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Etymology

Clipping of English Hittite.

Symbol

hit

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hittite.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hittite terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂id-néh₂-ti

Proto-Germanic *hittijaną

Old Norse hittader.

Old English hyttan

Middle English hitten

English hit

Inherited from Middle English hitten (“to hit, strike, make contact with”), from Old English hittan (“to meet with, come upon, fall in with”), from Old Norse hitta (“to strike, meet”), from Proto-Germanic *hittijaną (“to come upon, find”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd- (“to fall; fall upon; hit; cut; hew”).

Cognates

Cognate with West Frisian hitte (“to meet”), Dutch hitten (“to hit, encounter”), Danish hitte (“to find”), Faroese, Icelandic, Swedish hitta (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk hitta, hitte (“to meet; to find”), Latin caedō (“to kill”), Albanian qit (“to hit, throw, pull out, release”). Probably also related to Dutch hei (“mallet”), German Heie (“wooden hammer, mallet”).

(something very successful): Compare typologically striking, Russian порази́тельный (porazítelʹnyj) (<~ порази́ть (porazítʹ) <~ рази́ть (razítʹ)).

Verb

hit (third-person singular simple present hits, present participle hitting, simple past hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het, past participle hit or (dialectal, obsolete) hat or (rare, dialectal) het or (archaic, rare, dialectal) hitten)

Two boxers hitting each other

1. (heading, physical) To strike.
   1. (transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

      One boy hit the other.

      • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter II, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

        Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

      • 1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves:

        He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.

      • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 15]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

        Bello: (Shouts) Good, by the rumping jumping general! That's the best bit of news I heard these six weeks. Here, don't keep me waiting, damn you! (He slaps her face)
        Bello: (Whimpers) You're after hitting me. I'll tell […]

      • 1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game:

        I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.

   2. (transitive) To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

      The ball hit the fence.

      • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):

        a dozen apples, each of them near as large as a Bristol barrel, came tumbling about my ears; one of them hit me on the back as I chanced to stoop, and knocked me down flat on my face.

      • 1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Doctor Grimshawe's Secret: A romance:

        Meanwhile the street boys kept up a shower of mud balls, many of which hit the Doctor, while the rest were distributed upon his assailants.

   3. (intransitive) To strike against something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   4. (transitive) To activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.

      Hit the Enter key to continue.

   5. (transitive, slang) To kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

      Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.

      • 1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)

        FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels? I loved that ole sonuvabitch.

   6. (transitive, military) To attack, especially amphibiously.

      If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.

   7. (figurative, ambitransitive) To affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.

      Their coffee really hits the spot.

      I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.

2. (transitive) To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

   Antonym: miss

   I hit the jackpot.

   You can't hit the high notes in that song!

3. (transitive, colloquial) To switch on or switch off (lights).

   Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!

4. (transitive, music, informal) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To commence playing.

   - I'd love to hear your band play.
   - Hit it, boys!

5. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.

   We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.

6. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.

   You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.

   We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.

7. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
   1. (transitive, informal) To reach or achieve.

      The movie hits theaters in December.

      The temperature could hit 110°F tomorrow.

      We hit Detroit at one in the morning but kept driving through the night.

      • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport:

        As soon as we hit Jazzafrazz Town, we were overcome by the glitz and the glamour.

      • 2012 August 1, Owen Gibson, “London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal”, in Guardian Unlimited‎^[1]:

        And her success with Glover, a product of the National Lottery-funded Sporting Giants talent identification programme, will also spark relief among British officials who were starting to fret a little about hitting their target of equalling fourth in the medal table from Beijing.

   2. (intransitive) To meet or reach what was aimed at or desired; to succeed, often by luck.
      • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

        And oft it hits / Where hope is coldest and despair most fits.

      • 1733, [Jonathan Swift], On Poetry: A Rapsody, Dublin; London: […] [R. Fleming] [a]nd sold by J. Huggonson, […], →OCLC, page 3, lines 1–2:

        All Human Race wou’d fain be Wits, / And Millions miſs, for one that hits.

   3. To guess; to light upon or discover.
      • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

        Thou hast hit it.

      • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 69:

        And we shall sit at endless feast,
        ⁠Enjoying each the other’s good;
        ⁠What vaster dream can hit the mood
        Of Love on earth?

8. (transitive) To affect negatively.

   The economy was hit by a recession.  The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.

9. (figuratively) To attack.
   • 2016 March 3, Nick Gass, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump on small hands: 'I guarantee you there's no problem'”, in Politico‎^[2]:

     I have to say this, he hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I’ve never heard of this one. Look at those hands. Are they small hands?

10. (heading, games) To make a play.
    1. (transitive, card games) In blackjack, to deal a card to.

       Hit me.

    2. (intransitive, baseball) To come up to bat.

       Jones hit for the pitcher.

    3. (backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
11. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.

    The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.

12. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.

    I'd hit that!

13. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
    • 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown‎^[3], performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:

      Tastes like fruit when you hit it; got to have bread to get it.

    • 2020, DubbyD, im hitting my dmt cart right now‎^[4], spoken by CSGO player Loc T Nguyen:

      I'm hitting my DMT cart right now. Hold up, hold on nigga. I'm hittin' it not enough to break through though. Oh my God! Oh my God nigga uhhh. I'm- ohhh my God, dude! Ohhh, ahhh! Oh my God! Holy fuck! Oh my God! Oohhh. Oohhh! God! Oh my God! Ahhh! Fuck, I'm breaking through bro. Ohh!

14. (transitive, bodybuilding) (of an exercise) to affect, to work a body part.

    This is another great exercise which hits the long head.

15. (transitive, bodybuilding) To work out.

    With that said, the group hitting their legs just once a week still made gains.

Synonyms

• (administer a blow): beat, pelt, thump; see also Thesaurus:hit
• (kill a person): bump off, do away with, whack; see also Thesaurus:kill
• (attack): beset, fall upon, lay into; see also Thesaurus:attack
• (have sex with): bang, ram, smash; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
• (smoke marijuana): smoke up, toke
• (work out): hit the gym

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “manage to touch in the right place”): miss

Derived terms

Terms derived from hit (verb)

• a hit dog will holler
• don't let the door hit you on the way out
• flood-hit (adjective)
• hard-hitting
• hit above one's weight
• hit a brick wall
• hit a clip
• hit a false note
• hit a home run
• hit a lick
• hit and hope
• hit-and-miss
• hit and run
• hit a nerve
• hit-a-pin bagatelle
• hit a raw nerve
• hit a six
• hit a snag
• hit a stain
• hit at
• hit a wall
• hit away
• hit back
• hit below one's weight
• hit below the belt
• hit bottom
• hit different
• hit hard
• hit home
• hit into the long grass
• hit it
• hit it and quit it
• hit it big
• hit it for six
• hit it from the back
• hit it off
• hit it out of the park
• hit it up
• hit licks
• hit like a ton of bricks
• hit like a truck
• hitman
• hit me
• hit off
• hit off the line
• hit on
• hit on all cylinders
• hit on all six
• hit one hard
• hit one out of the ball park
• hit one out of the ballpark
• hit one's marks
• hit one's straps
• hit one's stride
• hit out
• hit out of the park
• hit pause
• hit paydirt
• hit pay dirt
• hit rock bottom
• hit-run
• hit send
• hit-skip
• hit someone for six
• hit someone when they are down
• hittable
• hittee
• hitter
• hit the accelerator
• hit the ball twice
• hit the big time
• hit the board
• hit the books
• hit the bottle
• hit the bricks
• hit the buffers
• hit the button
• hit the ceiling
• hit the deck
• hit the dirt
• hit the fan
• hit the floor
• hit the gas
• hit the gold
• hit the ground running
• hit the gym
• hit the hay
• hit the head
• hit the headlines
• hit the high notes
• hit the jackpot
• hit the mark
• hit them licks
• hit the nail on the head
• hit the net
• hit the pan
• hit the pause button
• hit the pavement
• hit the rack
• hit the road
• hit the rock
• hit the rocks
• hit the roof
• hit the sack
• hit the sauce
• hit the sheets
• hit the shelves
• hit the shops
• hit the shower
• hit the showers
• hit the silk
• hit the skids
• hit the spot
• hit the stores
• hit the streets
• hit the trail
• hit the wall
• hitting
• hitting partner
• hitting time
• hit too close to home
• hit two birds with one shot
• hit two targets with one arrow
• hit up
• hit up against
• hit upon
• hit wicket
• hit with
• hit with the stupid stick
• it's the hit dog that howls
• let the door hit you where the good Lord split you
• look like a bomb has hit it
• mis-hit
• mishit
• not be able to hit the broad side of a barn
• not hit a cow's arse with a banjo
• not know what hit one
• one-hit
• outhit
• overhit
• pinch-hit
• switch-hitting
• the fat hit the fire
• the rubber hits the road
• the shit hit the fan
• the tackies hit the tar
• they hit the Pentagon
• underhit
• unhit
• who-hit-John

Translations

to administer a blow — see also strike

• Afar: oogore
• Afrikaans: slaan (af)
• Albanian: dëkoj (sq), gju (sq)

  Gheg Albanian: hi

• Arabic: ضَرَبَ (ar) (ḍaraba)

  Hijazi Arabic: ضرب (ḍarab)

• Armenian: խփել (hy) (xpʻel), հարվածել (hy) (harvacel)
• Aromanian: agudescu, bat (roa-rup)
• Asturian: golpiar (ast)
• Azerbaijani: vurmaq (az), çırpmaq
• Bashkir: һуғыу (huğıw)
• Basque: jo (eu)
• Belarusian: біць impf (bicʹ), пабі́ць pf (pabícʹ); удара́ць impf (udarácʹ), ўдара́ць impf (wdarácʹ), уда́рыць pf (udárycʹ), ўда́рыць pf (wdárycʹ)
• Bengali: আঘাত করা (aghat kora)
• Bulgarian: у́дрям (bg) impf (údrjam), уда́ря pf (udárja), би́я (bg) impf (bíja)
• Burmese: ရိုက် (my) (ruik)
• Catalan: colpejar (ca), batre (ca), pegar (ca), copejar (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎬᏂᎭ (gvniha)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 打擊 / 打击 (daa² gik¹)

  Mandarin: 打擊 / 打击 (zh) (dǎjī)

• Czech: praštit pf, uhodit (cs) pf, udeřit (cs) pf
• Danish: slå (da)
• Dutch: raken (nl), treffen (nl), slaan (nl)
• Esperanto: frapi (eo), bati (eo), trafi (eo)
• Estonian: lööma (et)
• Finnish: iskeä (fi), lyödä (fi)
• French: frapper (fr), battre (fr)
• Galician: golpear (gl), bater (gl)
• Georgian: დარტყმა (darṭq̇ma), რტყმა (rṭq̇ma)
• German: schlagen (de), treffen (de), stoßen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐌰𐌽 (bliggwan)
• Greek: χτυπώ (el) (chtypó)

  Ancient Greek: τύπτω (túptō), πλήσσω (plḗssō), βάλλω (bállō) (by throwing something), τυγχάνω (tunkhánō), οὐτάω (outáō), τοξεύω (toxeúō) (with an arrow), ἀκοντίζω (akontízō) (with a javelin)

• Hebrew: הרביץ (he) (hirbíts)
• Higaonon: naigo
• Hindi: मारना (hi) (mārnā)
• Hungarian: üt (hu)
• Icelandic: slá (is)
• Ido: frapar (io)
• Indonesian: pukul (id)
• Ingrian: iskiä, löövvä, tappaa, issuttaa, peeksää, napsuttaa, kleittää, kommia
• Irish: buail

  Old Irish: benaid

• Italian: colpire (it), picchiare (it), battere (it)
• Jamaican Creole: lick
• Japanese: 打つ (ja) (うつ, utsu), 叩く (ja) (たたく, tataku)
• Kambera: palu
• Kazakh: ұру (uruw), соғу (soğuw)
• Khmer: វាយ (km) (viəy)
• Korean: 치다 (ko) (chida)
• Kyrgyz: уруу (ky) (uruu)
• Lao: ຕີ (tī)
• Latgalian: sist, laubt, dyurēt
• Latin: feriō, battuo, pello, pulso
• Latvian: sist (lv), iebelzt
• Lithuanian: smogti (lt), mušti (lt)
• Macedonian: удира impf (udira), бие impf (bie)
• Malay: pukul (ms)
• Malayalam: അടിക്കുക (ml) (aṭikkuka)
• Marshallese: bait
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: цохих (mn) (coxix)

• Nanai: дуктэ- (dukte-)
• Nepali: ठोक्नु (ṭhoknu)
• Ngombe (Congo): boma
• Norman: paffer (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slå (no)

  Nynorsk: slå

• Occitan: batre (oc)
• Odia: ମାରିବା (or) (māribā)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: бити impf (biti)

• Old English: slēan
• Pashto: خرپول (ps) (xrapawǝl)
• Pennsylvania German: aabappe
• Persian: زدن (fa) (zadan)
• Polish: uderzać (pl) impf, uderzyć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: golpear (pt), bater (pt)
• Quechua: maqay
• Romanian: lovi (ro), bate (ro)
• Romansh: batter, pitgar
• Russian: ударя́ть (ru) impf (udarjátʹ), уда́рить (ru) pf (udáritʹ), стуча́ть (ru) impf (stučátʹ), сту́кнуть (ru) pf (stúknutʹ), бить (ru) impf (bitʹ), поби́ть (ru) pf (pobítʹ)
• Saho: oogore
• Sanskrit: तुदति (sa) (tudati)
• Scottish Gaelic: buail
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̀дарити pf, би̏ти impf, за̀бити pf, опи́здити pf (vulgar)

  Latin: ùdariti (sh) pf, bȉti (sh) impf, zàbiti (sh) pf, opízditi (sh) pf (vulgar)

• Shor: шабарға (şabarğa)
• Slovak: udrieť pf, biť impf
• Slovene: udariti pf, bíti (sl) impf
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: biś impf, deriś pf

• Sougb: at
• Spanish: golpear (es), pegarle (es), batir (es), darle (es), fajar (es), fajear (es), arrear (es), cinchonear (es) (with an object, Central America), atizarle, asestarle
• Sundanese: tinggang (su)
• Swedish: slå (sv), slå till (sv)
• Tajik: задан (zadan‍)
• Ternate: tero
• Tetum: baku
• Thai: ตี (th) (dtii)
• Tok Pisin: paitim, kilim
• Turkish: vurmak (tr)
• Turkmen: urmak
• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎃𐎕 (mḫṣ)
• Ukrainian: вдаря́ти impf (vdarjáty), вда́рити pf (vdáryty), би́ти (uk) impf (býty)
• Urdu: مارنا (mārnā)
• Uyghur: ئۇرماق (urmaq)
• Uzbek: urmoq (uz)
• Vietnamese: đập (vi), đánh (vi)
• Volapük: flapön (vo), leflapön (augmentative)
• Welsh: taro (cy)
• Yiddish: שלאָגן (shlogn)
• Zealandic: slae

to come into contact with forcefully and suddenly

• Bashkir: бәрелеү (bərelew)
• Bulgarian: у́дрям (bg) impf (údrjam), уда́ря pf (udárja)
• Catalan: xocar (ca)
• Danish: slå imod
• Finnish: iskeytyä (fi), törmätä (fi), osua (fi)
• French: cogner (fr)
• German: schlagen (de), (colloquial) knallen (de)
• Hebrew: פָּגַע (he) (pagá)
• Malayalam: കൊള്ളുക (ml) (koḷḷuka)
• Naga:

  Khiamniungan Naga: thóng

• Pennsylvania German: aabappe
• Polish: uderzać (pl) impf, uderzyć (pl) pf, stukać (pl) impf, stuknąć (pl) pf
• Portuguese: bater (pt), chocar-se, colidir (pt)
• Russian: ударя́ться (ru) impf (udarjátʹsja), уда́риться (ru) pf (udáritʹsja)
• Spanish: dar (es), chocar (es), chancar (es), jitear (baseball, Puerto Rico)
• Swedish: slå emot
• Tok Pisin: paitim, kilim

to attack, chiefly amphibiously

• Finnish: iskeä (fi)
• Japanese: 攻撃する (ja) (こうげきする, kōgeki suru)
• Russian: напада́ть (ru) impf (napadátʹ), напа́сть (ru) pf (napástʹ)

to manage to touch in the right place

• Arabic: أَصَابَ (ʔaṣāba)
• Belarusian: пацэліць pf (pacelicʹ)
• Bulgarian: у́дрям (bg) impf (údrjam), уда́ря pf (udárja), поразя́вам (bg) impf (porazjávam), улу́чвам (bg) impf (ulúčvam),
• Catalan: encertar (ca)
• Czech: trefit
• Danish: træffe (da)
• Dutch: raken (nl), treffen (nl)
• Finnish: osua (fi)
• French: toucher (fr)
• German: treffen (de)
• Icelandic: hitta (is)
• Ingrian: tarkata
• Irish: aimsigh
• Japanese: 当てる (ja) (あてる, ateru)
• Malayalam: കൊള്ളിക്കുക (koḷḷikkuka)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: treffe (no)

• Polish: trafiać (pl) impf, trafić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: acertar (pt), bater (pt), atingir (pt)
• Russian: попада́ть (ru) impf (popadátʹ), попа́сть (ru) pf (popástʹ), поража́ть (ru) impf (poražátʹ), порази́ть (ru) pf (porazítʹ)
• Spanish: acertar (es)
• Swedish: träffa (sv)
• Ukrainian: влуча́ти impf (vlučáty)

to kill a person on the instructions of a third party

• Finnish: murhata (fi), tappaa (fi)
• French: descendre (fr)
• German: morden (de)
• Portuguese: apagar (pt) (slang)

to briefly visit

• Bulgarian: навестявам (bg) (navestjavam)
• Danish: møde (da)
• Finnish: käydä (fi), mennä (fi), pistäytyä (fi)
• German: treffen (de)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ско̏кнути pf (colloquial)

  Latin: skȍknuti (sh) pf (colloquial)

to encounter a difficulty

• Bulgarian: сре́щам (bg) impf (sréštam)
• Finnish: kohdata (fi)
• French: se taper (fr)

in blackjack, to deal a card to

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hit (no)

to come up to bat

to begin

• Finnish: tulla (fi)
• German: abschlagen (de)

to use

• Hittite: [Term?] (/⁠use⁠/)

to affect negatively

• Danish: slå (da)
• Finnish: vaikeuttaa (fi), vahingoittaa (fi), haitata (fi), kärsiä (fi)
• French: frapper (fr)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ramme (no)

• Swedish: slå (sv)

to have sex with

• French: se taper (fr)
• Russian: (transitive) тра́хать (ru) impf (tráxatʹ), тра́хнуть (ru) pf (tráxnutʹ), дрю́чить (ru) impf (drjúčitʹ), отдрю́чить (ru) pf (otdrjúčitʹ), поиме́ть (ru) pf (poimétʹ), отыме́ть (ru) pf (otymétʹ); (intransitive), тра́хаться (ru) impf (tráxatʹsja), тра́хнуться (ru) pf (tráxnutʹsja), потра́хаться (ru) pf (potráxatʹsja), дрю́читься (ru) impf (drjúčitʹsja), отдрю́читься pf (otdrjúčitʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: опа́лити pf

  Latin: opáliti (sh) pf

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 打 (zh) (dǎ)

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} kena (id)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} smiot
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} taper (Jersey)
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} زدن (fa) (zadan), ^{(please verify)} زن (fa) (zan) (present tense)
• Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} djilp

Noun

hit (plural hits)

1. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.
   • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Fourth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     So he the fam'd Cilician fencer prais'd, / And, at each hit, with wonder seem'd amaz'd.

   The hit was very slight.

3. Something very successful, such as a song, film, or video game, that receives widespread recognition and acclaim.
   • 1848, “Her Majesty's Theatre”, in The Musical World‎^[5], volume 23:

     Marie Taglioni was another hit for Her Majesty's Theatre last season, and will be a hit again this season […]

   • 2012 February 9, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Review: Chico & Rita”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[6]:

     Chico & Rita opens in the modern era, as an aged, weary Chico shines shoes in his native Cuba. Then a song heard on the radio—a hit he wrote and recorded with Rita in their youth—carries him back to 1948 Havana, where they first met.

4. (figuratively) A blow; a calamitous or damaging occurrence.

   His reputation took a hit when the new information came to light.

5. An attack on a location, person or people.
6. A collision of a projectile with the target.
   • 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:

     But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.

   1. In the game of Battleship, a correct guess at where one's opponent ship is.
7. (computing, Internet) A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
8. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.

   My site received twice as many hits after being listed in a search engine.

9. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
10. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s choice.

    The catcher got a hit to lead off the fifth.

11. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.

    Where am I going to get my next hit?

12. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
    • 2023 August 30, Megan K. Stack, Rob Stothard, “He Was Shot 14 Times at the Dinner Table. His Children Want to Know if Britain Ordered the Hit.”, in The New York Times‎^[7], →ISSN:

      The questions that have always haunted the family — who ordered the hit, and why, and who in London might have known — remain unanswered.

13. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.

    a happy hit

    • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

      What late he called a blessing, now was wit, / And God's good providence, a lucky hit.

14. (backgammon) A move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point.
15. (backgammon) A game won after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “a punch”): miss
• (antonym(s) of “success”): flop, turkey

Derived terms

• banjo hit
• base hit
• bong hit
• classic hit
• critical hit
• cult hit
• direct hit
• extra base hit
• first hit time
• gallery hit
• hard hit
• hit and giggle
• hitbox
• hit-by-pitch
• hit counter
• hitjob
• hitless
• hit list
• hitmaker
• hitmaking
• hit man
• hitmarker
• hit-out
• hit parade
• hitperson
• hit piece
• hit point
• hitscan
• hit squad
• hit test
• hit-up
• hitwoman
• infield hit
• king-hit
• king hit
• megahit
• mishit
• multihit
• nervous hit
• no hit
• no-hit wonder
• nonhit
• one-hit kill
• one-hit wonder
• orchestra hit
• pinch hit
• sacrifice hit
• safe hit
• scratch hit
• sleeper hit
• smash hit
• straight hit
• superhit
• switch hit
• take a hit
• turntable hit
• two-hit wonder

Descendants

• → Catalan: hit
• → Czech: hit
• → Danish: hit
• → French: hit
• → Dutch: hit
• → Japanese: ヒット (hitto)
• → Polish: hit
• → Portuguese: hit
• → Russian: хит (xit)
• → Spanish: hit
• → Swedish: hit

Translations

blow, punch

• Arabic: ضَرْبَة f (ḍarba)
• Armenian: հարված (hy) (harvac)
• Belarusian: уда́р m (udár)
• Bulgarian: у́дар (bg) m (údar)
• Catalan: cop (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 打擊 / 打击 (zh) (dǎjī)

• Czech: úder (cs) m, rána (cs) f
• Dutch: slag (nl) f, stoot (nl) m
• Esperanto: frapo, bato
• Finnish: isku (fi), lyönti (fi)
• French: coup (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schlag (de) m, Hieb (de) m, Stoß (de) m, Treffer (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: πληγή f (plēgḗ)

• Hebrew: מַכָּה (he) (maká)
• Ido: frapo (io)
• Ingrian: nappu, isku, napsu, tiltukkain
• Irish: buille, béim (ga), cíonán
• Japanese: 衝突 (ja) (しょうとつ, shōtotsu), 一撃 (ja) (いちげき, ichigeki)
• Korean: 일격(一擊) (ko) (ilgyeok)
• Latgalian: sitīņs, īsisšona
• Latvian: sitiens
• Lithuanian: smūgis
• Macedonian: удар m (udar)
• Māori: whakapānga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: slag (no) n

• Old English: sleġe m
• Persian: ضربه (fa) (zarbe)
• Plautdietsch: Schlach m
• Polish: uderzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: golpe (pt) m, batida (pt) f
• Romanian: lovitură (ro) f
• Romansh: frida f, freida f, cuolp m
• Russian: уда́р (ru) m (udár)
• Scottish Gaelic: beum m, bualadh m, buille f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: у̏да̄р m

  Latin: ȕdār (sh) m

• Slovak: úder m
• Spanish: golpe (es) m, sequete m, tatequieto m, matada (es) f (violent, colloquial)
• Swedish: slag (sv) n
• Ukrainian: уда́р (uk) m (udár)
• Volapük: flap (vo), (augmentative) leflap
• Yiddish: שלאָג m (shlog)

success, especially in the entertainment industry

• Belarusian: хіт m (xit), шля́гер m (šljáhjer)
• Bulgarian: хит (bg) m (hit), шла́гер m (šláger)
• Catalan: èxit (ca) m, hit (ca) m
• Czech: hit (cs) m, šlágr (cs) m
• Danish: hit (da) n, schlager c, slager c
• Dutch: hit (nl) m, schlager (nl) m
• Esperanto: ŝlagro
• Estonian: šlaager, hitt
• Faroese: hitt n
• Finnish: hitti (fi), menestys (fi)
• French: hit (fr) m, tube (fr) m, schlager (fr) m (somewhat dated)
• German: Hit (de) m, Erfolg (de) m, Schlager (de) m
• Greek: σουξέ (el) n (souxé)
• Hebrew: לָהִיט (he) m (lahít)
• Hungarian: sláger (hu)
• Japanese: ヒット (ja) (hitto), ヒット曲 (ヒットきょく, hittokyoku) (hit song)
• Kashubian: przebòj m
• Korean: 히트 (ko) (hiteu), 히트곡 (hiteugok) (hit song)
• Latvian: hits m, šlagers m
• Lithuanian: hitas m
• Macedonian: хит m (hit), шлагер m (šlager)
• Manx: ard-speeideilys m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hit (no) m, slager m

• Polish: hit (pl) m, przebój (pl) m, szlagier (pl) m
• Portuguese: hit (pt) m, sucesso (pt) m
• Romanian: șlagăr (ro) n
• Russian: хит (ru) m (xit), шля́гер (ru) m (šljáger)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хи̏т m, шла́гер m

  Latin: hȉt (sh) m, šláger (sh) m

• Slovak: hit (sk) m, šláger m
• Slovene: hit m, šlager m
• Spanish: éxito (es) m, hit (es) m, algo que arrasa n
• Swedish: hit (sv) c, schlager (sv) c
• Ukrainian: хіт m (xit), шля́гер m (šljáher)
• Yiddish: שלאַגער m (shlager)

attack on a location

• Dutch: aanslag (nl) m
• Finnish: isku (fi)
• French: frappe (fr) f
• German: Anschlag (de) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anslag (no) n

• Portuguese: ataque (pt) m
• Ukrainian: уда́р (uk) m (udár)

collision of a projectile with the target

• Belarusian: папада́нне n (papadánnje)
• Bulgarian: попаде́ние (bg) n (popadénie)
• Czech: zásah (cs) m
• Danish: træffer
• Dutch: tref (nl) m
• Esperanto: trafo
• Finnish: osuma (fi)
• French: portée efficace f, bonne cible f
• German: Treffer (de) m
• Hungarian: találat (hu)
• Polish: trafienie (pl) n
• Romanian: nimerire
• Russian: попада́ние (ru) n (popadánije)
• Spanish: acierto (es) m
• Swedish: träff (sv) c
• Turkish: isabet (tr)
• Ukrainian: влуча́ння n (vlučánnja), влу́чення n (vlúčennja)

computing, Internet: positive result of a search — see also result

• Bulgarian: попаде́ние (bg) n (popadénie)
• Finnish: osuma (fi)
• French: hit (fr) m, résultat (fr)
• German: Treffer (de) m, Hit (de) m
• Hungarian: találat (hu)
• Italian: risultato (it)
• Japanese: ヒット (ja) (hitto)
• Persian: نتیجه (fa) (natije)
• Portuguese: acerto (pt) m, resultado (pt)
• Spanish: acierto (es) m
• Swedish: träff (sv) c

Internet: measured visit to a web site

• Finnish: käyntikerta
• French: hit (fr) m
• Swedish: träff (sv) c, anrop (sv) n

approximately correct answer in a test set

• Portuguese: acerto (pt) m

(baseball) complete play, when the batter reaches base

• Finnish: hitti (fi)
• French: coup sûr (fr) m
• Italian: valida (it) f, battuta (it) f valida
• Japanese: 安打 (ja) (あんだ, anda), ヒット (ja) (hitto)
• Spanish: hit (es) m, jit (es) m, imparable (es) m, batazo m, toletazo m, inatrapable m, sencillo (es) m, indiscutible (es) m

dose of an illegal or addictive drug — see also dose,‎ shot,‎ fix,‎ puff

• Finnish: annos (fi), satsi (fi); klikki (fi), töötti (fi) (of intravenal drugs); lappu (fi), trippi (fi) (of LSD)
• French: taffe (fr) f, bouffée (fr) f
• German: Hit (de) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skudd n

• Spanish: calada (es) f, patada (es) f

murder for criminal or political purposes

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tilausmurha
• French: contrat (fr) m, assassinat commandité m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: no equivalent term in German, but see Mord (de) m (murder), Ermordung (de) f (murder), Auftragsmord (de) m (contract kill)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: zabójstwo (pl) n, zamach (pl) m, morderstwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: assassínio (pt) m (Portugal), assassinato (pt) m (Brazil)
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: покуше́ние (ru) n (pokušénije), нападе́ние (ru) n (napadénije), уби́йство (ru) n (ubíjstvo)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought

• Finnish: sivallus

backgammon: move that throws one of the opponent's men back to the entering point

backgammon: game won after the adversary has removed some of his men

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 命中 (zh) (mìngzhòng)

• Indonesian: ^{(please verify)} hit (id)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} colpo (it) m
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 명중 (ko) (myeongjung) (byeongchung)

Adjective

hit (not comparable)

1. Very successful.

   The band played their hit song to the delight of the fans.

Etymology 2

From Middle English hit (“it”), from Old English hit (“it”), from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Dutch het (“it”). More at it; also note 'it.

Pronoun

hit (subjective and objective hit, reflexive and intensive hitself, possessive adjective and noun hits)

1. (dialectal) It.
   • 1922, Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly, volume 130:

     But how hit was to come about didn't appear.

   • 1998, Nancy A. Walker, What's so funny?: humor in American culture:

     Now, George, grease it good, an' let hit slide down the hill hits own way.

Derived terms

• hits
• hitself

References

• “hit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “hit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Thi, iht, ith, thi-

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• hüt, hüüd (Uri)

Etymology

From Old High German hiutu, from hiu +‎ tagu, a calque of Latin hodie. Cognate with German heute, Dutch heden.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

Adverb

hit

1. (Alsace) today

   Hit isch dr Jean-Pierre so drüri. ― Jean-Pierre is so sad today.

Catalan

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/

Noun

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (something very successful)

   Synonym: èxit

   • 2020 February 6, Time Out Barcelona‎^[8], volume 583, page 8, column Sèries:

     Us passareu els capítols amb el Shazam obert buscant els hits que sonen.

     You'll spend the episodes with Shazam open, searching for the hits that play.

Chamorro

Etymology

From Pre-Chamorro *(xi)ta, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita. Doublet of ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/

Pronoun

hit

1. we, us (inclusive)

Usage notes

• hit is used either as a subject of an intransitive verb or as an object of a transitive verb, while ta is used as a subject of a transitive verb.
• In transitive clauses with an indefinite object, hit can be used as a subject.

See also

Chamorro personal pronouns

	singular	plural inclusive	plural exclusive
hu-type pronouns
1st person	hu	ta	in
2nd person	un	en
3rd person	ha	ma
yoʼ-type pronouns
1st person	yo'	hit	ham
2nd person	hao	hamyo
3rd person	gue'	siha
emphatic pronouns
1st person	guahu	hita	hami
2nd person	hagu	hamyo
3rd person	guiya	siha

References

• Donald M. Topping (1973), Chamorro Reference Grammar‎^[9], Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press

Chinese

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): hit¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: hit¹
    • Yale: hīt
    • Cantonese Pinyin: hit⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: hid¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /hiːt̚⁵/

Adjective

hit

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) hit; popular; hot

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

hit m inan

1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

   Synonym: šlágr

Declension

Declension of hit (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	hit	hity
genitive	hitu	hitů
dative	hitu	hitům
accusative	hit	hity
vocative	hite	hity
locative	hitu	hitech
instrumental	hitem	hity

Further reading

• “hit”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
• “hit”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “hit”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

Danish

Etymology

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/, [ˈhid̥]

Noun

hit n (singular definite hittet, plural indefinite hit or hits)

1. hit (something very successful)

Declension

Declension of hit

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hit	hittet	hit hits	hittene
genitive	hits	hittets	hits hits'	hittenes

Further reading

• “hit” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦɪt/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: hit
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English hit.

Noun

hit m (plural hits, diminutive hitje n)

1. a hit song, a very popular and successful song
2. (by extension) a success, something popular and successful (especially in the entertainment industry)

Derived terms

• feesthit
• kersthit
• zomerhit

Etymology 2

Shortening of Hitlander (“Shetlander”).

Noun

hit m (plural hitten, diminutive hitje n or hitske n)

1. (dated) a Shetland pony
2. (dated, regional) any pony or small horse

Derived terms

• daghit

French

Noun

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (popular song)
2. hit (success)

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of hit – see 彼 (“that; those; he; she; it; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 彼).

Hungarian

Etymology

From the stem of hisz (“to believe”) +‎ -t (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhit]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -it

Noun

hit (plural hitek)

1. faith, belief
2. (archaic) oath, word of honour (e.g. in hitves and hitet tesz)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	hit	hitek
accusative	hitet	hiteket
dative	hitnek	hiteknek
instrumental	hittel	hitekkel
causal-final	hitért	hitekért
translative	hitté	hitekké
terminative	hitig	hitekig
essive-formal	hitként	hitekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hitben	hitekben
superessive	hiten	hiteken
adessive	hitnél	hiteknél
illative	hitbe	hitekbe
sublative	hitre	hitekre
allative	hithez	hitekhez
elative	hitből	hitekből
delative	hitről	hitekről
ablative	hittől	hitektől
non-attributive possessive – singular	hité	hiteké
non-attributive possessive – plural	hitéi	hitekéi

Possessive forms of hit

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hitem	hiteim
2nd person sing.	hited	hiteid
3rd person sing.	hite	hitei
1st person plural	hitünk	hiteink
2nd person plural	hitetek	hiteitek
3rd person plural	hitük	hiteik

Derived terms

• hiteget
• hites
• hitetlen
• hitlen
• hitű → ebhitű, igazhitű, kicsinyhitű, kishitű, kutyahitű, mózeshitű, óhitű
• hitves

Compound words with this term at the beginning

• hitágazat
• hitbizomány
• hitbuzgalom
• hitbuzgó
• hitehagyott
• hitelv
• hiteszegett
• hitélet
• hitfelekezet
• hithirdető
• hithű
• hithűség
• hitigazság
• hitközség
• hitlevél
• hitoktatás
• hitoktató
• hitrege
• hitrendszer
• hitsorsos
• hitszabadság
• hitszegő
• hitszónok
• hittagadás
• hittan
• hittanár
• hitterjesztés
• hittérítés
• hittérítő
• hittétel
• hittudomány
• hittudós
• hitújítás
• hitújító
• hitvallás
• hitvalló
• hitváltoztatás
• hitvédelem
• hitvédő
• hitvilág
• hitvita
• hitvitázó

Compound words with this term at the end

• bagóhit
• balhit
• istenhit, egyistenhit, többistenhit
• közhit
• néphit
• tévhit
• vakhit

Expressions

• hitet tesz

Further reading

• hit 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.

Jamaican Creole

Alternative forms

• it (dialectal spelling)
  • i (dialectal pronunciation spelling)

Etymology

From Jamaican Creole it, from English it

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

Noun

hit n

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Kott

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Yeniseian *kʰetʰ (“person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/

Noun

hit (plural c̔eäŋ)

1. man, person

Further reading

• Matthias Alexander Castrén, Versuch Einer Jenissei-Ostjakischen Und Kottischen Sprachlehre: Nebst Aus Den Genannten Sprachen, St. Petersburg: Leopold Voss Publisher, 1858, page 210
• Werner, Heinrich (2002), Vergleichendes Wörterbuch der Jenissej-Sprachen, volume 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, pages 420-421
• Werner, Heinrich K. (2003), Röhrborn, Klaus, Schellbach-Kopra, Ingrid, editors, M. A. Castrén und die Jenissejistik: Die Jennisej-Sprachen des 19. Jahrhunderts (Veröffentlichungen des Societas Uralo-Altaica; 62) (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 144

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• Hit (german-based spelling)
  • Hétt (Eupen)

Etymology

From Dutch hit, from English hit.

Noun

hit f

1. (slang, Dutch) something popular (book, song, band, country)

Usage notes

Slang. Mainly used when speaking Dutch, rather than in real Limburgish. Overall speaking, Limburgish is more conservative, therefore slaag is more often used.

Inflection

Inflection

	Root singular	Root plural	Diminutive singular	Diminutive plural
Nominative	hit	hits	hitje	hitjes
Genitive	hit	hits	hitjes	hitjes
Locative	hittes	hitteser	hitteske	hitteskes
Dative¹²	—	—	—	—
Accusative¹²	—	—	—	—

• Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
• The dative got out of use around 1900. As this is a recent loanword, there is no conjugation for it to be found.

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

Pronoun

hit

1. alternative form of het

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hit, from Proto-West Germanic *hit, from Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”).

Alternative forms

• hitt, hitte, hyt, hytte, it, itt, itte, jt, yt, ytt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/, /it/

Pronoun

hit (accusative hit, genitive hit, his, possessive determiner hit, his)

2. Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it
   1. Sometimes used in reference to a child: he, she
3. Third-person singular neuter accusative pronoun: it
4. Third-person singular neuter reflexive pronoun: itself
5. Third-person singular neuter genitive pronoun: its
6. (impersonal, placeholder) Third-person singular impersonal placeholder pronoun: it
   • c. 1335-1361, William of Palerne (MS. King's College 13), folio 4, recto, lines 3-4; republished as W. W. Skeat, editor, The Romance of William of Palerne‎^[10], London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1867, →OCLC, page 6:

     Hit bi fel in þat foreſt · þere faſt by ſide / þer woned a wel old cherl · þat was a couherde

     It so happened that right there in that forest / there was a very old peasant; a cowherd.

Descendants

• English: it

  Appalachia: hit

  Ottawa Valley: et

• Scots: hid
• Yola: it, yt, t' (misspelling)

See also

Middle English personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive	possessive
singular	1st person		I, ich, ik	me		min mi1	min
	2nd person		þou	þe		þin þi1	þin
	3rd person	m	he	him hine2	him	his	his hisen
		f	sche, heo	hire heo	hire		hire hires, hiren
		n	hit		hit him2	his, hit	—
dual3	1st person		wit	unk		unker
	2nd person		ȝit	inc		inker
plural	1st person		we	us, ous		oure	oure oures, ouren
	2nd person4		ye	yow		your	your youres, youren
	3rd person	inh.	he	hem he2	hem	here	here heres, heren
		bor.	þei	þem, þeim		þeir	þeir þeires, þeiren

¹ Used preconsonantally or before h.
² Early or dialectal.
³ Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
⁴ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.

References

• “hit, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.

Determiner

hit (nominative pronoun hit)

1. Third-person singular neuter possessive determiner: it

References

• “hit, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 May 2018.

Etymology 2

Verb

hit

1. (County Durham, Early Scots) alternative form of hitten

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian hít. Compare Swedish hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːt/

Adverb

hit

1. here (to this place), hither

   Kom hit!

   Come here!

References

• “hit” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːt/

Etymology 1

From Middle Norwegian hít. Compare Swedish hit.

Adverb

hit

1. here (to this place), hither

   Kom hit!

   Come here!

Derived terms

• hit og dit
• hitan
• hitarleg
• hitast
• hitetter
• hitom
• hitover
• hitre
• hitreis
• hitreise
• hitside
• hittil
• hitåt

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hít. Compare Faroese hít (“condom”).

Noun

hit f (definite singular hita, indefinite plural hiter, definite plural hitene)

1. a leather bag (usually made from a hide in a single piece)
2. (dialectal, derogatory) used of a woman, especially in compounds

Derived terms

• mjølhit

References

• “hit” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
• “hit”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hit.

Pronoun

hit

1. it

Alternative forms

• it

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: het
  • Dutch: het (only the pronoun; the definite article is a weakened form of dat)
  • Limburgish: hèt

Further reading

• “hit”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Alternative forms

• hitt
• hib

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Old Frisian hit (“it”), Old High German iz (“it”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍄𐌰 (hita, “it”). More at hē.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xit/, [hit]
• Rhymes: -it

Pronoun

hit n (accusative hit, genitive his, dative him)

1. it
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     Þēah þe græf wille golde strēġan brōþor his ġeborenum, byrġan be dēadum, māþmum mislīċum þæt hine mid wille, ne mæġ þǣre sāwle þe biþ synna ful gold tō ġēoce for godes eġsan, þonne hē hit ǣr hȳdeð þenden hē hēr leofað.

