høn

Danish

Pronoun

høn

1. (rare) gender-neutral third person singular pronoun, comparable to Swedish hen
   • 2015, Carin Gerhardsen, translated by Agnete Stjernfelt, Hendes iskolde øjne, Art People, →ISBN:

     “Klokken lige godt ti minutter i to i fredags ringede en person med forvrænget stemme til salonen og spurgte efter Eva-Lena Jerebko. […] Hvorpå Carina Persson spurgte, om ikke vedkommende mente Eva-Lena Wetterhag. Det gjorde høn ikke.”

     "At about ten minutes to two o'clock last Friday, a person with obscured voice called the salon and asked for Eva-Lena Jerebko. […] Whereupon Carina Persson asked if the person did not mean Eva-Lena Wetterhag. They did not.

   • 2016, Fredrik Backman, translated by Louise Ardenfeldt Ravnild, Ting, min søn skal vide om verden, Art People, →ISBN:

     Og så kiggede en person fra folket (jeg siger ikke, at høn havde bæltetaske på, men høn kan have haft bæltetaske på) på stregen og tænkte ligesom “nahaaaaj! Jeg vil stå tæææt på!”

     And then a person from the people (I am not saying that they were wearing a fanny pack, but they may have been wearing a fanny pack) looked at the line and sort of went "no waaaay! I wanna stand cloooose!" [this source uses høm as the objective form once]

   • 2012, Ola Wong, translated by Jacob Jonia, Slaverne i Tanzhou, Forlaget Punktum, →ISBN:

     “My? Hvor er høn?! Vi skal jo af sted nu!”

     "My? Where are they?! We gotta go now!"

   • 2017, Tove Alsterdal, translated by Lilian Klingo, Vend dig ikke om, Modtryk, →ISBN:

     Hvis Svantes var både nyere og dyrere end den der, hvorfor stjal han den så ikke?” “Ved de med sikkerhed, at det var en mand?” “Nej, men det lyder da for åndet at sidde og sige 'høn' om Svantes morder.”

     If Svante's was both newer and more expensive than that one, then why did he not steal it? "Do they know with certainty that it was a man?" "No, but it does sound too ridiculous to go and say 'they' about Svante's murderer."