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he

//ˈhiː//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Pronoun

A word that replaces or refers to a noun or noun phrase.

Note for he

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Forms

Plural
hes

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.

  2. 2.A male.(informal)

    • Is your cat a he or a she?
  3. 3.The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

    • This Nehama claimed that in his own hand he recognized the consonant “he” of his Hebrew language, and in the letter “vav” his own male soul.
    • The same number in the Hebrew mysteries and Cabalistical accounts was the character of Generation; declared by the Letter He, the fifth in their Alphabet.
  4. 4.The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".

Pronoun

A word that replaces or refers to a noun or noun phrase.

  1. 1.A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.

    • That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.
    • "It was he we saw the tracks of down by Rausand hill."
  2. 2.It; an animal whose gender is unknown.

  3. 3.A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.

  4. 4.They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).

    • The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?

Frequency

Overall

Very common· #16

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Common
General reading & writing
Very common
Academic
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Literature
Common

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Etymology

From Middle English he, from Old English hē, from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱís (“this”).

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