ей — meaning in English

English meaning

• her det Belonging to her — used before a noun to show something is owned by or associated with a particular woman, girl, or (in older or poetic use) a ship, country, etc.
• it pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.

Senses

ей is used for these senses in English:

• her The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc, or (dialect) as a subject without a conjunction.
• it The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.

her — full definition

1. det Belonging to her — used before a noun to show something is owned by or associated with a particular woman, girl, or (in older or poetic use) a ship, country, etc.
2. pron The object form of "she" — used after a verb or preposition.

it — full definition

1. pron Used to refer to a thing, animal, or abstract idea that has already been mentioned or is understood.
2. pron Used as a placeholder subject in sentences describing weather, time, or general conditions.

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