hen

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Derived terms 1.3.2 Translations 1.3.3 See also 1.4 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Adverb 3 Dutch 3.1 Pronoun 3.1.1 Related terms 3.2 Noun 3.2.1 Synonyms 3.2.2 Related terms 4 Japanese 4.1 Noun 4.2 Quasi-adjective 5 Mandarin 5.1 Adverb 5.2 Pinyin syllable 5.2.1 Usage notes 6 Scots 6.1 Noun 7 Welsh 7.1 Adjective 7.1.1 Usage notes

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Old English henn.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɛn/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -ɛn

[edit] Noun

hen (plural hens)

1. A female bird.
2. (specifically) A female chicken, especially one kept for its eggs.
3. (slang) A woman.
4. (informal) The woman whose impending marriage is being celebrated at a hen night.

[edit] Derived terms

• henbane
• hen party
• henpecked
• mother hen

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• hen’s teeth
• broody

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: ehn
• Neh.
• NHE

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Adverb

hen

1. here

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Pronoun

hen (personal)

1. them

[edit] Related terms

• hun

[edit] Noun

hen f. (plural hennen, diminutive hennetje)

1. Hen, female chicken; female of a related species.
2. A female of the species of birds brooding on the ground.
3. (figuratively) 'bird', colloquial term for a human female

[edit] Synonyms

• (female chicken) kip, kieken
• (brooding bird) kloek
• (female human; informal) kippetje, duifje

[edit] Related terms

• haan m. (rooster)
• hoen, hoender n. (fowl)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

hen (hiragana へん)

1. 編: compilation, knit, plait, braid, twist, editing, completed poem, part of a book
2. 辺: side, edge
3. 偏: a type of Chinese radical, right half; antonym: 旁 (つくり)

[edit] Quasi-adjective

hen (な-na declension, kanji 変, hiragana へん)

1. strange
2. (music) flat

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Adverb

hen (Pinyin hěn, simplified 很)

1. very; quite; awfully

   zhe fen baozhi you hen duo guanggao. "This newspaper has a lot of advertisement."

   zheli de kongqi hen hao. "The air is very good here."

   zhege guniang hen piaoliang. "This girl is very beautiful."

   zhe jian canting de shiwu haochi, danshi hen gui. — The food of this restaurant is delicious, but it is very expensive.

   (zhè jiān cāntīng de shíwù hǎochī, dànshì hěn guì. — 这间餐厅的食物好吃，但是很贵.)

   zhe jian yiyuan li you hen duo bingren. "There are many patients in this hospital."

   • suiran juli hen yuan, danshi Internet shǐ women kaojin.

   We are close to each other through the Internet though far apart.

   • ta pao de hen kuai.

   she/he runs very fast.

   • Tangrenjie you hen duo Zhongguo fandian.

   there are many Chinese restaurants in Chinatown.

   • zhe-jian fandian de shiwu haochi, danshi hen gui.

   The food of this restaurant is delicious, but it is very expensive.

   • ni de jiankang jiancha jieguo hen zhengchang.

   the results of your health exam show that everything is normal.

[edit] Pinyin syllable

hen

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, hēn, hén, hěn, or hèn.

[edit] 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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[edit] Scots

[edit] Noun

hen (uncountable)

1. Term of address for a woman.

   Alright Mary hen?

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[edit] Welsh

[edit] Adjective

hen m & f (plural hen, equative hened, comparative henach, superlative henaf)

1. old, ancient

[edit] Usage notes

• This adjective has an alternate, more 'senior' comparative in the form of hŷn and an equivalent alternate superlative in the form of hynaf.
• Unlike most Welsh adjectives, this word goes before the noun.
• Like most Welsh adjectives that go before the noun, this word triggers a soft mutation in the word that follows it.