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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

la / son

Pronunciation / Transliteration: la / sɔ̃

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Her/hɜːr/
pronoundeterminerCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #25 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Je l'ai vue hier."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As pronoun
  1. 1

    Used as the object of a verb or preposition to refer to a female person or animal previously mentioned or easily identified.

    "I saw her at the grocery store yesterday."
As determiner
  1. 1

    Belonging to or associated with a female person or animal previously mentioned or easily identified.

    "She left her keys on the kitchen table."
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Synonyms (2)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'hire', the genitive and dative feminine personal pronoun, which is of Germanic origin and related to Old High German 'iru'. Over centuries, it evolved to serve both as the objective case and the possessive determiner for the female third-person singular.

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