his

See also: His and hís

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English his, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its.

Pronunciation

• (stressed)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈhɪz/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈhɘz/
• • IPA^(key): /ɪ̈z/
  • IPA^(key): /əz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪz

Determiner

his

1. Belonging to him. [from 8th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.

   • 2011, Xan Rice, The Guardian, 8 Apr 2011:

     In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians.

2. (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
   • David Hume

     On the contrary, those other passions, commonly denominated selfish, both produce different sentiments in each individual, according to his particular situation […]

3. (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) [11th-17th c.]
   • Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
   • 1611, Matthew 5:13, King James Version:

     Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?

4. (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. [from 11th c.]

   Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.

   Sejanus his Fall

Usage notes

• When followed by a noun, it is sometimes referred to as a possessive adjective, qualifying the following noun. It is, however, the possessive case of the personal pronoun he.
• (fourth sense) See His genitive on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

attributive: belonging to him

• Albanian: tij (sq)
• American Sign Language: FlatB@Chesthigh-FingerUp
• Arabic: ـهُ (ar) (-hu), (Possessive Pronoun) لَه (lah)

  Egyptian Arabic: ـه (-u), (Possessive Pronoun) ليه (li) بتاعو m (betaʕo) بتاعتو f (betaʕto) بتوعو pl (betoʕo)

• Armenian: նրա (hy) (nra)

  Old Armenian: նորա (nora)

• Aromanian: seu, (a) lui
• Asturian: so (ast)
• Belarusian: яго́ (jahó), (common, colloquial) яго́ны (jahóny), (own, generic) свой (svoj)
• Breton: e (br)
• Bulgarian: не́гов (négov), свой (svoj) (own, generic)
• Burmese: သူ့ (su.)
• Catalan: seu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 他的 (zh) (tā de)

• Coptic: ⲡⲉϥ m (pef), ⲧⲉϥ f (tef), ⲛⲉϥ m pl or f pl (nef)
• Czech: jeho (cs), svůj (cs) (own, generic)
• Danish: hans (da)
• Dutch: zijn (nl) m
• Egyptian: (.f)
• Esperanto: lia (eo)
• Estonian: tema (et), ta (et)
• Finnish: hänen (fi)
• French: son (fr) m, sa (fr) f, ses (fr) pl
• Friulian: so, sô
• German: sein (de) m, n, seine (de) f, seine (de) pl

  Alemannic German: siin m, sini f, siis n

• Gothic: 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (seins)
• Greek: του (el) m (tou)

  Ancient: (genitive of personal pronoun) αὐτοῦ (autoû); (medial, proximal, distal demonstrative) τούτου (toútou), τοῦδε (toûde), ἐκείνου (ekeínou); (Epic demonstrative) τοῦ (toû); (Epic possessive adjective) ὅς (hós), ἑός (heós)

• Greenlandic: uuma
• Hawaiian: kona, kāna
• Hebrew: שלו (he) (shello)
• Hindi: उसका (uskā), इसका (iskā), उनका (hi) (unkā) (formal)
• Hungarian: -a (hu), -e, -ja, -je
• Ido: ilua (io)
• Interlingua: su
• Irish: a (ga)
• Italian: suo (it) m, sua (it) f, suoi (it) pl, sue (it) f pl
• Japanese: 彼の (ja) (かれの, kare no)
• Kalmyk: энүнә (enünä), терүнә (terünä)
• Korean: 그의 (ko) (geu-ui)
• Kurdish:
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: suus (la), eius (la), illius
• Latvian: viņa (lv)
• Lithuanian: savas
• Lower Sorbian: jogo
• Luxembourgish: säi, senger
• Macedonian: негов (negov), свој (svoj) (own, generic)
• Maltese: tiegħu, tagħhom pl
• Maori: tāna (singular dominant), tōna (singular subordiante), āna (plural dominant), ōna (plural subordinate), tana (singular neutral and informal), ana (plural neutral or informal)
• Navajo: bi-
• Ngarrindjeri: kinauwe
• Norwegian: hans (no), sin (no) (own, generic)
• Novial:
• Nyunga: balup
• Occitan: seu (oc), seuna (oc)
• Ojibwe: o-
• Oriya: ତାର (or) (tār)
• Persian: او (fa) (u)
• Pipil: i-
• Polish: jego (pl), swój (pl)
• Portuguese: seu (pt)
• Romanian: său (ro) m, sa f, săi pl, sale (ro) f pl, lui (ro)
• Romansch: ses, sia
• Russian: его́ (ru) (jevó), свой (ru) (svoj) (own, generic)
• Scottish Gaelic: a
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: њѐгов, сво̑ј (own, generic)

