het

• IPA^(key): /hɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

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het (countable and uncountable, plural hets)

1. (countable, slang) A heterosexual person.
   • 2020, “metal”, in food house, performed by food house:

     See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA
     Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day

2. (uncountable, fandom slang) Fan fiction based on celebrities or fictional characters involved in an opposite-sex romantic and/or sexual relationship.
   • 2005, Rhiannon Bury, Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online, Peter Lang, published 2005, →ISBN, page 207:

     Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters.

   • 2006, Catherine Driscoll, “One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance”, in Karen Hellekson, Kristina Busse, editors, Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 84:

     The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction.

   • 2010, Rebecca Ward Black, “Just Don't Call Them Cartoons: The New Literacy Spaces of Anime, Manga, and Fanfiction”, in Julie Coiro, Michele Knobel, Colin Lankshear, Donald J. Leu, editors, Handbook of Research on New Literacies, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, page 595:

     Other studies explore why some women write het, or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as Star Trek Voyager that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002).

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:het.

• (fan fiction): hetfic

het (comparative more het, superlative most het)

1. (slang) Heterosexual.

Strong conjugation of heat

het

1. (dialect) simple past and past participle of heat

het (comparative more het, superlative most het)

1. (dialect) Heated.

• het up

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het (plural hets)

1. heterozygote

   For sale: Albino hognose female $20k. Hets $12.5k for pair.

het (not comparable)

1. heterozygous

het (plural hets)

1. Alternative form of heth (“Semitic letter”)

• het Bildt (etymologically unrelated)

• -eth, ETH, Eth, Eth., TEH, eth, eth-, teh, the, the-

• 't (in informal writing, reflecting the contracted pronunciation)

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).

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛt/
• IPA^(key): /(ə)t/ (contracted, unstressed)

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het

1. present of hê

• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /(ɦ)ət/

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• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): (unstressed) /(ɦ)ət/, (when stressed) /ɦɛt/

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• Hyphenation: het
• Rhymes: -ət, -ɛt

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

1. the (the neuter definite article)

   het boek

   the book

   het meisje

   the girl

• aan het
• hetzelfde

From Middle Dutch het, hit, from Old Dutch it, hit, from Proto-Germanic *it, *hit.

het n

1. it; third-person singular, neuter, subjective

   Het is een mooi huis, maar een beetje klein.

   It is a nice house, but a little small.

2. it; third-person singular, neuter, objective

   Kun je het goed zien?

   Can you see it well?

   Ik doe het als jij het wilt.

   I'll do it if you want it. (i.e. "if you want me to")

   Het katje heeft honger, geef het een boterham.

   The kitty is hungry, give it a sandwich.

3. it; impersonal

   Het is laat.

   It is late.

   Het regent alweer.

   It's raining again.

   Hoe gaat het?

   How is it going?

• This pronoun can combine with a preposition to form a pronominal adverb. When this occurs, it is changed into its adverbial/locative counterpart er. See also Category:Dutch pronominal adverbs.
• In a double-object construction with another pronoun, het is generally the direct object but precedes the other pronoun: Geef het hem terug! (“Give it back to him!”). Compare regional English Give it him back!. This is different from other neuter pronouns, which usually follow the indirect object: Geef hem dat terug! (“Give that back to him!”)

• Jersey Dutch: hät, it

he with standard nominative plural suffix -t.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhet/, [ˈhe̞t̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification^(key): het

het

1. (personal, dialectal) they (only of people).

• he (standard Finnish)
• hyö, net (dialectal)

From heti through apocope.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhet/, [ˈhe̞t̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification^(key): het

het (not comparable) (dialectal)

1. Alternative form of heti (“immediately”).

From Biblical Hebrew חי״ת (khet).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe(ː)t/, [ˈhe̞(ː)t̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification^(key): het

het

1. heth (eighth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe(ː)t/, [ˈhe̞(ː)t̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification^(key): het

het

1. nominative plural of he

From Finnish he, from Proto-Finnic *hek.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhet/

het

1. they

• net

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 276

From Old Dutch hit, it, from Proto-Germanic *hit, *it.

• IPA^(key): /het/

het n

1. it

• hit
• et, it

• Dutch: het (only the pronoun; the definite article is a weakened form of dat)
• Limburgish: hèt

• “het”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “het”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

het

1. Alternative form of heed

het

1. Alternative form of hete (“hate”)

• heit (of adjective)
• hette (of verb)

From Old Norse heitr.

het (neuter singular hett, definite singular and plural hete, comparative hetere, indefinite superlative hetest, definite superlative heteste)

1. hot (most senses)

• varm

het

1. simple past of hete (Etymology 3)

• “het” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

het

1. past of heita

• IPA^(key): /heːt/

hēt

1. first/third-person singular preterite of hātan

From Proto-West Germanic *hait. Compare Old English hāt, Old Frisian hēt, Old High German heiz, Old Norse heitr.

hēt

1. hot, fierce

• Middle Low German: hêt
  • German Low German: heet
  • Low German: heet, hitt

• IPA^(key): /heːt/

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• Rhymes: -eːt

From Old Swedish hēter, from Old Norse heitr, from Proto-Germanic *haitaz.

het (comparative hetare, superlative hetast)

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

   Den kvinnan är het!

   That woman is hot!

6. hot; popular, in demand.

• (of high temperature): (mycket) varm
• (feverish): febrig
• (spicy): stark
• (popular): inne

• (antonym(s) of “of high temperature”): iskall, kall, kylig, sval
• (antonym(s) of “spicy”): mild
• (antonym(s) of “popular”): ute

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

het

1. imperative of heta

• the

From English head.

het

1. (anatomy) head
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:15:

     Na bai mi mekim yu i stap birua bilong meri, na meri i stap birua bilong yu. Na bai mi mekim ol lain bilong yu i birua long lain bilong meri. Bai ol i krungutim het bilong yu, na bai yu kaikaim lek bilong ol.”

     →New International Version translation

Borrowed from Old English hætt.

• IPA^(key): /hɛt/

het f (plural hetiau, not mutable)

1. hat

• hetiwr (“hatter, milliner”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “het”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Middle English hete, from Old English hǣtu.

• IPA^(key): /hiːt/

het

1. heat

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46