In the February 2012 issue of Nöjesguiden, a Stockholm-based arts and entertainment monthly, hen was used consistently in all texts with the exception of direct quotes. The book consistently used hen instead of han or hon and sparked a lively media debate. In January 2012, the children's book Kivi och Monsterhund ("Kivi and Monster Dog") by Jesper Lundqvist was published. By 2009, Nationalencyklopedin, the modern standard Swedish encyclopedia, had created an article about hen describing it as a "suggested gender-neutral personal pronoun instead of hon and han". In 2007, the feminist cultural magazine Ful became the first periodical to adopt a consistent usage of hen. In 1994, it was again proposed by linguist Hans Karlgren in the national newspaper Svenska Dagbladet as a practical alternative to more complicated literary alternatives, noting its similarity to Finnish hän. History of usage Īttempts to introduce hen as a gender-neutral pronoun date back to 1966 when linguist Rolf Dunås suggested it in the regional newspaper Upsala Nya Tidning. Both are gender-neutral in the sense of not referring to male or female, but they are not used to refer to human beings except in specific circumstances. In Swedish and Danish, there are two words that would translate to the English pronoun "it": den for common gender words and det for neuter gender words. The system contracted so that words of masculine and feminine gender folded into a common gender while the neuter gender remained. While Swedish and Danish historically had the same set of three grammatical genders as modern German, with masculine, feminine and neuter, the three-gender system fell out of use from the dialects out of which the respective standard languages were developing sometime in the late Middle Ages. The common pronouns used for human beings are either han ("he") or hon ("she"). The Swedish language has a set of personal pronouns which is more or less identical in form to that of English. Hen has two basic usages: as a way to avoid a stated preference to either gender or as a way of referring to individuals who are agender, genderqueer or non-binary. The Swedish Language Council has not issued any proscriptions against the use of hen, but recommends the inflected forms hens ("her(s)/his") as the possessive form and the object form hen ("her/him") over henom, which also occurs. Initially, it was treated as a neologism and faced opposition by some, including the major newspaper Dagens Nyheter that banned it in 2012, but later started using the pronoun.
Today, some believe the word has lost some of its feminist-activist connotation in Sweden as it is used in the media, court rulings and books. In April 2015, the gender neutral pronoun hen and 13,000 other new words were added in a new official dictionary of the Swedish language.
In July 2014, it was announced that hen would be included in Svenska Akademiens ordlista, the official spelling dictionary of the Swedish Academy. However, it did not receive widespread recognition until around 2010, when it began to be used in some books, magazines and newspapers, and provoked media debates and controversy over feminism, gender neutrality, and parenting. The word was first proposed in 1966, and again in 1994, with reference to the Finnish hän, a personal pronoun that is gender-neutral, since Finnish does not have grammatical genders. It can be used when the gender of a person is not known or when it is not desirable to specify them as either a "she" or "he". Hen ( Swedish: ( listen)) is a gender-neutral personal pronoun in Swedish intended as an alternative to the gender-specific hon ("she") and han ("he"). The five brassicas that comprise this mix were chosen for their different maturities, high protein, palatability and the ability to adapt to a wide range of environmental and soil conditions.Swedish gender-neutral pronoun Visual illustration of the two gendered pronouns and hen by merged gender symbols This ability to stockpile feed helps whitetail deer survive the harsh winter months until spring growth appears.ĭeer feeding activity on this mix usually increases significantly after cool weather arrives in the fall and will continue throughout the winter unless snow cover is too deep. Ideal Northern Edge Brassica Mix has been designed to provide highly nutritious forage from late-summer until well after killing frosts.
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