her

See also: hér, hèr, hær, her-, and Her

English

Alternative forms

herė

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)/, unstressed IPA^(key): /ə(ɹ)/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɝ/, unstressed IPA^(key): /ɚ/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

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”).

Determiner

her

Belonging to her.
This is her book

Translations

belonging to

American Sign Language: FlatB@Chesthigh-FingerUp
Arabic: ـهَا‎‎ (-hā)
Egyptian Arabic: ـها‎‎ (-ha)
Armenian: նրա (hy) (nra)
Old Armenian: նորա (nora)
Aromanian: seu, (a) ljei
Belarusian: яе́ (jajé), (common, colloquial) е́йны (jéjny), (own, generic) свой (svoj)
Bulgarian: не́ин (néin)
Catalan: seu (ca), seva (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 她的 (zh) (tā-de)
Coptic: ⲡⲉⲥ m (pes), ⲧⲉⲥ f (tes), ⲛⲉⲥ m pl, f pl (nes)
Czech: její (cs)
Danish: hendes (da)
Dutch: haar (nl) f
Egyptian:

(.s)
Esperanto: ŝia (eo)
Finnish: hänen (fi)
French: son (fr) m, sa (fr) f, ses (fr) pl
Friulian: so, sô
German: ihr (de) m, n, ihre (de) f, ihre (de) pl
Greek: της (el) f (tis)
Ancient: αὐτῆς (autês) (personal pronoun), ταύτης (taútēs) (medial demonstrative), τῆσδε (têsde) (proximal demonstrative), ἐκείνης (ekeínēs) (distal demonstrative), ὅς (hós) (adjective), ἑός (heós) (Epic adjective), οὗ (hoû) (personal pronoun)
Guaraní: i
Hawaiian: kona, kāna
Hebrew: שלה‎‎ f (shela), -ה‎‎ (-ah)
Hindi: उसका (uskā), इसका (iskā), (formal) उनका (hi) (unkā)
Hungarian: -a (hu), -e, -ja, -je
Icelandic: hana (is) (accusative of hún), henni (is) (dative of hún), hennar (is) (genitive of hún)
Interlingua: su
Italian: ^{(please verify)} il suo m sing, ^{(please verify)} la sua f sing, ^{(please verify)} i suoi m pl, ^{(please verify)} le sue f pl
Japanese: 彼女の (ja) (かのじょの, kanojo-no)
Kalmyk: энүнә (enünä), терүнә (terünä)
Korean: 그녀의 (geunyeo-ui)

Kurdish: wê (ku)
Latin: suus (la), eius (la), illius, huius (la)
Latvian: viņas (lv)
Lower Sorbian: jeje
Macedonian: нејзин (néjzin)
Maltese: tagħha
Maori: tāna (singular dominant), tōna (singular subordiante), āna (plural dominant), ōna (plural subordinate), tana (singular neutral and informal), ana (plural neutral or informal)
Norwegian: henne (no) (to her), hennes (no) (her bag), sin (no) (own, generic)
Novial: lan, de la
Occitan: seu (oc), seuna (oc)
Oriya: ତାର (or) (tār)
Persian: او‎‎ (fa) (u)
Polish: jej (pl)
Portuguese: seu (pt), (lit. "of hers", placed after the noun) dela (pt)
Romanian: său (ro), (lit. "of hers", placed after the noun) ei (ro)
Romansch: ses, sia
Russian: её (ru) (jejó)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: њен

Roman: njen
Slovak: jej
Slovene: njén (sl)
Spanish: su (es)
Swedish: hennes (sv), (reflexive) sin (sv)
Telugu: (informal) దాని (te) (dāni), ఆమె (te) (āme), (formal) ఆవిడ (te) (āviḍa)
Thai: ของเขา (kŏng kăo)
Tlingit: du
Tupinambá: i
Turkish: onun (tr)
Ukrainian: її (uk) (jijí)
Upper Sorbian: jeje
Urdu: اس کا‎‎ (us kā, is kā), (formal) ان کا‎‎ (un kā)
Volapük: ofik (vo)
Zulu: possessive concord + -khe class 1 (most common), -wo class 3, -lo class 5, -so class 7, -yo class 9, -lo class 11

