{"id":7632,"date":"2017-01-31T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2017-01-31T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:50:20","slug":"hen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/hen\/","title":{"rendered":"HEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hen is a new pronoun in Swedish. It is a gender neutral pronoun that many people mean was needed very much to fill a hole in the Swedish language. The purpose of the pronoun isn&#8217;t to gender-neutralize a person but more like not revealing gender in cases when you don&#8217;t want to, or not important. However, it is also used as a collective pronoun instead or writing &#8220;he\/or she can decide if&#8230;&#8221; we can simply write &#8220;hen can decide if&#8230;&#8221;. So I\u00a0personally \u00a0really feel that this is one of the most useful area in the language. The Swedish newspaper called &#8220;hen&#8221; as the you Swedish export product, hoping that it will be used in other countries too. Germanic languages would needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/vallda-sando\u0308.jpg\" aria-label=\"Vallda Sando\u0308 350x263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7633\"  alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/vallda-sando\u0308-350x263.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/vallda-sando\u0308-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/vallda-sando\u0308-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/vallda-sando\u0308.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the other hand there are other Finno-Ugric and Turkish-speaking nations who use gender-neutral pronoun. Finnish: H\u00e4n, Hungarian: \u00d6 etc.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Daily Newspaper thinks it is Sweden&#8217;t biggest export product. In Norwegian they started to use <em>hen<\/em>, in\u00a0Danish\u00a0<em>h\u00f8n<\/em>\u00a0and in Icelandic\u00a0<em>h\u00e1n\u00a0<\/em>as well. English has been a little more conservative when it comes to <em>hen. <\/em>English had tried a few alternative variations: ce, ze xo\u00a0but without any results.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dn.se\/kultur-noje\/hen-en-svensk-exportvara\/\">k\u00e4lla:<\/a>\u00a0Dagens Nyheter<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish language has already a gender neutral way to talk about things in general\u00a0<em>man <\/em>but recently it has also been exchanged by <em>hen<\/em> in many cases. Many people find this revolutionary and historic from a language point of view because we have been witnessing such a major change in the Swedish\u00a0language in our lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Please do share your take on and how you solve issues like the need of a gender neutral pronoun in your language. Is it necessary at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/vallda-sando\u0308-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/vallda-sando\u0308-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/vallda-sando\u0308-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/01\/vallda-sando\u0308.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Hen is a new pronoun in Swedish. It is a gender neutral pronoun that many people mean was needed very much to fill a hole in the Swedish language. The purpose of the pronoun isn&#8217;t to gender-neutralize a person but more like not revealing gender in cases when you don&#8217;t want to, or not important&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/hen\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":7633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3079,1],"tags":[477347],"class_list":["post-7632","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swedish-language","category-uncategorized","tag-hengenderneutralpronoun"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7634,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7632\/revisions\/7634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}