Swedish determiner · pronoun· top 500 most common

hennes

her/²hɛnɛs/

hennes as a determiner

Meaning

her

hennes as a pronoun

Meaning

hers

Practise hennes

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What does hennes mean?

hennes in a sentence

  • Det är hennes bok
    It is her book
  • Hennes mamma heter Berit
    Her mother's name is Berit
  • Bilen hennes är trasig
    Her car is broken [dialectal word order, but common enough to not sound ungrammatical to any native speakers]
  • Boken är hennes
    The book is hers

Questions

What does hennes mean in English?

hennes means “her”.

Where the course teaches it

Nearby common words

hennes is number 154 in our frequency list. These words come just before and after it.

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