hen

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from , from ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related to 🇨🇬. Also cognate to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare from.

Noun

 * 1) A female chicken, particularly a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.
 * 2) A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.
 * 3)  A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean.
 * 4)  A woman.
 * 5)  A bride-to-be, particularly in the context of a hen night.
 * 6)  A hen night.
 * Don't cry, hen. Everything will be all right.
 * 1)  A henlike person of either sex.
 * 2) The hard clam, a bivalve shellfish.
 * 3)  A large pewter pot used in a tavern.
 * 1)  A woman.
 * 2)  A bride-to-be, particularly in the context of a hen night.
 * 3)  A hen night.
 * Don't cry, hen. Everything will be all right.
 * 1)  A henlike person of either sex.
 * 2) The hard clam, a bivalve shellfish.
 * 3)  A large pewter pot used in a tavern.
 * 1) The hard clam, a bivalve shellfish.
 * 2)  A large pewter pot used in a tavern.

Etymology 2
From, , , from earlier , , , from , , , , from , , from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. See also.

Adverb

 * 1)  Hence.

Etymology 3
From, or a variant of.

Verb

 * 1)  To throw.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) old, ancient

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to have

Etymology
From, ultimately related to. Related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * Gå hen til din far.
 * Go to your father.
 * Hestene går hen imod mig.
 * The horses are walking towards me.
 * The horses are walking towards me.

Usage notes
Contrast with ; where hen indicates movement, henne indicates position. Thus hvor løber han henne? means "where is he running?", whereas hvor løber han hen? means "to where is he running?".

Etymology 1
From, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) them object pronoun

Usage notes
See the usage note at for details on use.

Etymology 2
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1)  hen, female chicken; female of a related species.
 * 2) A female of the species of birds brooding on the ground.
 * 3)  'bird', colloquial term for a human female

Synonyms

 * (female chicken) ,
 * (brooding bird)
 * (female human; informal) ,

Related terms

 * (rooster)
 * , (fowl)

Etymology 3
Chosen in an online poll by in 2016. The alternative arose from the same poll.

Pronoun

 * 1)  they  subject pronoun.
 * 2)  them  object pronoun.

Usage notes
Unlike English they, Dutch gender-neutral hen agrees with a verb in singular:

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * , chicken
 * 1) female bird

Particle

 * 1) yes

Etymology 1
From,.

Adverb

 * 1)  where
 * 1)  where

Etymology 2
Through from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  they

Usage notes

 * Hen can be used when someone's gender is unknown or irrelevant, or to refer to someone who prefers a gender neutral pronoun instead of or.

Etymology 1
From,.

Adverb

 * 1)  where
 * 1)  where

Etymology 2
Through from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  they

Usage notes

 * Hen can be used when someone's gender is unknown or irrelevant, or to refer to someone who prefers a gender neutral pronoun instead of or.

Etymology
.

Adverb

 * 1)  far away

Noun

 * 1) Term of address for a woman.

Etymology 1
Created as an alternative to and. The coining of the word has probably been influenced by the Finnish, a personal pronoun used about human beings and which does not specify gender (Finnish lacks grammatical gender entirely). Hen was suggested as early as 1966 by linguist in Swedish regional newspaper  and was proposed again in a 1994 article by linguist Hans Karlgren, but did not receive widespread attention until around 2010.

Pronoun

 * 1)   they, thon;

Usage notes

 * Although the word has gained common use, it is not nearly as common as the gendered words han and hon. From 2011 to 2020, usage of hen increased hundredfold in the media, but no increase was seen in 2021. It has been especially popular among activists for gender equality and adherents of, and with the transgender community. In 2022, usage of hen was ranked in shared first place alongside misspelling of words as the most annoying language phenomenon in a Swedish survey. Publishers of manuals of style and the do not proscribe the usage of hen, but recommend the inflected forms hens as the possessive and hen over henom as the object.

Etymology 2
From, from.

Related to Norwegian and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and modern 🇨🇬. Further related to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 with the same meaning. See also (dialectal) Swedish.

Noun

 * 1)  a whetstone, particularly the small and soft kind.

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) fine
 * 2) refined, elegant

Etymology 1
Cognate with 🇨🇬 [Salavan] hɛːn ("to cough").

Noun

 * 1)  (bệnh ~) asthma

Verb

 * 1)  to cough

Particle

 * 1)  okay?; alright?

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) old, aged; ancient, antique, pristine, former; inveterate, chronic; original; senior, elder
 * 2) stale, mouldy, musty, fusty
 * 3) unreformed, old, traditional (of style or mode of expressing dates according to the Julian Calendar); reckoned according to the Old Style (of festival)

Usage notes

 * This adjective has an alternate, more “senior” comparative in the form of and an equivalent alternate superlative in the form of.
 * Unlike most Welsh adjectives, this word goes before the noun.
 * Like most Welsh adjectives that go before the noun, this word triggers a soft mutation in the word that follows it.

Etymology
From, from , from.