different between herself vs hers

English

Alternative forms

• Herself (honorific)

Etymology

From Middle English. Equivalent to her +? -self.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h???s?lf/, /?s?lf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /h??s?lf/, /?s?lf/
• Rhymes: -?lf
• Hyphenation: her?self

Pronoun

herself (the third person singular, feminine, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of she, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)

1. (reflexive) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.

2. (emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.

3. (Ireland) The subject or non-reflexive object of a predicate; she (used of upper-class ladies, or sarcastically, of women who imagine themselves to be more important than others)

Translations

See also

Anagrams

• Flesher, flesher

English

Alternative forms

• her's (now nonstandard)

Etymology

From Middle English hires, heres, hers, attested since the 1300s. Equivalent to her +? -s (compare -'s).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??z/, unstressed IPA^(key): /?z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?z/, unstressed IPA^(key): /?z/
• Rhymes: -??(?)z

Pronoun

hers

1. That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. [from 12th c.]
   • 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 335:

     The life of La Motte, who had more than saved her's […], depended on the testimony she should give.

   • 2019, Gaby Hinsliff, The Guardian, 31 August:

     The rest of us, meanwhile, would do well to accept that one woman’s choice is just that; hers and hers alone, not the standard by which all must be judged.

Translations

Noun

hers

1. plural of her

See also

References

Anagrams

• EHRs, H. Res., H.Res., HSer, RSeH, Resh, Sher, ersh, resh

Icelandic

Noun

hers

1. indefinite genitive singular of her

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hers

1. Alternative form of hires (“hers”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hers

1. Alternative form of heres (“theirs”)

Etymology 3

Noun

hers

1. Alternative form of ars (“anus; buttocks”)

Etymology 4

Verb

hers

1. Alternative form of hereth: third-person singular present of heren (“to hear”)
2. Alternative form of heren: plural present of heren (“to hear”)