hers
English
Alternative forms
- her's (now nonstandard)
Etymology
From Middle English hires, heres, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her + -s (compare -'s).[1]
Pronunciation
Pronoun
hers
- That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. [from 12th c.]
- 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin, published 1999, page 335:
- The life of La Motte, who had more than saved her's […], depended on the testimony she should give.
- 2019 August 31, Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian:
- The rest of us, meanwhile, would do well to accept that one woman’s choice is just that; hers and hers alone, not the standard by which all must be judged.
Derived terms
Translations
that which belongs to her
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See also
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 | Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) 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 | ||
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024), “hers”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Icelandic
Middle English
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