she

Signification (English)

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

celui-ci

femelle

celle

fumelle

cette personne

dite personne

je

ce type

celui-là

la

le

tu

Synonyms

he

👨

it

🇮🇹

her

him

they

that

his

this

hers

its

female

that woman

them

you

that one

their

I

woman

👩

it said

3 sg.

here

those

which

who

it became

it opened

other party

said person

that person

that gentleman

person in question

same person

that guy

third person pronoun

it bit

it did

it dug

it found

it heard

it killed

it poured

it struck

it took

it was

it went

jenny-

another

baked

bitch

companion

cooked

could

dam

daughter

died

doe

hen

🐔

herself

himself

in

it happened

it is

lady-love

other

person

🧑‍🦱

the

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ʃiː/

Étymologie (English)

Inherited from moyen anglais: sche

Cognate with écossais: she

Inherited from ancien anglais: hēo

Cognate with anglais: hoo

Cognate with saterlandais: jo

Cognate with frison occidental: hja

Cognate with frison septentrional: jü

Cognate with danois: hun

Cognate with suédois: hon

Cognate with ancien anglais: sēo

Cognate with néerlandais: zij

Cognate with allemand: sie

In summary

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 ?

Perhaps she had not come .

Peut-être qu'elle n'était pas venue.

It was early morning when she woke up .

C'était tôt le matin quand elle s'est réveillée.

Mary told me that she got to meet up with you while she was back in San Francisco .

Mary m'a dit qu'elle avait pu vous rencontrer alors qu'elle était de retour à San Francisco.

" You will , perhaps , meet me tomorrow in Geneva ," she said .

"Vous me rencontrerez peut-être demain à Genève", a-t-elle déclaré.

This pepperoni tastes off , she said .

Ce pepperoni a un goût, a-t-elle dit.

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.