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her

/ˈhɜː/ symbol

In Latin: suus, eius, illius Wiktionary

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  1. ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Herero.

determiner

  1. Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
    This is her book
  2. Belonging to a person of unspecified gender .

pronoun

  1. The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc, or (dialect) as a subject without a conjunction.
    Give it to her

noun

  1. A female person or animal.
    I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.

Origin

From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative 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”).

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