Hänne

Hänne is a Finnish indicator pronoun used to imply that intransitive verbs, or intransitive clauses, belong to a feminine non-host subject. This pronoun functions as an indicator, rather than a true pronoun or a personal pronoun. It appears whenever a sentence indicates that the action or state belongs to someone or something, and that someone or something is female. In Finnish grammar, personal pronouns usually require a nominative or accusative in clauses where the subject is a nominative pronoun. However, the hänne pronoun is needed and used to prevent implying the verb is the host's, an intransitive clause characterizes the verb as not belonging to the subject but to the object.

Hänne usually follows a verb that is negative or a verb that acts negatively against the subject's expectation of an action involving them. For instance, "hänne tulee näkemään" translates to "it will be seen by her", which effectively means that the realization is not the result of an action of the host but of the subject. In this context, hänne is used as a kind of emphasis on the subject not being the one initiating the action.

Hänne often used with verbs that indicate the transfer of something from one subject to another - an inhered causative structure. It can also be used with possessive final clauses, where it answers how the object of the clause knows or becomes aware of the fact expressed by the possessive clause. For example, "Luulin että olet noidut, muttei olisi" translates to "I thought you were enchanted, but it seemed to her."

Finnish linguistic frameworks analyze hänne as belonging to a category of pronouns known as "indicating verbs". The hänne pronoun is present in all clauses as "it". Its function is not bound to the difference between "nominative" and "accusative" like the Finnish possessive pronouns are, and instead is used to avoid host verb or proximal indicative object.