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See also: hér, hèr, hær, her-, Her, hər, HER, and H.E.R.
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Translingual

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Symbol

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her

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Herero.

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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“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

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Determiner

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her

  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
    • 1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765:
      Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in [...]
    • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:
      Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.
    • 2001, Betsy Gould Hearne, Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 78:
      On top of the circle she wrote her name, Louise, just above where the 12 on a clock would be.
    • 2010, Andrew Lambert, Nelson: Britannia's God of War, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
      On 24 April Nelson rejoined his ship, her battle damage repaired […]
  2. Belonging to a person of unspecified gender (to counterbalance the traditional "his" in this sense).
    • 2017, David Yellin, Essentials of Integrating the Language Arts, page 115:
      Begin by having students choose a short poem to memorize; they will enjoy searching the library for a poem that appeals to them. If a student wishes to memorize her poem and share it aloud with the rest of the class, suggest a buddy system.

Translations

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See her/translations § Determiner.

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English personal pronouns
Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
personal pronoun possessive
pronoun		 possessive
determiner
subjective objective reflexive
first person singular I
me (colloquial)		 me myself
me
mysen		 mine my
mine (before vowels, archaic)
me
plural we us ourselves
ourself
oursen		 ours our
second person singular standard, formal you you yourself
yoursen		 yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		 your
archaic, informal thou thee thyself
theeself
thysen		 thine thy
thine (before vowels)
plural standard you
ye (archaic)		 you yourselves yours
yourn (obsolete outside dialects)		 your
colloquial you all
y'all
you guys		 you all
y'all
you guys		 y'allselves y'all's
you guys'
your guys' (proscribed)		 y'all's
your all's (nonstandard)
you guys'
your guys' (proscribed)
informal / dialectal (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person singular masculine he him himself
hisself (archaic)
hissen		 his
hisn (obsolete outside dialects)		 his
feminine she her herself
hersen		 hers
hern (obsolete outside dialects)		 her
neuter it
hit		 it
hit		 itself
hitself		 its
his (archaic)		 its
his (archaic)
hits
genderless they them themself, themselves theirs their
genderless, nonspecific
(formal) 		one one oneself – one's
plural they them
hem, 'em		 themselves
theirsen		 theirs
theirn (obsolete outside dialects)		 their

Pronoun

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her

  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 (after preposition)
    He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
    He treated her for a cold (direct object)
    Him and her went for a walk (with a conjunction; deprecated)
    Her's a bosting wench! (as a subject wihout a conjunction; dialect)
    • 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."
    • 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Penguin Lawrence Edition, Penguin, published 1994, →ISBN, page 213:
      “I’ll bet ’er wor a toe-rag,” said Morel, following up his joke. ¶ “Don’t you be so cheeky about a queen,” said Annie.
    • 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
      "It's all right," he was shouting. "Come out, Mrs. Beaver. Come out, Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve. It's all right! It isn't her!" This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia—in our world they usually don't talk at all.
    • 2013, James Tully, The Crimes of Charlotte Brontë:
      Every day I had to watch as him and her went off for long walks together, and each night I had to go to my lonely, cold bed with the thought that they were sharing the same one […]

Derived terms

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Translations

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See her/translations § Pronoun.

Noun

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her (plural hers)

  1. (informal) A female person or animal.
    I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
    • 1986, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)
      […] 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

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Anagrams

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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her n (plural heari or heare)

  1. iron
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Cornish

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Noun

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her

  1. Mixed mutation of ger.

Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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her f

  1. genitive plural of hra

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hér.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /hɛr/, [hɛɐ̯], [heɐ̯]

Adverb

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her

  1. here
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Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch her. Cognate with Old High German hera (“hither”) and likely Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍂𐌹 (hiri).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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her

  1. (obsolete outside fixed expressions) here
  2. (obsolete outside fixed expressions) hither

Usage notes

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  • Not in common usage, "hier" is rather used. "her" is only used in expressions like the ones below.

Derived terms

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Faroese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

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her

  1. here

Etymology 2

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From herur.

Noun

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her

  1. indefinite accusative singular of herur

German

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Etymology

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From Middle High German her, from Old High German hera. Cognate to German Low German her.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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her

  2. hither, to this place, to here, to me/us
    Komm her!
    Come here!
  3. ago
    Es ist zehn Jahre her, dass ich das letzte Mal Auto gefahren bin.
    Ten years ago was the last time I drove a car.

Antonyms

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Derived terms

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See also

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Further reading

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  • “her” in Duden online
  • “her” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Gothic

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Romanization

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hēr

  1. Romanization of 𐌷𐌴𐍂

Icelandic

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Icelandic Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Old Norse herr.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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her m (genitive singular hers, nominative plural herir)

  1. army, military

Declension

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Declension of her (masculine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative her herinn herir herirnir
accusative her herinn heri herina
dative her hernum herjum herjunum
genitive hers hersins herja herjanna

Derived terms

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Limburgish

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Etymology

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From hieër.

