она

она

1. Cyrillic spelling of ona

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она • (ona)

1. neuter singular of оној (onoj)

• (Bitola) IPA^(key): /ˈɒnɐ/

она • (ona)

1. (regional, Bitola) feminine singular of онај (onaj)

• Forms a minimal pair with it's neuter form: neuter /ˈo̞nɐ/ vs. feminine /ˈɒnɐ/. This is not indicated when the Bitola dialect is written out by it's speakers; instead, context is used to assertain what is meant.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ona.

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она • (ona)

1. (dialectal) she

   Synonym: (standard) таа (taa)

From Proto-Slavic *ona.

она • (ona)

1. she
2. nominative singular feminine of онъ (onŭ)
3. nominative/accusative dual masculine of онъ (onŭ)
4. nominative/accusative plural neuter of онъ (onŭ)

• ѭ (jǫ)
• та (ta)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ona.

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• Rhymes: -a

она́ • (oná) (masculine counterpart он, neuter counterpart оно́)

1. she, it (third-person feminine singular pronoun)

   Её нет до́ма (genitive) ― Jejó net dóma ― She’s not home.

   Ей не спи́тся. (dative) ― Jej ne spítsja. ― She is unable to sleep.

   Я ви́жу её. (accusative) ― Ja vížu jejó. ― I see her.

   За не́ю пять рубле́й. (instrumental) ― Za néju pjatʹ rubléj. ― She owes five rubles.

   Он э́то при ней сказа́л. (prepositional) ― On éto pri nej skazál. ― He said it in her presence.

• Whenever a preposition stands immediately before any of the oblique cases of the third-person pronoun (singular or plural) and directly governs it, then an н- (n-) is prefixed to the pronoun: от неё (ot nejó, “from her”); на ней (na nej, “on her”); у неё (u nejó, “she has”); к ней (k nej, “to her”); с не́ю (s néju, “with her”).
• This comes from Proto-Slavic prepositions such as *sъ(n) (“with”) (compare Ancient Greek σύν (sún) and Latin cum), that originally ended in -n and governed oblique cases. Since the prepositions and the pronouns occurred together so often, it was easy to lose track of which word the final -n belonged to, and so it was reinterpreted as part of the pronouns; compare Old English an, which was reinterpreted in the same way. Proto-Slavic *sъ(n) *jьmi became modern Russian с ни́ми (s ními), and this rule was extended to all prepositions governing any third-person pronoun.
• Note that if the preposition does not directly govern её (jejó) (i.e., when её (jejó) is a possessive pronoun), then н- (n-) is not added: у её бра́та (u jejó bráta, “at her brother’s”); о её ма́тери (o jejó máteri, “about her mother”); в её ко́мнате (v jejó kómnate, “in her room”).
• When there is another word separating a preposition and any oblique case of она́ (oná), then н- (n-) is not added: у само́й её (u samój jejó, “with her herself”).

• её (jejó)
• свой (svoj)

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о́на • (óna)

1. short feminine singular of о́ный (ónyj)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *ona, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ónos.

• IPA^(key): /ǒna/
• Hyphenation: о‧на

о̀на (Latin spelling òna)

1. she
2. they (nominative plural of о̀но (“it”))