Clipping of heterosexual.
het (countable and uncountable, plural hets)
het (comparative more het, superlative most het)
Strong conjugation of heat
het
het (comparative more het, superlative most het)
Clipping of heterozygous.
het (plural hets)
het (not comparable)
het (plural hets)
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).
het
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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.
het n
Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural | |
Nominative | de | de | het | de |
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Genitive | des | der | des | der |
Dative | den | der | den | den |
Accusative | den | de | het | de |
From Middle Dutch het, hit, from Old Dutch it, hit, from Proto-Germanic *it, *hit.
het n
subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner, mijns |
2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer, jouws |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer, haars |
3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
plural | |||||||||
1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer, onzes |
2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | zich | uwer, uws |
3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner, huns |
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). |
5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural. |
he with standard nominative plural suffix -t.
het
het (not comparable) (dialectal)
From Biblical Hebrew חי״ת (khet).
het
Inflection of het (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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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. |
het
From Finnish he, from Proto-Finnic *hek.
het
Declension of het
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From Old Dutch hit, it, from Proto-Germanic *hit, *it.
het n
het
het
het (neuter singular hett, definite singular and plural hete, comparative hetere, indefinite superlative hetest, definite superlative heteste)
het
het
hēt
From Proto-West Germanic *hait. Compare Old English hāt, Old Frisian hēt, Old High German heiz, Old Norse heitr.
hēt
Strong declension | ||||||
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gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
case | singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural |
nominative | hēt | hēte, hēta | hēt | hēta | hēt | hēt, hēta |
accusative | hētan, hēten | hēta, hēte | hēta | hēta | hēt | hēt, hēta |
genitive | hētes, hētas | hētaro, hētoro, hētero | hētara, hētaro | hētaro, hētoro, hētero | hētes, hētas | hētaro, hētoro, hētero |
dative | hētumu, hētum, hētun, hētun, hēton, hēten, hētan | hētun, hēton, hētum | hētaro, hētaru, hētara | hētun, hēton | hētumu, hētum, hētun, hētun, hēton, hēten, hētan | hētun, hēton, hētum |
Weak declension | ||||||
gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
case | singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural |
nominative | hēto, hēta | hēton, hētun | hēta, hēte | hēton, hētun, hētan | hēta, hēte | hēton, hētun |
accusative | hēton, hētan | hēton, hētun | hētun, hēton, hētan | hēton, hētun, hētan | hēta, hēte | hēton, hētun |
genitive | hēten, hētan | hētono, hēteno | hētun, hētan, hēten | hētono | hēten, hētan | hētono, hēteno |
dative | hēton, hēten, hētan | hēton, hētun | hētun, hētan | hēton, hētun | hēton, hēten, hētan | hēton, hētun |
From Old Swedish hēter, from Old Norse heitr, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz.
het (comparative hetare, superlative hetast)
Inflection of het | |||
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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 |
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
het
het
Borrowed from Old English hætt.
het f (plural hetiau, not mutable)
From Middle English hete, from Old English hǣtu.
het