His in Different Languages
Discover 'His' in 134 Languages: Dive into Translations, Hear Pronunciations, and Uncover Cultural Insights.
His
Afrikaans syne | ||
Albanian e tij | ||
Amharic የእሱ | ||
Arabic له | ||
Armenian նրա | ||
Assamese তাৰ | ||
Aymara jupana | ||
Azerbaijani onun | ||
Bambara a | ||
Basque haren | ||
Belarusian яго | ||
Bengali তার | ||
Bhojpuri उनकर | ||
Bosnian njegov | ||
Bulgarian неговото | ||
Catalan seva | ||
Cebuano iyang | ||
Chinese (Simplified) 他的 | ||
Chinese (Traditional) 他的 | ||
Corsican u so | ||
Croatian njegova | ||
Czech jeho | ||
Danish hans | ||
Dhivehi އޭނަގެ | ||
Dogri ओहदा | ||
Dutch zijn | ||
English his | ||
Esperanto lia | ||
Estonian tema | ||
Ewe eƒe | ||
Filipino (Tagalog) kanyang | ||
Finnish hänen | ||
French le sien | ||
Frisian syn | ||
Galician súa | ||
Georgian მისი | ||
German seine | ||
Greek του | ||
Guarani imba'e | ||
Gujarati તેના | ||
Haitian Creole li | ||
Hausa nasa | ||
Hawaiian kāna | ||
Hebrew שֶׁלוֹ | ||
Hindi उनके | ||
Hmong nws | ||
Hungarian övé | ||
Icelandic hans | ||
Igbo ya | ||
Ilocano ti kukuana | ||
Indonesian -nya | ||
Irish a | ||
Italian il suo | ||
Japanese 彼の | ||
Javanese kang | ||
Kannada ಅವನ | ||
Kazakh оның | ||
Khmer របស់គាត់ | ||
Kinyarwanda ibye | ||
Konkani ताचें | ||
Korean 그의 | ||
Krio in | ||
Kurdish bûyin | ||
Kurdish (Sorani) ئەو | ||
Kyrgyz анын | ||
Lao ລາວ | ||
Latin eius | ||
Latvian viņa | ||
Lingala ya ye | ||
Lithuanian jo | ||
Luganda kikye | ||
Luxembourgish seng | ||
Macedonian неговиот | ||
Maithili ओकर | ||
Malagasy ny | ||
Malay miliknya | ||
Malayalam അദ്ദേഹത്തിന്റെ | ||
Maltese tiegħu | ||
Maori tana | ||
Marathi त्याचा | ||
Meiteilon (Manipuri) ꯃꯍꯥꯛꯀꯤ | ||
Mizo ani | ||
Mongolian түүний | ||
Myanmar (Burmese) သူ | ||
Nepali उसको | ||
Norwegian hans | ||
Nyanja (Chichewa) ake | ||
Odia (Oriya) ତାଙ୍କର | ||
Oromo kan isaa | ||
Pashto د | ||
Persian خود | ||
Polish jego | ||
Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) dele | ||
Punjabi ਉਸ ਦਾ | ||
Quechua paypaq | ||
Romanian a lui | ||
Russian его | ||
Samoan lana | ||
Sanskrit तस्य | ||
Scots Gaelic aige | ||
Sepedi gagwe | ||
Serbian његов | ||
Sesotho hae | ||
Shona zvake | ||
Sindhi هن | ||
Sinhala (Sinhalese) ඔහුගේ | ||
Slovak jeho | ||
Slovenian njegovo | ||
Somali isaga | ||
Spanish su | ||
Sundanese milikna | ||
Swahili yake | ||
Swedish hans | ||
Tagalog (Filipino) ang kanyang | ||
Tajik вай | ||
Tamil அவரது | ||
Tatar аның | ||
Telugu తన | ||
Thai ของเขา | ||
Tigrinya ናቱ | ||
Tsonga xa yena | ||
Turkish onun | ||
Turkmen onuň | ||
Twi (Akan) ne | ||
Ukrainian його | ||
Urdu اس کی | ||
Uyghur his | ||
Uzbek uning | ||
Vietnamese của anh ấy | ||
Welsh ei | ||
Xhosa yakhe | ||
Yiddish זיין | ||
Yoruba tirẹ | ||
Zulu okwakhe |
Etymology & Notes
| Language | Etymology / Notes |
|---|---|
| Afrikaans | Syne is also a form of the possessive pronoun used informally in Dutch, and derived from the word "sijn". |
| Albanian | The Albanian word "e tij" also means "its" or "of him" depending on the context. |
| Amharic | The word "የእሱ" can also mean "him" or "it". |
| Arabic | "له" is not only a masculine possessive pronoun but also a preposition that functions as the dative case in Classical and Modern Standard Arabic. |
| Armenian | "Նրա" is a possessive pronoun in Armenian meaning "his," but it also means "her" and "its". |
| Azerbaijani | The word "onun" in Azerbaijani is homophonous with the word for "ten" and the accusative case of the personal pronoun "o" (he). |
