she/he in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "they",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "17": "",
        "18": "",
        "19": "",
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        "3": "",
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        "6": "",
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      "name": "en-pron"
    }
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        },
        {
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        }
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        "She or he; singular of they, used as a gender-neutral (binary) reference to the third person singular."
      ],
      "id": "en-she/he-en-pron-GgCLIn-K",
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        [
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          "he or she"
        ],
        [
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        [
          "gender-neutral",
          "gender-neutral"
        ],
        [
          "binary",
          "binary"
        ]
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "her"
        },
        {
          "word": "him"
        },
        {
          "word": "his"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "word": "he/she"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "she/he"
}

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{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "they",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "17": "",
        "18": "",
        "19": "",
        "2": "pronoun",
        "20": "",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "third person singular",
        "6": "",
        "7": "plural",
        "8": "they",
        "9": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "she/he (third person singular, plural they)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "third person singular",
        "2": "",
        "3": "plural",
        "4": "they"
      },
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      "name": "en-pron"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "pron",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "her"
    },
    {
      "word": "him"
    },
    {
      "word": "his"
    }
  ],
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        "English lemmas",
        "English pronouns",
        "English terms spelled with /",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "She or he; singular of they, used as a gender-neutral (binary) reference to the third person singular."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "She or he",
          "he or she"
        ],
        [
          "they",
          "they#English"
        ],
        [
          "gender-neutral",
          "gender-neutral"
        ],
        [
          "binary",
          "binary"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "he/she"
    }
  ],
  "word": "she/he"
}

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  "msg": "Form tags without form: desc='third person singular', tagsets=[('singular', 'third-person')]",
  "path": [
    "she/he"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "pronoun",
  "title": "she/he",
  "trace": ""
}

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"she/he" meaning in English

Pronoun