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Meaning of she | Babel Free

Pronoun feminine CEFR A1 Common
ʃiː

Definitions

  1. Honorific alternative letter-case form of she, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
    alt-of, honorific
  2. The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
    feminine, nominative, personal, singular, third-person
  3. She, her.
  4. A ship or boat.
    endearing, feminine, nominative, personal, singular, sometimes, third-person
  5. A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
    dated, endearing, feminine, nominative, personal, singular, sometimes, third-person
  6. A thing, especially a machine or other object, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
    dated, endearing, feminine, nominative, personal, poetic, singular, third-person
  7. A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
    feminine, nominative, nonstandard, personal, singular, third-person

Equivalents

Deutsch er Es sie
Español ella

Examples

“I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.”
“After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.”
“She seems a clever girl, your Isabel.”
“Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall […]”
“The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.”
“His family, who live in West Des Moines, Iowa, have been left “devastated,” his owner Tracy Wolfe said in GWR press release. “He was just the best giant boy,” she added.”
“Morgan Sanner, a 27-year-old human resources worker in Ohio, told New York magazine’s The Cut that she felt inspired to follow in the footsteps of other people — who she noticed were “taking significant breaks” from their careers — after going abroad for the first time.”
“She could do forty knots in good weather.”
“She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?”
“She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.”
“She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.”
“Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in and possess. Summer is the great consummation.”
“She is my 57 Chevy / My 57 Chevy runs so fine / No one can beat my 57 Chevy”
“The car’s engine revved up, and the back wheels screeched. Then she lurched forward at terrific speed.”
“Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.”

CEFR level

A1
Beginner
This word is part of the CEFR A1 vocabulary — beginner level.
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