She

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English

Pronoun

She third person singular, feminine, nominative case (accusative and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself)

  1. (personal) A female person or animal.
    • , II.ix:
      Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall [...].
    I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.
  2. (personal) A ship or country.
  3. (personal, affectionate) Machinery such as cars and steam engines.
    She is a beautiful boat, isn't she?
  4. (personal, nonstandard) he/she. used arbitrarily with he for an indefinite person in order to be gender-neutral.
    • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow, 1990:
      Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.

Thesaurus

I, I myself, alter, alter ego, alterum, better self, ego, ethical self, female, female being, he, her, herself, him, himself, inner man, inner self, it, me, my humble self, myself, number one, oneself, other self, ourselves, self, subconscious self, subliminal self, superego, them, themselves, they, you, yours truly, yourself, yourselves

Etymology

From Middle English sche, hye (“she”), from earlier scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), a phonetic development of Old English hēo, hīo (“she”), from Proto-Germanic *hijō (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *k'e-, *k'ey- (“this, here”). Cognate with English dialectal hoo (“she”), Scots scho, shu (“she”), West Frisian {{ Template:Fry/script |hja| face=term | lang=fry }} (“she”), North Frisian jü (“she”), Danish hun (“she”), Swedish hon (“she”). More at he.

Despite the similarity in appearance, the Old English feminine demonstrative sēo (“that”) is probably not the source of Middle English forms in sch-. Rather, the sch- developed out of a change in stress upon hío resulting in hió, spelt ȝho (ȝh = hȝ, compare wh = hw, lh = hl, etc.), and the h was palatalised into the sh sound. Similar alteration can be seen the name Shetland, from Old Norse Hjaltland; ȝho is the immediate parent form of Middle English scho and sche.

Pronunciation

Translations

person
ship, country
Use the translation of he, she (person) or it according to the gender of the object in the target language.

See also

English personal pronouns
Number Person Gender Subject Objective Reflexive Possessive Possessive Pronoun
Singular First — I me myself my mine
Second — you,
thou (archaic) 		you,
thee (archaic) 		yourself,
thyself (archaic)
theeself (archaic) 		your,
thy (archaic) 		yours,
thine (archaic)
Third Masculine he him himself his
Feminine she her herself her hers
Neuter it itself its its (rare)
Plural First — we us ourselves our ours
Second — you,
ye (archaic) 		you yourselves your yours
Third — they them themselves their theirs
Indefinite Third — one oneself one's —

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Pinyin syllable

she

  1. Nonstandard spelling of shē.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of shé.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of shě.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of shè.

Notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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