er
Betekenis (English)
- (personal) he.
- (personal) it (when the grammatical gender of the object/article/thing/animal etc., being referred to, is masculine (der)).
- (personal) she (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a female person, is masculine (der)).
- (alt-of,alternative,archaic,personal) Alternative spelling of Er (you (polite))
Synonyms
Frequentie
Dialecten
Zürich
er
Fribourg
är
Appenzell Ausserrhoden
er
Bazel-Stad
är
Appenzell Innerrhoden
er
Basel-Landschaft
er
Graubünden
er
Basel-Landschaft
äär
Luzern
er
Fribourg
er
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/eːr/
Etymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle High German ër, from Old High German er, from Proto-West Germanic *iʀ, from Proto-Germanic *iz. In northern Middle High German and Old High German there also existed forms with initial h-, namely Middle High German her, Old High German her, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, whence Central Franconian hä and (from the accusative) Luxembourgish hien. Compare English he. The unusual spelling ih- in the forms ihm, ihn is not related to this. It was introduced in early modern German to distinguish these forms from im, in (when *iem, *ien could have been read as *jem, *jen).
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