Wiktionary

hes

See also: HES, Hes, hes-, and he's

English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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hes

  1. plural of he

Etymology 2

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Determiner

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hes

  1. (nonstandard, uncommon) Alternative form of his when pronounced as he's; belonging to him.
    That's hes house over there.

Pronoun

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hes

  1. (nonstandard, uncommon) Alternative form of his when pronounced as he's; that that belongs to him.
    The idea was hes not mine.

Usage notes

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Used in some dialects to represent the (often only occasional) pronunciation of his as he's as both a determiner and a pronoun. Although his is almost always used, regardless of pronunciation, hes and he's are sometimes used.

Etymology 3

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From he's via a reduction of the apostrophe.

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Contraction

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hes

  1. (informal, nonstandard) Alternative form of he's

Etymology 4

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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hes

  1. (nonstandard) Pronunciation spelling of has, representing dialectal English.
    • 1882, James Jackson, Tom Terror, the Outlaw‎[1]:
      Jennie! Jennie! come an’ tell me thet the long-lost claim hes come back to Old Jack!

Etymology 5

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A mixture of she and he. Coined by Ching Hai in 1990s.

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Pronoun

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hes (third-person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, oblique hirm, reflexive hirmself, possessive hiers, possessive hiers)

  1. The person of unspecified gender previously mentioned or implied.

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Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From either German Hesse (“Hessian”) (possibly via Hessenkiel), or Häsz, Hesz (“clothing, dress”).

Noun

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hes m (plural hessen, diminutive hesje n)

  1. a short, protective type of blouse or shirt, typically worn by manual laborers
  2. a light version of the above, worn as a signal, notably to be noticed by traffic
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Mostly used in its diminutive form (hesje).

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from German hässlich (“hateful”).

Adjective

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hes (comparative hesser, superlative meest hes or hest)

  1. (obsolete) Alternative form of hesselijk, heslijk
Declension
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Declension of hes
uninflected hes
inflected hesse
comparative hesser
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial hes hesser het hest
het heste
indefinite m./f. sing. hesse hessere heste
n. sing. hes hesser heste
plural hesse hessere heste
definite hesse hessere heste
partitive hes hessers —
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Icelandic

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Noun

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hes n (genitive singular hess, nominative plural hes)

  1. dewlap

Declension

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Declension of hes (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hes hesið hes hesin
accusative hes hesið hes hesin
dative hesi hesinu hesum hesunum
genitive hess hessins hesa hesanna

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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hes

  1. Alternative form of heste (“directive”)

Etymology 2

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Determiner

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hes

  1. Alternative form of his (“his”)

Pronoun

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hes

  1. Alternative form of his (“his”)

Etymology 3

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Pronoun

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hes

  1. Alternative form of his (“her”)

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse háss.

Adjective

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hes (neuter singular hest, definite singular and plural hese, comparative hesere, indefinite superlative hesest, definite superlative heseste)

  1. hoarse, husky (voice)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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hes f (definite singular hesa, indefinite plural heser, definite plural hesene)

  1. a type of hayrack made from vertical posts with horizontal wire strung between them, for drying hay.
    Synonym: hesje

Inflection

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Historical inflection of hes
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Aasen1 Hes Hesi Hesjar Hesjarna
1901 hesjarne (hesjane)
1917 hesa, hesi hesjane
1938 hesa [hesi]
1959 hesjar [heser] hesjane [hesene]
2012 (current) hes hesa heser hesene

Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. Forms in (parentheses) were allowed under Midlandsnormalen. 1Nouns were capitalised for most of the 19th century.

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Spanish

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Noun

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hes f pl

  1. plural of he

Swedish

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Adjective

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hes (comparative hesare, superlative hesast)

  1. hoarse
    Jag är lite hes idag ― I'm a bit hoarse today
    en hes röst ― a hoarse voice

Declension

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Inflection of hes
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular hes hesare hesast
neuter singular hest hesare hesast
plural hesa hesare hesast
masculine plural2 hese hesare hesast
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 hese hesare hesaste
all hesa hesare hesaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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