hän

From Proto-Finnic *hän, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *sän. Cognates include Erzya сон (son).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæn/, [ˈhæn]

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• Rhymes: -æn
• Syllabification^(key): hän

hän

1. (personal) he, she, one, (singular) they (only of a human being; the pronoun does not determine the sex/gender of the person)

• In standard Finnish, hän is practically never omitted, despite the verb showing both the person and the number (compare the usage of he (“they pl”)).
• In colloquial Finnish, the demonstrative pronoun se (“it”) is often used in place of hän. In Kven, both pronouns are used.

• Irregular. The comitative and instructive forms don't exist; the abessive is hardly used. To be more precise: the singular stem is declined like type 32 (sisar) in the singular cases, except of the accusative singular form hänet (see following note).
• In addition to the standard set of cases, hän and the other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, hänet. This form would have been the nominative plural form of the first stem, if the word were not a personal pronoun.
• In poetry, shorter forms hällä, hältä and hälle exist for the adessive, ablative and allative respectively.

• se (colloquial)

• Kven: hän

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈhæn/, [ˈhæn]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈhæn/, [ˈhæn]
• Rhymes: -æn
• Hyphenation: hän

hän

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of hää
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 46:

     Toisille hän lapsille esimerkin näyttää.

     He sets an example for the other children.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 84

From Finnish hän, from Proto-Finnic *hän.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhæn/

hän

1. he, she (animate)

• se

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 276

From Old Norse héðan, with influence from Middle Low German hen (“away”), both ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this”).

hän

1. away, hence (from here, towards another place, towards someone else)

• hädan

• hänföra
• hänseende
• hänskjuta
• hänsyn

• hän in Svensk ordbok.

From Proto-Finnic *hän, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *sän. Cognate to Hungarian ő. False cognate with Swedish han.

hän (genitive hänen, partitive händast)

1. he, she

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “он”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika