he/translations

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English

Pronoun

Translations

personal pronoun "he"

• Abkhaz: иара (jara)
• Afar: usuk
• Afrikaans: hy (af)
• Akan: ɔno
• Albanian: ai (sq)
• Alviri-Vidari: او (u)
• Amharic: እሱ (ʾəsu)
• Arabic: هُوَ (ar) (huwa)

  Egyptian Arabic: هُوَّ (hówwa)

  Hijazi Arabic: هُوَّ (huwwa)

  Levantine Arabic: هُوِّ m (huwwe)

  Moroccan Arabic: هُوَّ (huwwa)

  Tunisian Arabic: هُوَّ m (huwwa)

• Aragonese: él
• Aramaic:

  Hebrew: הו (hū)

  Syriac: ܗܘ (hū)

  Western Neo-Aramaic: ܗܘܗ (hūh)

• Armenian: նա (hy) (na)
• Aromanian: el, elu, nãs, nãsu
• Assamese: সি (xi) (familiar), তেওঁ (teü̃) (formal)
• Asturian: él (ast), elli (ast)
• Aymara: jupa (both male and female)
• Azerbaijani: o (az) (both male and female)
• Bambara: a (both male and female)
• Bashkir: (both male and female) ул (ul)
• Basque: (both male and female) bera, hura (eu)
• Belarusian: ён (be) (jon)
• Bengali: (familiar, both male and female) সে (bn) (śe), (formal, you, he, she) আপনি (bn) (apni)
• Bhojpuri: इ (i), ऊ (ū)
• Bikol Central: siya (bcl) (both male and female)
• Bislama: hem
• Bouyei: deel (both male and female)
• Breton: eñ (br) m
• Bulgarian: той (bg) (toj)
• Burmese: သူ (my) (su) (colloquially also feminine)
• Buryat: тэрэ (tere)
• Carpathian Rusyn: он (on)
• Catalan: ell (ca)
• Cebuano: siya (both male and female)
• Central Sierra Miwok: hís·ak
• Chechen: и (i), иза (iza)
• Cherokee: ᏀᎢ (nahi)
• Chichewa: iye
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 佢 (yue) (keoi⁵) (both male and female), 他 (yue) (ta¹) (formal, from Mandarin)

  Dungan: та (ta) (both male and female)

  Eastern Min: 伊 (ĭ) (both male and female), 他 (tă) (formal)

  Gan: 渠 (qie²) (both male and female)

  Hakka: 佢 (kì, yì) (both male and female), 他 (thâ) (formal)

  Hokkien: 伊 (zh-min-nan) (i) (both male and female)

  Jin: 他 (ta¹)

  Mandarin: 他 (zh) (tā), 伊 (zh) (yī) (literary, both male and female), 怹 (zh) (tān) (dialectal, honorific, both male and female)

  Northern Min: 佢 (gṳ̀) (both male and female)

  Teochew: 伊 (i¹) (vernacular, both male and female)

  Wu: 伊 (¹i) (both male and female)

  Xiang: 他 (ta¹)

• Chuvash: (both male and female) вӑл (văl)
• Cornish: ev (kw)
• Corsican: ellu, eddu
• Cree: (both male and female) wiya
• Czech: on (cs) (1)
• Dalmatian: jal
• Danish: han (da)
• Dutch: hij (nl), (unemphatic, clitic) ie (nl)
• Dyirbal: not used in Dyirbal (Dyirbal has no third-person pronoun)
• Dzongkha: ཁོ (kho)
• East Central German: ar
• Erzya: сон (son) (both male and female)
• Esperanto: li (eo)
• Estonian: tema (et), ta (et) (both male and female), too (et)
• Even: ноӈан (noŋan)
• Evenki: нуңан
• Ewe: (both male and female) eya
• Faroese: hann (fo) m
• Fijian: (both male and female) koya
• Finnish: hän (fi) (both male and female), se (fi) (colloquial)
• French: il (fr)

  Old French: il

• Friulian: lui
• Galician: el (gl) m
• Georgian: ის (ka) (is) (both male and female)
• German: er (de)
• Greek: αυτός (el) m (aftós)

  Ancient Greek: (subject pronouns are often omitted, or a demonstrative is used: medial, proximal, distal) οὗτος (hoûtos), ὅδε (hóde), ἐκεῖνος (ekeînos); (Epic) ὁ m (ho), ὅς m (hós); (Koine, rare) αὐτός m (autós)

