Pronunciations (9)
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/ˈhiː/
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[hiː]
Pronunciation notes
- Canada
- Received-Pronunciation
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[hɪj]
Pronunciation notes
- Australia
- British
- Southern
- Southern-US
- Standard
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[hi(ː)]
Pronunciation notes
- US
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[çi(ː)]
Pronunciation notes
- US
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/(h)i/
Pronunciation notes
- unstressed
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/(h)ɪ/
Pronunciation notes
- unstressed
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/heɪ/
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hi
Pronoun
A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied.
Usage- masculine
- nominative
- personal
- singular
- third-person
- Examples
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That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.
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[…]purſued his vnneighbourly purpoſe in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.
"It was he we saw the tracks of down by Rausand hill."
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In his letter of 5 March 1852 to Joseph Weydemeyer, Marx declares that it was not he who discovered the existence of classes or the class struggle […]
July 18 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).
Usage- masculine
- nominative
- personal
- proscribed
- singular
- sometimes
- third-person
- Examples
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The rulebook clearly states that "if any student is caught cheating, he will be expelled", and you were caught cheating, were you not, Anna?
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First, to avoid the cumbrous ‘he or she’ and ‘his or hers’, and the ungrammatical ‘they’ when used in the singular, I have mostly stuck to saying ‘he’ or ‘his’. I hope that this will be understood in an unchauvinistic, gender-neutral way.
It; an animal whose gender is unknown.
Usage- masculine
- nominative
- personal
- proscribed
- singular
- sometimes
- third-person
A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.
Usage- masculine
- nominative
- singular
- third-person
- Examples
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JUPITER is the largest of all the Planets, his Orbit lies between the Orbits of the Earth and Mars, and at the cast Distance of 426 Millions of Miles from the Sun, he goes round him in 11 Years, 314 Days and 12 Hours; […]
He [= the ship Bismarck] was made to rule the waves across the seven seas […]
Determiner
Synonym of his.
Noun
The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
Usage- Uncountable
The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
A male.
Usage- Countable
- Informal
- Uncountable
- Examples
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Is your cat a he or a she?
Noun
The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- Examples
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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.
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 name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.
Interjection
An expression of laughter.
Usage- reduplication
- Uncommon
- usually
- Examples
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(more common)
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If e'er he went into excess, / 'Twas from a somewhat lively thirst; / But he who would his subjects bless, / Odd's fish!—must wet his whistle first; / And so from every cask they got, / Our king did to himself allot / At least a pot. / Sing ho, ho, ho! and he, he, he! / That's the kind of king for me.
"Well, what is your next tale?" said Sumner, a little brusquely. "He, he! he, he! . . . he, he!" chuckled the bottle, "the text tale I'm going to tell you in a very funny one. It will make you laugh. There's a lady in it—he, he!—a very comic affair."
Noun
the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
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