"hän" meaning in Finnish

See hän in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Pronoun

IPA: /ˈhæn/, [ˈhæn]
Rhymes: -æn Etymology: From Proto-Finnic *hän, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *sän. Cognates include Erzya сон (son). In practically all dialects (except potentially Ingrian Finnish), se is the most common third-person pronoun for people, and this is also reflected in colloquial Finnish. hän was most often used in indirect speech (as a logophoric pronoun), although in northern and eastern dialects it was used more widely in subordinate clauses. The use of hän as a general third-person pronoun may thus be a literary feature. Etymology templates: {{inh|fi|urj-fin-pro|*hän}} Proto-Finnic *hän, {{inh|fi|fiu-pro|*sän}} Proto-Finno-Ugric *sän, {{cog|myv|сон}} Erzya сон (son), {{m|fi|se}} se, {{m|fi||hän}} hän, {{m|fi||hän}} hän Head templates: {{head|fi|pronoun|cat2=personal pronouns}} hän Inflection templates: {{fi-decl-pron|10p=heille|10s=hänelle|11p=heinä|11s=hänenä|12p=heiksi|12s=häneksi|13p=heittä|13s=hänettä|1p=he|1s=hän|2p=heidän|2s=hänen|3p=heitä|3s=häntä|4p=heidät|4s=hänet|5p=heissä|5s=hänessä|6p=heistä|6s=hänestä|7p=heihin|7s=häneen|8p=heillä|8s=hänellä|9p=heiltä|9s=häneltä|adv=no}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], hän [nominative, singular], he [nominative, plural], hänen [genitive, singular], heidän [genitive, plural], häntä [partitive, singular], heitä [partitive, plural], hänet [accusative, singular], heidät [accusative, plural], hänessä [inessive, singular], heissä [inessive, plural], hänestä [elative, singular], heistä [elative, plural], häneen [illative, singular], heihin [illative, plural], hänellä [adessive, singular], heillä [adessive, plural], häneltä [ablative, singular], heiltä [ablative, plural], hänelle [allative, singular], heille [allative, plural], hänenä [essive, singular], heinä [essive, plural], häneksi [singular, translative], heiksi [plural, translative], hänettä [abessive, singular], heittä [abessive, plural], - [instructive, singular], - [instructive, plural], - [comitative, singular], - [comitative, plural]
  1. (personal) he, she, one, (singular) they (only of a human being; the pronoun does not determine the sex/gender of the person) Tags: personal
    Sense id: en-hän-fi-pron-O5hqkCFA
  2. he, she, one, they, it (in indirect speech: referring to the subject of the main clause, regardless of whether they are a human being or not, i.e. logophoric pronoun)
    Sense id: en-hän-fi-pron-7ZDcht9x Categories (other): Finnish entries with incorrect language header, Finnish personal pronouns, Finnish pronouns Disambiguation of Finnish entries with incorrect language header: 22 78 Disambiguation of Finnish personal pronouns: 44 56 Disambiguation of Finnish pronouns: 42 58
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: se [colloquial] Related terms: minä, sinä, Te, me, te, he

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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    },
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      "word": "Te"
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "he, she, one, (singular) they (only of a human being; the pronoun does not determine the sex/gender of the person)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "he",
          "he"
        ],
        [
          "she",
          "she"
        ],
        [
          "one",
          "one"
        ],
        [
          "they",
          "they"
        ],
        [
          "human being",
          "human being"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(personal) he, she, one, (singular) they (only of a human being; the pronoun does not determine the sex/gender of the person)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "personal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "he, she, one, they, it (in indirect speech: referring to the subject of the main clause, regardless of whether they are a human being or not, i.e. logophoric pronoun)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "he",
          "he"
        ],
        [
          "she",
          "she"
        ],
        [
          "one",
          "one"
        ],
        [
          "they",
          "they"
        ],
        [
          "it",
          "it"
        ],
        [
          "logophoric",
          "logophoric#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhæn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈhæn]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æn"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "se"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hän"
}

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