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[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Pronoun
his possessive pronoun
- (attributive) Belonging to him.
- This is his book.
[edit] Translations
attributive: belonging to him
[edit] Pronoun
his possessive pronoun
- That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
- The decision was his to live with.
[edit] Translations
that which belongs to him
- American Sign Language: FlatB@Chesthigh-FingerUp
- Armenian: իր (ir)
- Catalan: el seu m., la seva f., els seus pl., les seves f. pl.
- Croatian: njegov hr(hr)
- Czech: jeho cs(cs)
- Dutch: de zijne, aan hem
- Esperanto: lia eo(eo)
- Finnish: hänen fi(fi)
- French: le sien fr(fr) m., la sienne fr(fr) f., les siens fr(fr) pl., les siennes fr(fr) f. pl.
- Note: In French, the gender of this pronoun agrees with the thing owned, not with the owner.
- German: der seine
- Greek: δικός του m., δικός της f., δικός τους pl. (if the thing owned is male)
- δική του m., δική της f., δική τους pl. (if the thing owned is female)
- δικό του m., δικό της f., δικό τους pl. (if the thing owned is neuter)
- Note: In Greek, the gender of this pronoun agrees both with the thing owned and the owner.
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[edit] See also
[edit] Navajo
[edit] Alternative spellings
- xis (in older Americanist literature)
[edit] Pronunciation
his
- pus
