она

она

1. Cyrillic spelling of ona

From Proto-Slavic *ona.

она • (ona)

1. she
2. nominative singular feminine of онъ (onŭ)
3. nominative/accusative dual masculine of онъ (onŭ)
4. nominative/accusative plural neuter of онъ (onŭ)

• ѭ (jǫ)

From Proto-Slavic *ona.

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈna]

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a

она́ • (oná) (masculine counterpart он, neuter counterpart оно́)

1. she, it (third-person feminine singular pronoun)

   Да как же она́, так и говори́т? ― Da kak že oná, tak i govorít? ― What is she like? Does she talk?

   Её нет до́ма (genitive) ― Jejó net dóma ― She’s not home.

   Ей не спи́тся. (dative) ― Jej ne spítsja. ― She is unable to sleep.

   Я ви́жу её. (accusative) ― Ja vížu jejó. ― I see her.

   За не́ю пять рубле́й. (instrumental) ― Za néju pjatʹ rubléj. ― She owes five rubles.

   Он э́то при ней сказа́л. (prepositional) ― On éto pri nej skazál. ― He said it in her presence.

• Whenever a preposition stands immediately before any of the oblique cases of the third-person pronoun (singular or plural) and directly governs it, then an н- is prefixed to the pronoun: от неё (ot nejó, “from her”), на ней (na nej, “on her”), у неё (u nejó, “she has”), к ней (k nej, “to her”), с не́ю (s néju, “with her”).
• The explanation for the н-prothesis is that, originally, some Russian prepositions ended in the letter -н: сън (sŭn, “with”...cf. Greek σύν (σύν), Latin cum). Eventually, the final н of these prepositions migrated across to the pronoun, so that вън её became modern в неё (v nejó), and then this was extended to include all prepositions when governing any third-person pronoun.
• Note that if the preposition does not directly govern её (jejó) (i.e., when её is a possessive pronoun), then the н- is not inserted: у её бра́та (u jejó bráta, “at her brother’s”), о её ма́тери (o jejó máteri, “about her mother”), в её ко́мнате (v jejó kómnate, “in her room”).
• When there is another word separating a preposition and any oblique case of она, the н- is not added: у само́й её (u samój jejó, “with her herself”).

• её (jejó)
• свой (svoj)

From Proto-Slavic *ona, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eno-

• IPA^(key): /ǒna/
• Hyphenation: о‧на

о̀на (Latin spelling òna)

1. she
2. they (nominative plural of о̀но (“it”))