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Webster 1913 Edition

Her

ron.

Adj.

[OE.

hire

here

hir

hure

, gen. and dat. sing., AS.

hire

, gen. and dat. sing. of

héo

she. from the same root as E.

. See

The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she;

as, I saw

her

with

her

purse out

Webster 1828 Edition

Her

HER

, pronounced hur, an adjective, or pronominal adjective of the third person. [L. suus.]

Belonging to a female; as her face; her head.

It is used before neuter nouns in personification.

Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. Prov.3.

Her is also used as a pronoun or substitute for a female in the objective case, after a verb or preposition.

She gave also to her husband with her, and he did eat. Gen.3.

Hers is primarily the objective or genitive case, denoting something that belongs to a female. But it stands as a substitute in the nominative or objective case.

And what his fortune wanted, hers could mend.

Here hers stands for her fortune, but it must be considered as the nominative to could mend. I will take back my own book and give you hers. Here hers is the object after give.

Definition 2024

her

See also: hér, hèr, hær, and her-

English

Alternative forms

herė

Determiner

her

Belonging to her.
This is her book

Translations

belonging to

American Sign Language: FlatB@Chesthigh-FingerUp
Arabic: ـها ‎(-ā)
Egyptian Arabic: ـها ‎(-ha)
Armenian: նրա (hy) ‎(nra)
Old Armenian: նորա ‎(nora)
Aromanian: seu, (a) ljei
Belarusian: яе ‎(jajé), (common, colloquial) ейны ‎(jéjny), (own, generic) свой ‎(svoj)
Bulgarian: неин ‎(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: 𓋴 ‎(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)
Latin: suus (la), eius (la), illius, huius (la)
Latvian: viņas (lv)
Lower Sorbian: jeje
Macedonian: нејзин ‎(néjzin)
Maltese: tagħha
Maori: tāna, tōna, āna, ōna
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

Number	Person	Type	Subject	Objective	Reflexive	Possessive adjective	Possessive pronoun
Singular	First	—	I	me	myself	my, mine (archaic)	mine
Second	—	you	you	yourself	your	yours, yourn (obsolete outside dialects)
Archaic	thou	thee	thyself, theeself	thy, thine	thine
Third	Masculine	he	him	himself, hisself (archaic)	his	his, hisn (obsolete outside dialects)
Feminine	she	her	herself	her	hers, hern (obsolete outside dialects)
Neuter	it	itself	its	its
Indefinite	one	oneself	one's	—
Plural	First	—	we	us	ourselves	our	ours, ourn (obsolete outside dialects)
Second	—	you, ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	your	yours, yourn (obsolete outside dialects)
Third	—	they	them	themselves	their	theirs, theirn (obsolete outside dialects)

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: ـها ‎(-ā)
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
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 (lv) (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)
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

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: at · by · on · #23: her · which · have · or

Anagrams

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

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

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

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 Persian.

Adverb

her

Limburgish

Etymology

From hieër

Noun

her m

vocative of hieër
mister!
Lord!

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

her

here

Derived terms

herfra, herifra

References

“her” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

her

here
Det er fint å vera her.
It's nice to be here.

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

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

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

English: hair

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hairaz, whence also Old English hār, Old Norse hárr.

Adjective

hēr

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing 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

Noun

her ?

donkey

Etymology

From Middle English here, 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”).

Pronunciation

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

IPA^(key): /heːr/