she

CEFRA1

/ʃiː/

pronoun · noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    pronoun

    A word used for a female person or animal.

  2. 02

    pronoun

    Extra detail

    A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.

Examples

  • She decided to study medicine after graduating from high school.

  • Whatever I do, she says I can do better.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

pronoun

Extra meanings

  1. A ship or boat.

  2. The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A female.

More examples

In context

  • She's asking how that's possible.

  • After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.

  • I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.

Synonyms

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Origin

pronoun

Inherited from Middle English sche, scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo (“she”), Scots she, sho (“she”). Probably from Old English hēo (whence dialectal English hoo), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō /hjoː/, then a development from /hj-/ to /ç/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of Shetland from Old Norse Hjaltland. In this case, she is from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”), and is cognate with Saterland Frisian jo, ju, West Frisian hja, North Frisian jü, Danish hun, Swedish hon; more at he. A derivation from Old English sēo (“that one”, occasionally “she”...