Meaning

1 senses

  1. (informal)To greet with a "hey"

Examples

716 sentences

  1. Hey, what are you looking at?

    Агов, на що це ти дивишся? — deniko

    ruЭй, на что это вы смотрите? — marafon

    deHey, auf was guckst du? — Felixjp

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  2. Hey, I want to talk to you.

    Гей, я хочу з тобою побалакати. — deniko

    ruЭй, я хочу поговорить с тобой. — odexed

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  3. Hey Tom, can I talk to you?

    Гей, Томе, можна з тобою поговорити? — deniko

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  4. Hey, you're not going to believe this.

    Гей, ти не повіриш. — deniko

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  5. Hey, don't go away.

    Гей, не йди. — deniko

    ruЭй, не уходи. — marafon

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Origin

From Middle English hey, hei, also without h- in ey, from Old English *hē, ēa (interjectio

From Middle English hey, hei, also without h- in ey, from Old English *hē, ēa (interjection), attested as first element in hēlā, ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”). Cognate with Dutch hé, hei (“hi, hey”), German hei (“hey, wow”), Danish and Swedish hej (“hello, hey”), Faroese hey (“hey, hello”), Old Norse, Icelandic and Norwegian hei (“hey”), Polish hej (“hey, hello”), Romanian hei, Russian эй (ej, “hey”); see heigh. Probably a natural expression, as may be inferred from its presence with similar meaning in many other unrelated languages: for example, Burmese ဟေး (he:), Finnish hei, Unami hè, and Mandarin 哎 (āi), and various sound-alikes as Ancient Greek εἶα (eîa) and Latin eia, eho, Sanskrit हे (he). See also hello.

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Forms

heys, heying, heyed, heyed
Base formhey · to hey
3rd person singularheys
Present participleheying
Past simpleheyed
Past participleheyed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhey
he, she, itheys

Past simpleLesson

all personsheyed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave heyed
he, she, ithas heyed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hey

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

Collocations

8 patterns
  • hey what are
  • hey where are
  • hey look at
  • hey look
  • hey look what
  • hey let's
  • hey this is
  • hey wait

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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