Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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he

UK [hiː] · US [hi(ː)] pronoun, determiner, noun, interjection, proper noun

Also a form of himself

Forms him himself his hes hee hay hei hey

  1. pronoun (personal) A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or implied. “That friend of your cousin's, he's on the phone.”
  2. pronoun (personal, sometimes proscribed, see usage notes) 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?”
  3. pronoun (personal, sometimes proscribed) It; an animal whose gender is unknown.
  4. pronoun A genderless object regarded as masculine, such as certain stars or planets (e.g. Sun, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter) or certain ships.
  5. determiner (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of his.
  6. noun (uncountable) The game of tag, or it, in which the player attempting to catch the others is called "he".
  7. noun The player who chases and attempts to catch the others in this game.
  8. noun (informal) A male. “Is your cat a he or a she?”
  9. noun The name of the fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
  10. noun The name of the first letter of the Old South Arabian abjad.
  11. interjection (uncommon, usually reduplicated) An expression of laughter.
  12. proper noun A surname from Mandarin.
  13. proper noun A county of Ma'anshan, Anhui, China.

Synonyms

it one you he or she he/she they s/he his ha hehe helium atomic number 2

Antonyms

she it

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”).
Cognate with Scots he (“he”), North Frisian he, hi (“he”), Saterland Frisian hie (“he”), West Frisian hy (“he”), Dutch hij, ie (“he”), German Low German he (“he”), Middle High German her (“he”) Central Franconian hä (“he”), Gothic *𐌷𐌹𐍃 (*his, “this”).

Transliteration of various Semitic letters, such as Phoenician 𐤄 (h), Hebrew ה (h), Classical Syriac ܗ (h, “hē”), and Old South Arabian 𐩠 (h).

From several Chinese surnames, especially 何 (Hé) and 賀／贺 (Hè).

From Mandarin 和.

Webster’s 1913

  1. pronoun The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject already indicated.
  2. pronoun Any one; the man or person; --used indefinitely, and usually followed by a relative pronoun.

Etymology [AS. h, masc., heó, fem., hit, neut.; pl. hi, or hie, hig; akin to Ofries. hi, D. hij, OS. he, hi, G. heute to-day, Goth. himma, dat. masc., this, hina, accus. masc., and hita, accus. neut., and prob. to L. his this. sq. root183. Cf. It.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “he”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details