| Basque | The word _haren_ can also be used to convey possession, e.g. _haren etxea_ 'their house'. |
| Belarusian | The word "яго" can also refer to a type of berry or a female name. |
| Bengali | The word "তার" in Bengali can also mean "her" or "its" depending on the context and the gender of the subject. |
| Bosnian | The word “njegov” originates from the Proto-Slavic possessive pronoun *jego, meaning “of or belonging to him”. |
| Bulgarian | неговото is singular accusative form, which is also used as possessive pronoun for 3rd person masculine singular (i.e. „his”). |
| Catalan | The word "seva" derives from the Latin word "sua", meaning "of her". |
| Cebuano | Iyang is also used to refer to plants and animals, similar to the use of "siya" (she) in Tagalog. |
| Chinese (Simplified) | "他的" in Chinese can also mean "his (possessive pronoun)" or "his (possessive adjective)" in English. |
| Chinese (Traditional) | "他的" is formed by combining "他" (third-person singular masculine) and "的" (possessive marker). It can also mean 'him' or 'he' in certain contexts. |
| Corsican | The Corsican word "u so" can also mean "the sun" or "the day" |
| Croatian | In Croatian, the word "njegova" has feminine and neuter forms: "njena" and "njegovo". |
| Czech | In some dialects of Czech, "jeho" can also refer to "her" or "of it". |
| Danish | In the sentence "hans bog" (his book), "hans" is the object form of "han" (he). |
| Dutch | The word "zijn" can also mean "being" or "essence" in philosophical or spiritual contexts. |
| Esperanto | "Lia" is derived from the Latin possessive pronoun "illius", meaning "his, her, its", and originally had an additional feminine form "lia". In some Esperanto dialects, "lia" is still used as a third-person possessive pronoun for all genders. |
| Estonian | "Tema" is related to the Finnish word "tämä" (this), but in Estonian it has become a possessive pronoun meaning "his". |
| Finnish | The word “hänen” also means “her” or “hers” and is one of the most common Finnish words |
| French | 'Le sien' is also used to refer to a person's own property or belongings. |
| Frisian | In Old Frisian, "syn" could also mean "her" but eventually came to mean "his" in Modern Frisian. |
| Galician | The word "súa" can also mean "her" or "its" in Galician. |
| Georgian | The Georgian word "მისი" can also mean "hers" or "its". |
| German | The word "seine" in German, meaning "his", is derived from the Old High German word "sīn". |
| Greek | The word "του" can also mean "of the" or "from the" in the genitive case, or "to him" in the dative case. |
| Gujarati | The word "તેના" can also refer to "her" or "its" in Gujarati. |
| Haitian Creole | Li was derived from the French word "le" which also means "his" and it is used before a noun to indicate possession. |
| Hausa | The word "nasa" in Hausa can also mean "nose" or "point". |
| Hawaiian | Kāna can also mean "his" but refers to the third person singular possessive form used only when the noun begins with a guttural consonant or a semivowel. |
| Hebrew | The Hebrew word "שֶׁלוֹ" can also mean "her" or "theirs". |
| Hindi | In Hindi, "उनके" can also mean "their" or "of them" depending on the context. |
| Hmong | The Hmong word "nws" can also mean "her" or "its", depending on the context. |
| Hungarian | The word "övé" can also refer to "his property" or "his belongings" in Hungarian. |
| Icelandic | In Icelandic, "hans" can also mean "her" when referring to a female antecedent, and "their" when referring to a plural antecedent. |
