her
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English [edit]
Alternative forms [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- (UK) IPA: /hɜː(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /h3:(\r)/
- (US) IPA: /hɝ/ X-SAMPA: /h3`/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(r)
Pronoun [edit]
her possessive pronoun
- (attributive) Belonging to her.
- This is her book
Translations [edit]
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| Number | Person | Gender | Subject | Objective | Reflexive | Possessive adjective | 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) | |||
| Gender-neutral | they | them | themself | their | theirs | ||
| 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 | — | |
Etymology [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *hezōi. Cognate with Dutch haar, Middle Low German er(e) and North Frisian hör.
Pronoun [edit]
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."
Translations [edit]
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Anagrams [edit]
Danish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse hér.
Adverb [edit]
her
Related terms [edit]
Dutch [edit]
Adverb [edit]
her
Usage notes [edit]
- Not in common usage, "hier" is rather used. "her" is only used in expressions like the ones below.
Derived terms [edit]
- 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
Faroese [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse hér.
Adverb [edit]
her
German [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Old High German hera.
Pronunciation [edit]
Adverb [edit]
her
Antonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
See also [edit]
Gothic [edit]
Romanization [edit]
hēr
- See 𐌷𐌴𐍂
Icelandic [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse herr.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
her m (genitive singular hers, plural herir)
Declension [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
Kurdish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Persian.
Adverb [edit]
her
Limburgish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From hieër
Noun [edit]
her m
Norwegian Bokmål [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Norse hér.
Adverb [edit]
her
References [edit]
- “her” in The Bokmål Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
Norwegian Nynorsk [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Old Norse hér.
Adverb [edit]
her
- here
- Det er fint å vera her.
- It's nice to be here.
- Det er fint å vera her.
Etymology 2 [edit]
Noun [edit]
her m (definite singular heren; indefinite plural herar; definite plural herane)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by hær
References [edit]
- “her” in The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.
Old English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /heːr/
Etymology 1 [edit]
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 (her).
Adverb [edit]
hēr
Descendants [edit]
- English: here
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”). Cognate with Old Saxon hār, Dutch haar, Old High German hār (German Haar), Old Norse hár (Swedish hår).
Alternative forms [edit]
Noun [edit]
her n
Descendants [edit]
- English: hair
Old High German [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Proto-Germanic *hairaz, whence also Old English hār, Old Norse hárr.
Adjective [edit]
hēr
Turkish [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Persian هر (har).
Adjective [edit]
her
Volapük [edit]
Noun [edit]
her (plural hers)
Declension [edit]
- English pronouns
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Dutch
- English terms derived from Middle Low German
- English terms derived from North Frisian
- 100 English basic words
- English personal pronouns
- English possessive pronouns
- English third person pronouns
- English three-letter words
- Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Danish adverbs
- Dutch adverbs
- Faroese terms derived from Old Norse
- Faroese adverbs
- German terms derived from Old High German
- German terms with homophones
- German adverbs
- Gothic romanizations
- Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse
- Icelandic masculine nouns
- Icelandic nouns
- Kurdish terms derived from Persian
- Kurdish adverbs
- Limburgish nouns
- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Bokmål adverbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Old Norse
- Norwegian Nynorsk adverbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk words that are no longer standard
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English adverbs
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English nouns
- Old High German terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old High German adjectives
- Turkish terms derived from Persian
- Turkish adjectives
- Volapük nouns