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هِيَ
she /ˈhi.ja/
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Also: it (referring to a feminine noun), they (for non-human feminine plurals)
Example sentences
هِيَ طَالِبَة.
She is a student.
هِيَ مِنْ مِصْر.
She is from Egypt.
هَلْ هِيَ صَدِيقَتُكِ؟
Is she your friend?
هِيَ الَّتِي سَاعَدَتْنِي أَمْس.
She is the one who helped me yesterday.
لَا أَعْرِفُ إِنْ كَانَتْ هِيَ المَسْؤُولَة عَنْ ذَلِك.
I don't know whether she is the one responsible for that.
مَهْمَا قِيلَ، تَبْقَى هِيَ الوَحِيدَةَ القَادِرَةَ عَلَى حَلِّ هَذِهِ المُعْضِلَة.
Whatever is said, she remains the only one capable of solving this dilemma.
Word family
Etymology
هِيَ is the inherited Semitic third-person feminine singular independent pronoun, used in Arabic for 'she' and for 'it' when the referent is grammatically feminine. It descends from a Proto-Semitic pronoun reconstructed as *šiʔa / *hiʔa, the feminine counterpart of the masculine *šuʔa (Arabic هُوَ). The form has remained remarkably stable across the Semitic family.
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