he

See also: Variations of "he"

he - Translingual

Symbol

he

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hebrew.

he - English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (UK) enPR: , IPA: /ˈhiː/, (unstressed) IPA: /hi/, /i/
  • (US) enPR: , IPA: /hi/, [hi], [çi]

Pronoun

he (third-person singular, masculine, nominative case, oblique him, reflexive himself, possessive his)

  1. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
  2. (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) they; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.)
    • The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
  3. (personal, sometimes proscribed) it; an animal whose gender is unknown.
  4. A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.

Usage notes

  • He was traditionally used as both a masculine and a gender-neutral pronoun, but since the mid-20th century generic usage has sometimes been considered sexist and limiting. It is deprecated by some style guides, such as Wadsworth. In place of generic he, writers and speakers may use he or she, alternate he and she as the indefinite person, use the singular they, or rephrase sentences to use plural they.

Synonyms

  • (person whose gender is unknown): one, you (indefinite, colloquial); he or she, he/she, they, s/he, or these other third-person pronouns (see "Combined forms", "Invented pronouns")
  • (animal whose gender is unknown): it

Derived terms

Translations

Determiner

he

  1. (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of his

Noun

he (countable and uncountable, plural hes)

  1. (uncountable) The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
  2. The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.
  3. (informal) A male.
    • Is your cat a he or a she?

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /heɪ/

Noun

he

  1. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
  2. The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.

Translations

  • Catalan: he (ca) f
  • Finnish: he (fi)
  • Hebrew: הֵא (he) f (), ה (he) (symbol)
  • Malay: ha (ms)
  • Yiddish: הא (hey)

Interjection

he

  1. (uncommon, usually reduplicated) An expression of laughter.
    • Synonyms: ha, hehe (more common)

Anagrams

he - Aukan

Noun

he

  1. paca (large South and Central American rodent)

he - Breton

Determiner

he

  1. her

he - Catalan

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈe/

Verb

he

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of haver

he - Classical Nahuatl

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [é]

Interjection

he

  1. an expression of physical pain; ouch.

he - Danish

Interjection

he

  1. (onomatopoeia) Signifies a laugh, especially one that is slightly mischievous.

he - Dutch

Interjection

he

  1. Misspelling of .
  2. Misspelling of .

he - Esperanto

Interjection

he

  1. interjection used to attract someone's attention, hey
  2. interjection expressing irony

Derived terms

  • he ho

he - Fasu

Noun

hẹ or hȩ́ (Fasu)

  1. water
  2. river
    • he Aiyothe River Aiyo
  3. lake
    • he KutupuLake Kutubu
  4. liquid

Synonyms

  • hi (Namumi)

he - Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈhe/, [ˈhe̞]
  • Syllabification: he

Pronoun

he

  1. (personal) they (plural, only of people)
  2. (respectful) he, she, one, (singular) they (of a single human being, like hän)

Usage notes

  • In standard Finnish, he is practically never omitted, despite the verb showing both the person and the number (compare the usage of hän).

Declension

  • Irregular (inflectional stem hei-, as if in the plural). The comitative and instructive forms don't exist; the abessive is hardly used.
  • In addition to the standard set of cases, he and other personal pronouns have a specific accusative form, heidät.

Synonyms

  • (dialectal): het
  • (dialectal): hyö
  • (colloquial): ne

Descendants


Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈhe(ː)/, [ˈhe̞(ː)]
  • Syllabification: he

Noun

he

  1. he (fifth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Declension

Inflection of he (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative he het
genitive hen heiden heitten
partitive hetä heitä
illative hehen heihin
Possessive forms of he (type rosé)

he - German Low German

Alternative forms

  • hee
  • (in other dialects, including Mecklenburgisch, West Pomeranian and Low Prussian) hei
  • (in other dialects, including Sauerländisch) hai
  • (in other dialects, including regional Westphalian and East Frisian as rare alternative form)

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /hɛɪ̯/

Pronoun

he m (genitive sin, dative 1 em, dative 2 en, dative 3 jüm, accusative 1 em, accusative 2 en)

  1. (in some dialects, including, Münsterland, Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian and Low Prussian, personal) he (third-person singular masculine pronoun)
    • He ös to lat. (Low Prussian)
      • He is too late.

