הן
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "en"
Hebrew
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Biblical Hebrew) IPA(key): /hin/
Audio: (file)
Particle
[edit]הֵן • (hen)
- Lo! also (as expressing surprise) if: - behold, if, lo, though.
- Tanach, Numbers 23:9, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- כִּי־מֵרֹאשׁ צֻרִים אֶרְאֶנּוּ וּמִגְּבָעוֹת אֲשׁוּרֶנּוּ הֶן־עָם לְבָדָד יִשְׁכֹּן וּבַגּוֹיִם לֹא יִתְחַשָּׁב׃
- ki-merósh tsurím 'er'énu umig'va'ót 'ashurénu hen-'ám l'vadád yishkón uvagoyím ló yitkhasháv.
kī-mērōš ṣūrīm ʾerʾénnū ūmiggəḇāʿōṯ ʾăšūrénnū hen-ʿām ləḇāḏāḏ yiškōn ūḇaggōyīm lō yiṯḥaššāḇ. - For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, it is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
- ki-merósh tsurím 'er'énu umig'va'ót 'ashurénu hen-'ám l'vadád yishkón uvagoyím ló yitkhasháv.
- (formal) yes, yea, aye
- as well as
Usage notes
[edit]- Due to being the affirmative, it is used as a copula, inflected identically to (and confused with) הִנֵּה (hiné). Although this is in parallel to usage of the negative אֵין (ēn), this is discouraged by the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
Antonyms
[edit]- לַאו (lav)
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Semitic *šin. Cognate with Arabic هُنَّ (hunna). The central sense is “they”; other senses are by extension.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Biblical Hebrew) IPA(key): /hin(n)/
- (Samaritan Hebrew) IPA(key): /in.na/[nt. 1], [ˈʔin.næˑ]
- (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈheːn/, [ˈheː.en]
- (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA(key): /ˈhen/, [ˈheːn]
- (Persian Hebrew) IPA(key): /hen/
- (Iraqi Hebrew) IPA(key): /hen/
- (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA(key): /hen/
- (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA(key): /hejn/
- (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA(key): /(h)en/
Audio (Modern Israeli Hebrew): (file) - Rhymes: -em
Pronoun
[edit]הֵן • (hen) f pl
- They (feminine).
See also
[edit]Hebrew personal pronouns
singular | plural | |||
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1st person | אֲנִי (aní), אנוכי / אָנֹכִי (anokhí)[PP 1] |
אֲנַחְנוּ (anákhnu), אָנוּ (ánu)[PP 2] | ||
2nd person | m | אַתָּה (atá) | אַתֶּם (atém) | |
f | אַתְּ (at) | אַתֶּן (atén) | ||
3rd person | m | הוּא (hu) | הֵם (hem)[PP 3] | |
f | הִיא (hi) | הֵן (hen)[PP 3] | ||
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References
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- Hebrew lemmas
- Hebrew particles
- Hebrew terms with quotations
- Hebrew formal terms
- Hebrew terms inherited from Proto-Semitic
- Hebrew terms derived from Proto-Semitic
- Rhymes:Hebrew/em
- Rhymes:Hebrew/em/1 syllable
- Hebrew pronouns
- Hebrew personal pronouns