hé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "he"

Dakota

Noun

hé

1. horn (on an animal's head)

Dutch

Alternative forms

• hee

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦeː/

• Audio:

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Interjection

hé

1. hey

   Hé, kijk uit waar je loopt!

   Hey, watch where you're going!

French

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• eille, heille (Quebec)

Pronunciation

• (Canadian French) IPA^(key): /e/

Interjection

hé

1. (familiar) Used to call someone; hey
2. (colloquial) Used to express surprise; eh
3. (Canada) Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener confirm or agree with what has been said.

   Tu es Canadien, hé? ― You're Canadian, eh?

   (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /e/

Noun

hé m (plural hés)

1. (Belgium) a wooded slope

Anagrams

• eh

Ghomala'

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -e

Verb

hé alternate of ?

1. to help out, to relieve (someone)

   E tə̂ he mò pə̀. ― He/she helps nobody.

Derived forms

• hɛ́ptə̀
• kwítə́

References

• Erika Eichholzer (editor) et al, Dictionnaire ghomala’ (2002)

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈheː]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eː
• Rhymes: -heː

Etymology 1

An onomatopoeia.

Interjection

hé

1. hey (grabbing the attention of someone, possibly with the intent of warning)
   • 1907, Endre Ady, Dózsa György unokája^[1] (The Grandson of György Dózsa), poem, lines 1–4, trans. by Sir Maurice Bowra:

     Dózsa György unokája vagyok én, ¶ Népért síró, bús, bocskoros nemes. ¶ Hé, nagyurak, jó lesz tán szóbaállni ¶ Kaszás népemmel, mert a Nyár heves.

     I, the grandson of György Dózsa, ¶ a sad peasant-noble, must cry out for my people’s lot. ¶ Ah, you masters, great landlords, perhaps you would speak ¶ to my scythe-bearing people—for the summer is hot.

Related terms

• hej

Etymology 2

From Hebrew הא.

Noun

hé (plural hék)

1. he (the fifth Hebrew letter)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	hé	hék
accusative	hét	héket
dative	hének	héknek
instrumental	hével	hékkel
causal-final	héért	hékért
translative	hévé	hékké
terminative	héig	hékig
essive-formal	héként	hékként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hében	hékben
superessive	hén	héken
adessive	hénél	héknél
illative	hébe	hékbe
sublative	hére	hékre
allative	héhez	hékhez
elative	héből	hékből
delative	héről	hékről
ablative	hétől	héktől
non-attributive possessive – singular	héé	héké
non-attributive possessive – plural	hééi	hékéi

Possessive forms of hé

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hém	héim
2nd person sing.	héd	héid
3rd person sing.	héje	héi
1st person plural	hénk	héink
2nd person plural	hétek	héitek
3rd person plural	héjük	héik

Further reading

• hé in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Anagrams

• éh

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [heː]

Interjection

hé!

1. hey!

   Synonym: hóigh

Pronoun

hé

1. h-prothesized form of é

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “hé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “hé”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “hé”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

Louisiana Creole

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This entry is part of the phrasebook project, which presents criteria for inclusion based on utility, simplicity and commonness. For other Louisiana Creole entries on this topic, see Greetings.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Perhaps inherited from Louisiana French "hé" or borrowed from English "hey".”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he/
• Rhymes: -e

Interjection

hé

1. hey, hi

   Synonym: éy

Mandarin

Alternative forms

• he — nonstandard

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Romanization

hé (he², Zhuyin ㄏㄜˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 何
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 冱
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 劾
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 各
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 合
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 咊
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 和
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 哬
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 啝
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 喕
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嗏
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 姀
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 宜
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嵍
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 廅
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 惒
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 敆
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 曷
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 柇
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 核
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 楁
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 槂
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 毼
24. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 河
25. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 洽
26. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 涸
27. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 渴
28. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 滆
29. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 澕 / 𮳆
30. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 熆
31. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 狢
32. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 皥
33. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 盇
34. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 盉
35. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 盍
36. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 盒
37. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 盓
38. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 礉
39. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 禾
40. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 秴
41. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 篕
42. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 籵
43. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 紇 / 纥
44. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 繱
45. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 纥
46. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 翮
47. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 翯
48. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 耠
49. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 苙
50. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 荷
51. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 菏
52. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 萂
53. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 葢
54. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蒚
55. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蓋 / 盖
56. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蘊 / 蕴
57. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蚵
58. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 蝎
59. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 螛
60. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 褐
61. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 覈
62. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 訸 / 𰵝
63. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 詥 / 𰵣
64. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 貈
65. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 貉
66. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 輄 / 𨐈
67. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 轃 / 𰺖
68. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 邴
69. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 釛
70. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鉀 / 钾
71. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鉌 / 𰽬
72. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鉀 / 钾
73. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閡 / 阂
74. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 閣 / 阁
75. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 闔 / 阖
76. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 阐
77. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鞨
78. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 頜 / 颌
79. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 餄 / 饸
80. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 餲 / 𮩝
81. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 餌 / 饵
82. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 魺 / 鲄
83. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鶡 / 鹖
84. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 麘
85. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 齕 / 龁
86. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 龁
87. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 龢
88. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 㓭
89. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 郃
90. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 𬌗

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

hé m (plural hés)

1. (Jersey) garden gate

Old Irish

Pronoun

hé (emphatic hésom)

1. Alternative spelling of é

South Slavey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hɛ́(ʔ)]
• Hyphenation: hé

Postposition

hé

1. together with

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 19

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈe/ [ˈe]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: hé
• Homophones: he, e

Verb

hé

1. (obsolete, rare) second-person singular imperative of haber

See also

• (without accent) he

Tarantino

Verb

hé

1. second-person singular present indicative of avere

Tlingit

Determiner

hé

1. here (closer to the speaker than the listener, but not in the immediate space)

Derived terms

• héide
• héidu
• héidáx̱
• héináx̱
• héit
• héixʼ
• héix̱

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hɛ˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hɛ˨˩˦]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [hɛ˦˥]

Verb

hé • (戲, 𢹍)

1. (of eyes and lips) to slightly open

Derived terms

• hé lộ
• hé mở
• hó hé