his
see also: His
Pronunciation
His
Pronoun
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see also: His
Pronunciation
- (unstressed)
- Belonging to him. [from 8th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
- With that he put his spurres vnto his steed, / With speare in rest, and toward him did fare, / Like shaft out of a bow preuenting speed.
- 2011, Xan Rice, The Guardian, 8 Apr 2011:
- In his first televised address since the siege in Abidjan began this week, Ouattara said he would focus on returning the country to normal to ease the plight of civilians.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:
- (dated) Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
- On the contrary, those other passions, commonly denominated selfish, both produce different sentiments in each individual, according to his particular situation […]
- (obsolete) Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) [11th-17th c.]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 2, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:
- My stomacke could not well reach so farre: it is very much troubled to come to an end of that which it takes for his need.
- 1611, Matthew 5:13, King James Version:
- Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted?
- (archaic) Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case. [from 11th c.]
- Ahab his mark for Ahab's mark.
- Sejanus his Fall
- French: son, sa, ses
- German: sein, n, seine, seine
- Italian: suo, sua, suoi, sue
- Portuguese: seu
- Russian: его́
- Spanish: su, sus
- That which belongs to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
- The decision was his to live with.
- Alternative spelling of His
- French: le sien, la sienne, les siens, les siennes
- Portuguese: dele
- Russian: его́
- Spanish: suyo, suya, suyos, suyas
- plural form of hi
His
Pronoun
- Honorific alternative letter-case form of his, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
- But, the individual entities of that order depend upon God and His laws for their existence.
- Spanish: su, de él
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