Usage notes

  • Which dative is employed depends on dialect, not on function.
  • Some dialects might consider any of the inflected forms obsolete.

he - Hadza

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɦe/

Verb

he

  1. to say, to tell

he - Hawaiian

Article

he (indefinite)

  1. a, an
    • he wahine au
      • I am a woman
    • he wahine kāna
      • s/he has a wife

he - Ido

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /he/, /hɛ/

Noun

he (plural be-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.

he - Japanese

Romanization

he

  1. Rōmaji transcription of (hiragana)
  2. Rōmaji transcription of (katakana)

he - Kholosi

Pronoun

he

  1. it (proximal)

he - Kikuyu

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /hɛ/

Verb

he (infinitive kũhe)

  1. to give

Derived terms

(Proverbs)

  • mwana ndaheanagwo

(Nouns)

  • kĩhe(e)o class 7
  • maheeo class 6

he - Lakota

Particle

he

  1. question-marking particle used by females in formal speech

Usage notes

Informally, both men and women use this question-marking particle. When speaking formally, however, only women use it. In a formal setting, men use huwó, hwo, or huŋwó.

Synonyms

he - Mandarin

Romanization

he (he5he0, Zhuyin ˙ㄏㄜ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of

he

  1. Nonstandard spelling of .
  2. Nonstandard spelling of .
  3. Nonstandard spelling of .
  4. Nonstandard spelling of .

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

he - Maori

Article

he

  1. a, an, some: indefinite article

he - Middle English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /heː/

Pronoun

he (accusative him or hine, genitive his or hisen, possessive determiner his)

  1. Third-person singular masculine pronoun: he
  2. it; used also of inanimate objects
  3. (impersonal) Third-person singular impersonal pronoun: one; you

Usage notes

In addition to referring to male humans and animals, this pronoun was used for inanimate objects belonging to the masculine grammatical gender early in Middle English. As grammatical gender obsolesced, this pronoun continued to refer to inanimate objects.

Alternative forms

Descendants


Pronoun

he (accusative hem or he, genitive heres or heren, possessive determiner here)

  1. Third-person plural nominative pronoun: they
  2. Third-person plural accusative pronoun: them

Alternative forms

Descendants


Pronoun

he

  1. Alternative form of heo (she)

Interjection

he

  1. Alternative form of hey (hey)

Noun

he

  1. Alternative form of heye (hedge)

Adjective

he (comparative her, superlative hest)

  1. Alternative form of heigh (high)

Verb

he (third-person singular simple present heth, present participle hende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hed)

  1. Alternative form of hyen (to go quickly)

he - Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • Stem vowel: ê⁴
    • (originally) IPA: /heː/

Pronoun

  1. (third person singular masculine nominative) he

Declension

nominative accusative dative genitive
1st person singular ik (ek) (, mik, mek)mîn (mîner)
2nd person singular (, dik, dek)dîn (dîner)
3rd person singular
m (, hie)ēne, en (ȫne, ȫn)ēme, em (ȫme, en)sîn (sîner)
n it (et)
f (, sie, sü̂)ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer)
1st person plural (, wie)uns (ûs, ös, ü̂sik)unser (ûser)
2nd person plural (, î) (jûwe, û, jük, gik)jûwer (ûwer)
3rd person plural (, sie)em, öm, jüm (en, ēnen, ȫnen)ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer)

For an explanation of the forms in brackets see here.

he - North Frisian

Pronoun

he

  1. Alternative form of hi

he - Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

he

  1. (dialectal, Trøndelag) alternative form of hev (have, has)
    • E he ei bok om føgla. He hann løst å kjøp ho?
      • I have a book about birds. Does he want to buy it? (literally "does he have desire to by her?")

he - Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /xeː/, [heː]

Pronoun

 m (accusative hine, genitive his, dative him)

  1. he
  2. it (when the thing being referred to is masculine)
  3. they (singular) (denotes someone of unknown gender)

Declension

nominative accusative dative genitive
singular first person mec, mīn
second person þū þec, þēþē þīn
third person neuter hit him his
masculine hine
feminine hēo hīe hiere
dual first person wit uncitunc uncer
second person ġit incitinc incer
plural first person ūsicūs ūser, ūre
second person ġē ēowicēow ēower
third person hīe him heora

Descendants

he - Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Pronoun

 m

  1. he

Declension

Personal pronouns
Singular 1. 2. 3. m 3. f 3. n
Nominative ik thū siu it
Accusative , me, mik thī, thik ina sia
Dative thī imu iru it
Genitive mīn thīn is ira is
Dual 1. 2. - - -
Nominative wit git - - -
Accusative unk ink - - -
Dative
Genitive unkero, unka

inker, inka

- - -
Plural 1. 2. 3. m 3. f 3. n
Nominative , we , ge sia sia siu
Accusative ūs, unsik eu, iu, iuu
Dative ūs im
Genitive ūser euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera iro

Descendants

  • German Low German: he

he - Portuguese

Verb

he

  1. Obsolete spelling of é

he - Romanian

Interjection

he

  1. Alternative form of hei

he - Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /hi/, /hɪ/

Pronoun

he (third-person singular, masculine, nominative case; accusative him, reflexive himsel, possessive his)

  1. he

he - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈe/ [ˈe]
  • Syllabification: he
  • Homophones: , e

Adverb

he

  1. (literary) here is
  2. (literary) behold (+ aquí)

Usage notes

  • Takes pronoun suffixes, e.g. heme (here I am), and is mostly used together with aquí, ahí, allí.

Derived terms


Noun

he f (plural hes)

  1. he; the Hebrew letter ה

Verb

he

  1. inflection of haber:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative
    3. second-person singular voseo imperative

he - Swedish

Verb

he (present her, preterite hedde, supine hett, imperative he)

  1. (regional, colloquial) to put
    • He den på bordet
      • Put it on the table
    • Häv/He på stereon
      • Put on the stereo (Hälsingland/further north)
    • Synonym: (Hälsingland region) häva

Usage notes

Not widely known to native Swedish speakers. Primarily used in certain regions of Norrland in Sweden.

Conjugation

Active Passive
Infinitive he hes
Supine hett hetts
Imperative he
Imper. plural1 hen
Present Past Present Past
Indicative her hedde hes heddes
Ind. plural1 he hedde hes heddes
Subjunctive2 he hedde hes heddes
Participles
Present participle heende
Past participle hedd
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

he - Tokelauan

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈhe/
  • Hyphenation: he

Article

he

  1. Singular indefinite article; any, an

Derived terms

he - Turkish

Noun

he (definite accusative heyi, plural heler)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter H.

Noun

he

  1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ه

Particle

he

  1. Alternative form of ha

Interjection

he

  1. Alternative form of ha

he - Yola

Pronoun

he

  1. Alternative form of hea

he - Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /hē/

Verb

he

  1. to come across, to come by
    • Mo rí ẹ̀bùn he, mo sì bẹ̀rẹ̀ sí í ṣí i.I came across a gift and started to open it.

Usage notes

  • often used in a serial verb construction with .

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /hè/

Verb

  1. (Ikalẹ) (transitive) Ikalẹ form of (to cook)

Usage notes

  • he when followed by a direct object.

Derived terms

  • àhè (banquet)
  • àìhè (uncooked)
  • èhè (cooked)
  • híhè (cooked, cooking)
  • ùhè (manner of cooking)
Meaning and Definition of he
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