она

See also: оня and -оња

Azerbaijani

Pronoun

она

  1. Cyrillic spelling of ona

Macedonian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɔna]

Pronoun

она • (ona)

  1. neuter singular of оној (onoj)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ona.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɔna]

Pronoun

она • (ona)

  1. (dialectal) she
    Synonym: (standard) таа (taa)

Old Church Slavonic

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ona.

Pronoun

она • (ona)

  1. she
  2. nominative singular feminine of онъ (onŭ)
  3. nominative/accusative dual masculine of онъ (onŭ)
  4. nominative/accusative plural neuter of онъ (onŭ)

Declension

See also

Russian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ona.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɐˈna]
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -a

Pronoun

она́ • (oná) (masculine counterpart он, neuter counterpart оно́)

  1. she, it (third-person feminine singular pronoun)
    Её нет до́ма (genitive) ― Jejó net dóma ― She’s not home.
    Ей не спи́тся. (dative) ― Jej ne spítsja. ― She is unable to sleep.
    Я ви́жу её. (accusative) ― Ja vížu jejó. ― I see her.
    За не́ю пять рубле́й. (instrumental) ― Za néju pjatʹ rubléj. ― She owes five rubles.
    Он э́то при ней сказа́л. (prepositional) ― On éto pri nej skazál. ― He said it in her presence.
Usage notes
  • Whenever a preposition stands immediately before any of the oblique cases of the third-person pronoun (singular or plural) and directly governs it, then an н- (n-) is prefixed to the pronoun: от неё (ot nejó, “from her”); на ней (na nej, “on her”); у неё (u nejó, “she has”); к ней (k nej, “to her”); с не́ю (s néju, “with her”).
  • This comes from Proto-Slavic prepositions such as *sъ(n) (“with”) (compare Ancient Greek σύν (sún) and Latin cum), that originally ended in -n and governed oblique cases. Since the prepositions and the pronouns occurred together so often, it was easy to lose track of which word the final -n belonged to, and so it was reinterpreted as part of the pronouns; compare Old English an, which was reinterpreted in the same way. Proto-Slavic *sъ(n) *jьmi became modern Russian с ни́ми (s ními), and this rule was extended to all prepositions governing any third-person pronoun.
  • Note that if the preposition does not directly govern её (jejó) (i.e., when её (jejó) is a possessive pronoun), then н- (n-) is not added: у её бра́та (u jejó bráta, “at her brother’s”); о её ма́тери (o jejó máteri, “about her mother”); в её ко́мнате (v jejó kómnate, “in her room”).
  • When there is another word separating a preposition and any oblique case of она́ (oná), then н- (n-) is not added: у само́й её (u samój jejó, “with her herself”).
Declension

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈonə]

Determiner

о́на • (óna)

  1. short feminine singular of о́ный (ónyj)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ona, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ónos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ǒna/
  • Hyphenation: о‧на

Pronoun

о̀на (Latin spelling òna)

  1. she
  2. they (nominative plural of о̀но (“it”))

Declension

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