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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

彼の

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kare no

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
His/hɪz/
pronoundeterminerCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #25 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"これは彼の本です。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As determiner
  1. 1

    Belonging to or associated with a male person or animal previously mentioned.

    "He forgot his keys on the table."
As pronoun
  1. 1

    Used to indicate possession, corresponding to the male pronoun 'he'.

    "That red car is his."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English his, the genitive masculine and neuter form of hit ('it') and se ('the'). It has functioned as a possessive pronoun and determiner since the earliest recorded stages of Germanic languages.

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