her | Lernwerd

Forms

1.A female person or animal.(informal)
- I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
- 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?”

1.Belonging to a person of unspecified gender (to counterbalance the traditional "his" in this sense).
2.Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
- On top of the circle she wrote her name, Louise, just above where the 12 on a clock would be.
- 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.

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.
- "What's 'er say?" 'Er said: "Am yow a Yam Yam?", Ah said "Ar bab, I am!".
- “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.
- I means to goo to th' mop, 'er sez, fur I waants a chahinge.[…]'T wuz to w:Muckley mop 'er went.
2.Honorific alternative letter-case form of her, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

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From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative singular of *hijō).