He
- (chemistry) symbol for helium
English
Etymology
From Old English hē < Proto-Germanic *hiz < Proto-Germanic base *khi- < Proto-Indo-European *ki- (this, here).
Pronunciation
Personal pronoun
he
The third person singular, masculine, nominative case. (Accusative: him, reflexive: himself, possessive adjective and noun: his. See Wiktionary:Inflection Templates for other personal pronouns.)
- Referring to a male other; himself.
- That (when referring to a man). Bob-he of Poughkeepsie.
- Referring to another whose gender is unknown (with animals this includes dogs, rodents; see she)
- Note: This usage is considered sexist by some. Compare he/she , s/he and they.
Translations
- Arabic: هُوَ (húwa)
- Bulgarian: той (toj)
- Mandarin Chinese: 他 (tā)
- Minnan Chinese: 伊 (i)
- Hakka Chinese: 佢 (kì)
- Cantonese Chinese: 佢 (Yale: keui5)
- Cree: wiya (both male and female)
- Dutch: hij
- Dyirbal: (no third-person pronoun)
- Esperanto: li
- Fijian: koya (both male and female)
- Finnish: hän (both male and female)
- French: il (1,2)
- Frisian: hy
- German: er
- Greek: αυτός (avtós)
- Guaraní: ahẽ (both male and female)
- Hausa: shíi (independent form)
- Hawaiian: ia (both male and female)
- Hungarian: ő (both male and female)
- Ido: il, ilu
- Icelandic: hann
- Indonesian: dia / ia (both male and female)
- Interlingua: ille
- Irish: sé conjunctive, é disjunctive
- Italian: lui, egli
- Note: Usually omitted, except for emphasis or to avoid confusion.
- Japanese: 彼 (かれ , káre)
- Kurdish: ew (both male and female)
- Latin: is
- Norwegian: han
- Ojibwe: wiin (both male and female)
- Persian: او (u) (both male and female)
- Polish: on
- Portuguese: ele
- Quechua: pay (both male and female)
- Romanian: el
- Russian: он (on)
- Scottish Gaelic: e non-emphatic, esan emphatic
- Slovak: on
- Spanish: él
- Swahili: yeye (both male and female)
- Swedish: han
- Tagalog: niya (ng form), kaniya (sa form), siya (unmarked form) (all both male and female)
- Tok Pisin: em
- Tupinambá: a'e (both male and female)
- Turkish: o (both male and female)
- Vietnamese: ông ấy , nó , anh , anh ấy
- !Xũ: ha (both male and female)
- Yorùbá: ó , á (both male and female)
Pronunciation
- IPA : /heɪ:/
- SAMPA : /he:/
Noun
he
- The fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ה.
Dutch
Interjection
he!
- said when surprised or when objecting to something
Translations
- English: huh!, hey!
- Portuguese: epa !, opa !
- Romanian: hei !, hopa !
Finnish
Personal pronoun
he (stem hei-)
- they (only of people)
Variant forms
- (dialectal) het
- (dialectal) hyö
- (colloquial) ne
Declension
The stem is invariant and the suffixes regular, except in the genitive, where the form is heidän. The comitative and instructive cases don't exist, and the abessive is hardly used.
Usage
Usually can't be omitted, despite the verb showing also the person and number.
he (へ)
Noun
- 屁: fart
