Translingual

Symbol

He

1. (chemistry) Symbol for helium.

English

Pronoun

He

1. Alternative letter-case form of he often used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.

   I love the Lord for He is Great and Holy.

See also

• Him, Himself, His

Anagrams

• eh , eH, EH

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: hē, IPA^(key): /ˈhiː/, (unstressed) IPA^(key): /hi/, /i/
• (US) enPR: hē, IPA^(key): /hi/
• Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

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

1. (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
   • July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises

     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.

2. (personal, dated, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
3. (personal) An animal whose gender is unknown.

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.^[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 in their work, use the singular they, or rephrase their sentences to use plural they.

Synonyms

• (person whose gender is unknown): he or she, he/she, s/he, they, or these other third-person pronouns
• (animal whose gender is unknown): it

Determiner

he

1. (African American Vernacular) Synonym of his

Derived terms

Quotations

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:he.

Translations

See also

References

1. ↑ “he” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
2. ↑ When Words Collide: A Media Writer's Guide to Grammar and Style (2007, ISBN 0495050253)
3. ↑ The Pocket Wadsworth Handbook, 2009 MLA Update Edition (ISBN 1439081816), 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.

Noun

he ‎(plural hes)

1. (uncountable) The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
2. (informal) A male person.

   Alex totally is a he.

Etymology 2

Transliteration of various Semitic letters, such as Phoenician 𐤄 ‎(h), Hebrew ה ‎(h) and Syriac ܗ ‎(h, “hē”).

Alternative forms

• hay
• hei
• hey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heɪː/

Noun

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.

Translations

External links

• He (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

See also

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Statistics

Anagrams

• eh eH, EH

Aukan

Noun

he

1. paca (large South and Central American rodent)

References

• Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL), citing Vernon (1985)

Breton

Pronoun

he

1. her

   he zad — her father

Catalan

Alternative forms

• haig

Verb

he

1. first-person singular present indicative form of haver

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

A natural expression.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [é]

Interjection

he

1. an expression of physical pain; ouch.
   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 22r. col. 1.

     He. o. interjection del / que ſequexa con do / lor.

     He. ouch, and interjection used by one complaining in pain.

References

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

Dutch

Interjection

he

1. Misspelling of hè.
2. Misspelling of hé.

Esperanto

Interjection

he

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

Derived terms

• he ho

See also

• hej

Faliscan

Alternative forms

• fē
• hēc

Etymology

Cognate with Latin hic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheː/

Adverb

hē

1. here

Fasu

Noun

hẹ or hȩ́ (Fasu)

1. water
2. river

   he Aiyo : the River Aiyo

3. lake

   he Kutupu : Lake Kutubu

4. liquid

Synonyms

• hi (Namumi)

References

• Karl J. Franklin, Comparative Wordlist 1 of the Gulf District and adjacent areas (1975), page 67
• Eunice Loeweke, Jean May, General grammar of Fasu (Namo Me) (1980)
• Eunice Loeweke, Jean May, Fasu Namo Me dictionary (1981, digitized 2006)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe/
• Hyphenation: he
• Rhymes: -e

Pronoun

he

1. (personal) they (only of people).

Declension

• Irregular. 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.

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, "she" / "he")

Synonyms

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

See also

• minä
• sinä
• hän
• me
• te

German Low German

Alternative forms

• (in other dialects, including Mecklenburgisch Western Pomeranian and Low Prussian) hei

Etymology

From Old Saxon hē ‎(“he”), from Proto-Germanic *hiz ‎(“his, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *k'e-, *k'ey- ‎(“this, here”). Cognate with English he ‎(“he”), Dutch hij ‎(“he”), Danish han ‎(“he”). Related to here.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛɪ̯/

Pronoun

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

1. (in some dialects, including, Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian and Low Prussian, personal) he (third-person singular masculine pronoun)

   (Low Prussian) He ös to lat.

   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.

Hawaiian

Article

he ‎(indefinite)

1. a, an

   he wahine au

   I am a woman

   he wahine kāna

   s/he has a wife

Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he/, /hɛ/

Noun

he ‎(plural be-i)

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

See also

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze ^{(Category: io:Latin letter names)}

Japanese

Romanization

he

1. rōmaji reading of へ (hiragana)
2. rōmaji reading of ヘ (katakana)

Mandarin

Romanization

he

1. Nonstandard spelling of hē.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hé.
3. Nonstandard spelling of hě.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hè.

Usage notes

• 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.

Maori

Article

he

1. a, an, some: indefinite article

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English hē, from Proto-Germanic *hiz ‎(“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *k'e-, *k'ey- ‎(“this, here”).

Pronoun

he

1. he (third-person singular masculine subject pronoun)
   • 14th century, Chaucer, General Prologue:

     Benynge he was, and wonder diligent

     Kind he was, and very diligent

Descendants

• Scots: he
• English: he

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

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

Etymology

From Old Saxon hē, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronoun

hê

1. (third person singular masculine nominative) he

Declension

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hiz ‎(“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *k'e-, *k'ey- ‎(“this, here”). Cognate with Old Frisian hī, hē ‎(“he”), Old Saxon hie, hē ‎(“he”), Old Norse hánn, hann ‎(“he”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐌼𐌼𐌰 ‎(himma, “to this”). Related to hēr.

Pronoun

hē m ‎(accusative hine, genitive his, dative him)

1. he

Descendants

• Middle English: he
  • Scots: he
  • English: he

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• hie

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hiz, from Proto-Indo-European *k'e-, *k'ey- ‎(“this, here”).

Pronoun

hē m

1. he

Declension

Descendants

• German Low German: he

Portuguese

Verb

he

1. Obsolete spelling of é

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English he, from Old English hē ‎(“he”), from Proto-Germanic *hiz ‎(“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- ‎(“this, here”). Cognate with English he ‎(“he”), North Frisian hi ‎(“he”), Saterland Frisian hie ‎(“he”), West Frisian hy ‎(“he”), Dutch hij ‎(“he”), German Low German he ‎(“he”), Danish han ‎(“he”), Norwegian han ‎(“he”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi/, /hɪ/
• Rhymes: -iː

Pronoun

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

1. he

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e̞/
• Homophones: hé, e

Etymology 1

From Latin habeō.

Verb

he

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of haber.

See also

• (with acute accent) hé

Etymology 2

From Arabic هَا ‎(hā); related to Portuguese eis.

Adverb

he

1. (poetic, dated) here is

Usage notes

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

See also

• hay
• he aquí

Etymology 3

Noun

he f ‎(plural hes)

1. he; the Hebrew letter ה

Swedish

Etymology

Related to häva.

Verb

he

1. (regional, colloquial) to put

Turkish

Etymology 1

Noun

he ‎(definite accusative heyi, plural heler)

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

See also

• (Latin script letter names) harf; a, be, ce, çe, de, e, fe, ge, yumuşak ge, he, ı, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, ö, pe, re, se, şe, te, u, ü, ve, ye, ze ^{(Category: tr:Latin letter names)}

Etymology 2

Particle

he

1. Alternative form of ha

Interjection

he

1. Alternative form of ha