Noun

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her m

  1. vocative singular of hieër

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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her (plural heres)

  2. (countable) a hair (follicular growth on the skin)
  3. (uncountable) hair (follicular growths on the skin)
  4. pelt, hide, animal skin
  5. Something similar in appearance to hair (e.g. a botanical hair)
  6. (figurative) small part, any part (of a person)
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Descendants
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  • English: hair
  • Scots: hair, hayr, hare
  • Yola: haar

References

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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old English hēr, from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r.

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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her

  1. here
Descendants
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References

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Etymology 3

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Determiner

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her

  1. Alternative form of hire (“her”, genitive)

Pronoun

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her

  1. Alternative form of hire (“hers”)

Etymology 4

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Pronoun

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her

  1. Alternative form of hire (“her”, object)

Etymology 5

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Determiner

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her

  1. Alternative form of here (“their”)

Etymology 6

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Adjective

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her

  1. Alternative form of here (“pleasant”)

Etymology 7

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Noun

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her (plural heres)

  1. Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)

Etymology 8

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Noun

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her

  1. Alternative form of herre (“hinge”)

Etymology 9

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Noun

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her

  1. Alternative form of here (“army”)

Etymology 10

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Noun

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her (plural heres)

  1. Alternative form of heir (“heir”)

Etymology 11

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Verb

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her

  1. Alternative form of heren (“to hear”)

Etymology 12

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Adjective

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her

  1. comparative degree of he (“high”)

North Frisian

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Etymology 1

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Pronoun

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her

  1. her: third-person singular, feminine, objective
  2. her: third-person singular, feminine, possessive

Etymology 2

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Verb

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her

  1. inflection of haa:
    1. first/third-person singular preterite
    2. plural preterite
    3. past participle

Northern Kurdish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-Iranian *sárwas.

Adverb

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Central Kurdish هەر (her)
Southern Kurdish هەر (her)

her

  1. every, each
    herkes
    everyone
  2. ever, always
    Her bi jî!
    Long live! (lit. "Ever live!")

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hér.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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her

  1. here

Derived terms

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References

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

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her

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

Etymology 2

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Noun

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

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of hær

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Old English

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-West Germanic *hēr, 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 (hēr).

Adverb

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hēr

  1. here
    • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 46:2
      God hine ġehīerde and cleopode hine and cwæþ tō him, "Iācōb, Iācōb"! And hē him andswarode and cwæþ, "Hēr iċ eom!"
      God heard him and called out, "Jacob, Jacob!" And he answered him and said, "Here I am!"
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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hēr n

  1. Alternative form of hǣr

Old Frisian

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *hār. Cognates include Old English hǣr, Old Saxon hār and Old Dutch hār.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈheːr/, [ˈhɛːr]

Noun

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hēr n

  1. hair

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References

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  • Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

Old High German

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Germanic *hairaz.

Adjective

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hēr (comparative hērro or hērōro)

  1. gray-haired, old
  2. noble, venerable
Declension
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Strong declension of her
Singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative hērēr, her hēriu, her hēraz, her
accusative hēran hēra hēraz
genitive hēres hērera hēres
dative hēremu hēreru hēremu
instrumental hēru — hēru
Plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative hēre, her hēro, her hēriu, her
accusative hēre hēro hēriu
genitive hērero hērero hērero
dative hērēm hērēm hērēm
Weak declension of her
Singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative hēro hēra hēra
accusative hēron hērūn hēra
genitive hēren hērūn hēren
dative hēren hērūn hēren
Plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative hēron hērūn hēron
accusative hēron hērūn hēron
genitive hērōno hērōno hērōno
dative hērōm hērōm hērōm
Declension of comparative of her
Singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative hērōro hērōra hērōra
accusative hērōron hērōrūn hērōra
genitive hērōren hērōrūn hērōren
dative hērōren hērōrūn hērōren
Plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative hērōron hērōrūn hērōron
accusative hērōron hērōrūn hērōron
genitive hērōrōno hērōrōno hērōrōno
dative hērōrōm hērōrōm hērōrōm
Strong declension of superlative her
Singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative hērōstēr, hērōst hērōstiu, hērōst hērōstaz, hērōst
accusative hērōstan hērōsta hērōstaz
genitive hērōstes hērōstera hērōstes
dative hērōstemu hērōsteru hērōstemu
instrumental hērōstu — hērōstu
Plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative hērōste, hērōst hērōsto, hērōst hērōstiu, hērōst
accusative hērōste hērōsto hērōstiu
genitive hērōstero hērōstero hērōstero
dative hērōstēm hērōstēm hērōstēm
Weak declension of superlative her
Singular masculine feminine neuter
nominative hērōsto hērōsta hērōsta
accusative hērōston hērōstūn hērōsta
genitive hērōsten hērōstūn hērōsten
dative hērōsten hērōstūn hērōsten
Plural masculine feminine neuter
nominative hērōston hērōstūn hērōston
accusative hērōston hērōstūn hērōston
genitive hērōstōno hērōstōno hērōstōno
dative hērōstōm hērōstōm hērōstōm
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Etymology 2

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From Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronoun

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her

  1. (northern dialects) Alternative form of er
Descendants
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  • Middle High German: hër, he
    • Central Franconian:
      • Moselle Franconian: ä, en (from the accusative)
        Eifelisch: hän, hen, en
      • Ripuarian:
        Aachensch: he
        Kölsch: hä, ä
    • East Central German:
      Lusatian-New Marchian: hä
      Thuringian:
      North Thuringian: he, hä
    • Rhine Franconian:
      Hessian:
      Low Hessian: he, hä
      South Hessian: he
    • Vilamovian: hār

Old Norse

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Noun

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her

  1. accusative/dative singular of herr

Salar

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Etymology

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From Persian هر (har). Cognate with Bengali হর (hor, “every”), Latin salvus (“safe, whole”), Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “complete, whole”).