  Roman: njègov, svȏj (sh) (own, generic)

• Slovak: jeho (sk), svoj (own, generic)
• Slovene: njegôv (sl), svój (own, generic)
• Spanish: su (es) sg, sus (es) pl
• Swedish: hans (sv), (reflexive) sin (sv)
• Telugu: (informal) వాడి (te) (vāḍi), అతని (atani), (formal) ఆయన (te) (āyana)
• Thai: ของเขา (kɔ̌ɔng kǎo)
• Tlingit: du
• Turkish: onun (tr)
• Ukrainian: його́ (uk) (johó), свій (svij) (own, generic)
• Upper Sorbian: jeho
• Urdu: اس کا (us ka, is ka), (formal) ان کا (un ka)
• Vietnamese: của anh ấy, của nó, của hắn
• Volapük: omik (vo)
• Waray-Waray: iya,ira pl
• West Frisian: syn (fy)
• Zulu: possessive concord + -khe class 1 (most common), -wo class 3, -lo class 5, -so class 7, -yo class 9, -lo class 11

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

Pronoun

his

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

   The decision was his to live with.

2. Alternative spelling of His

Translations

that which belongs to him

• American Sign Language: FlatB@Chesthigh-FingerUp
• Armenian: իր (hy) (ir)
• Azerbaijani: onunku
• Catalan: el seu m, la seva f, els seus pl, les seves f pl
• Coptic:

  Bohairic: ⲫⲱϥ m (phōf), ⲑⲱϥ f (thōf), ⲛⲟⲩϥ pl (nouf)

  Sahidic: ⲡⲱϥ m (pōf), ⲧⲱϥ f (tōf), ⲛⲟⲩϥ pl (nouf)

• Czech: jeho (cs)
• Danish: hans (da)
• Dutch: de zijne, aan hem
• Egyptian: (pꜣy.f m), (tꜣy.f f), (nꜣy.f pl)
• Esperanto: lia (eo)
• Finnish: hänen (fi)
• French: le sien (fr) m, la sienne (fr) f, les siens (fr) pl, les siennes (fr) f pl
• German: ^{(please verify)} der seine (de)
• Greek: δικός του (el) m (dikós tou), δικιά του f (dikiá tou), δική του (el) f (dikí tou), δικό του (el) n (dikó tou), δικοί του (el) m pl (dikoí tou), δικές του f pl (dikés tou), δικά του n pl (diká tou)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} az övé (hu)
• Ido: ilua (io)
• Latin: eius (la), suus (la), illius, huius (la)
• Latvian: viņa (lv), viņējs, viņējais
• Norwegian: hans (no)
• Novial: ,
• Portuguese: dele (pt)
• Romanian: al lui (ro) m, al său (ro) m, a sa f, ai săi m pl, ale sale (ro) f pl
• Russian: его́ (ru) (jevó)
• Serbo-Croatian: njegov
• Shor: ааң
• Slovak: jeho (sk)
• Slovene: njegôv (sl)
• Spanish: suyo (es) m sg, suya (es) f sg, suyos (es) m pl, suyas (es) f pl
• Swedish: hans (sv)
• Tuvan: ооңуу (ooñuu)
• Yakut: киниэнэ (kiniene)

See also

• he
• her
• hers
• him
• hisn

Etymology 2

Noun

his

1. plural of hi
   • 2009, John M. Carney, Welcome to Tranquility

     The Hikkams pushed a table over by the booth where the Lochwoods and Meekums were sitting, exchanged his and sat down.

Anagrams

• -ish, IHS, Ish, Shi, ish, shi

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Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		һис
Abjad		حیس

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ïjs (“smell, odour”). Cognate with Chuvash йӑс (jăs)

Noun

1. soot, (black) smoke, fume

Declension

Declension of his
	singular	plural
nominative	his	hislər
definite accusative	hisi	hisləri
dative	hisə	hislərə
locative	hisdə	hislərdə
ablative	hisdən	hislərdən
definite genitive	hisin	hislərin

