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her

  1. (possessive) Belonging to her.
    This is her book
  2. (personal) The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
    Give it to her (after preposition)
    He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
    He treated her for a cold (direct object)

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belonging to
she
  • Arabic: ـها ar(ar) (-a)
    Egyptian Arabic: ـها (-ha)
  • Armenian: իրեն (iren)
  • Bulgarian:
    short form: я (accusative), Ѝ (dative)
    long form: нея (accusative), на нея (dative)
  • Czech: ní (after preposition), jí (indirect object), ji (direct object)
  • Danish: hende da(da)
  • Dutch: haar nl(nl) f.
  • Esperanto: ŝi (after preposition), al ŝi (indirect object), ŝin (direct object)
  • Finnish: hänet (accusative), häntä (partitive)
  • French: (after preposition) elle, (indirect object) lui, (indirect object, emphatic) lui ... à elle, (indirect object with an imperative verb) lui, (direct object) la (becoming l' before a vowel or an mute h), (direct object, emphatic) la ... elle
    Examples:
    After preposition: It is for her - C'est pour elle
    Indirect object: He tells her his name - Il lui dit son nom
    Indirect object, emphatic: He gives the book to her - Il lui donne le livre à elle
    Indirect object with an imperative verb: Give it to her - Donnez-le-lui
    Direct object: He hates her - Il la déteste
    Direct object (followed by a vowel): He loves her - Il l'aime
    Direct object, emphatic: He loves her - Il l'aime, elle
  • German: sie (accusative), ihr (dative)
  • Guaraní: i
  • Hungarian: őt (accusative), neki (dative)
  • Ido: el, elu
  • Interlingua: la (direct/indirect object); illa (after preposition)
  • Italian: (after preposition) lei, (indirect object) le, (indirect object, emphatic) a lei, (indirect object with an imperative verb) le (attached to the end of the verb and becoming glie- when used along with a direct object; the l is doubled with some verbs), (direct object) la (becoming l' before a vowel), (direct object, emphatic) lei
    Examples:
    After preposition: It is for her - É per lei
    Indirect object: Giovanni tells her his name - Giovanni le dice il suo nome
    Indirect object, emphatic: Giovanni gives the book to her - Giovanni dà il libro a lei
    Indirect object with an imperative verb, used without a direct object: Write to her - Scrivile; Tell her - Dille
    Indirect object with an imperative verb, used with a direct object: Send it to her - Spedisciglielo; Give it to her - Daglielo
    Direct object: Giovanni wants her - Giovanni la vuole
    Direct object (before a vowel): Giovanni hates her - Giovanni l'odia
    Direct object, emphatic: Giovanni wants her - Giovanni vuole lei
  • Novial: la
  • Spanish: a ella, le
  • Swedish: henne sv(sv)
  • Tupinambá: i

[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse hér.

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her

  1. here

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her

  1. here

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Not used in daily life, "hier" is rather used. "her" is only used in expressions like the ones below.

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[edit] Faroese

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From Old Norse hér.

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her

  1. here

[edit] German

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Old High German hera.

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her

  1. hither, to this place, to here, to me/us
  2. ago

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[edit] Icelandic

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Old Norse herr.

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her m.

  1. army

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[edit] Kurdish

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From Persian.

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her

  1. every, each
  2. anyone
  3. anyway

[edit] Limburgish

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From hieër

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her m

  1. vocative of hieër
  2. mister!
  3. Lord!

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her

  1. here

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[edit] Etymology 1

Apparently from the Germanic stem *hi- ‘this’; the exact formation is unclear. Cognate with Old Saxon hēr, Old High German hiar, Old Norse hér, Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐍂.

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hēr

  1. here

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[edit] Etymology 2

From Germanic *hǣrom. Cognate with Old Saxon hār (Dutch haar), Old High German hār (German Haar), Old Norse hár (Swedish hår).

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her n

  1. hair

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[edit] Old High German

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Proto-Germanic *hairaz, whence also Old English hār, Old Norse hárr.

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her

  1. old

[edit] Turkish

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From Persian

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her

  1. every
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