| Igbo | The Igbo word "ya" also serves as the shortened form of "anya," meaning "eye." |
| Indonesian | The suffix "-nya" can also emphasize possession, like "that's my book" or "his car is red." |
| Irish | The Irish word "a" is derived from the Old Irish possessive pronoun "a" meaning "his" but it can also mean "her" or "their". |
| Italian | The "suo" form of the Italian possessive adjective is used exclusively for masculine singular nouns |
| Japanese | "彼" means "he" but can also mean "that" in formal writing or "her" when used alongside "彼女" (girlfriend). |
| Javanese | In Javanese, "kang" can also be used as a prefix before male names and professions to indicate intimacy or respect. |
| Kannada | The word "ಅವನ" in Kannada can also mean "of him" or "belonging to him". |
| Kazakh | The Kazakh word "оның" can also mean "its" or "hers", indicating possession. |
| Khmer | In Khmer, the word "his" can also be used to mean "her" or "its". |
| Korean | The word '그의' is used to denote possession, but can also refer to a concept or idea. |
| Kurdish | The word "bûyin" in Kurdish comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰuH- which also gave rise to the English word "be". |
| Kyrgyz | The word "анын" can also be used to mean "its" or "hers" in Kyrgyz. |
| Lao | The word "ລາວ" also means "man" or "person" in Lao. |
| Latin | The Latin "eius" means "his," but it is also used to mean "her" or "its," and is the genitive singular form of the third person pronoun "is." |
| Latvian | The original meaning of the word "viņa" was "his or her" and the latter meaning is still preserved in set phrases. |
| Lithuanian | Jo is also used as a polite form of address in Lithuanian. |
| Luxembourgish | Although "seng" is mostly used by men to replace the more formal or female "säin", it does also mean "their" but is rarely used that way because "hir" exists for that. |
| Macedonian | In Bulgarian, the word "неговиот" also means "that which belongs to him." |
| Malagasy | The word "ny" in Malagasy can have other meanings such as "of" or "by". |
| Malay | The word "miliknya" is derived from the Proto-Austronesian word "*milək", meaning "to possess". |
| Maltese | "Tieghu" also exists in Sicilian, but as a reflexive possessive form. |
| Maori | Tana, meaning 'his', derives from Proto-Polynesian "*tana" (possessive pronoun for singular 3rd person masculine). |
| Marathi | The Marathi word त्याचा (his) is derived from the Sanskrit word तस्य (of him) and has alternate meanings such as 'its' or 'hers'. |
| Mongolian | The word “түүний” also means “hers” and “its” in Mongolian, depending on the context. |
| Myanmar (Burmese) | In the Burmese language, "သူ" not only means "his" but can also denote possession or ownership in general. |
| Nepali | The word "उसको" can also mean "her" or "hers" in Nepali. |
| Norwegian | The word "hans" in Norwegian can also mean "a glove" or "a mit". |
| Nyanja (Chichewa) | The word "ake" in Nyanja (Chichewa) can also mean "of him" or "concerning him." |
| Pashto | The Pashto word "د" ("his") is also used in compound words with various meanings, such as "belonging to" or "connected to." |
| Persian | خود can mean "self", "own" or "same" depending on the context. |
| Polish | In Polish, "jego" (his) derives from the Proto-Slavic "*jego", meaning "this one". |
| Portuguese (Portugal, Brazil) | "Dele" can also mean "from him," "of him," or "to him." |
| Punjabi | ਉਸ ਦਾ can also mean "his" in Punjabi when referring to a personified object. |