Possessive forms of his
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hisim	hislərim
sənin (“your”)	hisin	hislərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	hisi	hisləri
bizim (“our”)	hisimiz	hislərimiz
sizin (“your”)	hisiniz	hisləriniz
onların (“their”)	hisi or hisləri	hisləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hisimi	hislərimi
sənin (“your”)	hisini	hislərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	hisini	hislərini
bizim (“our”)	hisimizi	hislərimizi
sizin (“your”)	hisinizi	hislərinizi
onların (“their”)	hisini or hislərini	hislərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hisimə	hislərimə
sənin (“your”)	hisinə	hislərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	hisinə	hislərinə
bizim (“our”)	hisimizə	hislərimizə
sizin (“your”)	hisinizə	hislərinizə
onların (“their”)	hisinə or hislərinə	hislərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hisimdə	hislərimdə
sənin (“your”)	hisində	hislərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	hisində	hislərində
bizim (“our”)	hisimizdə	hislərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	hisinizdə	hislərinizdə
onların (“their”)	hisində or hislərində	hislərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hisimdən	hislərimdən
sənin (“your”)	hisindən	hislərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	hisindən	hislərindən
bizim (“our”)	hisimizdən	hislərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	hisinizdən	hislərinizdən
onların (“their”)	hisindən or hislərindən	hislərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	hisimin	hislərimin
sənin (“your”)	hisinin	hislərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	hisinin	hislərinin
bizim (“our”)	hisimizin	hislərimizin
sizin (“your”)	hisinizin	hislərinizin
onların (“their”)	hisinin or hislərinin	hislərinin

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Danish

Noun

his n

1. indefinite genitive singular of hi

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhis/, [ˈhis̠]

Noun

his

1. (music) B-sharp

Usage notes

Capitalized for the great octave or any octave below that, or in names of major keys; not capitalized for the small octave or any octave above that, or in names of minor keys.

Declension

Inflection of his (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		his	hisit
genitive		hisin	hisien
partitive		hisiä	hisejä
illative		hisiin	hiseihin
		singular	plural
nominative		his	hisit
accusative	nom.	his	hisit
	gen.	hisin
genitive		hisin	hisien
partitive		hisiä	hisejä
inessive		hisissä	hiseissä
elative		hisistä	hiseistä
illative		hisiin	hiseihin
adessive		hisillä	hiseillä
ablative		hisiltä	hiseiltä
allative		hisille	hiseille
essive		hisinä	hiseinä
translative		hisiksi	hiseiksi
abessive		hisittä	hiseittä
instructive		—	hisein
comitative		See the possessive forms below.

Possessive forms of his (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)

first-person singular possessor singular plural nominative hisini hisini accusative nom. hisini hisini gen. hisini genitive hisini hisieni partitive hisiäni hisejäni inessive hisissäni hiseissäni elative hisistäni hiseistäni illative hisiini hiseihini adessive hisilläni hiseilläni ablative hisiltäni hiseiltäni allative hisilleni hiseilleni essive hisinäni hiseinäni translative hisikseni hiseikseni abessive hisittäni hiseittäni instructive — — comitative — hiseineni second-person singular possessor singular plural nominative hisisi hisisi accusative nom. hisisi hisisi gen. hisisi genitive hisisi hisiesi partitive hisiäsi hisejäsi inessive hisissäsi hiseissäsi elative hisistäsi hiseistäsi illative hisiisi hiseihisi adessive hisilläsi hiseilläsi ablative hisiltäsi hiseiltäsi allative hisillesi hiseillesi essive hisinäsi hiseinäsi translative hisiksesi hiseiksesi abessive hisittäsi hiseittäsi instructive — — comitative — hiseinesi first-person plural possessor singular plural nominative hisimme hisimme accusative nom. hisimme hisimme gen. hisimme genitive hisimme hisiemme partitive hisiämme hisejämme inessive hisissämme hiseissämme elative hisistämme hiseistämme illative hisiimme hiseihimme adessive hisillämme hiseillämme ablative hisiltämme hiseiltämme allative hisillemme hiseillemme essive hisinämme hiseinämme translative hisiksemme hiseiksemme abessive hisittämme hiseittämme instructive — — comitative — hiseinemme second-person plural possessor singular plural nominative hisinne hisinne accusative nom. hisinne hisinne gen. hisinne genitive hisinne hisienne partitive hisiänne hisejänne inessive hisissänne hiseissänne elative hisistänne hiseistänne illative hisiinne hiseihinne adessive hisillänne hiseillänne ablative hisiltänne hiseiltänne allative hisillenne hiseillenne essive hisinänne hiseinänne translative hisiksenne hiseiksenne abessive hisittänne hiseittänne instructive — — comitative — hiseinenne third-person possessor singular plural nominative hisinsä hisinsä accusative nom. hisinsä hisinsä gen. hisinsä genitive hisinsä hisiensä partitive hisiään hisiänsä hisejään hisejänsä inessive hisissään hisissänsä hiseissään hiseissänsä elative hisistään hisistänsä hiseistään hiseistänsä illative hisiinsä hiseihinsä adessive hisillään hisillänsä hiseillään hiseillänsä ablative hisiltään hisiltänsä hiseiltään hiseiltänsä allative hisilleen hisillensä hiseilleen hiseillensä essive hisinään hisinänsä hiseinään hiseinänsä translative hisikseen hisiksensä hiseikseen hiseiksensä abessive hisittään hisittänsä hiseittään hiseittänsä instructive — — comitative — hiseineen hiseinensä

