hāi

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hai"

Jersey Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch hij. Cognates include Afrikaans hy.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /hai/, /hɛi/

Pronoun

hāi

  1. he
    • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volume 31-32, page 309:
      Hāi waz nît tevrêde täus […]
      He was not content at home […]

Inflection
Jersey Dutch personal pronouns
subjectsubjectobjectobjectpossessivepossessivepossessive
fullunstr.fullunstr.fullunstr.pred.
1st personäk'kmāime, mêmāinmāimāine
2nd personjāijejāujejāujejāue
3rd person masculinehāihehämh'mz'n
3rd person femininezāizehœrh'rhœrh'rhœre
3rd person neuterhätithätitz'n
1st person pluralwāiwe, wêon̈s, on̈zon̈s, on̈z, on̈zeon̈ze
2nd person pluraljœllijejœllijejœllijejœlliz
3rd person pluralhœlli, zāizesehœllihœlliz

Mandarin

Alternative forms
  • hai – nonstandard

Romanization

hāi (hai1, Zhuyin ㄏㄞ)

  1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 咍
  2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 咲／笑

Min Nan
For pronunciation and definitions of hāi – see 害 (“to harm; to maim; to injure; to cause to do; to result in; etc.”).
(This character, hāi, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 害.)

Namuyi

Etymology

From hǟ (“to buy”) +‎ -i.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɦaːj˨˨˦]

Verb

hāi

  1. to be going to buy
    ngâ hāi ― I am going to buy that

Conjugation
Habitual/Future Prospective Ingressive Experiential Premeditated Progressive
hǟ hāi -- -- -- --
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