er

Meaning

1. (personal) he.
2. (personal) it (when the grammatical gender of the object/article/thing/animal etc., being referred to, is masculine (der)).
3. (personal) she (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a female person, is masculine (der)).
4. (alt-of,alternative,archaic,personal) Alternative spelling of Er (you (polite))

Pronounced as (IPA)

/eːr/

Etymology

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).

Sentences

Durch ihn wurde er Mitglied des Illuminatenordens.

Through him, he became a member of the Order of the Illuminati.

Den Rechtspositivismus lehnte er ab .

He rejected legal positivism.

Er antwortete damit , indem er ihm das Buch überreichte .

He responded by handing him the book.

Nachdem Sylvester nach Florenz umgezogen war , suchte er sich neue Mitglieder .

After Sylvester moved to Florence, he sought out new members.

Auch hier war er in mehreren Kommissionen tätig .

Here, too, he worked on several commissions.

Seit seiner Jugend befasste er sich mit Ringen und Boxen .

Since his youth, he has been involved in wrestling and boxing.

In Kairo war er Herausgeber der Zeitung "Majak".

In Cairo, he was editor of the newspaper "Mayak".

Auch er hat keine Mühe gespart um in der humanitären Arbeit tätig zu sein .

He also spared no effort to work in humanitarian work.