  • What sentence? Are you wanting to say something about this poor person? – Stuart F Nov 01 '23 at 23:12
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    Possible duplicate: Why do we use the object instead of the subject pronoun in constructions like "stupid me"? – Laurel Nov 01 '23 at 23:15
  • @StuartF: someone suffering a misfortune simply says, "Poor me" instead of "Poor I". – releseabe Nov 02 '23 at 00:09
  • What we would say about her is “Poor thing” or “Poor dear.” – Xanne Nov 02 '23 at 00:46
  • @Xanne: because the words "thing" and "dear" do not change based on whether subject or object makes this easy. in english, declension only occurs afaik with pronouns. i sure was puzzled at first by declension in languages which use it extensively and could not get a straight answer from the foolish person i asked to explain it to me as a kid. he said we did not have it in english while all he had to do was discuss "I" and "me" for example. – releseabe Nov 02 '23 at 01:28
  • @releseabe Please note: you should use a capital letter for the word English, the pronoun "I", and for the first word of a sentence. – BillJ Nov 02 '23 at 08:00
  • We say "poor you", but I've never heard anyone say "Poor her" - we would use her name or say "Poor woman" or use another noun, as Xanne says. – Kate Bunting Nov 02 '23 at 09:09
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    "Poor her" sounds OK to me. link – BillJ Nov 02 '23 at 09:22
  • @BillJ: The ngrams link would be more convincing if the examples weren't all along the lines of "... was poor. Her next ...."! But I agree that "Poor her" sounds OK; I've almost certainly used it, even. – psmears Nov 02 '23 at 11:17
  • @psmears I don't follow you. The Ngram I linked to was "Poor her". The same applies if a full stop is included making a full sentence link – BillJ Nov 02 '23 at 13:38
  • @BillJ: If you click on the buttons to see what examples it's included in its count, it gives results like this, which include mostly of "... poor. Her ..." - or are you saying that doesn't match what it's including in the graph? – psmears Nov 02 '23 at 13:44

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