Finnish

Pronoun

hän

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

Usage notes

• 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.

Inflection

• 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.

Synonyms

• se (Kven)

See also

• minä
• sinä
• me
• te
• he

Swedish

Adverb

hän

1. away, hence (from here, towards another place, towards someone else)

Synonyms

• hädan

Related terms

• hänseende
• hänskjuta
• hänsyn

Veps

Etymology

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

Pronoun

hän ‎(genitive hänen, partitive händast)

1. he, she

Inflection

References

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