he/translations

This page contains translations for he. See the main entry for more information.

English

Pronoun

Translations

personal pronoun "he"

• Abkhaz: иара (iārā)
• Afar: usuk
• Afrikaans: hy
• Akan: ɔno
• Albanian: ai (sq)
• Alviri-Vidari: او‎ (u)
• Amharic: እሱ (ʾəsu)
• Arabic: هُوَ‎ (ar) (huwa)

  Tunisian Arabic: هُوَّ‎ m (huwwa)

  Egyptian Arabic: هو‎ (hówwa)

• Aragonese: él
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܗܘ‎ (hū)

  Hebrew: הו‎ (hū)

• Armenian: նա (hy) (na)
• Aromanian: el, elu, nãs, nãsu
• Assamese: সি (xi) (familiar), তেওঁ (teü̃) (formal)
• Asturian: él (ast), elli (ast)
• Aymara: jupa (both male and female)
• Azerbaijani: o (az) (both male and female)
• Bambara: a (both male and female)
• Bashkir: (both male and female) ул (ul)
• Basque: bera
• Belarusian: ён (be) (jon)
• Bengali: (familiar, both male and female) সে (bn) (se), (formal, you, he, she) আপনি (apni)
• Bikol Central: siya (bcl) (both male and female)
• Bouyei: deel (both male and female)
• Breton: eñ (br) m
• Bulgarian: той (bg) (toj)
• Burmese: သူ (my) (su) (colloquially also feminine)
• Catalan: ell (ca)
• Cebuano: siya (both male and female)
• Central Sierra Miwok: hís·ak
• Cherokee: ᏀᎢ (nahi)
• Chichewa: iye
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 佢 (yue) (keoi⁵) (both male and female), 他 (ta¹) (formal, from Mandarin)

  Dungan: та (ta) (both male and female)

  Hakka: 佢 (kì, yì) (both male and female), 他 (thâ) (formal)

  Jin: 他 (ta¹)

  Mandarin: 他 (zh) (tā), 伊 (zh) (yī) (literary, both male and female)

  Min Dong: 伊 (ĭ) (both male and female), 他 (tă) (formal)

  Min Nan: 伊 (zh-min-nan) (i) (both male and female)

  Teochew: 伊 (zh-min-nan) (i¹) (vernacular, both male and female)

  Wu: 伊 (hhi)

• Chuvash: (both male and female) вӑл (văl)
• Corsican: ellu, eddu
• Cree: (both male and female) wîya; ᐐᔭ (wiiya), ᐑᔭ (wiiya)
• Czech: on (cs) (1)
• Dalmatian: jal
• Danish: han (da)
• Dutch: hij (nl), (unemphatic, clitic) ie (nl)
• Dyirbal: not used in Dyirbal (Dyirbal has no third-person pronoun)
• Dzongkha: ཁོ (kho)
• Erzya: сон (son) (both male and female)
• Esperanto: li (eo)
• Estonian: tema (et), ta (et) (both male and female), too (et)
• Ewe: (both male and female) eya
• Faroese: hann (fo) m
• Fijian: (both male and female) koya
• Finnish: hän (fi) (both male and female), se (fi) (colloquial)
• French: il (fr) (1,2)

  Old French: il

• Friulian: lui
• Galician: el (gl) m
• Georgian: ის (ka) (is) (both male and female)
• German: er (de)
• Greek: αυτός (el) m (aftós)

  Ancient Greek: (subject pronouns are often omitted, or a demonstrative is used: medial, proximal, distal) οὗτος (hoûtos), ὅδε (hóde), ἐκεῖνος (ekeînos); (Epic) ὁ m (ho), ὅς m (hós); (Koine, rare) αὐτός m (autós)

• Greenlandic: una
• Guaraní: (both male and female) ahẽ
• Hausa: (independent form) shíi
• Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: nyihá (both male and female)
• Hawaiian: (both male and female) ia
• Hebrew: הוּא‎ (he) (hu)
• Hindi: (he, she and it) वह (hi) (vah), यह (hi) (yah)
• Hopi: pam
• Hungarian: ő (hu) (both male and female)
• Icelandic: hann (is)
• Ido: il (io), ilu (io)
• Indonesian: dia (id), ia (id) (both male and female)
• Interlingua: ille (ia)
• Interlingue: il (ie)
• Inuktitut: ᐅᓇ (una)
• Irish: sé (ga) (conjunctive), é (disjunctive)

  Old Irish: é

• Istriot: el
• Italian: lui (it), egli (it)
• Japanese: 彼 (ja) (かれ, káre), (both male and female) あの人 (あのひと, ano hito), (あのかた, polite) あの方 (ano kata), (impolite) その奴 (そのやつ, sono yatsu), (impolite, person, animal or thing) 奴 (ja) (やつ, yatsu), (impolite) そいつ (ja) (soitsu)
• Kabuverdianu: el
• Kannada: (this person) ಇವನು (kn) (ivanu), ಇವ (kn) (iva), (that person) ಅವನು (kn) (avanu), ಅವ (kn) (ava)
• Karakhanid: اُلْ‎ c or n (ol)
• Karelian: häi (both male and female), heän, hiän (both male and female)
• Kashubian: òn
• Kazakh: ол (kk) (ol) (both male and female)
• Khakas: ол (ol) (both male and female)
• Khmer: គាត់ (km) (koat), គេ (km) (kei)
• Korean: 그 (ko) (geu), 그이 (ko) (geu-i)
• Kurdish: (both male and female) ew (ku)
• Kyrgyz: ал (ky) (al) (both male and female)
• Lao: ເຂົາ (lo) (khao) (both male and female)
• Latgalian: jis, šys
• Latin: is (la), ille (la), hic (la)
• Latvian: viņš (lv)

