he
Part of speech: pron
det
noun
Morphological type: simple
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: him
pos: pron
tags: oblique
form: himself
pos: pron
tags: reflexive
form: his
pos: pron
tags: possessive
form: hee
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hée
pos: pron
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hee
pos: det
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hée
pos: det
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.
pos: pron
tags: masculine
nominative
personal
singular
third-person
examples: That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.
[…]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.
"It was he we saw the tracks of down by Rausand hill."
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.
gloss: They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).
pos: pron
tags: masculine
nominative
personal
proscribed
singular
sometimes
third-person
examples: The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
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.
gloss: It; an animal whose gender is unknown.
pos: pron
tags: masculine
nominative
personal
proscribed
singular
sometimes
third-person
gloss: A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.
pos: pron
tags: masculine
nominative
singular
third-person
examples: 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; […]
He [= the ship Bismarck] was made to rule the waves across the seven seas […]
gloss: Synonym of his.
pos: det
gloss: The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A male.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Is your cat a he or a she?
Synonyms: one
you
he or she
he/she
they
s/he
Related words: Ime
me
myselfmemysen
mine
mymineme
we
us
ourselvesourselfoursen
oursourn
our
you
yourselfyoursen
yoursyourn
your
thou
thee
thyselftheeselfthysen
thine
thythine
youye
yourselves
you ally'all you guys yous
y'allselves
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
him
himselfhisselfhissen
hishisn
his
she
her
herselfhersen
hershern
ithit
itselfhitself
itshis
itshishits
they
them
themself
themselves
theirs
their
one
oneself
–
one's
themhem
'em
themselvestheirsen
theirstheirn
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
Derived words: 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-ing and she-ing
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
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