| Romanian | The Romanian word "a lui" means "his", but can also refer to an indirect object in a sentence. |
| Russian | The root word |
| Samoan | The word "lana" in Samoan is derived from the Proto-Polynesian word "*lana", meaning "his" or "hers". |
| Scots Gaelic | The Gaelic word 'aige' can also mean "at his" or "in him", |
| Serbian | Његов is a possessive adjective in Serbian, meaning "his", but it can also refer to a person's property or belongings. |
| Sesotho | The word "hae" also means "her" and is used as an emphatic form of the possessive pronoun "sa" (her). |
| Shona | Zvake is also the past tense of the verb 'kuzva' (to hear), or the present habitual form meaning 'that which is heard' (e.g. zvake zvakaipa / that which is heard is bad) |
| Sindhi | هن (han) is a Persian word used in Sindhi meaning "his" and can also refer to a type of fish, or a specific breed of horse. |
| Sinhala (Sinhalese) | In Sinhala, the word "ඔහුගේ" can also mean "of him" or "his own" depending on the context. |
| Slovak | The Slovak word "jeho" is also the possessive form of the third person singular pronoun "on" and the first person dual pronoun "my". |
| Slovenian | The word "njegovo" can also mean "your" in Slovenian, when addressing someone formally. |
| Somali | "Isaga" in Somali can also refer to "him" or "the one who is." |
| Spanish | In Spanish, "su" is derived from the Latin "suus" and can also mean "her" or "its" when referring to third-person singular nouns. |
| Sundanese | The word "milikna" in Sundanese is also used to refer to a person's property or belongings. |
| Swahili | "Yake" can also mean "its" or "hers" depending on the noun it refers to. |
| Swedish | The word "hans" in Swedish can also mean "his" in a possessive sense. |
| Tagalog (Filipino) | Ang kanyang may alternate meanings that are not possessive. When put before a noun (e.g. ang kanyang libro, his book), it means "his", but when put before a verb (e.g. ang kanyang pag-ibig, his love), it means "his/her/their" and has a more subjective (and often emotional) implication. |
| Tajik | The Tajik word "вай" ("his") is also used to refer to the third person singular masculine pronoun "he". |
| Tamil | The word "அவரது" (avaratu) in Tamil is derived from the Proto-Dravidian root *avar-, meaning "that person" or "he". It can also be used as a respectful way to address someone. |
| Telugu | The word "తన" in Telugu can also mean "self" or "mind". |
| Thai | In Thai, "ของเขา" can also be used as "his/hers/theirs/its", indicating possession. |
| Turkish | The Turkish word "onun" can also refer to "that" or "theirs." |
| Ukrainian | The word "його" ("his") in Ukrainian is also used as a pronoun to refer to a male person previously mentioned. |
| Urdu | This pronoun can also mean its (of something). |
| Uzbek | The word "uning" can also refer to a possessive pronoun meaning "theirs". |
| Vietnamese | Của anh ấy" can also mean "mine" in Vietnamese, as a term of endearment. |
| Welsh | In Welsh, "ei" can also mean "their" or "of it" depending on the context and grammar. |
| Xhosa | The Xhosa word 'yakhe' (his) is derived from the root word 'kha', meaning 'to possess'. |
| Yiddish | The Yiddish word "זיין" can also mean "to be" or "to exist", |
| Yoruba | "Tìrẹ" also means "his" or "hers" in Yoruba and is derived from the root word "tì", meaning "to have". |
| Zulu | As a standalone possessive pronoun, "okwakhe" may also mean "theirs". |
| English | The possessive pronoun "his" derives from earlier forms that were applicable to both sexes, "his" or "her". |