her
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[edit] English
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[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Pronoun
her possessive pronoun
- (attributive) Belonging to her.
- This is her book
[edit] Translations
belonging to
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[edit] See also
English personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Gender | Subject | Objective | Reflexive | Possessive | Possessive Pronoun |
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| Singular | First | — | I | me | myself | my | mine |
| Second | — | you, thou (archaic) |
you, thee (archaic) |
yourself, thyself (archaic) theeself (archaic) |
your, thy (archaic) |
yours, thine (archaic) |
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| Third | Masculine | he | him | himself | his | ||
| Feminine | she | her | herself | her | hers | ||
| Neuter | it | itself | its | its (rare) | |||
| Plural | First | — | we | us | ourselves | our | ours |
| Second | — | you, ye (archaic) |
you | yourselves | your | yours | |
| Third | — | they | them | themselves | their | theirs | |
| Indefinite | Third | — | one | oneself | one's | — | |
[edit] Pronoun
her 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)
- February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:
- "Then what became of her?"
- "Her? Which ‘her’? The park is full of ‘hers’."
- "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
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she
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[edit] Danish
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse hér.
[edit] Adverb
her
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[edit] Dutch
[edit] Noun
her
[edit] Usage notes
- Not in common usage, "hier" is rather used. "her" is only used in expressions like the ones below.
[edit] Derived terms
- her en der: here and there, hither and thither (her en der verspreid: scattered all over the place)
- van hot naar her: from pillar to post, here, there and everywhere
[edit] Faroese
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse hér.
[edit] Adverb
her
[edit] German
[edit] Etymology
Old High German hera.
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[edit] Adverb
her
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[edit] Gothic
[edit] Romanization
hēr
- Romanization of 𐌷𐌴𐍂
[edit] Icelandic
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse herr.
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[edit] Noun
her m. (genitive singular hers, plural herir)
[edit] Declension
declension of her
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[edit] Kurdish
[edit] Etymology
From Persian.
[edit] Adverb
her
[edit] Limburgish
[edit] Etymology
From hieër
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her m.
[edit] Norwegian
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse hér.
[edit] Adverb
her
- here
- Det er fint å vera her. (Nynorsk)
- It's nice to be here.
- Det er fint å vera her. (Nynorsk)
[edit] References
- “her” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
[edit] Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit] Alternative forms
- hær (main form)
[edit] Etymology
From Old Norse herr.
[edit] Noun
[her] m. (definite singular heren; indefinite plural herar; definite plural herane)
- army
- Landet hadde den største heren i området.
- The country had the largest army in the area.
- Landet hadde den største heren i området.
- a large/huge amount, a flock
- Det kom ein heil her av grashopper.
- A huge amount of grashoppers came.
- Det kom ein heil her av grashopper.
[edit] References
- “her” in The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
[edit] Old English
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /heːr/
[edit] Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, apparently from the stem *hi- ‘this’; the exact formation is unclear. Cognate with Old Saxon hēr, Old High German hiar, Old Norse hér, Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐍂.
[edit] Adverb
hēr
[edit] Descendants
- English: here
[edit] Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *hēran. Cognate with Old Saxon hār (Dutch haar), Old High German hār (German Haar), Old Norse hár (Swedish hår).
[edit] Noun
her n.
[edit] Descendants
- English: hair
[edit] Old High German
[edit] Etymology
Proto-Germanic *hairaz, whence also Old English hār, Old Norse hárr.
[edit] Adjective
hēr
[edit] Turkish
[edit] Etymology
From Persian هر (har).
[edit] Adjective
her
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