User Contributed Dictionary
Pronoun
Translations
belonging to
- Czech: její
- Danish: hendes
- Dutch: haar
- Esperanto: ŝia
- Finnish: hänen (genitive
of hän) +
-nsa
(with back vowel harmony) / -nsä
(with front vowel harmony) (possessive suffix)
- Note: In standard Finnish, both the possessive suffix and the genitive of the personal pronoun are compulsory. In colloquial Finnish, usually only hänen is used.
- French: son, sa, ses
- Note: In French, the gender of this pronoun agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner.
- German: ihr
- Greek: της (tis)
- Guarani: i
- trreq Hebrew
- Hungarian: az ő -ja/-je
- Icelandic: accusative hana, dative henni, genitive hennar
- Interlingua: su
- Italian: il suo m sing,
la sua f
sing, i
suoi m|p, le sue
f|p
- Note: In Italian, the gender of this pronoun agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner.
- Japanese: 彼女の
- Latin: sua
- Lower Sorbian: jeje
- Maltese: [[tagħha]
- Norwegian: henne (to her), hennes (her bag)
- Novial: lan, de la
- Polish: jej
- Portuguese: seu,
dela (lit. "of hers",
placed after the noun)
- Note: In Portuguese, the gender of this pronoun agrees with the thing(s) owned, not with the owner.
- Romanian: său, ei (lit. "of hers", placed after the noun)
- Spanish: su
- Swedish: hennes, reflexive: sin
- Tupinambá: i
- Upper Sorbian: jeje
she
- Bulgarian:
- Czech: ní (after preposition), jí (indirect object), ji (direct object)
- Danish: hende
- Dutch: haar
- Esperanto: ŝi (after preposition), al ŝi (indirect object), ŝin (direct object)
- Finnish: hänet (accusative), häntä (partitive)
- French: (after preposition) elle, (indirect object) lui, (indirect object, emphatic)
lui ... à elle, (indirect object with an
imperative verb) lui,
(direct object) la (becoming
l' before
a vowel or an mute h), (direct object, emphatic) la ... elle
- Examples:
-
- After preposition: It is for her - C'est pour elle
- Indirect object: He tells her his name - Il lui dit son nom
- Indirect object, emphatic: He gives the book to her - Il lui donne le livre à elle
- Indirect object with an imperative verb: Give it to her - Donnez-le-lui
- Direct object: He hates her - Il la déteste
- Direct object (followed by a vowel): He loves her - Il l'aime
- Direct object, emphatic: He loves her - Il l'aime, elle
- Indirect object: He tells her his name - Il lui dit son nom
- After preposition: It is for her - C'est pour elle
- German: sie (accusative), ihr (dative)
- Guarani: i
- Hungarian: őt (accusative), neki (dative)
- Ido: el, elu
- Interlingua: la (direct/indirect object); illa (after preposition)
- Italian: (after preposition) lei, (indirect object) le, (indirect object, emphatic) a
lei, (indirect object with an imperative verb) le (attached to the
end of the verb and becoming glie- when used along with a direct
object; the l is doubled with some verbs), (direct object) la (becoming
l' before
a vowel), (direct object, emphatic) lei
- Examples:
-
- After preposition: It is for her - É per lei
- Indirect object: Giovanni tells her his name - Giovanni le dice il suo nome
- Indirect object, emphatic: Giovanni gives the book to her - Giovanni dà il libro a lei
- Indirect object with an imperative verb, used without a direct object: Write to her - Scrivile; Tell her - Dille
- Indirect object with an imperative verb, used with a direct object: Send it to her - Spedisciglielo; Give it to her - Daglielo
- Direct object: Giovanni wants her - Giovanni la vuole
- Direct object (before a vowel): Giovanni hates her - Giovanni l'odia
- Direct object, emphatic: Giovanni wants her - Giovanni vuole lei
- Indirect object: Giovanni tells her his name - Giovanni le dice il suo nome
- After preposition: It is for her - É per lei
- Novial: la
- Spanish: a ella, le
- Swedish: henne
- Tupinambá: i
Danish
Etymology
From hér.Adverb
Dutch
Noun
herUsage notes
Not used in daily life, "hier" is rather used. "her" is only used in expressions like the ones below.Derived terms
- 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
Etymology
From hér.Adverb
German
Etymology
hera.Antonyms
See also
Icelandic
Etymology
herr.Noun
Derived terms
Kurdish
Etymology
Old English
Pronunciation
- /heːr/
Etymology 1
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.Adverb
Descendants
- English: here
Etymology 2
From *hǣrom. Cognate with Old Saxon hār (Dutch haar), Old High German hār (German Haar), Old Norse hár (Swedish hår).Noun
Descendants
- English: hair
Old High German
Adjective
Turkish
Etymology
FromAdverb
Extensive Definition
Her is the objective form of the pronoun she in Modern English.
It can also refer to:
- Her, an archaic name for the city and region of Khoy in Armenia
- Her, an abbreviation of Hercules (constellation)
- Her, an alias of the superhero character Kismet (Marvel Comics)
HER can refer to:
- HER, the Amtrak station code for Helper (Amtrak station), Utah, United States
- HER, the IATA airport code for Heraklion International Airport, "Nikos Kazantzakis", Crete, Greece
- HER, the ISO 639-3 code for the Herero language
- HER2/neu, a protein
her in German: HER
her in Esperanto: HER
her in Italian: HER
her in Kölsch: HER (Watt ėßß datt?)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
I, I myself,
alter, alter ego, alterum, better self, ego, ethical self, female, female being, he, herself, him, himself, inner man, inner self,
it, me, my humble self, myself, number one, oneself, other self, ourselves, self, she, subconscious self, subliminal
self, superego,
them, themselves, they, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves