hän

See also: haen, -hän, and Appendix:Variations of "han"

Finnish

From Proto-Finnic *hän, From Proto-Finno-Ugric *se. Cognate to Hungarian ő. False cognate with Swedish han.

hän

(personal) he, she, one or singular they (only of a human being; the pronoun does not determine the sex of the person).

In standard Finnish, hän is practically never omitted, despite the verb showing both the person and the number. (Compare the usage of he (“they”).)
In colloquial Finnish, the pronoun se (it) is often used in place of hän.
Hän is used in Kven.

Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms don't exist; the abessive is hardly used. (To be more precise: the singular stem is declined like type 32 (sisar) in the singular cases, except of the accusative singular form hänet (see following note).)
In addition to the standard set of cases, hän and the other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, in this case hänet. This form would have been the nominative plural form of the first stem, if the word were not a personal pronoun.

Declension of hän

hän

From Proto-Finnic *hän, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *se. Cognate to Hungarian ő. False cognate with Swedish han.

hän (genitive hänen, partitive händast)

Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “он”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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