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See also: hét, hèt, hết, -het, and нет

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɛt/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

Clipping of heterosexual.

Noun

het (countable and uncountable, plural hets)

  1. (countable, slang) A heterosexual person.
    • 2020, “metal”, in food house, performed by food house:
      See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA / Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day
  2. (uncountable, fandom slang) Fan fiction involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship.
    Synonym: hetfic
    • 2005, Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online, Peter Lang, published 2005, →ISBN, page 207:
      Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters.
    • 2006, Catherine Driscoll, “One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 84:
      The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction.
    • 2010, Rebecca Ward Black, “Just Don't Call Them Cartoons: The New Literacy Spaces of Anime, Manga, and Fanfiction”, in Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, Donald J. Leu, editors, Handbook of Research on New Literacies, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 595:
      Other studies explore why some women write het, or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as Star Trek Voyager that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002).
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:het.

Adjective

het (comparative more het, superlative most het)

  1. (slang) Heterosexual.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Strong conjugation of heat.

Verb

het

  1. (dialect) simple past and past participle of heat

Adjective

het (comparative more het, superlative most het)

  1. (dialect) Heated.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

het (plural hets)

  1. Clipping of heterozygous.
    For sale: Albino hognose female $20k. Hets $12.5k for pair.

Adjective

het (not comparable)

  1. Clipping of heterozygous.

Etymology 4

Noun

het (plural hets)

  1. Alternative form of heth (Semitic letter)

See also

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

  • 't (in informal writing, reflecting the contracted pronunciation)

Etymology

From the Dutch 3rd person singular of hebben, which is heeft in standard Dutch, but het in many dialects. Compare also German hat, English has (from older English hath).

Pronunciation

Verb

het

  1. present of

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dat, which was contracted to 't in usual speech. This form was later interpreted as being the same as the neuter pronoun het (etymology 2, see below), which was contracted in the same way. This then led to the modern merge with het, which some might see as being unetymological.

Article

het n

  1. the (the neuter definite article)
    het boek
    the book
    het meisje
    the girl
Derived terms
See also


Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch het, hit, from Old Dutch it, hit, from Proto-Germanic *it, *hit.

Pronoun

het n

  1. it; third-person singular, neuter, subjective
    Het is een mooi huis, maar een beetje klein.
    It is a nice house, but a little small.
  2. it; third-person singular, neuter, objective
    Kun je het goed zien?
    Can you see it well?
    Ik doe het als jij het wilt.
    I'll do it if you want it. (i.e. "if you want me to")
    Het katje heeft honger, geef het een boterham.
    The kitty is hungry, give it a sandwich.
  3. it; impersonal
    Het is laat.
    It is late.
    Het regent alweer.
    It's raining again.
    Hoe gaat het?
    How is it going?
Usage notes
  • This pronoun can combine with a preposition to form a pronominal adverb. When this occurs, it is changed into its adverbial/locative counterpart er. See also Category:Dutch pronominal adverbs.
  • In a double-object construction with another pronoun, het is generally the direct object but precedes the other pronoun: Geef het hem terug! (Give it back to him!). Compare regional English Give it him back!. This is different from other neuter pronouns, which usually follow the indirect object: Geef hem dat terug! (Give that back to him!)
Descendants
  • Jersey Dutch: hät, it
See also

Finnish

Etymology 1

he with standard nominative plural suffix -t.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

het

  1. (personal, dialectal, Lapland, Westrobothnia) they (plural; only of people)
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From heti through apocope.

Pronunciation

Adverb

het (not comparable) (dialectal)

  1. Alternative form of heti (immediately).

Etymology 3

From Biblical Hebrew חי״ת (khet).

