English
Etymology
From Middle English < Old English sēo , feminine of the definite article sē (the) < Proto-Indo-European base *so- (this, that).
Pronunciation
- SAMPA : /Si:/
- IPA : /ʃiː/
Personal pronoun
she
The third person singular, feminine, nominative case. (Accusative and possessive: her, possessive noun: hers, reflexive: herself. See Wiktionary:Inflection Templates for other personal pronouns.)
- Referring to a female person.
- Referring to a ship or a country, or a female animal.
Translations
person
- Arabic: هِيَ (híya)
- Bulgarian: тя (tja)
- Chinese: 她 (tā)
- Cree: wiya (both male and female)
- Dutch: zij
- Dyirbal: (no third-person pronoun)
- Esperanto: ŝi
- Fijian: koya (both male and female)
- Finnish: hän (both male and female)
- French: elle
- German: sie
- Greek: αυτή (avtí)
- Guaraní: ahẽ (both male and female)
- Hausa: (independent form) ’ítá
- Hawaiian: ia (both male and female)
- Hungarian: ő (both male and female)
- Ido: el, elu
- Indonesian: dia / ia (both male and female)
- Interlingua: illa
- Irish: sí conjunctive, í disjunctive
- Italian: lei, ella
- Note: Usually omitted, except for emphasis or clarity.
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- Japanese: 彼女 (かのじょ , kánojo)
- Korean: 그녀 [-女] (geunyeo)
- Latin: ea
- Ojibwe: wiin (both male and female)
- Persian: او (u) (both male and female)
- Portuguese: ela
- Quechua: pay (both male and female)
- Romanian: ea
- Russian: она (oná)
- Scottish Gaelic: i non-emphatic, ise emphatic
- Slovak: ona
- Slovene: ona
- Spanish: ella
- Swahili: yeye (both male and female)
- Swedish: hon
- Tagalog: niya (ng form), kaniya (sa form), siya (unmarked form) (all both male and female)
- Tupinambá: a'e (both male and female)
- Turkish: o (both male and female)
- Vietnamese: bà ấy , cô ấy
- !Xũ: ha (both male and female)
- Yorùbá: ó , á (both male and female)
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ship, country, female animal
Use the translation of he, she or it according to the gender of the object in the target language.
