hers

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

English

Alternative forms

• her's (now nonstandard)

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/
  • (Northumbria) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɝz/, unstressed IPA^(key): /ɚz/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)z

Pronoun

hers (plural hers)

1. That or those belonging to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. [from 12th c.]

   That handbag is hers. These gloves are also hers.

   Mine is the blue one, and hers is the red one.

   This is a favourite song of hers. (double possessive)

   • 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.

2. (informal) Her house or home.

   Let's go over to hers.

Derived terms

• of hers

Translations

that which belongs to her

• Arabic: لَهَا m (lahā)

  Egyptian Arabic: لها (lihā), بتاعها m (betāʕhā), بتاعتها f (betāʕethā), بتوعها pl (betōʕhā)

• Azerbaijani: onunku
• Bahamian Creole: har own
• Belarusian: яе́ (jajé)
• Bikol Central: saiya (bcl)
• Bulgarian: не́ин (bg) (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: le sien (fr) m, la sienne (fr) f, les siens (fr) m pl, les siennes (fr) f pl
• German: ihrer (de) m, ihre (de) f or pl, ihres (de) n, ihrs n, ihr (de) m or f or n or pl (coll.), der Ihre m, die Ihre f, das Ihre n, die Ihren pl
• Greek: δικός της (el) m (dikós tis), δικιά της f (dikiá tis), δική της (el) f (dikí tis), δικό της (el) n (dikó tis), δικοί της (el) m pl (dikoí tis), δικές της (el) f pl (dikés tis), δικά της (el) n pl (diká tis)
• Greenlandic: uuma
• Hawaiian: ona, āna
• Hungarian: övé (hu)
• Icelandic: hennar (is)
• Ido: elua (io)
• Interlingua: sue
• Italian: il suo m, la sua f, i suoi m pl, 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 (nejzin)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hennes (no)

• Paraguayan Guarani: ^{(please verify)} imba'e
• 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
• Romansch: il sieu (rm) m, la sia (rm) f, ils ses (rm) m pl, las sias (rm) f pl
• Russian: её (ru) (jejó)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ње̑н, ње́зин

  Roman: njȇn, njézin

• 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
• Tagalog: niya, (usually preceded by sa) kaniya (all both male and female)
• Telugu: ఆమెది (āmedi)
• Tupinambá: i mba'e
• Tuvan: ооңуу (ooñuu)
• Ukrainian: її́ (uk) (jijí)
• Yakut: киниэнэ (kiniene)

Noun

hers

1. plural of her

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 ourn (obsolete outside dialects) our second person singular standard (historically formal) you you yourself yoursen yours yourn (obsolete outside dialects) your archaic (historically 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 yous you all y'all you guys yous y'allselves all yours y'all's you guys' your guys' all your y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' 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 hers hern (obsolete outside dialects) her neuter it hit it hit itself hitself its his (archaic) its his (archaic) hits genderless1 they them themself, themselves theirs their nonspecific (formal) one one oneself – one's plural they them hem, 'em themselves theirsen theirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects) their 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronouns.

Anagrams

• rehs, EHRs, resh, HSer, RSHE, Resh, H.Res., ersh, H. Res., RSeH, Sher

Icelandic

Noun

hers

1. indefinite genitive singular of her

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hers

1. alternative form of hires (“hers”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hers

1. alternative form of heres (“theirs”)

Etymology 3

Noun

hers

1. alternative form of ars (“anus; buttocks”)

Descendants

• → Middle Welsh: hers
  • Welsh: hers

Etymology 4

Verb

hers

1. alternative form of hereth: third-person singular present of heren (“to hear”)
2. alternative form of heren: plural present of heren (“to hear”)

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɛrs/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English hearse.

Alternative forms

• herst

Noun

hers f (plural hersiau or hersys, not mutable)

1. hearse (vehicle for transporting the dead)

   Synonym: elor-gerbyd

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle Welsh hers, from Middle English hers, a variant of ars.

Noun

hers f (not mutable)

1. bottom, posterior, rump

   Synonyms: pen-ôl, tin, cyfeistedd

Further reading

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “hers”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hers”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies