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How to spell her
What it means: Belonging to a girl or woman.
In a sentence: She gave her friend a hug.
The part people get wrong
Often misspelled as hur or herr.
Same family: she, hers, herself, woman, female. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.
Where it comes from: “Her” comes from Old English “hire,” the dative and genitive form of the pronoun “heō,” meaning ‘she.’ Over time, English pronouns simplified, and “hire” gradually became the modern form “her.”
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