# he
## Translingual
### Symbol

he
* (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Hebrew.

## English
### Alternative forms

* hee, hée (obsolete)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱís (“this”).
Cognate with Scots he (“he”), North Frisian he, hi (“he”), Saterland Frisian hie (“he”), West Frisian hy (“he”), Dutch hij, ie (“he”), German Low German he (“he”), Middle High German her (“he”) Central Franconian hä (“he”), Gothic *𐌷𐌹𐍃 (*his, “this”).

#### Pronunciation

* enPR: hē, IPA: /ˈhiː/,
** (Received Pronunciation, Canada) IPA: [hiː]
*** Audio (UK):(file)
** (Standard Southern British, General Australian, Southern US) IPA: [hɪj]
** (US) IPA: [hi(ː)], [çi(ː)]
*** Audio (US):(file)
* (unstressed form) IPA: /(h)i/, /(h)ɪ/
* Rhymes: -iː

#### Pronoun

he (third-person singular, masculine, nominative case, oblique him, reflexive himself, possessive his)
* (personal) A male person or animal already known or implied.
** 1620, Giovanni Bocaccio, translated by John Florio, The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen‎, Isaac Iaggard, →ISBN, Nouell 8, The Eighth Day:[…] purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
** 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:"It was he we saw the tracks of down by Rausand hill."
** 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.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:he.
* (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) They; he or she (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?
** 2010, Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, The Rule of Law, Penguin Books, →ISBN, Preface, page ix:First, to avoid the cumbrous ‘he or she’ and ‘his or hers’, and the ungrammatical ‘they’ when used in the singular, I have mostly stuck to saying ‘he’ or ‘his’. I hope that this will be understood in an unchauvinistic, gender-neutral way.
* (personal, sometimes proscribed) It; an animal whose gender is unknown.
* A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.
    Antonyms: she, it
** 1770, A Mathematical Miscellany in Four Parts, 3rd edition, page 125:JUPITER is the largest of all the Planets, his Orbit lies between the Orbits of the Earth and Mars, and at the cast Distance of 426 Millions of Miles from the Sun, he goes round him in 11 Years, 314 Days and 12 Hours; […]
** 2019, Sabaton, Bismarck:He [= the ship Bismarck] was made to rule the waves across the seven seas […]

##### 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. It is deprecated by some style guides, such as Wadsworth. 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.

##### Synonyms

* (person whose gender is unknown): one, you (indefinite, colloquial); he or she, he/she, they, s/he, or these other third-person pronouns (see "Combined forms", "Invented pronouns")
* (animal whose gender is unknown): it

##### Derived terms

* a man is known by the company he keeps
* he-: he-ass, he-bitch, he-cat, he-goat, he-man, he-whore, he-wolf
* he'd
* he-elephant
* he-huckleberry
* he laughs best that laughs last
* he said, she said
* he shoots, he scores
* he who hesitates is lost
* he who laughs last laughs hardest, he who laughs last laughs best
* s/he, he/she, he or she
* speak of the devil and he will appear
* te-he
* that's what he said

##### See also

Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.
personal pronounpossessive pronounpossessive determiner
subjective
objective
reflexive
first personsingular
I me (colloquial)memyself me mysenminemy mine (before vowels, archaic) me
plural
weusourselves ourself oursenoursour
second personsingular
standard (historically formal)
youyouyourself yoursenyours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)your
archaic (historically informal)
thoutheethyself theeself thysenthinethy thine (before vowels)
plural
standard
you ye (archaic)youyourselvesyours yourn (obsolete outside dialects)your
colloquial
you all y'all you guysyou all y'all you guysy'allselvesy'all's you guys' your guys' (proscribed)y'all's your all's (nonstandard) you guys' your guys' (proscribed)
informal / dialectal
(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
third person
singular
masculine
hehimhimself hisself (archaic) hissenhis hisn (obsolete outside dialects)his
feminine
sheherherself hersenhers hern (obsolete outside dialects)her
neuter
it hitit hititself hitselfits his (archaic)its his (archaic) hits
genderless
theythemthemself, themselvestheirstheir
nonspecific (formal)
oneoneoneself–one's
plural
theythem hem, 'emthemselves theirsentheirs theirn (obsolete outside dialects)their :

##### References

* ↑ “he”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
* ↑ When Words Collide: A Media Writer's Guide to Grammar and Style (2007, →ISBN
* ↑ The Pocket Wadsworth Handbook, 2009 MLA Update Edition →ISBN, 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.

#### Determiner

he
* (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of his

#### Noun

he (countable and uncountable, plural hes)
* (uncountable) The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
* The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.
* (informal) A male.
    Is your cat a he or a she?

