hers
English
Etymology
From Middle English hires, heres, hers, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her + -s (compare -'s).[1]
Pronunciation
Translations
that which belongs to her
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See also
English personal pronouns
personal pronoun | possessive pronoun | possessive determiner | |||||
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subjective | objective | reflexive | |||||
first person | singular | I | me | myself | mine | my mine (before vowels, archaic) | |
plural | we | us | ourselves ourself | ours | our | ||
second person | singular | standard | you | you | yourself | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your |
archaic, informal | thou | thee | thyself theeself | thine | thy thine (before vowels) | ||
plural | standard | you you all ye (archaic) | you you all | yourselves | yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) | your | |
informal / dialectal | (see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries) | ||||||
third person | singular | masculine | he | him | himself hisself (archaic) | his hisn (obsolete outside dialects) | his |
feminine | she | her | herself | hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) | her | ||
neuter | it | it | itself | its his (archaic) | its his (archaic) | ||
genderless | they | them | themself, themselves | theirs | their | ||
genderless, nonspecific (formal) |
one | one | oneself | – | one's | ||
plural | they | them | themselves | theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) | their |
References
- “hers” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
Icelandic
Middle English
Etymology 1
References
- “hires, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.
Etymology 2
Etymology 3
References
- “heres, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.
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