hun

See also: Variations of "hun"

hun - Translingual

Symbol

hun

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hungarian.

hun - English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /hʌn/

Noun

hun (plural huns)

  1. (informal) Alternative spelling of hon (affectionate abbreviation of honey)

Noun

hun (plural huns)

  1. A grey partridge.

Noun

hun (plural huns)

  1. Alternative form of hoon (Indian gold coin)

Anagrams

hun - Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Noun

hun m

  1. (Formazza) dog

hun - Breton

Noun

hun ?

  1. sleep

hun - Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA: /ˈun/
  • Homophone: un

Noun

hun m (plural huns, feminine huna)

  1. Hun
  • húnnic

hun - Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [hun]

Pronoun

hun (objective case hende, possessive hendes)

  1. (personal) she

Noun

hun c (singular definite hunnen, plural indefinite hunner)

  1. female, she

Declension

common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hun hunnen hunner hunnerne
genitive huns hunnens hunners hunnernes

hun - Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɦʏn/
  • Hyphenation: hun

Pronoun

hun (personal)

  1. The dative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: them, to them.
  2. (proscribed) The accusative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: them.

Usage notes

The difference between hen (as direct object) and hun (as indirect object) does not stem from actual language usage, but was created artificially by the prescriptive grammarian Christiaen van Heule in the 17th century in an attempt to differentiate between the accusative (direct object) and dative case (indirect object), a distinction that was then commonly made in the definite article and certain pronouns, but not the personal pronouns.

In practice, hen and hun have been used interchangeably in Modern Dutch since the language has lost its grammatical case system. Many native speakers are not aware or have trouble remembering when to use one over the other, in part because of the rule's artificiality, in part because the distinction in form between the accusative and dative case has not been preserved anywhere else in the language. As a consequence, it is common to hear sentences where they are used in the exactly opposite way from van Heule's rule; for example:

  • Hij heeft hun verraden. (“He has betrayed them.”)
  • Ze zijn met hun uitgegaan. (“They have gone out with them.”)
  • Ik heb het hen gegeven. (“I have given it to them.”)

When the pronoun is unstressed, the problem can be circumvented by using the reduced form ze:

  • Hij heeft ze verraden.
  • Ze zijn met ze uitgegaan.
  • Ik heb het ze gegeven.

For more information, see the article in the Dutch Wikipedia.

Pronoun

hun (personal) (dependent possessive) (independent possessive hunne)

  1. The third-person plural possessive pronoun: their.
    • Ken je hun broer?
      • Do you know their brother?

Inflection

subject object possessive reflexive genitive5
singular full unstr. full unstr. full unstr. pred.
1st person ik 'k1 mij me mijn m'n1 mijne me mijner, mijns
2nd person jij je jou je jouw je jouwe je jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal gij ge u uw uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u u uw uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person masculine hij ie1 hem 'm1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine zij ze haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 hare zich harer, haars
3rd person neuter het 't1 het 't1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
plural
1st person wij we ons ons, onze2 onze ons onzer, onzes
2nd person jullie je jullie je jullie je je
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 gij ge u uw uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u u uw uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person zij ze hen3, hun4 ze hun hunne zich hunner, huns
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). 5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural.

Pronoun

hun (personal)

  1. (proscribed, regiolectal, Netherlands) The nominative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: they (only referring to people).

Usage notes

  • The use of hun as a subject is considered incorrect or substandard by most speakers, both in written and spoken language, and only occurs in the Netherlands.
  • For a 3rd person plural pronoun referring to people only, zijlui or zijlieden can be used instead.

hun - Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈhun]

Adjective

hun (not comparable)

  1. Hunnic, Hunnish (of or relating to the Huns)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

Noun

hun (plural hunok)

  1. Hun (a member of a nomadic tribe)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
Possessive forms of hun

Adverb

hun

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of hol (where).

Derived terms

hun - Iu Mien

Noun

hun 

  1. garden

hun - Label

Noun

hun

  1. banana

hun - Malay

Noun

hun (plural hun-hun, informal 1st possessive hunku, 2nd possessive hunmu, 3rd possessive hunnya)

  1. A unit of weight equal to one hundredth of a tahil.

hun - Mandarin

Romanization

hun (hun5hun0, Zhuyin ˙ㄏㄨㄣ)

  1. Nonstandard spelling of hūn.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of hún.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of hǔn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of hùn.

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.

hun - Middle English

Noun

hun

  1. Alternative form of hund (hundred)

hun - Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /hʉn/

Numeral

hun

  1. h-prothesized form of un

hun - Min Nan

For pronunciation and definitions of hun – see (“to divide; to separate; to distribute; to allocate; to assign; to allot; etc.”). (This character, hun, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of .)

hun - Mizo

Noun

hun

  1. time

hun - North Frisian

Noun

hun f (plural hunen)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) hand
    • a rocht(er)/lacht(er) hun
      • the right/left hand

hun - Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

Pronoun

hun (accusative henne, genitive hennes)

  1. she

Derived terms


Alternative forms

Noun

hun m (definite singular hunen, indefinite plural huner, definite plural hunene)

  1. back board

hun - Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hun m (definite singular hunen, indefinite plural hunar, definite plural hunane)

  1. a bear cub
    • Synonym: bjørnunge

Alternative forms

  • (since 2019) hon

Noun

hun m (definite singular hunen, indefinite plural hunar, definite plural hunane)

  1. back part of a log that might still be used as a plank

Noun

hun m (definite singular hunen, indefinite plural hunar, definite plural hunane)

  1. a Hun (a member of a nomadic tribe from Central Asia)
    • Synonym: hunar

hun - Old Galician-Portuguese

Article

hun

  1. Alternative form of ũu

hun - Old High German

Proper noun

hun

  1. manuscript spelling of Hūn, nominative singular of Hūni

hun - Romanian

Noun

hun m (plural huni)

  1. Hun

Declension

singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) hun hunul (niște) huni hunii
genitive/dative (unui) hun hunului (unor) huni hunilor
vocative hunule hunilor

hun - Tetum

Noun

hun

  1. bottom, base
  2. beginning
  3. origin

hun - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Verb

hun ()

  1. Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam form of to kiss

Usage notes

  • The Northern form with [o] is pretty much never used in daily speech by speakers of Central and Southern dialects, although they might choose to use it in formal writing.

Synonyms


Verb

hun (, , )

  1. to smoke (to preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke)

Derived terms

Derived terms

Anagrams

hun - Welsh

Pronunciation

  • (North Wales) IPA: /hɨːn/
  • (South Wales) IPA: /hiːn/

Noun

hun f (plural hunau, not mutable)

  1. sleep

Derived terms

  • anhun (wakefulness)
  • huno (verb)

Numeral

hun

  1. h-prothesized form of un

Pronoun

hun

  1. (with possessive article, North Wales) self
    • ei hunhimself, herself
    • ein hunourselves

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
un unchanged unchanged hun
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

hun - Yoruba

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /hũ̀/

Verb

hùn

  1. (Ikalẹ) to sleep
    • Kítà é hùn.The dog is sleeping.

Derived terms

  • àìhùn (sleeplessness)

hun - Yucatec Maya

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈhun]

Numeral

hun

  1. one

Derived terms

Meaning and Definition of hun
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