### Etymology 2

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

#### Alternative forms

* hay
* hei
* hey

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /heɪ/

#### Noun

he
* 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, published 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, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 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.
* The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.

##### Translations
#### See also

* Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

#### Further reading

* He (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 3
#### Interjection

he
* (uncommon, usually reduplicated) An expression of laughter.
    Synonyms: ha, hehe (more common)
** 1897, Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Charles Henry Warner, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, Library of the World's Best Literature: A-Z, page 1791:If e'er he went into excess, / 'Twas from a somewhat lively thirst; / But he who would his subjects bless, / Odd's fish!—must wet his whistle first; / And so from every cask they got, / Our king did to himself allot / At least a pot. / Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he! / That's the kind of king for me.
** 1921, Norman Davey, The Pilgrim of a Smile, page 247:"Well, what is your next tale?" said Sumner, a little brusquely. "He, he! he, he! . . . he, he!" chuckled the bottle, "the text tale I'm going to tell you in a very funny one. It will make you laugh. There's a lady in it—he, he!—a very comic affair."

### Anagrams

* -eh, E.H., EH, eH, eh

## Aukan
### Noun

he
* paca (large South and Central American rodent)

### References

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

## Breton
### Etymology

Compare Welsh ei.

### Determiner

he (requires spirant mutation)
* her
    he zad ― her father

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈe]
* Rhymes: -e

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

he f (plural hes)
* he (fifth letter of various Semitic alphabets)

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* haig

#### Verb

he
* first-person singular present indicative of haver

## Classical Nahuatl
### Etymology

A natural expression.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [é]

### Interjection

he
* 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

## Danish
### Interjection

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

### See also

* ha

## Dutch
### Interjection

he
* Misspelling of hè.
* Misspelling of hé.

## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [he]
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: he

### Interjection

he
* interjection used to attract someone's attention, hey
* interjection expressing irony

#### Derived terms

* he ho

### See also

* hej

## Fasu
### Noun

hẹ or hȩ́ (Fasu)
* water
* river
    he Aiyo ― the River Aiyo
* lake
    he Kutupu ― Lake Kutubu
* 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
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *hek, from Proto-Finno-Permic *sej. Cognates include Northern Sami sii, Erzya сынь (sïń). The word is inflected as plural, but there is no plural marker in the nominative, except in dialects (het). See hän for more details on history of usage.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhe/, [ˈhe̞]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -e
* Hyphenation: he

#### Pronoun

he
* (personal) they (plural, only of people)
* (respectful) he, she, one, (singular) they (of a single human being, like hän)
* they (in indirect speech: referring to the subjects of the main clause, regardless of whether they are human beings or not, i.e. logophoric pronoun)

##### 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).

##### Declension

* Irregular (inflectional stem hei-, as if in the plural). 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.
Declension 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
abessive
hänettä
heittä
instructive
comitative

##### Synonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* heidänlainen
* heidänlaisensa
* heikäläinen

##### Descendants

* Kven: het

#### Further reading

* “1. he”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2024-10-09

### Etymology 2

From Phoenician 𐤄 (h) and/or Biblical Hebrew ה.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhe(ː)/, [ˈhe̞(ː)]
* Rhymes: -e
* Hyphenation: he

