TranslingualEdit

SymbolEdit

he

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

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English he, from Old English , from Proto-Germanic *hiz (this, this one).

PronunciationEdit

  • (UK) enPR: , IPA(key): /ˈhiː/, (unstressed) IPA(key): /hi/, /i/
  • (US) enPR: , IPA(key): /hi/, [hi], [çi]
  • (file)
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iː

PronounEdit

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

  1. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
    • 1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, John Florio, transl., The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen[1], Isaac Iaggard, →ISBN, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:
      [] purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:
      "It was he we saw the tracks of down by Rausand hill."
    • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises[2]
      Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:he.
  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.
    Antonyms: she, it
    • 1770, A Mathematical Miscellany in Four Parts, 3rd edition, p. 125:
      JUPITER is the largest of all the Planets, his Orbit lies between the Orbits of the Earth and Mars, and at the cast Distance of 426 Millions of Miles from the Sun, he goes round him in 11 Years, 314 Days and 12 Hours; []
    • 2019, Sabaton, Bismarck:
      He [= the ship Bismarck] was made to rule the waves across the seven seas []
Usage notesEdit
  • 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.[1][2] It is deprecated by some style guides, such as Wadsworth.[3] 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.
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit
  1. ^ he”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  2. ^ When Words Collide: A Media Writer's Guide to Grammar and Style (2007, →ISBN
  3. ^ The Pocket Wadsworth Handbook, 2009 MLA Update Edition →ISBN, page 81: [A]void using the generic he or him when your subject could be either male or female. [...] Sexist: Before boarding, each passenger should make certain that he has his ticket. / Revised: Before boarding, passengers should make certain that they have their tickets.

DeterminerEdit

he

  1. (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of his

NounEdit

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?

Etymology 2Edit

Transliteration of various Semitic letters, such as Phoenician 𐤄(h), Hebrew ה(h), Classical Syriac ܗ(h, ), and Old South Arabian 𐩠(h).

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

he

  1. The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
    • 1658, Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, page 210:
      The same number in the Hebrew mysteries and Cabalistical accounts was the character of Generation; declared by the Letter He, the fifth in their Alphabet.
    • 1988, Christina Pribićević-Zorić, translating Milorad Pavić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage 1989, p. 7:
      This Nehama claimed that in his own hand he recognized the consonant “he” of his Hebrew language, and in the letter “vav” his own male soul.
  2. The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.
TranslationsEdit

See alsoEdit

Further readingEdit

Etymology 3Edit

InterjectionEdit

he

  1. (uncommon, usually reduplicated) An expression of laughter.
    Synonyms: ha, hehe (more common)
    • 1897, Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Charles Henry Warner, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z, page 1791:
      If e'er he went into excess, / 'Twas from a somewhat lively thirst; / But he who would his subjects bless, / Odd's fish!—must wet his whistle first; / And so from every cask they got, / Our king did to himself allot / At least a pot. / Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he! / That's the kind of king for me.
    • 1921, Norman Davey, The Pilgrim of a Smile, page 247:
      "Well, what is your next tale?" said Sumner, a little brusquely. "He, he! he, he! . . . he, he!" chuckled the bottle, "the text tale I'm going to tell you in a very funny one. It will make you laugh. There's a lady in it—he, he!—a very comic affair."

AnagramsEdit

AukanEdit

NounEdit

he

  1. paca (large South and Central American rodent)

ReferencesEdit

BretonEdit

EtymologyEdit

Compare Welsh ei.

DeterminerEdit

he

  1. her
    he zadher father

CatalanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

he

  1. first-person singular present indicative form of haver

Classical NahuatlEdit

EtymologyEdit

A natural expression.

PronunciationEdit

InterjectionEdit

he

  1. an expression of physical pain; ouch.