Pronunciation

Noun

het

  1. heth (eighth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
Declension
Inflection of het (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative het hetit
genitive hetin hetien
partitive hetiä hetejä
illative hetiin heteihin
singular plural
nominative het hetit
accusative nom. het hetit
gen. hetin
genitive hetin hetien
partitive hetiä hetejä
inessive hetissä heteissä
elative hetistä heteistä
illative hetiin heteihin
adessive hetillä heteillä
ablative hetiltä heteiltä
allative hetille heteille
essive hetinä heteinä
translative hetiksi heteiksi
abessive hetittä heteittä
instructive hetein
comitative See the possessive forms below.
Possessive forms of het (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
first-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative hetini hetini
accusative nom. hetini hetini
gen. hetini
genitive hetini hetieni
partitive hetiäni hetejäni
inessive hetissäni heteissäni
elative hetistäni heteistäni
illative hetiini heteihini
adessive hetilläni heteilläni
ablative hetiltäni heteiltäni
allative hetilleni heteilleni
essive hetinäni heteinäni
translative hetikseni heteikseni
abessive hetittäni heteittäni
instructive
comitative heteineni
second-person singular possessor
singular plural
nominative hetisi hetisi
accusative nom. hetisi hetisi
gen. hetisi
genitive hetisi hetiesi
partitive hetiäsi hetejäsi
inessive hetissäsi heteissäsi
elative hetistäsi heteistäsi
illative hetiisi heteihisi
adessive hetilläsi heteilläsi
ablative hetiltäsi heteiltäsi
allative hetillesi heteillesi
essive hetinäsi heteinäsi
translative hetiksesi heteiksesi
abessive hetittäsi heteittäsi
instructive
comitative heteinesi
first-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative hetimme hetimme
accusative nom. hetimme hetimme
gen. hetimme
genitive hetimme hetiemme
partitive hetiämme hetejämme
inessive hetissämme heteissämme
elative hetistämme heteistämme
illative hetiimme heteihimme
adessive hetillämme heteillämme
ablative hetiltämme heteiltämme
allative hetillemme heteillemme
essive hetinämme heteinämme
translative hetiksemme heteiksemme
abessive hetittämme heteittämme
instructive
comitative heteinemme
second-person plural possessor
singular plural
nominative hetinne hetinne
accusative nom. hetinne hetinne
gen. hetinne
genitive hetinne hetienne
partitive hetiänne hetejänne
inessive hetissänne heteissänne
elative hetistänne heteistänne
illative hetiinne heteihinne
adessive hetillänne heteillänne
ablative hetiltänne heteiltänne
allative hetillenne heteillenne
essive hetinänne heteinänne
translative hetiksenne heteiksenne
abessive hetittänne heteittänne
instructive
comitative heteinenne

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

Noun

het

  1. nominative plural of he (a letter in some Semitic alphabets)

Kven

Etymology

From Finnish he, from Proto-Finnic *hek.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

het

  1. they

Declension

Synonyms

See also

References

  • Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 276

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch hit, it, from Proto-Germanic *hit, *it.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

het n

  1. it

Inflection

Alternative forms

Descendants

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

Further reading

  • het”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “het”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

het

  1. Alternative form of heed

Etymology 2

Noun

het

  1. Alternative form of hete (hate)

North Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haitaną.

Verb

het

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) to have as one’s name, to be called

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

  • heit (of adjective, Nynorsk also)
  • hette (of verb)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse heitr.

Adjective

het (neuter singular hett, definite singular and plural hete, comparative hetere, indefinite superlative hetest, definite superlative heteste)

  1. hot (most senses)
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Verb

het

  1. simple past of hete (Etymology 3)

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

het

  1. past of heita

Old English

Pronunciation

Verb

hēt

  1. first/third-person singular preterite of hātan

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hait. Compare Old English hāt, Old Frisian hēt, Old High German heiz, Old Norse heitr.

Adjective

hēt

  1. hot, fierce

Declension


Descendants

Polish

Pronunciation

Particle

het

  1. (Southern Greater Poland) Alternative form of ot

Further reading

  • Oskar Kolberg (1877) “het”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 30

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish hēter, from Old Norse heitr, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz.

Adjective

het (comparative hetare, superlative hetast)

  1. hot; having a very high temperature
  2. hot; feverish
  3. hot; (of food) spicy
  4. hot; radioactive
  5. (slang) hot; physically very attractive
    Den kvinnan är het!
    That woman is hot!
  6. hot; popular, in demand.
Declension
Inflection of het
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular het hetare hetast
Neuter singular hett hetare hetast
Plural heta hetare hetast
Masculine plural3 hete hetare hetast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 hete hetare hetaste
All heta hetare hetaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic
Synonyms
Antonyms
  • (antonym(s) of of high temperature): iskall, kall, kylig, sval
  • (antonym(s) of spicy): mild
  • (antonym(s) of popular): ute

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

het

  1. imperative of heta

Anagrams

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English head.

Noun

het

  1. (anatomy) head
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:15:
      Na bai mi mekim yu i stap birua bilong meri, na meri i stap birua bilong yu. Na bai mi mekim ol lain bilong yu i birua long lain bilong meri. Bai ol i krungutim het bilong yu, na bai yu kaikaim lek bilong ol.”
      →New International Version translation

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English hætt.

Pronunciation

Noun

het f (plural hetiau, not mutable)

  1. hat

Derived terms

  • hetiwr (hatter, milliner)

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “het”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English hette, from Old English hǣtu.

Pronunciation

Noun

het

  1. heat

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46