she

Signification (Anglais)

Pron

1. The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
2. A ship or boat.
3. A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
4. Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
5. A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).

Det

Synonym of her

Noun

A female.

Concepts

elle

il

lui

femelle

celui-ci

je

tu

fumelle

cette personne

dite personne

ce type

celui-là

la

le

celle

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ʃiː/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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 (“the or that", occasionally "she”) is also possible, though less likely. In that case, sēo would have undergone a change in stress from sēo to seō /sjoː/, then a change from /sj-/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of sure from Old French seur. It would then be cognate to Dutch zij and German sie.
Neither etymology would be expected to yield the modern vocalism in /iː/ (the expected form would be shoo, which is in fact found dialectally). It may be due to influence from he, but both hēo and sēo also have rare variants (hīe and sīe) that may give modern English /iː/.

Phrases

What was she like ?

Comment était-elle?

Philip knew that she was not an Indian .

Philip savait qu'elle n'était pas indienne.

" I was in tears , shaking ," she told the faculty .

"J'étais en larmes, tremblant", a-t-elle déclaré à la faculté.

Five times she came in third in the overall ranking .

Cinq fois, elle est arrivée troisième dans le classement général.

Later she sang the roles of Richard Strauss .

Plus tard, elle a chanté les rôles de Richard Strauss.

However she was more interested in polemic than everyday strategy .

Cependant, elle était plus intéressée par la polémique que la stratégie quotidienne.

“ Can you deny that you have done it ?” she repeated .

«Pouvez-vous nier que vous l'avez fait?» elle a répété.

While later works make her specifically human , she retains her magical powers .

Alors que les œuvres plus tard la rendent spécifiquement humaine, elle conserve ses pouvoirs magiques.