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This paper relates Nias personal pronouns to those of English in order to understand and examines how they work. The research was conducted qualitatively by contrasting the elements of the two languages. Personal pronouns used as indirect objects in English are from the objective case. Typical order of an English indirect object is that it precedes the direct one. In Nias, this system is rendered by combining the preposition khö- ‘to, for’ with the possessives. This phrase is referred to by khö-Pos in this article. In relation to the English personal pronouns used as indirect objects, the construction khö-Pos thus is a typical answer on how to render them into Nias. Regardless of the complexity of the other linguistic elements in their constructions, this phrase behaves the same way.