hei

See also hēi

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛi̯
• IPA: /ɦɛi̯/
• Homophone: hij

Noun

hei f (plural heides or heiden, diminutive heitje)

1. Alternative form of heide.

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Finnish

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: hei
• Rhymes: -ei
• IPA: [ˈhei]

Interjection

hei

1. hi
2. bye (often repeated twice for goodbye: "hei hei")
3. hey

Anagrams

• hie

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Galician

Verb

hei

1. first-person singular present indicative of haber

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German Low German

Alternative forms

• (more common in the western dialects, though still found in Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian and Low Prussian alongside hei) he

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɛɪ̯/, /haɪ̯/

Pronoun

hei m (genitive sin, dative em, dative 2 jüm, accusative en)

1. (in some dialects, including, Mecklenburgisch, Western Pomeranian and Low Prussian, personal) Alternative form of he.

   (Low Prussian) Hei ös to lat.

   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.

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Luxembourgish

Adverb

hei

1. here, in this place

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Mandarin

Romanization

hei

1. Nonstandard spelling of hēi.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Maori

Particle

hei

1. Future locative particle

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Norwegian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hei.

Interjection

hei

1. hi (greeting)
   • hei!

     hi!

Derived terms

• heie

Etymology 2

From Old Norse heiðr.

Noun

hei m and f (Bokmål and Nynorsk)

1. a heath

References

• “hei” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Vallader) hai

Interjection

hei

1. (Puter, Vallader) yes (used to indicate agreement with the speaker in a conversation)

Derived terms

• bainschi hei

Related terms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) gea
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader) bain
• (Sursilvan) gie, (Sursilvan) bein
• (Sutsilvan) bagn
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) ea
• (Surmiran) gea bagn
• (Puter, Vallader) bainschi, schi

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Scots

Pronoun

hei

1. (South Scots, personal) he

See also

• ei