EGAVE

his

About 41.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. determiner Belonging to him. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. determiner Belonging to a person of unspecified gender.
  3. determiner Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.)
  4. determiner Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
    Ahab his mark
  5. pronoun That or those belonging to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun.
    This pen is his. These books are also his.
  6. pronoun His house or home.
    After our night out, I went back to his.
  7. pronoun Alternative spelling of His.
  8. noun plural of hi

Similar words

howdy hullo hello how-do-you-do ess son him particular sound sas

Often followed by

own wife father life head eyes hand mother face mind

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