#### Noun

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

##### Declension

Possessive forms of he (Kotus type 21/rosé, no gradation) :
first-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
heni
heni
accusative
nom.
heni
heni
gen.
heni
genitive
heni
heideni heitteni
partitive
hetäni
heitäni
inessive
hessäni
heissäni
elative
hestäni
heistäni
illative
heheni
heihini
adessive
helläni
heilläni
ablative
heltäni
heiltäni
allative
helleni
heilleni
essive
henäni
heinäni
translative
hekseni
heikseni
abessive
hettäni
heittäni
instructive
comitative
—heineni
second-person singular possessor
singular
plural
nominative
hesi
hesi
accusative
nom.
hesi
hesi
gen.
hesi
genitive
hesi
heidesi heittesi
partitive
hetäsi
heitäsi
inessive
hessäsi
heissäsi
elative
hestäsi
heistäsi
illative
hehesi
heihisi
adessive
helläsi
heilläsi
ablative
heltäsi
heiltäsi
allative
hellesi
heillesi
essive
henäsi
heinäsi
translative
heksesi
heiksesi
abessive
hettäsi
heittäsi
instructive
comitative
—heinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
hemme
hemme
accusative
nom.
hemme
hemme
gen.
hemme
genitive
hemme
heidemme heittemme
partitive
hetämme
heitämme
inessive
hessämme
heissämme
elative
hestämme
heistämme
illative
hehemme
heihimme
adessive
hellämme
heillämme
ablative
heltämme
heiltämme
allative
hellemme
heillemme
essive
henämme
heinämme
translative
heksemme
heiksemme
abessive
hettämme
heittämme
instructive
comitative
—heinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular
plural
nominative
henne
henne
accusative
nom.
henne
henne
gen.
henne
genitive
henne
heidenne heittenne
partitive
hetänne
heitänne
inessive
hessänne
heissänne
elative
hestänne
heistänne
illative
hehenne
heihinne
adessive
hellänne
heillänne
ablative
heltänne
heiltänne
allative
hellenne
heillenne
essive
henänne
heinänne
translative
heksenne
heiksenne
abessive
hettänne
heittänne
instructive
comitative
—heinenne
third-person possessor
singular
plural
nominative
hensä
hensä
accusative
nom.
hensä
hensä
gen.
hensä
genitive
hensä
heidensä heittensä
partitive
hetään hetänsä
heitään heitänsä
inessive
hessään hessänsä
heissään heissänsä
elative
hestään hestänsä
heistään heistänsä
illative
hehensä
heihinsä
adessive
hellään hellänsä
heillään heillänsä
ablative
heltään heltänsä
heiltään heiltänsä
allative
helleen hellensä
heilleen heillensä
essive
henään henänsä
heinään heinänsä
translative
hekseen heksensä
heikseen heiksensä
abessive
hettään hettänsä
heittään heittänsä
instructive
comitative
—heineen heinensä :

## German Low German
### Alternative forms

* e
* hee
* (in other dialects, including Mecklenburgisch, West Pomeranian and Low Prussian) hei
* (in other dialects, including Sauerländisch) hai
* (in other dialects, including regional Westphalian and East Frisian as rare alternative form) hä

### Etymology

From Middle Low German hê, from Old Saxon hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɛɪ̯/

### Pronoun

he m (genitive sin, dative 1 em, dative 2 en, dative 3 jüm, accusative 1 em, accusative 2 en)
* (in some dialects, including, Münsterland, Mecklenburgish-Western Pomeranian and Low Prussian, personal) he (third-person singular masculine pronoun)
    He ös to lat. (Low Prussian)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.

### Further reading

* 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 ...)

## Hadza
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɦe/

### Verb

he
* to say, to tell
    Synonyms: î, hiyagga

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /he/

### Article

he (indefinite)
* a, an
    he wahine auI am a woman
    he wahine kānas/he has a wife

## Ido
### Etymology

From h +‎ -e.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /he/, /hɛ/

### Noun

he (plural be-i)
* The name of the Latin script letter H/h.

### See also

* Latin script letter names: literi: 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

## Japanese
### Romanization

he
* The hiragana syllable へ (he) or the katakana syllable ヘ (he) in Hepburn romanization.

## Kholosi
### Etymology

Cognate with Sindhi ھِي (hī, “this”).

### Pronoun

he
* it (proximal)

### References

* Eric Anonby, Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎, pages 13-36

## Kikuyu
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɛ/

### Verb

he (infinitive kũhe)
* to give

#### Derived terms

(Proverbs)
* mwana ndaheanagwo

#### Related terms

(Nouns)
* kĩhe(e)o class 7
* maheeo class 6

### References

* ↑ Hinde, Hildegarde (1904). Vocabularies of the Kamba and Kikuyu languages of East Africa, pp. 26–27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
* Armstrong, Lilias E. (1940). The Phonetic and Tonal Structure of Kikuyu, p. 361. Rep. 1967. (Also in 2018 by Routledge).

## Lakota
### Particle

he
* question-marking particle used by females in formal speech
    Mázaškaŋškaŋ tóna he? ― what time is it?

#### Usage notes

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.

#### Synonyms

* huwó (used by men)

## Mandarin
### Romanization

he (he$^5$ / he$^0$, Zhuyin ˙ㄏㄜ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荷
he
* Nonstandard spelling of hē.
* Nonstandard spelling of hé.
* Nonstandard spelling of hě.
* Nonstandard spelling of hè.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Maori
### Etymology

Cognate with Hawaiian he

### Article

he
* a, an, some: indefinite article

### See also

* te (for "the" in singular)
* ngā (for "the" in plural)

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /heː/

#### Pronoun

he (accusative him or hine, genitive his or hisen, possessive determiner his)
* Third-person singular masculine pronoun: he
** 14th century, Chaucer, General Prologue:
    Benynge he was, and wonder diligentKind he was, and very diligent
* it; used also of inanimate objects
* (impersonal) Third-person singular impersonal pronoun: one; you

##### Usage notes

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.

