her
English
Alternative forms
- herė
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hiere (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative and genitive 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”).
Translations
belonging to
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See also
English personal pronouns
| personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subjective | objective | reflexive | |||||
| first person | singular | I | me | myself | mine | my mine (before vowels, archaic) | |
| plural | we | us | ourselves ourself | ours | our | ||
| second person | singular | standard | you | you | yourself | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
| archaic, informal | thou | thee | thyself theeself | thine | thy thine (before vowels) | ||
| plural | standard | you you all ye (archaic) | you you all | yourselves | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your | |
| informal / dialectal | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | ||||||
| third person | singular | masculine | he | him | himself hisself (archaic) | his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) | his |
| feminine | she | her | herself | hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) | her | ||
| neuter | it | it | itself | its his (archaic) | its his (archaic) | ||
| genderless | they | them | themself, themselves | theirs | their | ||
| genderless, nonspecific (formal) |
one | one | oneself | – | one's | ||
| plural | they | them | themselves | theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) | their | ||
Pronoun
her
- The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.
- Give it to her (after preposition)
- He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
- He treated her for a cold (direct object)
- February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:
- "Then what became of her?"
- "Her? Which ‘her’? The park is full of ‘hers’."
- "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
Translations
she
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Noun
her (plural hers)
- (informal) A female person or animal.
- I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
- Hélène Cixous
- […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
- 2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival (page 68)
- By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”
Synonyms
Aromanian
Alternative forms
- heru, hjeru
Cornish
Danish
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Usage notes
- Not in common usage, "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
Gothic
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hǣr, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛːr/, /heːr/
Noun
her (plural heres)
- (countable) A hair (follicular growth on the skin)
- a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Apocalips 1:14”, in Wycliffe's Bible:
- And the heed of hym and his heeris weren whijt, as whijt wolle, and as snow; and the iȝen of hym as flawme of fier.
- And his head and his hairs were white, as white wool, and like snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.
- (uncountable) hair (follicular growths on the skin)
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 3690-3691:
- But first he cheweth greyn and lycorys / To smellen sweete, er he hadde kembd his heer.
- Though first he chews spices and licorice, / To smell sweet before he'd combed his hair.
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- A hairy animal skin; a pelt or a product made of it.
- Something similar in appearance to hair (e.g. a botanical hair)
- (figuratively) A small part; any part (of a person)
Related terms
References
- “hēr (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-16.
Etymology 2
From Old English hiera, from Proto-Germanic *hezōi.
References
- “hir, (pron.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.
References
- “hir(e), pron (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.
References
- “her(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.
North Frisian
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hæːr/
Norwegian Nynorsk
Adverb
her
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /heːr/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, 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 (her).
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”). Cognate with Old Saxon hār, Dutch haar, Old High German hār (German Haar), Old Norse hár (Swedish hår).
Old High German
Etymology 1
From Proto-Germanic *hairaz.
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *hiz.
Turkish
Volapük
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɛr/
Zazaki
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