ReferencesEdit

  • Alonso de Molina (1571) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa, page 22r

DanishEdit

InterjectionEdit

he

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

See alsoEdit

DutchEdit

InterjectionEdit

he

  1. Misspelling of .
  2. Misspelling of .

EsperantoEdit

PronunciationEdit

InterjectionEdit

he

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

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

FasuEdit

NounEdit

hẹ or hȩ́ (Fasu)

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

SynonymsEdit

  • hi (Namumi)

ReferencesEdit

FinnishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Finnic *hek, from Proto-Finno-Permic *sej. Cognates include Northern Sami sii, Erzya сынь (synʹ). The word is inflected as plural, but there is no plural marker in the nominative, except in dialects (het).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈhe/, [ˈhe̞]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification(key): he

PronounEdit

he

  1. (personal) they (plural, only of people)
  2. (respectful) he, she, one, (singular) they (of a single human being) (Compare the usage of hän.)
Usage notesEdit
  • In standard Finnish, he is practically never omitted, despite the verb showing both the person and the number. (Compare the usage of hän, "she" / "he" / "they" (singular) / "one".)
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
  • (dialectal): het
  • (dialectal): hyö
  • (colloquial): ne
DescendantsEdit
  • Kven: het

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Phoenician 𐤄(h) and/or Hebrew ה‎.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈhe(ː)/, [ˈhe̞(ː)]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification(key): he

NounEdit

he

  1. he (fifth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of he (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation)
nominative he het
genitive hen heiden
heitten
partitive hetä heitä
illative hehen heihin
singular plural
nominative he het
accusative nom. he het
gen. hen
genitive hen heiden
heitten
partitive hetä heitä
inessive hessä heissä
elative hestä heistä
illative hehen heihin
adessive hellä heillä
ablative heltä heiltä
allative helle heille
essive henä heinä
translative heksi heiksi
instructive hein
abessive hettä heittä
comitative heineen
Possessive forms of he (type rosé)
possessor singular plural
1st person heni hemme
2nd person hesi henne
3rd person hensä

German Low GermanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Saxon , from Proto-Germanic *hiz (this, this one).

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

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 notesEdit

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

Further readingEdit

  • G. Ungt, Twee Geschichten in Mönstersk Platt. Ollmanns Jans in de Friümde un Ollmanns Jans up de Reise, 1861. The text has dative em and accusative em and en, and on page 22 the author notes: "Hier und in vielen Fällen steht der Dativ em statt des Accusativ en (ihm statt ihn) nach der Bequemlichkeit, die sich diese Mundart erlaubt." (Here and in many other places stands the dative em instead of the accusative en ...)

HadzaEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

he

  1. to say, to tell
    Synonyms: î, hiyagga

HawaiianEdit

EtymologyEdit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ArticleEdit

he (indefinite)

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

IdoEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

he (plural be-i)

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

See alsoEdit

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

he

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

KholosiEdit

EtymologyEdit

Cognate with Sindhi ھِي(, this).

PronounEdit

he

  1. it (proximal)

ReferencesEdit

  • Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014), “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx[3], pages 13-36

KikuyuEdit

EtymologyEdit

Hinde (1904) records kuha as an equivalent of English give in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also Swahili kupa, etc. as its equivalents.[1]

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

he (infinitive kũhe)

  1. to give

Derived termsEdit

(Proverbs)

Related termsEdit

(Nouns)

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 26–27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

LakotaEdit

ParticleEdit

he

  1. question-marking particle used by females in formal speech
    Mázaškaŋškaŋ tóna he?what time is it?

Usage notesEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

MandarinEdit

RomanizationEdit

he

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

Usage notesEdit

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

MaoriEdit

EtymologyEdit

Cognate with Hawaiian he

ArticleEdit

he

  1. a, an, some: indefinite article

See alsoEdit

  • te (for "the" in singular)
  • ngā (for "the" in plural)

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old English , from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (this, this one).

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

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 notesEdit

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 formsEdit
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Old English hīe, . Compare þei.