##### Alternative forms

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

##### Descendants

* English: he
* Scots: he
* Yola: hea, he, hey, hay

##### See also
#### References

* “hẹ̄, pron.(1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

From Old English hīe, hī. Compare þei.

#### Pronoun

he (accusative hem or he, genitive heres or heren, possessive determiner here)
* Third-person plural nominative pronoun: they
** p. 1154, “AD 1137”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 89, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:Mani þusen hi drapen mid hungær.Many thousands they overcame with hunger.
* Third-person plural accusative pronoun: them

##### Alternative forms

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

##### Descendants

* Yola: hi, h'

##### References

* “he, pron.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 3
#### Pronoun

he
* Alternative form of heo (“she”)

### Etymology 4
#### Interjection

he
* Alternative form of hey (“hey”)

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

he
* Alternative form of heye (“hedge”)

### Etymology 6
#### Adjective

he (comparative her, superlative hest)
* Alternative form of heigh (“high”)

### Etymology 7
#### Verb

he (third-person singular simple present heth, present participle hende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle hed)
* Alternative form of hyen (“to go quickly”)

## Middle Low German
### Etymology

From Old Saxon hē.

### Pronunciation

* Stem vowel: ê⁴
** (originally) IPA: /heː/

### Pronoun

hê
* (third person singular masculine nominative) he

#### Declension

For an explanation of the forms in brackets see here.

## North Frisian
### Pronoun

he
* Alternative form of hi

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

he
* (dialectal, Trøndelag dialect) alternative form of hev (“have, has”)
    E he ei bok om føgla. He hann løst å kjøp ho?
       I have a book about birds. Does he want to buy it? (literally "does he have desire to by her?")

## Nǀuu
### Pronunciation

* (Western) IPA: /ɦe/

### Pronoun

he
* (Western) singular relative pronoun; that, who, what
    ǂuusi he ǁqanfly that bites
    ʘooke he Griet si ǁx'oo ng ǃuuThe wood that Griet will chop in the veld.

#### Synonyms

* ha (Eastern)
* ne, ne

### References

* Sands, Bonny & Jones, Kerry & Esau, Katrina & Collins, Chris & Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Job, Sylvanus & Miller, Amanda & Steyn, Betta & Zaanen, Menno & Namaseb, Levi & Berg, Dietloff & Mantzel, Dotty & Damarah, Willem & Snyman, Claudia & Wyk, David & Brugman, Johanna & Exter, Mats & Vaalbooi, Antjie & Westhuizen, Mietjie. (2022). Nǀuuki Namagowab Afrikaans English ǂXoakiǂxanisi/Mîdi di ǂKhanis/Woordeboek/Dictionary
* Collins, C., & Namaseb, L. (2011). A Grammatical Sketch of N|uuki with Stories. Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

## Old English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xeː/, [heː]

### Pronoun

hē m (accusative hine, genitive his, dative him)
* he
** 10th century, The Wanderer‎:Oft him ānhaga · āre gebīdeð, Metudes miltse, · þēah þe hē mōdċeariġA loner oft waits a grace for himself, Creator's mercy, even if he is sorrowful
* it (when the thing being referred to is masculine)
* they (singular) (denotes someone of unknown gender)

#### Declension

| | | | nominative | accusative | dative | genitive |
| singular | first person | first person | iċ | mē, mec | mē | mīn |
| singular | second person | second person | þū | þē, þec | þē | þīn |
| singular | third person | neuter | hit | hit | him | his |
| singular | third person | masculine | hē | hine | him | his |
| singular | third person | feminine | hēo | hīe | hire | hire |
| dual | first person | first person | wit | unc, uncit | unc | uncer |
| dual | second person | second person | ġit | inc, incit | inc | incer |
| plural | first person | first person | wē | ūs, ūsiċ | ūs | ūre, ūser |
| plural | second person | second person | ġē | ēow, ēowiċ | ēow | ēower |
| plural | third person | third person | hīe | hīe | him | heora |

#### Descendants

* Middle English: he, hee, ȝe, e, hey, hi, hie, hye, heo, ho, hæ, ha, a
** English: he
** Scots: he
** Yola: hea, he, hey, hay

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hē”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Old Irish
### Pronoun

he (emphatic hesom)
* Alternative spelling of é

## Old Saxon
### Alternative forms

* hie

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.

