hän

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Contents 1 Finnish 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Pronoun 1.3.1 Inflection 1.3.2 Usage notes 1.4 See also 2 Kven 2.1 Pronoun 2.1.1 Synonyms

[edit] Finnish

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *se; cognate to Hungarian ő.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [hæn]
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• Hyphenation: hän

[edit] Pronoun

hän (stems häne- and hän-)

1. (personal) he or she (only of a human being; the pronoun doesn't determine the sex of the person).

[edit] Inflection

• Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms don't exist; the abessive is hardly used.
• In addition to the standard set of cases, hän has a specific accusative form hänet, as well as the other personal pronouns.

Declension of hän noun case singular plural nominative hän he genitive hänen heidän partitive häntä heitä accusative hänet heidät inessive hänessä heissä elative hänestä heistä illative häneen heihin adessive hänellä heillä ablative häneltä heiltä allative hänelle heille essive hänenä heinä translative häneksi heiksi instructive – – abessive hänettä heittä comitative – –

[edit] Usage notes

• In standard Finnish, hän can practically never be omitted, despite the verb showing both the person and the number. (compare the usage of he, "they")

[edit] See also

• minä
• sinä
• me
• te
• he

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[edit] Kven

[edit] Pronoun

hän

1. (personal) he, she

[edit] Synonyms

• se