он

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Contents 1 Karachay-Balkar 1.1 Cardinal number 2 Khakas 2.1 Cardinal number 3 Russian 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Pronunciation 3.3 Pronoun 3.3.1 Declension 3.3.2 Related terms 3.4 See also 4 Tajik 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Determiner 4.3 Pronoun

[edit] Karachay-Balkar

[edit] Cardinal number

он (on)

1. ten

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[edit] Khakas

[edit] Cardinal number

он (on)

1. ten

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[edit] Russian

[edit] Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic онъ (onŭ) < Proto-Slavic *onъ.

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: [on]

[edit] Pronoun

он (on)

1. third-person masculine singular pronoun: he, it.

[edit] Declension

N.B.— Whenever a preposition stands immediately before any of the oblique cases of the third-person pronoun (singular or plural) and directly governs it, then an н- must be prefixed to the pronoun: от него (ot nevó, from him), на нём (na njom, on him), у него (u nevó, he has), к нему (k nemú, to him), с ним (s nim, with him).

The explanation for the н-prothesis is that, originally, some Russian prepositions ended in the letter -н: сън (sŭn, “with”...cf. Greek σύν, Latin cum). Eventually, the final н of these prepositions migrated across to the pronoun, so that сън им became modern с ним, and then this was extended to include all prepositions when governing any third-person pronoun.

Note that if the preposition does not directly govern его (i.e., when его is a possessive pronoun), then н- is not prefixed: у его брата (u jevó bráta, at his brother’s), о его матери (o jevó máteri, about his mother), в его комнате (v jevó kómnate, in his room).

[edit] Related terms

• его
• свой

[edit] See also

• я
• ты
• она
• оно
• мы
• вы
• они
• сам
• себя

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[edit] Tajik

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔːn/

[edit] Determiner

Dari	آن‍
Iranian Persian	آن‍
Tajiki	‍он‍

он (on)

1. that

[edit] Pronoun

Dari	آن‍
Iranian Persian	آن‍
Tajiki	‍он‍

он (on)

1. that
2. it
3. she
4. he