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

Arabic: ـهَا‎‎ (-hā), إِيَّاهَا‎‎ f (ʾiyyāhā)
Egyptian Arabic: ـها‎‎ (-ha)
Armenian: նրան (hy) (nran), իրեն (hy) (iren)
Old Armenian: նմա (nma)
Bulgarian: (short form; accusative) ^{(please verify)} я (ja), (dative) ^{(please verify)} ѝ (bg) (ì), (long form; accusative) ^{(please verify)} нея (neja), (dative) ^{(please verify)} на нея (na neja)
Czech: (after preposition) ní (cs), (indirect object) jí (cs), (direct object) ji (cs)
Danish: hende (da)
Dutch: haar (nl) f
Esperanto: (after preposition) ^{(please verify)} ŝi (eo), (indirect object) ^{(please verify)} al ŝi , (direct object) ^{(please verify)} ŝin (eo)
Finnish: hän (fi)
French: (after preposition) elle (fr), (indirect object) lui (fr), (direct object) la (fr)
German: (accusative) sie (de), (dative) ihr (de), (accusative) es (de), (dative) ihm (de)
Greenlandic: una
Guaraní: i
Hindi: इस (hi) (is), उस (hi) (us)
Hungarian: (accusative) őt (hu), (dative) neki (hu)
Ido: el (io), elu (io)
Interlingua: (direct/indirect object) la (ia), (after preposition) illa (ia)
Interlingue: la (ie)
Irish: í, ise
Old Irish: s-, da-, -us

Italian: (after preposition) ^{(please verify)} lei (it), (indirect object) ^{(please verify)} le (it), (indirect object, emphatic) ^{(please verify)} a lei, (indirect object with an imperative verb; attached to the end of the verb and becoming glie- when used along with a direct object; the l is doubled with some verbs) ^{(please verify)} le (it), (direct object; becoming l' before a vowel) ^{(please verify)} la (it), (direct object, emphatic) ^{(please verify)} lei (it)
Latin: (direct object) eam (la), (indirect object) ei (la), (After preposition that governs the accusative) eam (la), (After preposition that governs the dative) ei (la), (After preposition that governs the ablative) ea (la), (acc) eam (la), (ablative) ea (la), (dative) ei (la), (dative) illi, (acc) illam, (ablative) illa, (acc) hanc (la), (dative) huic (la), (ablative) hac (la)
Latvian: viņu (lv) (accusative), viņai (dative)
Macedonian: (short form; accusative) ја (mk) (ja), (dative) ѝ (ì), (long form; accusative) неа (mk) (nea), (dative) нејзе (mk) (nejze)
Motu: ia
Ngazidja Comorian: ye
Novial: la
Polish: jej (pl), ją (pl), nią (pl), niej
Portuguese: ela (pt) f
Russian: её (ru) (jejó) (direct object), ей (ru) (jej) (indirect object), (see она́ (ru) (oná) - she for the complete declension)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: ju
Spanish: (after preposition) ella (es), (indirect object) le (es), (direct object) la (es)
Swedish: henne (sv)
Telugu: (informal) దాన్ని (te) (dānni), ఆమెని (āmeni), (formal) ఆవిణ్ణి (āviṇṇi)
Tupinambá: i
Walloon: leye (wa) (after preposition), li (wa) (direct object), lyi (wa) (indirect object)
Wolof: ko
Zulu: yena class 1 (most common), wona class 3, lona class 5, sona class 7, yona class 9, lona class 11

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

she

Anagrams

EHR, HRE, reh

Aromanian

Alternative forms

heru, hjeru

Etymology

From Latin ferrum. Compare Daco-Romanian fier, Spanish hierro.

