Hen

It entered widespread use around 2012 following the publication of the children's book Kivi och Monsterhund , which used the word exclusively for its main character.

Coined in the 1960s by linguist Rolf Dunås, it was inspired by the Finnish gender-neutral pronoun hän . It entered widespread use around 2012 following the

In Swedish, is a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun used alongside han (he) and hon (she). It entered widespread use around 2012 following the