{"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":"

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’t to gender-neutralize a person but more like not revealing gender in cases when you don’t want to, or not important. However, it is also used as a collective pronoun instead or writing “he\/or she can decide if…” we can simply write “hen can decide if…”. So I\u00a0personally \u00a0really feel that this is one of the most useful area in the language. The Swedish newspaper called “hen” as the you Swedish export product, hoping that it will be used in other countries too. Germanic languages would needed.<\/p>\n

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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

The Swedish Daily Newspaper thinks it is Sweden’t biggest export product. In Norwegian they started to use hen<\/em>, in\u00a0Danish\u00a0h\u00f8n<\/em>\u00a0and in Icelandic\u00a0h\u00e1n\u00a0<\/em>as well. English has been a little more conservative when it comes to hen. <\/em>English had tried a few alternative variations: ce, ze xo\u00a0but without any results.\u00a0k\u00e4lla:<\/a>\u00a0Dagens Nyheter<\/p>\n

The Swedish language has already a gender neutral way to talk about things in general\u00a0man <\/em>but recently it has also been exchanged by 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

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":"\"\"

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’t to gender-neutralize a person but more like not revealing gender in cases when you don’t want to, or not important…<\/p>\n

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