het adj : made warm or hot (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated'); "a heated swimming pool"; "wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana"; "he was all het up and sweaty" [syn: heated, heated up, het up]

English

Etymology 1

Noun

1. Heterosexual.

Etymology 2

Adjective

Anagrams

• the

Dutch

Pronunciation

Article

1. the i the neuter definite article

   het boek — the book

   het meisje — the girl

Usage notes

• Used before neuter nouns in the singular, indicating a specific person or thing instead of the general case.
• About grammatical gender in Dutch: all infinitives and diminutives are automatically neuter; therefore, meisje, "girl", is neuter. However, sex takes precedence in all the pronouns. Compare het kopje en zijn schotel (the (little) cup and its saucer) with het meisje en haar hoed (the (little) girl and her hat). In many cases the possessive pronoun zijn or haar is avoided when referring to inanimate nouns; instead the pronominal adverb ervan is used: het kopje en de schotel ervan.

Derived terms

• aan het
• hetzelfde

Personal pronoun

rfc-header Personal pronoun het

1. Third-person singular, neuter, subjective: it.

   Het is laat. — It is late.

   Het klopt niet. — It's not right.

   Het waren harde tijden. — They were hard times.

   Het zijn vreemde mensen die zoiets doen. — They're weird people doing such things.

2. Third-person singular, neuter, objective: it.

   Ik doe het later wel. — I'll do it later on.

   Ik hoop het. — I hope so.

   Ik doe het als jij het wilt. — I'll do it if you want me to.

   Het meisje heeft honger, geef het een boterham. — The girl is hungry, give her a sandwich.

Indefinite pronoun

het

1. it

   Het regent alweer. — It's raining again.

   Hoe gaat het? — How are you?

   Wat geeft het? — What does it matter?

   Hoe laat is het? — What time is it?

   Het zij zo. — So be it.

   Ik doe het wat rustig aan. — I'm taking it easy.

See also

• de
• een
• нет

Finnish

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: het
• lang=fi|[het]

Pronoun

het

1. In the context of "personal|dialectal|lang=fi": they (only of people).

Synonyms

• he (standard Finnish)
• hyö (dialectal)

Old English

Etymology

Inflected form of hātan.

Pronunciation

/heːt/

Verb form

1. third-person singular preterite form of hātan

Swedish

Pronunciation

Adjective

het

1. hot; having a very high temperature
2. hot; feverish
3. hot; (of food) spicy
4. hot; radioactive
5. hot; (slang) physically very attractive

   Den kvinnan är het! = That woman is hot!

6. hot; popular, in demand.

Synonyms

* (mycket) varm , (röd)glödgad* febrig* stark* inne

Antonyms

* iskall, kall, kylig, sval* mild* ute

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English head.

Noun

het

1. head

Het or HET can refer to:

• acronyms:
  • Heavy Equipment Transporter, a military vehicle
  • Historical Enquiries Team, set up to review unsolved murders during the Northern Ireland Troubles
  • Hobby-Eberly Telescope at The University of Texas McDonald Observatory.
  • Holocaust Educational Trust, a UK charity
  • Human Enhancement Technologies
• codes:
  • IATA airport code for Hohhot Baita International Airport
  • ticker symbol on the NYSE for Harrah's Entertainment
• in variants of English:
  • a heterosexual person (American English slang)
  • a non-standard gender-neutral pronoun
• in other languages:
  • Heth, the eighth letter of many Semitic alphabets
  • нет, "no" in Russian, written in the Cyrillic alphabet, and pronounced nyet—y as in yes
  • the Dutch word for "it", and one of the Dutch words for "the" (more precisely the neuter (gender) definite article)
  • a common word in north west India for love, can also be a name like Hetul.
• in music:
  • Het (band), a Dutch band from the 1960s

See also

• Heth (disambiguation)