### Pronoun

hē m
* he

#### Descendants

* German Low German: he

## Polish
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* (Masovia):
** (Near Masovian) IPA: /ˈxɛ/

### Interjection

he
* (Near Masovian, often repeated) used to direct oxen to move forward
    Coordinate terms: byś, eć, kse

### Further reading

* Władysław Matlakowski (1891) “he”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności, volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 372

## Portuguese
### Verb

he
* Obsolete spelling of é.

## Romanian
### Interjection

he
* Alternative form of hei

## Scots
### Etymology

From Middle English he, from Old English hē.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hi/, /hɪ/
* Rhymes: -iː

### Pronoun

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

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈe/ [ˈe]
* Rhymes: -e
* Syllabification: he
* Homophones: hé, e

### Etymology 1

From Old Spanish he, from Arabic هَا (hā, dialectally hê).
The alternative forms may reflect a reanalysis of he as a verb form, which could then be pluralized heis (cf. veis ‘you see’). Compare Galician eis, Portuguese eis < Old Galician-Portuguese ei.

#### Alternative forms

* heis, hes (obsolete)

#### Adverb

he
* (literary) here is [with (suffixed) accusative or aquí or ahí or allí]
* (literary) behold (+ aquí)

##### Usage notes

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

##### Derived terms

* he ahí
* he allí
* he aquí

#### References

* Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “he”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume III (G–Ma), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 335
* “he”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

he f (plural hes)
* he; the Hebrew letter ה

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

he
* inflection of haber:
** first-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
** second-person singular voseo imperative

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* hä

### Pronunciation

IPA: /heː/

### Etymology 1

Related to häva.

#### Verb

he (present her, preterite hedde, supine hett, imperative he)
* (regional, colloquial, northern) to put
    Synonym: (Hälsingland region) häva
    He den på bordetPut it on the table
    Häv/He på stereonPut on the stereo (Hälsingland/further north)

##### Usage notes

Not widely known to native Swedish speakers. Primarily used in certain regions of Norrland in Sweden.

##### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

he n
* (regional, Northern Sweden, Ostrobothnia) it

##### Usage notes

In Sweden, primarily used in the northern parts of norrland. In Finland, used in the northern part of Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia.

### See also

* det

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈhe/ [ˈhɛ]
* Rhymes: -e
* Syllabification: he

### Etymology 1
#### Interjection

he! (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒ)
* Alternative form of tse

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

he (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒ) (historical)
* Alternative spelling of ge

### Anagrams

* eh

## Tokelauan
### Etymology

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *se. Cognates include Hawaiian he and Maori he.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [he]
* Hyphenation: he

### Article

he
* Singular indefinite article; any, an

#### Derived terms

* hetahi
* hō he

#### See also
### References

* R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 304

## Turkish
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

he (definite accusative heyi, plural heler)
* 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

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

he
* Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ه

### Etymology 3
#### Particle

he
* Alternative form of ha

#### Interjection

he
* Alternative form of ha

## Yanomamö
### Alternative forms

* fe

### Noun

he
* head

### References

* Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN

## Yola
### Pronoun

he
* Alternative form of hea
** 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:Co thou; Co he.Quoth thou; Says he.
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 11, page 88:W' vengem too hard, he zunk ee commane,With venom too hard, he sunk his bat-club,
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 12, page 88:Licke a mope an a mile, he gazt ing a mize;Like a fool in a mill, he looked in amazement;
** 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 13, page 90:He at nouth fade t'zey, llean vetch ee man,He that knows what to say, mischief fetch the man,
** 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 104:He zide hea'de help mee udh o' hoanHe said he'd help me out of hand

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 31

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hē/

#### Verb

he
* to come across, to come by
    Mo rí ẹ̀bùn he, mo sì bẹ̀rẹ̀ sí í ṣí i. ― I came across a gift and started to open it.
** 1995?, “‘Níwọ̀n Bí A Ti Ní Iṣẹ́-òjíṣẹ́ Yìí, Àwa Kò Juwọ́sílẹ̀’”, in ÀKÁ ÌWÉ ORÍ ÍŃTÁNẸ́Ẹ̀TÌ ti Watchtower‎:Ìṣòro mìíràn tí mo dojúkọ, yàtọ̀ sí ti èdè, ni àníyàn léraléra pé kí àwọn ọlọ́pàá má he mí.Another problem I faced, apart from the language, was the constant concern over being picked up by the police.

##### Usage notes

* often used in a serial verb construction with rí.

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hè/

#### Verb

hè
* (Ikalẹ) (transitive) Ikalẹ form of sè (“to cook”)

##### Usage notes

* he when followed by a direct object.

##### Derived terms

* híhè (“cooked, cooking”)
* àhè (“banquet”)
* àìhè (“uncooked”)
* èhè (“cooked”)
* ùhè (“manner of cooking”)