PronounEdit

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 formsEdit
DescendantsEdit
See alsoEdit
ReferencesEdit

Etymology 3Edit

PronounEdit

he

  1. Alternative form of heo (she)

Etymology 4Edit

InterjectionEdit

he

  1. Alternative form of hey (hey)

Etymology 5Edit

NounEdit

he

  1. Alternative form of heye (hedge)

Etymology 6Edit

AdjectiveEdit

he (comparative her, superlative hest)

  1. Alternative form of heigh (high)

Etymology 7Edit

VerbEdit

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)

Middle Low GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Saxon .

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

  1. (third person singular masculine nominative) he

DeclensionEdit

North FrisianEdit

PronounEdit

he

  1. Alternative form of hi

Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

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?")

Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *hiz (this, this one).

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

 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)

DeclensionEdit


DescendantsEdit

Old SaxonEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.

PronounEdit

 m

  1. he

DeclensionEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • German Low German: he

PortugueseEdit

VerbEdit

he

  1. Obsolete spelling of é

RomanianEdit

InterjectionEdit

he

  1. Alternative form of hei

ScotsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English he, from Old English .

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

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

  1. he

SpanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Arabic هَا(, behold!, lo!, look!).[1] Cognate to Galician eis and Portuguese eis.

AdverbEdit

he

  1. (literary) here is
  2. (literary) behold (+ aquí)
Usage notesEdit
  • Takes pronoun suffixes, e.g. heme (here I am), and is mostly used together with aquí, ahí, allí.
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

he f (plural hes)

  1. he; the Hebrew letter ה

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

he

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

ReferencesEdit

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Related to häva.

VerbEdit

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

  1. (regional, colloquial) to put
    Synonym: (Hälsingland region) häva
    Häv/He på stereonPut on the stereo (Hälsingland/further north)

Usage notesEdit

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

ConjugationEdit

TokelauanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *se. Cognates include Hawaiian he and Maori he.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈhe/
  • Hyphenation: he

ArticleEdit

he

  1. Singular indefinite article; any, an

Derived termsEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary[4], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 304

TurkishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

NounEdit

he (definite accusative heyi, plural heler)

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

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

he

  1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ه

Etymology 3Edit

ParticleEdit

he

  1. Alternative form of ha

InterjectionEdit

he

  1. Alternative form of ha

WestrobothnianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse þat n, from Proto-Germanic *þat (neuter of *sa (that)), from Proto-Indo-European *tód (neuter of *só (that)). Akin to English that.

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [he], [hɛ] (example of pronunciation)

PronounEdit

he n (dative dy or di, genitive diss)

  1. (demonstrative) that
  2. (personal) it

ConjunctionEdit

he

  1. that
  2. as, when, simultaneously as
Usage notesEdit

The prepositions å/a, fyri, i, ti, åt/at, /ve, fȯr, onna and unnär govern the accusative for direction, and dative for location or relation, while diss is used like the when comparing things.

Etymology 2Edit

Contraction of hȯrä or hvo.

AdverbEdit

he

  1. how
  2. what

Etymology 3Edit

From Old Norse hefja, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną.

Alternative formsEdit

VerbEdit

he (present he or hev or häv, preterite hov, supine hyvi or hevi or hävi)

  1. put

YolaEdit

PronounEdit

he

  1. Alternative form of hea
    • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
      Co thou; Co he.
      Quoth thou; Says he.

ReferencesEdit

  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 31

YorubaEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

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.
    • 1995?, “‘Níwọ̀n Bí A Ti Ní Iṣẹ́-òjíṣẹ́ Yìí, Àwa Kò Juwọ́sílẹ̀’”, in ÀKÁ ÌWÉ ORÍ ÍŃTÁNẸ́Ẹ̀TÌ ti Watchtower[5]:
      Ìṣòro mìíràn tí mo dojúkọ, yàtọ̀ sí ti èdè, ni àníyàn léraléra pé kí àwọn ọlọ́pàá má he mí.
      Another problem I faced, apart from the language, was the constant concern over being picked up by the police.
Usage notesEdit
  • often used in a serial verb construction with .

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

  1. (Ikalẹ) (transitive) Ikalẹ form of (to cook)
Usage notesEdit
  • he when followed by a direct object.
Derived termsEdit