Translingual

Symbol

He

1. (chemistry) symbol for helium

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• hē, /hiː/, /hi:/

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.)

1. Referring to a male other; himself.
2. That (when referring to a man). Bob-he of Poughkeepsie.
3. 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

1. The fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ה.

Dutch

Interjection

he!

1. said when surprised or when objecting to something

Translations

• English: huh!, hey!
• Portuguese: epa !, opa !
• Romanian: hei !, hopa !

Finnish

Personal pronoun

he (stem hei-)

1. 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.

Japanese Romaji

he (へ)

Noun

1. 屁: fart