• Limburgish: hae (li), er (li) ((after the verb))
• Lingala: yě (both male and female)
• Lithuanian: jis (lt)
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: тој (mk) m (toj)
• Malay: dia (ms) (both male and female), baginda (for kings, queens and Muslim prophets), beliau (ms) (for notable people)
• Malayalam: അവന്‍ (avan‍), അദ്ദേഹം (ml) (addēhaṃ)
• Maltese: hu (mt)
• Maore Comorian: waye (both male and female)
• Maori: ia
• Mazanderani: وه‎ (ve) (both male and female)
• Moksha: сон (son) (both male and female)
• Mon: ညး (ɲɛ̀h), ဍေံ (ɗɛ̀h) (both male and female)
• Mongolian: (he and she) тэр (mn) (ter)
• Motu: ia
• Mòcheno: er
• Neapolitan: isse
• Norwegian: han (no)
• Novial: lo
• Occitan: el (oc)
• Ojibwe: wiin (both male and female)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: онъ (onŭ)

• Old East Slavic: онъ (onŭ)
• Old English: hē (ang), sē (ang)
• Pali: so
• Pashto: هغه‎ (ps) (hağë) (absent or distant, both male and female), دی‎ (ps) (day) (visible or present)
• Persian: او‎ (fa) (u) (both male and female)
• Pipil: yaja, yaha
• Pitjantjatjara: (here) ngaa, (ergative) ngaanya; (there) pala, (ergative) palanya; (over there) nyara, (ergative) nyaranya; (previously mentioned or not visible) palunya, (ergative) palunyanya
• Polish: on (pl)
• Portuguese: ele (pt)
• Quechua: pay (qu) (both male and female)
• Rapa Nui: ia
• Romanian: dumnealui (ro) (formal), el (ro) (informal)
• Romansch: el
• Russian: он (ru) (on)
• Rusyn: он (on)
• Sami:

  Inari: sun (both male and female)

  Lule: sån (both male and female)

  Northern: son (both male and female)

  Skolt: son (both male and female)

  Southern: dïhte (both male and female)

• Scottish Gaelic: e (nonemphatic), esan (emphatic)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̑н

  Roman: ȏn (sh)

• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Sicilian: iddu (scn)
• Sinhalese: එයා (eyā) (informal), ඔහු (ohu) (formal)
• Slovak: on (sk)
• Slovene: òn (sl)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wón

  Upper Sorbian: wón

• Spanish: él (es)
• Swahili: (both male and female) yeye
• Swedish: han (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠢꠦ (he), ꠔꠣꠁꠘ (tain)
• Tagalog: (ng form) ^{(please verify)} niya, (sa form) ^{(please verify)} kaniya, (unmarked form) ^{(please verify)} siya (all both male and female)
• Tajik: ӯ (tg) (ü) (both male and female)
• Talysh: اه‎ (a), ا‎ (a)
• Tamil: அவன் (ta) class distal (avaṉ), அவன் (ta) (avaṉ) (distal)
• Taos: ą́wąną
• Tatar: ул (tt) (ul) (both male and female)
• Telugu: అతడు (te) (ataḍu), అతను (te) (atanu)
• Thai: เขา (th) (kǎo) (both male and female)
• Tibetan: ཁོང (khong) (ordinary male/female), ཁོ་རང (kho rang) (familiar male)
• Tigrinya: ንሱ (ti) (nəsu)
• Tlingit: hú
• Tok Pisin: em
• Tupinambá: (both male and female) a'e
• Turkish: o (tr) (both male and female)
• Turkmen: ol (both male and female)
• Udmurt: со (so)
• Ukrainian: він (uk) (vin)
• Unami: nàni (both male and female)
• Urdu: وہ‎ (vah), یہ‎ (yah)
• Uyghur: (both male and female) ئۇ‎ (ug) (u)
• Uzbek: u (uz) (both male and female)
• Venetian: el (vec) m, eło
• Vietnamese: (young man) anh ấy, (older or respected man) ông ấy, (child) nó (vi), (informal or pejorative) hắn (vi), (South) ổng (vi), (South) ảnh (vi)
• Volapük: om (vo)
• Welsh: ef, fe, fo (cy)
• West Frisian: hy (fy), (clitic) er (fy)
• White Hmong: nws (both male and female)
• Wolof: moom (wo)
• Yagnobi: aх
• Yiddish: ער‎ (er)
• Yoruba: ó, (both male and female) á
• Yámana: kitu
• Zazaki: o, ey
• Zealandic: 'ie, (unemphatic, clitic) 'n
• Zhuang: de (both male and female)
• Zulu: yena class 1 (most common), wona class 3, lona class 5, sona class 7, yona class 9, lona class 11
• ǃKung: ha (both male and female)
• ǃXóõ: èh, (emphatic) èhʻè, ã`h, (emphatic) ã`hʻã`