Pronunciation

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  • (Jiezi, Gaizi, Mengda, Chahandusi, Hanbahe, Baizhuang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [her]
  • (Mengda, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [heɹ]
  • (Baizhuang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [hær]
  • (Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [hɑ]

Adjective

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her

  1. every

Derived terms

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References

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  • Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “her”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 333-334

Spanish

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Verb

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her

  1. Obsolete spelling of hacer.

Conjugation

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    Conjugation of her (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
infinitive her
gerund hiendo
past participle masculine feminine
singular hido hida
plural hidos hidas
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
indicative yo tú
vos 		él/ella/ello
usted 		nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ellos/ellas
ustedes
present ho hes he hemos heis hen
imperfect hía hías hía híamos híais hían
preterite hi histe hio himos histeis hieron
future heré herás herá heremos heréis herán
conditional hería herías hería heríamos heríais herían
subjunctive yo tú
vos 		él/ella/ello
usted 		nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ellos/ellas
ustedes
present ha has ha hamos hais han
imperfect
(ra) 		hiera hieras hiera hiéramos hierais hieran
imperfect
(se) 		hiese hieses hiese hiésemos hieseis hiesen
future1 hiere hieres hiere hiéremos hiereis hieren
imperative — tú
vos 		usted nosotros
nosotras 		vosotros
vosotras 		ustedes
affirmative he ha hamos hed han
negative no has no ha no hamos no hais no han

1Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.

    Selected combined forms of her

These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
with infinitive her dative herme herte herle, herse hernos heros herles, herse
accusative herme herte herlo, herla, herse hernos heros herlos, herlas, herse
with gerund hiendo dative hiéndome hiéndote hiéndole, hiéndose hiéndonos hiéndoos hiéndoles, hiéndose
accusative hiéndome hiéndote hiéndolo, hiéndola, hiéndose hiéndonos hiéndoos hiéndolos, hiéndolas, hiéndose
with informal second-person singular tú/vos imperative he dative heme hete hele henos not used heles
accusative heme hete helo, hela henos not used helos, helas
with formal second-person singular imperative ha dative hame not used hale, hase hanos not used hales
accusative hame not used halo, hala, hase hanos not used halos, halas
with first-person plural imperative hamos dative not used hámoste hámosle hámonos hámoos hámosles
accusative not used hámoste hámoslo, hámosla hámonos hámoos hámoslos, hámoslas
with informal second-person plural imperative hed dative hedme not used hedle hednos heos hedles
accusative hedme not used hedlo, hedla hednos heos hedlos, hedlas
with formal second-person plural imperative han dative hanme not used hanle hannos not used hanles, hanse
accusative hanme not used hanlo, hanla hannos not used hanlos, hanlas, hanse

Further reading

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Turkish

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish هر, from Persian هر (har). Cognate with Bengali হর (hor, “every”), Latin salvus (“safe, whole”), Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “complete, whole”). Doublet of salvo.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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her

  1. every
  2. each

Volapük

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Noun

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her (nominative plural hers)

  1. hair

Declension

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declension of her
singular plural
nominative her hers
genitive hera heras
dative here heres
accusative heri heris
vocative 1 o her! o hers!
predicative 2 heru herus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Welsh

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Etymology

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Compare English here, used in an interjectory sense as in "here! shoo! go on!"

Pronunciation

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Noun

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her f (plural heriau, not mutable)

  1. challenge

References

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “her”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yola

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English here, from Old English hire, from Proto-West Germanic *heʀē.

Pronoun

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her

  1. her
    • 1867, “THE BRIDE'S PORTION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, pages 102[1]:
      A portion ich gae her, was (it's now ich have ee-tolth)
      The portion I gave her was (it's now I have told)

Etymology 2

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From Middle English hire, from Old English hire, from Proto-West Germanic *heʀā.

Determiner

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her

  1. her
    • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, lines 6[2]:
      An awi gome her egges wi a wheel an car taape,
      And away went her eggs, with the car overset.
    • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, lines 8[2]:
      Shu ztaared, clappu her baashes an up wi punaan,
      She stared, clapped her palms, and up with lament,

References

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  1. ^ Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

Zazaki

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Etymology 1

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Related to Persian هر (har).

Adjective

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her

  1. each

Etymology 2

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Related to Persian خر (xar).

Noun

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her

  1. donkey
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