he

Pronunciation

• enPR: hē, IPA ^(key): /hiː/
• SAMPA: /hi:/

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Pronoun

Pronoun he

1. (personal) A male person or animal without identifying or describing him. The person is normally identified or described earlier in the text or sentence.

   The man with the beard played the trumpet. He didn't play very well.

   William Shakespeare was an English writer, but he is long dead.

2. (personal) A person or animal that we do not know the gender of.

   Kill that spider, before he gets away!.

		Singular					Plural
		Subject	Object	Possessive 1	Possessive 2	Reflexive	Subject	Object	Possessive 1	Possessive 2	Reflexive
First		I	me	my	mine	myself	we	us	our	ours	ourselves
Second		you	you	your	yours	yourself	you	you	your	yours	yourselves
Third	Feminine	she	her	her	hers	herself	they	them	their	theirs	themselves
	Masculine	he	him	his	his	himself
	Impersonal	it	it	its	its	itself

Noun

Singular he

Plural hes

1. (informal) A he refers to a male person.
2. He is the name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets such as Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others.