• Greenlandic: una
• Guaraní: (both male and female) ha'e
• Gujarati: તે (te) (both male and female)
• Gun: é (guw) (both male and female)
• Haitian Creole: li
• Hausa: (independent form) shíi
• Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: nyihá (both male and female)
• Hawaiian: (both male and female) ia
• Hebrew: הוּא (he) (hu)
• Hindi: (he, she and it) वह (hi) (vah), यह (hi) (yah)
• Hiri Motu: ia
• Hopi: pam
• Hungarian: ő (hu) (both male and female), (usually indicated by the zero suffix only) -∅
• Icelandic: hann (is)
• Ido: il (io), ilu (io)
• Indonesian: dia (id), ia (id) (both male and female)
• Ingrian: hää
• Interlingua: ille (ia)
• Inuktitut: ᐅᓇ (ona)
• Irish: sé (ga) (conjunctive), é (disjunctive)

  Old Irish: é

• Istriot: el
• Italian: lui (it), egli (it)
• Japanese: 彼 (ja) (かれ, káre), (both male and female) あの人 (あのひと, ano hito), (あのかた, polite) あの方 (ano kata), (impolite) その奴 (そのやつ, sono yatsu), (impolite, person, animal or thing) 奴 (ja) (やつ, yatsu), (impolite) そいつ (ja) (soitsu)
• Judeo-Italian: אֵיסוֹ (ʾeso /⁠esso⁠/)
• Kabuverdianu: el
• Kannada: (this person) ಇವನು (kn) (ivanu), ಇವ (kn) (iva), (that person) ಅವನು (kn) (avanu), ಅವ (kn) (ava)
• Karakhanid: اُلْ c or n (ol)
• Karelian: häi (both male and female), heän, hiän (both male and female)
• Kashubian: òn
• Kazakh: ол (kk) (ol) (both male and female)
• Khakas: ол (ol) (both male and female)
• Khmer: គាត់ (km) (kŏət), គេ (km) (kei), លោក (km) (look), ទ្រង់ (km) (trŭəng), ព្រះអង្គ (km) (prĕəh ʼɑng), វា (km) (viə)
• Korean: 그 (ko) (geu), 그이 (ko) (geu'i), 이분 (ko) (ibun) (he or she, polite)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: (both male and female) ew (ku)

• Kyrgyz: ал (ky) (al) (both male and female)
• Lao: ເຂົາ (lo) (khao) (both male and female)
• Latgalian: jis, šys
• Latin: is (la), ille (la), hic (la)
• Latvian: viņš (lv)
• Limburgish: hae (li), er (li) ((after the verb))
• Lingala: yě (both male and female)
• Linngithigh: lu
• Lithuanian: jis (lt)
• Lombard: lu (lmo)
• Louisiana Creole French: li (both male and female)
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: hien (lb)
• Macedonian: тој (mk) m (toj)
• Malay: dia (ms) (both male and female), baginda (for kings, queens and Muslim prophets), beliau (ms) (for notable people)
• Malayalam: അവന് (avaṉ), അദ്ദേഹം (ml) (addēhaṁ)
• Maltese: hu (mt)
• Manx: eh (nonemphatic), eshyn (emphatic)
• Maore Comorian: waye (both male and female)
• Maori: ia
• Maranao: iyan
• Marathi: तो (mr) (to)
• Mazanderani: وه (ve) (both male and female)
• Mbyá Guaraní: ha'e
• Mòcheno: er
• Moksha: сон (son) (both male and female)
• Mon: ညး (mnw) (ɲɛ̀h), ဍေံ (ɗɛ̀h) (both male and female)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: (he and she) тэр (mn) (ter)

• Mori Bawah: ta
• Motu: ia
• Nanai: нёани (njoani)
• Neapolitan: isse
• Nheengatu: (both male and female) aé
• Nias: ia (nia)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: han (no)

  Nynorsk: han

• Occitan: el (oc)
• Odia: ସେ (se)
• Ojibwe: wiin (both male and female)
• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: онъ (onŭ)

• Old East Slavic: онъ (onŭ)
• Old English: hē (ang)
• Ossetian: уый (wyj)
• Pali: so
• Pannonian Rusyn: вон (von)
• Pashto: هغه (ps) (hağë) (absent or distant, both male and female), دی (ps) (day) (visible or present)
• Pela: jɔ̃³¹
• Persian:

  Dari: او (fa) (ō), وَی (fa) (way) (formal)

  Iranian Persian: او (fa) (u), {{t+|1=fa-ira|2=وِی|tr=vey}} (formal), اوی (uy) (archaic)

