hende
Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
See also: hendé
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English ġehende.
Adjective[edit]
hende (comparative more hende, superlative most hende)
- (obsolete) Near, close at hand, handy.
- (obsolete) Courteous, gracious.
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- Late 14th century: Oure Hoost þo spak, “A, sire, ye sholde be hende / And curteys, as a man of youre estaat” — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Friar's Prologue’, Canterbury Tales (OUP 1988, p. 122)
- 14th century: And if he were so hende and so wis / Þat she ne myȝt al abate his pris, / Yit wolde she blame his worþynesse / Or by hir wordis make it lesse. — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose (OUP 1988, p. 689-90)
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Danish[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
hende (nominative hun, possessive hendes)
- (personal) objective case of hun, meaning her
See also[edit]
Danish personal pronouns
| Number | Person | Inflection | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive | Reflexive | Reflexive possessive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | First | common | jeg | mig | min | ||
| neuter | mit | ||||||
| plural | mine | ||||||
| Second | common | du | dig | din | |||
| neuter | dit | ||||||
| plural | dine | ||||||
| formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | masculine | han | ham | hans | sig | sin | |
| feminine | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
| common | den | den | dens | ||||
| neuter | det | det | dets | sit | |||
| plural | sine | ||||||
| Plural | First | — | vi | os | vores | ||
| common | vor | ||||||
| neuter | vort | ||||||
| plural | vore | ||||||
| Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
| formal | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | – | de | dem | deres | sig | ||