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Latin

Pronoun

1. dative masculine plural of hic
2. dative feminine plural of hic
3. dative neuter plural of hic
4. ablative masculine plural of hic
5. ablative feminine plural of hic
6. ablative neuter plural of hic

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• hys, hise, hyse, hiss, hisse, hyss, hysse, hijs, is, ys, isse, hes, hese, hesse, es, heis, heys, hus

Etymology 1

From Old English his, from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /his/
• IPA^(key): /iz/

Determiner

his (nominative pronoun he)

1. Third-person singular masculine genitive determiner: his, of him.
2. Third-person singular neuter genitive determiner: its, of it.
3. Used in place of the possessive suffix -es to denote possession by an antecedent noun.
   • 1470, Thomas Malory, Works.

     And Claudas his knyghts brake theire spearis

Descendants

• English: his

Pronoun

his (nominative he)

1. Third-person singular masculine genitive pronoun: his.

Synonyms

• hisen

Descendants

• English: his

References

• “his, (pron.1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 May 2018.
• “his, (pron.2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 May 2018.

Alternative forms

• hys, hise, is, ys, hies, hes, es, as

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /his/
• IPA^(key): /iz/

Pronoun

his (nominative heo)

1. Third-person singular feminine genitive determiner: her, of her.

Synonyms

• hire

References

• “hir(e), pron (2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

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Navajo

Alternative forms

• xis (in older Americanist literature)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xɪ̀s]

Noun

his

1. pus

Inflection

possessives of his

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	shihis	nihihis	danihihis
2nd person	nihis	nihihis	danihihis
3rd person	bihis
4th person (3o)	yihis
4th person (3a)	hahis
Indefinite (3i)	ahis

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Old English

Pronoun

his

1. genitive of hē: his
2. genitive of hit: its

Descendants

• English: his
• Scots: his

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Scots

Determiner

his

1. his

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [his]

Noun

his (definite accusative hissi, plural hisler)

1. feeling, sensation, emotion

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	his
Definite accusative	hissi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	his	hisler
Definite accusative	hissi	hisleri
Dative	hisse	hislere
Locative	histe	hislerde
Ablative	histen	hislerden
Genitive	hissin	hislerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular hissim hislerim 2nd singular hissin hislerin 3rd singular hissi hisleri 1st plural hissimiz hislerimiz 2nd plural hissiniz hisleriniz 3rd plural hisleri hisleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular hissimi hislerimi 2nd singular hissini hislerini 3rd singular hissini hislerini 1st plural hissimizi hislerimizi 2nd plural hissinizi hislerinizi 3rd plural hislerini hislerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular hissime hislerime 2nd singular hissine hislerine 3rd singular hissine hislerine 1st plural hissimize hislerimize 2nd plural hissinize hislerinize 3rd plural hislerine hislerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular hissimde hislerimde 2nd singular hissinde hislerinde 3rd singular hissinde hislerinde 1st plural hissimizde hislerimizde 2nd plural hissinizde hislerinizde 3rd plural hislerinde hislerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular hissimden hislerimden 2nd singular hissinden hislerinden 3rd singular hissinden hislerinden 1st plural hissimizden hislerimizden 2nd plural hissinizden hislerinizden 3rd plural hislerinden hislerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular hissimin hislerimin 2nd singular hissinin hislerinin 3rd singular hissinin hislerinin 1st plural hissimizin hislerimizin 2nd plural hissinizin hislerinizin 3rd plural hislerinin hislerinin

Synonyms

• duygu

Derived terms

• hisli > hislilik
• hissiz > hissizlik
• hissetmek > hissettirmek
• hislenmek
• hissî
• hissiyat