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he
hey (interjection used to hail someone or express surprise, doubt, or mild reproach) /ˈhe/
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Also: well (expressing surprise or doubt), huh (expressing irony or reproach)
Example sentences
He, tu! Vino aici!
Hey, you! Come here!
He, ai grijă pe unde mergi!
Hey, watch where you're going!
He, cine s-ar fi gândit că o să plouă azi?
Well, who would have thought it would rain today?
He, parcă tu n-ai fi greșit niciodată!
Oh sure, as if you'd never made a mistake!
He, las-o baltă, nu mai insista atâta!
Come on, drop it, stop insisting so much!
He, se vede treaba că nu m-ai ascultat deloc.
Well, it's plain you didn't listen to me at all.
Word family
heihey (calling out to someone)
eheiah, oh (wistful or surprised exclamation)
măihey, man (informal address particle)iahey, look (attention-getting particle)
Etymology
"He" is a short expressive interjection, the kind of spontaneous vocal sound that speakers produce to hail someone or color a remark with surprise, doubt, or reproach. Words like this tend to arise directly from natural exclamation rather than from a traced line of inherited vocabulary, so dictionaries do not assign it a Proto-Indo-European ancestor. Romanian shares the pattern with many unrelated languages, where a short open vowel sound serves the same attention-getting function.
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