hers

See also: her's, Hers, and Her's

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English hires, heres, hers, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her +‎ -s (compare -'s).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜːz/, unstressed IPA^(key): /əz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɝz/, unstressed IPA^(key): /ɚz/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z

Pronoun

hers

1. That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun.

Translations

that which belongs to her

• Arabic: لَهَا m (lahā)

  Egyptian Arabic: لها (lihā), بتاعها m (betāʿhā), بتاعتها f (betāʿethā), بتوعها pl (betōʿhā)

• Azerbaijani: onunku
• Belarusian: яе́ (jajé)
• Bulgarian: не́ин (néin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 她的 (zh) (tā-de)

• Coptic:

  Bohairic: ⲫⲱⲥ m (phōs), ⲑⲱⲥ f (thōs), ⲛⲟⲩⲥ pl (nous)

  Sahidic: ⲡⲱⲥ m (pōs), ⲧⲱⲥ f (tōs), ⲛⲟⲩⲥ pl (nous)

• Czech: její (cs)
• Danish: hendes (da)
• Dutch: het hare, de hare
• Finnish: hänen (fi)
• French: le sien (fr) m sg, la sienne (fr) f sg, les siens (fr) m pl, les siennes (fr) f pl
• German: ihr (de)
• Greek: δικός της (el) m (dikós tis), δικιά της f (dikiá tis), δική της (el) f (dikí tis), δικό της (el) n (dikó tis), δικοί της (el) m pl (dikoí tis), δικές της f pl (dikés tis), δικά της n pl (diká tis)
• Greenlandic: uuma
• Guaraní: imba'e
• Hawaiian: ona, āna
• Hungarian: övé (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Icelandic: hennar (is)
• Ido: elua (io)
• Interlingua: sue
• Italian: il suo m sg, la sua f sg, i suoi m pl, le sue f pl
• Japanese: 彼女の (ja) (かのじょの, kanojo no)
• Latin: suus (la), eius (la), illius, huius (la)
• Latvian: viņas (lv), viņējs, viņējais
• Macedonian: нејзин (nejzin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hennes (no)

• Polish: jej (pl)
• Portuguese: o seu m, a sua f, o dela m, a dela f
• Romanian: a ei (ro) f, al său (ro) m, a sa f, ai săi m pl, ale sale (ro) f pl
• Russian: её (ru) (jejó)
• Serbo-Croatian: њен, njen
• Slovak: jej
• Slovene: njén (sl)
• Spanish: el suyo m, los suyos m pl, la suya f, las suyas f pl
• Swedish: hennes (sv), (reflexive) sin (sv) c, sitt (sv) n, sina (sv) pl
• Telugu: ఆమెది (āmedi)
• Tupinambá: i mba'e
• Tuvan: ооңуу (ooñuu)
• Ukrainian: її́ (uk) (jijí)
• Yakut: киниэнэ (kiniene)

Noun

hers

1. plural of her

See also

English personal pronouns

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself me mysen	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic) me
	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself oursen	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself yoursen	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself thysen	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all y'all you guys	you all y'all you guys	y'allselves	y'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed)	y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed)
		informal / dialectal	(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person	singular	masculine	he	him	himself hisself (archaic) hissen	his hisn (obsolete outside dialects)	his
		feminine	she	her	herself hersen	hers hern (obsolete outside dialects)	her
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itself hitself	its his (archaic)	its his (archaic) hits
		genderless	they	them	themself, themselves	theirs	their
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	one	one	oneself	–	one's
	plural		they	them hem, 'em	themselves theirsen	theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)	their

Anagrams

• HSer, RSeH, Resh, Sher, ersh, resh

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Icelandic

Noun

1. indefinite genitive singular of her

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hers

1. Alternative form of hires (“hers”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hers

1. Alternative form of heres (“theirs”)

Etymology 3

Noun

hers

1. Alternative form of ars (“anus; buttocks”)

Etymology 4

Verb

hers

1. Alternative form of hereth: third-person singular present of heren (“to hear”)
2. Alternative form of heren: plural present of heren (“to hear”)