hers

See also: her's, Hers, and Her's

English

Etymology

From Middle English hires, heres, hers, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her +‎ -s (compare -'s).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜːz/, unstressed IPA^(key): /əz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɝz/, unstressed IPA^(key): /ɚz/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z

Pronoun

hers

1. That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun.

Translations

that which belongs to her

• Arabic: لَهَا‎ m (lahā)

  Egyptian Arabic: لها‎ (liha), بتاعها‎ m (betaʕha), بتاعتها‎ f (betaʕetha), بتوعها‎ pl (betoʕha)

• Belarusian: яе (jajé)
• Bulgarian: неин (néin)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 她的 (zh) (tā-de)

• Coptic:

  Bohairic: ⲫⲱⲥ m (phōs), ⲑⲱⲥ f (thōs), ⲛⲟⲩⲥ pl (nous)

  Sahidic: ⲡⲱⲥ m (pōs), ⲧⲱⲥ f (tōs), ⲛⲟⲩⲥ pl (nous)

• Czech: její (cs)
• Danish: hendes (da)
• Dutch: het hare, de hare
• Finnish: hänen (fi)
• French: ^{(please verify)} le sien (fr) m sing, ^{(please verify)} la sienne (fr) f sing, ^{(please verify)} les siens (fr) m pl, ^{(please verify)} les siennes (fr) f pl
• German: ihr (de)
• Greek: δικός της (el) m (dikós tis), δικιά της f (dikiá tis), δική της (el) f (dikí tis), δικό της n (dikó tis), δικοί της m pl (dikoí tis), δικές της f pl (dikés tis), δικά της n pl (diká tis)
• Greenlandic: uuma
• Guaraní: imba'e
• Hawaiian: ona, āna
• Hungarian: övé (hu)

• Icelandic: hennar (is)
• Ido: elua (io)
• Interlingua: sue
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} il suo m sing, ^{(please verify)} la sua f sing, ^{(please verify)} i suoi m pl, ^{(please verify)} le sue f pl
• Japanese: 彼女の (ja) (かのじょの, kanojo-no)
• Latin: suus (la), eius (la), illius, huius (la)
• Latvian: viņas (lv), viņējs, viņējais
• Macedonian: нејзин (néjzin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hennes (no)

• Polish: jej (pl)
• Portuguese: o seu m, a sua f, o dela m, a dela f
• Romanian: a ei (ro) f, al său (ro) m, a sa f, ai săi m pl, ale sale (ro) f pl
• Russian: её (ru) (jejó)
• Serbo-Croatian: њен, njen
• Slovak: jej
• Slovene: njén (sl)
• Spanish: el suyo m, los suyos m pl, la suya f, las suyas f pl
• Swedish: hennes (sv), (reflexive) sin (sv) c, sitt (sv) n, sina (sv) pl
• Telugu: ఆమెది (āmedi)
• Tupinambá: i mba'e
• Tuvan: ооңуу (ooŋuu)
• Ukrainian: її (uk) (jijí)
• Yakut: киниэнэ (kiniene)

Noun

hers

1. plural of her

See also

English personal pronouns

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		I me (colloquial)	me	myself	mine	my mine (before vowels, archaic)
	plural		we	us	ourselves ourself	ours	our
second person	singular	standard, formal	you	you	yourself	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		archaic, informal	thou	thee	thyself theeself	thine	thy thine (before vowels)
	plural	standard	you ye (archaic)	you	yourselves	yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)	your
		colloquial	you all	you all	–	–	your all's (nonstandard)
		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, nonstandard	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

Anagrams

• HSer, RSeH, Resh, Sher, ersh, resh

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Icelandic

Noun

hers

1. indefinite genitive singular of her

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hers

1. Alternative form of hires

References

• “hires, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

Etymology 2

Noun

hers

1. Alternative form of ars

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hers

1. Alternative form of heres

References

• “heres, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.