• Piedmontese: chiel
• Pijin: hem
• Pipil: yaja, yaha
• Pirahã: hi
• Pitjantjatjara: (here) ngaa, (ergative) ngaanya; (there) pala, (ergative) palanya; (over there) nyara, (ergative) nyaranya; (previously mentioned or not visible) palunya, (ergative) palunyanya
• Polish: on (pl)
• Portuguese: ele (pt)
• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi: ਉਹ (pa) (uha)

• Quechua: pay (qu) (both male and female)
• Rapa Nui: ia
• Romani: ov

  Kalo Finnish Romani: jou

  Vlax Romani: vov

• Romanian: dumnealui (ro) (formal), el (ro) (informal)
• Romansch: el
• Russian: он (ru) (on)
• Sami:

  Inari: sun (both male and female)

  Lule: sån (both male and female)

  Northern: son (both male and female)

  Skolt: son (both male and female)

  Southern: dïhte (both male and female)

• Sanskrit: स (sa) (sa)
• Sardinian: issu
• Scottish Gaelic: e (nonemphatic), esan (emphatic)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: о̑н

  Latin: ȏn (sh)

• Shan: please add this translation if you can
• Sicilian: iddu (scn)
• Sidamo: isi
• Sindhi: ھوُ
• Sinhalese: එයා (eyā) (informal), ඔහු (si) (ohu) (formal)
• Slovak: on (sk)
• Slovene: òn (sl)
• Somali: isaga
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wón

  Upper Sorbian: wón (hsb)

• Southern Altai: ол (ol)
• Spanish: él (es)
• Sranan Tongo: a
• Swahili: (both male and female) yeye
• Swedish: han (sv) c
• Sylheti: ꠢꠦ (he), ꠔꠣꠁꠘ (tain)
• Tagalog: siya (both male and female)
• Tajik: ӯ (tg) (ü) (both male and female)
• Talysh: اه (a), ا (a)
• Tamil: அவன் (ta) class distal (avaṉ)
• Taos: ą́wąną
• Tarifit: netta m
• Tatar: ул (tt) (ul) (both male and female)
• Tausug: sia
• Tedim Chin: amah
• Telugu: అతడు (te) (ataḍu), అతను (te) (atanu)
• Tetum: nia
• Thai: เขา (th) (kǎo) (both male and female)
• Tibetan: ཁོ (kho) (ordinary/familiar), ཁོ་རང (kho rang), ཁོང (khong) (honorific, both male and female), ཁོ་པ (kho pa), ཁོ་བ (kho ba), ཁོ་ཉིད (kho nyid), ཉིད (nyid) (literary), ཁོང་ཉིད (khong nyid), ཁོང་རྣམ་པ (khong rnam pa) (honorific, literary, both male and female)
• Tigrinya: ንሱ (ti) (nəsu)
• Tlingit: hú
• Tok Pisin: em (tpi)
• Tumbuka: iye
• Tupinambá: (both male and female) a'e
• Turkish: o (tr) (both male and female)
• Turkmen: ol (both male and female)
• Udmurt: со (so)
• Ukrainian: він (uk) (vin)
• Unami: nàni (both male and female)
• Urdu: وہ (voh) (both male and female), یہ (yeh) (both male and female)
• Uyghur: (both male and female) ئۇ (ug) (u)
• Uzbek: u (uz) (both male and female)
• Venetan: el (vec) m, eło
• Vietnamese: (young man) anh ấy, (older or respected man) ông ấy, (child) nó (vi), (informal or pejorative) hắn (vi), (South) ổng (vi), (South) ảnh (vi)
• Volapük: om (vo)
• Welsh: ef, fe, fo (cy)
• West Frisian: hy (fy), (clitic) er (fy)
• White Hmong: nws (both male and female)
• Wolof: moom (wo)
• Yagnobi: aх
• Yakut: кини (kini)
• Yámana: kitu
• Yiddish: ער (er)
• Yoruba: ó, (both male and female) á
• Yucatec Maya: letiʼ (both male and female)
• Zazaki: o (diq), ey (diq)
• Zealandic: 'ie, (unemphatic, clitic) 'n
• Zhuang: de (both male and female)
• Zou: ema
• Zulu: yena class 1 (most common), wona class 3, lona class 5, sona class 7, yona class 9, lona class 11
• ǃKung: ha (both male and female)
• ǃXóõ: èh, (emphatic) èhʻè, ã`h, (emphatic) ã̀hʻã̀