Noun

her n (plural heari/heare)

iron

Related terms

hirar

Cornish

Noun

her

Mixed mutation of ger.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

her

here

Related terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Adverb

her

here

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

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

her

here

German

Etymology

From Old High German hera.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [heːɐ̯]
Homophones: Heer, hehr
Rhymes: -eːɐ̯

Adverb

her

hither, to this place, to here, to me/us
ago

Antonyms

hin

Derived terms

Gothic

Romanization

hēr

Romanization of 𐌷𐌴𐍂

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse herr.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛːr/
Rhymes: -ɛːr

Noun

her m (genitive singular hers, nominative plural herir)

army, military

Declension

declension of her

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
m-s2	singular		plural
nominative	her	herinn	herir	herirnir
accusative	her	herinn	heri	herina
dative	her	hernum	herjum	herjunum
genitive	hers	hersins	herja	herjanna

Derived terms

Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *sárwas.

Adverb

her

Limburgish

Etymology

From hieër

Noun

her m

vocative singular of hieër

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hēr, hǣr, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

Alternative forms

hair, herre, hare, hore, hær, hor, heere, here, haire

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛːr/, /heːr/

Noun

her (plural heres)

(countable) A hair (follicular growth on the skin)
(uncountable) hair (follicular growths on the skin)
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

hery

Descendants

English: hair
Scots: hair, hayr, hare

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.

Determiner

her

Alternative form of hire

Pronoun

her

Alternative form of hire

References

“hir, (pron.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

her

Alternative form of hire

References

“hir(e), pron (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

Etymology 4

Determiner

her

Alternative form of here

References

“her(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hér.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hæːr/

Adverb

her

here

Derived terms

herfra, herifra

References

“her” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hæːr/, /heːr/
Homophone: hær

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

her

here
Det er fint å vera her.
It's nice to be here.
just now, recently
Eg såg ho her ein dag.
I saw her just the other day.

Etymology 2

Noun

her m (definite singular heren, indefinite plural herar, definite plural herane)

form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by hær

References

“her” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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).

Adverb

hēr

(West Saxon) here

Descendants

English: here

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).

Alternative forms

hǣr

Noun

hēr n

hair

Descendants

Middle English: her, hair, herre, hare, hore, hær, hor, heere, here, haire
- English: hair
- Scots: hair, hayr, hare

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *hairaz.

Adjective

hēr

gray-haired, old
noble, venerable

Descendants

Middle High German: hēr
- German: hehr
⇒ Old High German: hērro (“lord”, comp.), hēro
- Middle High German: herre
  - Alemannic German: Heer
  - German: Herr
  - Yiddish: הער‎ (her)
- → Old Saxon: hērro
  - Middle Low German: hēre, herre
    - Low German: her, harr
  - → Old Norse: herra, herri (see there for further descendants)
  - → Old English: hearra
    - Middle English: herre, harre
  - → Old Frisian: hēra (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Dutch: herro (see there for further descendants)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronoun

hēr

(northern dialects) Alternative form of er

Descendants

Middle High German: her, he
- Central Franconian: hä
- Central Franconian: hien (from the accusative)
- Vilamovian: hār

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian (har). Cognate with Latin salvus (“safe, whole”), Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “complete, whole”).

Adjective

her

every
each

Volapük

Noun

her (plural hers)

hair

Declension

declension of her

	singular	plural
nominative	her	hers
genitive	hera	heras
dative	here	heres
accusative	heri	heris
predicative	heru	herus
vocative	o her!	o hers!

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɛr/

Noun

her f (plural heriau)

challenge

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
her	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Zazaki

Etymology 1

Related to Persian (har).

Adjective

her

each

Etymology 2

Related to Persian (xar).

Noun

her ?

donkey

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			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive	possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
first person	singular		I	me	myself	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic)
first person	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself	ours	our
second person	singular	standard	you	you	yourself	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
	singular	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
	plural	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

her

English

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

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Cornish

Noun

Danish

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Adverb

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Dutch

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Faroese

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German

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Gothic

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Icelandic

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Kurdish

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Limburgish

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Noun

Middle English

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

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Noun

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Descendants

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Determiner

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Pronoun

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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