     Even if a brother would like to strew gold on grave for his kinsmen, to bury next to the dead with manifold riches that he would like to have with him, gold cannot be a help for this soul, who is full of sins, before the dread of God, after he first hides it while he lives here.

Declension

Old English personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	first person		iċ	mē, mec	mē	mīn
	second person		þū	þē, þec	þē	þīn
	third person	neuter	hit		him	his
		masculine	hē	hine
		feminine	hēo	hīe	hire
dual	first person		wit	unc, uncit	unc	uncer
	second person		ġit	inc, incit	inc	incer
plural	first person		wē	ūs, ūsiċ	ūs	ūre, ūser
	second person		ġē	ēow, ēowiċ	ēow	ēower
	third person		hīe		him	heora

Descendants

• Middle English: hit, hitt, hitte, hyt, hytte, it, itt, itte, jt, yt, ytt
  • English: it

    Appalachia: hit

    Ottawa Valley: et

  • Scots: hid
  • Yola: it, yt, t' (misspelling)

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• et

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hit (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”). Cognate with Old English hit (“it”), Old High German iz (“it”), Gothic 𐌷𐌹𐍄𐌰 (hita, “it”).

Pronoun

hit n (accusative hit, genitive sīn, dative him)

1. it

Declension

Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	1st person		ik	mī	mī	mīn
	2nd person		thū	thī	thī	thīn
	3rd person	m	hī	hine	him	sīn
		f	hiū, hiō	hiā	hire, hiāre	hire, hiāre
		n	hit	hit	him	sīn
plural	1st person		wī	ūs	ūs	ūser
	2nd person		jī	jū, jō	jū, jō	jūwer
	3rd person		hiā	hiā	him, hirem, hiārem	hira, hiāra

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: at

  Mooring, Sylt: et, 't

• Saterland Frisian: et
• West Frisian: it

Old Norse

Etymology

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Article

hit

1. neuter nominative/accusative singular of hinn

Declension

Declension of hinn

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	hinn	hin	hit
accusative	hinn	hina	hit
dative	hinum	hinni	hinu
genitive	hins	hinnar	hins
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	hinir	hinar	hin
accusative	hina	hinar	hin
dative	hinum	hinum	hinum
genitive	hinna	hinna	hinna

Descendants

• Icelandic: hið
• Elfdalian: eð

Old Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *siti- (“length”).

Conjunction

hit

1. until

Descendants

• Middle Welsh: hyt
  • Welsh: hyd

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der.

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂id-néh₂-ti

Proto-Germanic *hittijaną

Old Norse hittader.

Old English hyttan

Middle English hitten

English hitbor.

Polish hit

Borrowed from English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxit/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: hit

Noun

hit m inan (related adjective hitowy)

1. (music) hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

Declension

Declension of hit

	singular	plural
nominative	hit	hity
genitive	hitu	hitów
dative	hitowi	hitom
accusative	hit	hity
instrumental	hitem	hitami
locative	hicie	hitach
vocative	hicie	hity

Derived terms

noun

• hicior

Further reading

• “hit”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[11] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “hit”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[12] (in Polish)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hit.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.t͡ʃi/ [ˈhi.t͡ʃi], /ˈʁit͡ʃ/ [ˈhit͡ʃ]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.t͡ʃi/ [ˈhi.t͡ʃi], /ˈʁit͡ʃ/ [ˈhit͡ʃ]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁi.t͡ʃi/ [ˈχi.t͡ʃi], /ˈʁit͡ʃ/ [ˈχit͡ʃ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈi.tɨ/

• Homophone: (Brazil) hite

Noun

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (success, especially in the entertainment industry)

   Synonym: êxito

Derived terms

• hitar

Further reading

• “hit”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

From English hit.

Noun

hit n (plural hituri)

1. hit (a success, especially in the entertainment industry)

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	hit	hitul	hituri	hiturile
genitive-dative	hit	hitului	hituri	hiturilor
vocative	hitule		hiturilor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxit/ [ˈxit̪]
• Rhymes: -it
• Syllabification: hit

Noun

hit m (plural hits)

1. hit (success)

   Synonym: éxito

2. (baseball) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Further reading

• “hit”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “hit”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish hit, from *hī+at.

• hī, from Proto-Indo-European *kei- (as in Ancient Greek ἐκεῖ (ekeî))
• at, from Proto-Germanic *at, from Proto-Indo-European *ád (as in Swedish åt)

Composed in a similar way: Icelandic hegat and hingað.

Pressing the button marked HIT (to here) will make the lift come to the floor where the button is located.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːt/

• Audio (Gotland):

  (file)

• Homophone: heat

Adverb

hit (not comparable)

1. to here, hither, (often in practice, in translations) here

   Antonym: dit (“to there, thither”)

   Kom hit!

   Come [to] here!

   Hon kom hit, så nu är hon här

   She came [to] here, so now she is here

   Hon kom här [for comparison]

   She came at this location [odd-sounding]

   Jag kom hit igår

   I came [to] here yesterday

   springa hit och dit

   run to here and to there / run hither and thither [indicating for example chaos or a lack of direction]

Related terms

• här (“here, as a location”)
• hitåt (“towards here, this way”)
• hit och dit

Etymology 2

From English hit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɪt/

Noun

hit c

1. (informal) a hit (popular song, or some other popular or successful thing)

Declension

Declension of hit

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hit	hits
	definite	hitten	hittens
plural	indefinite	hits, hittar	hits, hittars
	definite	hitsen, hittarna	hitsens, hittarnas

Derived terms

• turkhit

References

• “hit”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “hit”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “hit”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English hit.

Noun

hit (definite accusative hidi, plural hitler)

1. (music) hit

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English heat. Compare German Hitze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hit/

Noun

hit (genitive hita, plural hits)

1. heat, warmth

Declension

Declension of hit

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hit	hits
Genitive	hita	hitas
Dative	hite	hites
Accusative	hiti	hitis
Predicative1	hitu	hitus
Vocative	o hit	o hits

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Derived terms

• hitüp (“summer”)