her
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɜː/
ipa: /hə/
ipa: /ə/
note: Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
ipa: /hɛː/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /hɜː(ɹ)/
note: Liverpool, fair–fur merger
ipa: /heː/
ipa: /hɔː/
ipa: /æ/
ipa: /ɐ/
ipa: /hɛr/
ipa: /ˈhɝ/
ipa: /ˈhɚ/
ipa: /ɚ/
ipa: [ˈ(h)əɹ]
ipa: /høː/
homophone: hair
homophone: hare (both fair–fur merger)
homophone: a (non-rhotic, unstressed form)
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Forms: form: herė
form: hor
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: This is her book
text: 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 [...]
ref: 1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765:
text: 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.
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:
text: On top of the circle she wrote her name, Louise, just above where the 12 on a clock would be.
ref: 2001, Betsy Gould Hearne, Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 78:
text: On 24 April Nelson rejoined his ship, her battle damage repaired […]
ref: 2010, Andrew Lambert, Nelson: Britannia's God of War, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
glosses: Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2017, David Yellin, Essentials of Integrating the Language Arts, page 115:
glosses: Belonging to a person of unspecified gender (to counterbalance the traditional "his" in this sense).
Related terms: word: Ime
word: me
word: myselfmemysen
word: mine
word: mymineme
word: we
word: us
word: ourselvesourselfoursen
word: oursourn
word: our
word: you
word: yourselfyoursen
word: yoursyourn
word: your
word: thou
word: thee
word: thyselftheeselfthysen
word: thine
word: thythine
word: youye
word: yourselves
word: you ally'all you guys
word: y'allselves
word: all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
word: all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
word: he
word: him
word: himselfhisselfhissen
word: hishisn
word: his
word: she
word: herselfhersen
word: hershern
word: ithit
word: itselfhitself
word: itshis
word: itshishits
word: they
word: them
word: themself
word: themselves
word: theirs
word: their
word: one
word: oneself
word: –
word: one's
word: themhem
word: 'em
word: themselvestheirsen
word: theirstheirn
word: The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
word: including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
word: archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.