English Explanatory Dictionary

her

English dictionary entry

Meanings

det
  1. Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
  2. Belonging to a person of unspecified gender (to counterbalance the traditional "his" in this sense).
pron
  1. The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc, or (dialect) as a subject without a conjunction.
noun
  1. A female person or animal.
pron
  1. Honorific alternative letter-case form of her, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
name
  1. Abbreviation of Hercules.

Pronunciation

/ˈhɜː/ /ɜː/ /hə/ /ə/ /hɛː/ /hɜː(ɹ)/ /heː/ /hɔː/ /æ/ /ɐ/ /hɛr/ /ˈhɝ/ /ˈhɚ/ /ɚ/ en-us-her.ogg /høː/

Word forms

her herė hor hers

Etymology

From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”).

Synonyms

she

Related words

Ime me myselfmemysen mine mymineme we us ourselvesourselfoursen oursourn our you yourselfyoursen yoursyourn your thou thee thyselftheeselfthysen thine thythine youye yourselves you ally'all you guys yous y'allselves all yours y'all's you guys' your guys' all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys' he him himselfhisselfhissen hishisn his she herselfhersen hershern ithit itselfhitself itshis itshishits they them themself themselves theirs their one oneself – one's themhem 'em themselvestheirsen theirstheirn The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.

Derived words

'er God rest her soul Her Highness herness herselves Her Serene Highness herstorian herstory herstrionic herstrionics I hardly even know her I hardly know her kiss-her-in-the-buttery let her rip peace be upon her put her there whatshername

Translations

Afrikaans: haar American Sign Language: FlatB@Chesthigh-FingerUp Arabic: ـهَا Arabic: ـها Armenian: նրա Old Armenian: նորա Aromanian: seu Aromanian: (a) ljei Azerbaijani: onun Belarusian: е́йны Belarusian: яе́ Belarusian: свой Bengali: এর Bengali: ওর Bengali: তার Bengali: এনার Bengali: ওনার Bengali: তাঁর Central Bikol: saiya Central Bikol: niya Bulgarian: не́ин Catalan: seu Catalan: seva Chinese Mandarin: 她的 Coptic: ⲡⲉⲥ Coptic: ⲧⲉⲥ Coptic: ⲛⲉⲥ Czech: její Danish: hendes Dutch: haar Egyptian: s Esperanto: ŝia Finnish: hänen French: son French: sa French: ses North Frisian: höör West-Frisian: har Friulian: so Friulian: sô Galician: seu Galician: súa Galician: dela Georgian: მისი Georgian: თავისი German: ihr German: ihre Gothic: 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 Greek: της Ancient Greek: αὐτῆς Ancient Greek: ταύτης Ancient Greek: τῆσδε Ancient Greek: ἐκείνης Ancient Greek: ὅς Ancient Greek: ἑός Ancient Greek: οὗ Hawaiian: kona Hawaiian: kāna Hebrew: שֶׁלָּהּ Hebrew: ־ה Hindi: उसका Hindi: इसका Hindi: उनका Hungarian: -a Hungarian: -e Hungarian: -ja Hungarian: -je Interlingua: su Irish: a Japanese: 彼女の Kalmyk: энүнә Kalmyk: терүнә Korean: 그녀의 Korean: 그의 Northern Kurdish: wê
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