See also: hendé
Chavacano
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adverb
hendê
- not
- Hende yo maestro.
- I am not a teacher.
- does not; do not
- Si hende 'le llega, cosa tu ay hace?
- If he does not come, what will you do?
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse henna, the dative of hón (“she”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
hende
See also
| Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| common | neuter | plural | |||||
| Singular | First | – | jeg | mig | min | mit | mine |
| Second | modern / informal | du | dig | din | dit | dine | |
| formal (uncommon) | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
| feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
| common (noun) | den | dens | |||||
| neuter (noun) | det | dets | |||||
| indefinite | man | en | ens | ||||
| reflexive | – | sig | sin | sit | sine | ||
| Plural | First | modern | vi | os | vores | ||
| archaic / formal | vor | vort | vore | ||||
| Second | – | I | jer | jeres | |||
| Third | – | de | dem | deres | |||
| reflexive | – | sig | |||||
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
hende
- alternative form of ende (“end”)
Etymology 2
Noun
hende
- alternative form of ende (“duck”)
Etymology 3
From Old English ġehende, from Proto-West Germanic *gahandī.
Adjective
hende
- courteous, gracious
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Oure Hoost þo spak, “A, sire, ye sholde be hende / And curteys, as a man of youre estaat ...
- Our Host then spoke, “Ah, sire, you should be gracious / And courteous, as a man of your status ...
- 14th century: And if he were so hende and so wis / Þat she ne myȝt al abate his pris, / Yit wolde she blame his worþynesse / Or by hir wordis make it lesse. — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose (OUP 1988, p. 689-90)
Descendants
- English: hend
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Verb
hende (present tense hender, past tense hendte, past participle hendt)
Derived terms
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Verb
hende (present tense hender, past tense hende, past participle hendt, passive infinitive hendast, present participle hendande, imperative hend)
Alternative forms
References
- “hende” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Papiamentu
Etymology
Etymology tree
Derived from Portuguese gente, Spanish gente, and Kabuverdianu gentis.
Noun
hende