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/
• (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 sg, la sienne (fr) f sg, 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
• Guaraní: imba'e
• Hawaiian: ona, āna
• Hungarian: övé (hu)
• Icelandic: hennar (is)
• Ido: elua (io)
• Interlingua: sue
• Italian: il suo m sg, la sua f sg, 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)

• 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:

  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	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	hers 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

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”)

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”)