he
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: enpr: hē
ipa: /ˈhiː/
ipa: [hiː]
ipa: [hɪj]
ipa: [hi(ː)]
ipa: [çi(ː)]
ipa: /(h)i/
ipa: /(h)ɪ/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: him
form: himself
form: his
form: hee
form: hée
Etymology: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.
text: […]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.
ref: 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:
text: "It was he we saw the tracks of down by Rausand hill."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:
text: July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Riseshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/
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.
glosses: A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.
examples: text: The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
text: 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.
ref: 2010, Tom Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, The Rule of Law, Penguin Books, →ISBN, Preface, page ix:
glosses: They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).
glosses: It; an animal whose gender is unknown.
examples: text: 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; […]
ref: 1770, A Mathematical Miscellany in Four Parts, 3rd edition, page 125:
text: He [= the ship Bismarck] was made to rule the waves across the seven seas […]
ref: 2019, Sabaton, Bismarck:
antonyms: she
it
glosses: A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.
Synonyms: sense: person whose gender is unknown
word: one
sense: person whose gender is unknown
word: you
sense: person whose gender is unknown
word: he or she
sense: person whose gender is unknown
word: he/she
sense: person whose gender is unknown
word: they
sense: person whose gender is unknown
word: s/he
sense: animal whose gender is unknown
word: it
Derived terms: a man is known by the company he keeps
he-ass
he-bitch
he-cat
he-goat
he-man
he-whore
he-wolf
he'd
he-elephant
hefemale
he-huckleberry
he laughs best that laughs last
heorshe
hepeat
he said, she said
heself
he-she
he shoots, he scores
he who hesitates is lost
he who laughs last laughs hardest
he who laughs last laughs best
hse
s/he
he/she
he or she
she-he
speak of the devil and he will appear
te-he
that's what he said
Related terms: word: Ime
word: me
word: myselfmemysen
word: mine
word: mymineme
word: we
word: us
word: ourselvesourselfoursen
word: oursourn
word: our
word: you
word: yourselfyoursen
word: yoursyourn
word: your
word: thou
word: thee
word: thyselftheeselfthysen
word: thine
word: thythine
word: youye
word: yourselves
word: you ally'all you guys
word: y'allselves
word: all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
word: all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
word: him
word: himselfhisselfhissen
word: hishisn
word: his
word: she
word: her
word: herselfhersen
word: hershern
word: ithit
word: itselfhitself
word: itshis
word: itshishits
word: they
word: them
word: themself
word: themselves
word: theirs
word: their
word: one
word: oneself
word: –
word: one's
word: themhem
word: 'em
word: themselvestheirsen
word: theirstheirn
word: The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
word: including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
word: archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.