она

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[edit] Old Church Slavonic

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *onъ.

[edit] Pronoun

она (ona) f.

1. she, that one there, that one yonder

[edit] Declension

[edit] Related terms

• оно
• онъ

[edit] See also

• ѭ

[edit] Descendants

[edit] Russian

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Pronoun

она (oná)

1. third-person feminine singular pronoun: she, it.
2. third-person feminine singular objective pronoun: her, it.

• Да как же она, так и говорит? (Da kak že oná, tak i govorít?) — What is she like? Does she talk?
• Её нет дома (Jejó net dóma, genitive) — She’s not home.
• Ей не спится (Jej ne spítsja, dative) — She is unable to sleep.
• Я вижу её (Ja vížu jejó, accusative) — I see her.
• За нею пять рублей (Za njéju pjat' rubléj, instrumental) — She owes five rubles.
• Он это при ней сказал (On éto pri nej skazál, prepositional) — He said it in her presence.

[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- is prefixed to the pronoun: от неё (ot nejó, from her), на ней (na nej, on her), у неё (u nejó, she has), к ней (k nej, to her), с нею (s néju, with her).

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 вън её became modern в неё, and then this was extended to include all prepositions when governing any third-person pronoun.

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

[edit] Related terms

• её
• свой

[edit] See also

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

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ona < Proto-Indo-European *h₂eno-

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ǒna/
• Hyphenation: о‧на

[edit] Pronoun

о̀на (Roman spelling òna)

1. she
2. they (nominative plural of о̀но (“‘it’”)))

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