he

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Symbol 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Pronunciation 1.2.2 Noun 2 English 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Pronoun 2.3.1 Usage notes 2.3.2 Synonyms 2.3.3 Quotations 2.3.4 Translations 3 Breton 3.1 Pronoun 3.1.1 Usage notes 4 Dutch 4.1 Interjection 5 Finnish 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Pronoun 5.2.1 Declension 5.2.2 Usage notes 5.2.3 Synonyms 5.3 See also 6 Japanese 6.1 Noun 7 Mandarin 7.1 Verb 7.2 Conjunction 7.3 Pinyin syllable 7.3.1 Usage notes 8 Old English 8.1 Etymology 8.2 Pronunciation 8.3 Pronoun 8.3.1 Descendants 9 Spanish 9.1 Verb 9.1.1 See also

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Etymology 1

From Hebrew

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he

1. (linguistics, computing) ISO 639-1 code for Hebrew.

[edit] Etymology 2

Transliteration of various Semitic letters, including 𐤄 (h), ה (h), and Syriac ܗ (h), “‘hē’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /heɪ:/, SAMPA: /he:/

[edit] Noun

he

1. The name of 𐤄 (h), “‘hē’”), the fifth letter of the Phoenician alphabet ().
2. The fifth letter of the Aramaic alphabet ().
3. The name of ה (h), “‘he’”), the fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet ().
   • 1658: 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 — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 210)
4. The name of ܗ (h), “‘hē’”), the fifth letter of the Syriac alphabet ().

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Old English hē < Proto-Germanic *hiz < Proto-Germanic *khi- < Proto-Indo-European *ki- (“‘this, here’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: hē, IPA: /hiː/, SAMPA: /hi:/
• (US) enPR: hē, IPA: /hi/, SAMPA: /hi/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -iː

[edit] Pronoun

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

1. (personal) A male other; the previously mentioned male; himself.
2. (personal) That (when referring to a man).

   Bob, he of Poughkeepsie.

3. (personal) Another (person or animal) whose gender is unknown (with animals this includes dogs, rodents; see she).

[edit] Usage notes

• See Wiktionary:English inflection for other personal pronouns.
• The third usage is considered sexist by some.

[edit] Synonyms

• (personal, another person or animal whose gender is unknown): he/she, s/he, his ass, her ass, (informal) they

[edit] Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this word see the citations page.

[edit] Translations

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[edit] Breton

[edit] Pronoun

he

1. her

[edit] Usage notes

• he zad - her father

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Interjection

he

1. Said when surprised or when objecting to something.

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[edit] Finnish

(index he)

[edit] Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: he
• Rhymes: -e
• IPA: [he]

[edit] Pronoun

he

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

[edit] 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.

[edit] Usage notes

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

Inflection of he noun case singular plural nominative hän he genitive hänen heidän partitive häntä heitä accusative hänet heidät inessive hänessä heissä elative hänestä heistä illative häneen heihin adessive hänellä heillä ablative häneltä heiltä allative hänelle heille essive hänenä heinä translative häneksi heiksi instructive – – abessive hänettä heittä comitative – –

[edit] Synonyms

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

[edit] See also

• minä
• sinä
• hän
• me
• te

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

he (hiragana へ)

1. 屁: fart

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Verb

he (Pinyin hē)

1. 喝: drink

   he tai duo kafei dui shenti bu hao. "To drink coffee too much is bad for health."

[edit] Conjunction

he (Pinyin hé)

1. 和: and

   Jiǎntǐzì shì Zhōngguó hé Liánhéguó de biāozhǔn Hànzì. (简体字是中国和联合国的标准汉字.) — Jiantizi is the standard Hanzi of China and the UN.

[edit] Pinyin syllable

he

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, hē, hé, hě, or hè.

[edit] Usage notes

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

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hiz. Cognate with Old Frisian hi, he, Old Saxon hi, he.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /he:/

[edit] Pronoun

hē (accusative hine, genitive his, dative him)

1. he

[edit] Descendants

• English: he

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[edit] Spanish

[edit] Verb

he

1. First-person singular indicative present of haber.

[edit] See also

• (with acute accent) hé