her
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• adjective
Belonging to or associated with a female person or animal previously mentioned or easily identified.
"She left her umbrella on the train this morning."
Belonging to or associated with a country, ship, or other personified entity traditionally treated as female.
"The captain guided the vessel safely back to her home port."
• pronoun
Used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a female person or animal previously mentioned or easily identified.
"The committee awarded her the prestigious research fellowship."
Used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a ship, country, or other personified thing traditionally treated as female.
"They launched the new sailboat and watched her glide across the bay."
Word Nuance & Usage
Used both as the objective personal pronoun (complementing 'she') and as the possessive determiner before a noun, whereas the independent possessive pronoun used without a following noun is 'hers'.
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English hire, the genitive and dative singular feminine of the third-person pronoun, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hizōz.