he

• hee (obsolete)

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

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

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• Rhymes: -iː

he (third-person singular, masculine, nominative case, oblique 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, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) 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) An animal whose gender is unknown.

• 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.

• (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

he

1. (African American Vernacular) Synonym of his

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:he.

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.

   Alex totally is a he.

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

• hay
• hei
• hey

• IPA^(key): /heɪː/

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.

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

• He (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -eh, E.H., EH, eH, eh

he

1. paca (large South and Central American rodent)

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

Compare Welsh ei.

he

1. her

   he zad ― her father

• haig

he

1. first-person singular present indicative form of haver

A natural expression.

• IPA^(key): [é]

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.

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

he

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

• ha

he

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

he

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

• he ho

• hej

hẹ or hȩ́ (Fasu)

1. water
2. river

   he Aiyo : the River Aiyo

3. lake

   he Kutupu : Lake Kutubu

4. liquid

• hi (Namumi)

• 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)

From Proto-Finnic *hek, from Proto-Finno-Permic *sej. Cognates include Northern Sami sii.

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

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he

1. (personal) they (always plural, only of people)

• 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")

• 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.

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

• minä
• sinä
• hän
• me
• te

he

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /hɛɪ̯/

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

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

   (Low Prussian) He ös to lat.

   He is too late.

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

• 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 ...)

he (indefinite)

1. a, an

   he wahine au

   I am a woman

   he wahine kāna

   s/he has a wife

• IPA^(key): /he/, /hɛ/

he (plural be-i)

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

• (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)}

he

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

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

• IPA^(key): /hɛ/

he (infinitive kũhe)

1. to give

(Proverbs)

• mwana ndaheanagwo

(Nouns)

• kĩhe(e)o class 7
• maheeo class 6

• Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

he

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

   Mázaškaŋškaŋ tóna he? ― what time is it?

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.

• huwó (used by men)

he

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

• 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.

he

1. a, an, some: indefinite article

• hee, e, a, ho, heo, hie, hye, hæ, hi, hey, ha, ȝe

From Old English hē, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”).

• IPA^(key): /heː/

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

1. Third-person singular masculine pronoun: he
   • 14th century, Chaucer, General Prologue:

     Benynge he was, and wonder diligent

     Kind he was, and very diligent

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

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.

• Scots: he
• English: he

• “he, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

• heo, heȝ, hey, hei, ha, hay, hy, hi, hye, hie, hig, hiȝ, hij, hio, ho, hoe, hue, huy, hui, e, i, a

From Old English hīe, hī.

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

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

• þei

• “he, pron. (3)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

he

1. Alternative form of heo

• “he, pron. (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

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

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

hê

1. (third person singular masculine nominative) he

he

1. Alternative form of hi

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

• IPA^(key): /heː/

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

1. he
2. it (when the thing being referred to is masculine)

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

• hie

From Proto-Germanic *hiz.

hē m

1. he

• German Low German: he

he

1. Obsolete spelling of é

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

• IPA^(key): /hi/, /hɪ/
• Rhymes: -iː

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

1. he

• IPA^(key): /e/, [e̞]
• Homophones: hé, e
• Rhymes: -e

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

he

1. (poetic, dated) here is

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

• hay
• he aquí

he f (plural hes)

1. he; the Hebrew letter ה

See the etymology of the main entry.

he

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

Related to häva.

he

1. (regional, colloquial) to put

he (definite accusative heyi, plural heler)

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

• (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

he

1. Alternative form of ha

he

1. Alternative form of ha

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.

• hä
• ä

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

he n (dative dy or di, genitive diss)

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

he

1. that
2. as, when, simultaneously as

The prepositions å/a, fyri, i, ti, åt/at, wä/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.

Contraction of hȯrä or hvo.

he

1. how
2. what

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

• heva
• häva

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

1. put