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hen.

them; third-person plural objective personal pronoun

3 characters1 syllables approx.Nederlands language

Meaning & usage

pron/ɦɛn/
  1. them; third-person plural objective personal pronoun

    personal
Where this word comes from

From Old Dutch hin, from Proto-Germanic *himaz.

noun/ɦɛn/
  1. hen, female chicken; female of a related species

    feminine
  2. a female of the species of birds brooding on the ground

    feminine
  3. 'bird', colloquial term for a human female

    feminine · figuratively
Where this word comes from

From Middle Dutch henne, from Old Dutch *henna, from Proto-West Germanic *hannju, from Proto-Germanic *hanjō, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n- (“to sing”).

pron/ɦɛn/
  1. A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun. they (singular) subject pronoun

    gender-neutral · nonstandard
  2. A gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun. them (singular) object pronoun

    gender-neutral · nonstandard
Where this word comes from

Chosen in an online poll by Transgender Netwerk Nederland in 2016. The alternative die arose from the same poll.

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