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English

Noun
en-noun|-

1. slang Affectionate abbreviation of honey.
2. A grey partridge.

Breton

Noun
hun

1. sleep

Category:Breton nouns

Danish

Noun
hun c

1. female
2. hen italbrac|female bird

Pronoun
hun

1. she

Category:Danish nouns
Category:Danish pronouns

Dutch

Pronoun
hun

1. The third-person plural possessive pronoun: their.
2. The dative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: them, to them.
3. context|proscribed|lang=nl The accusative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: them.
4. context|proscribed|dialectical|lang=nl The nominative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: they.

Usage notes
The distinction between hen (for the accusative) and hun is an artificially created one. It was invented by the seventeenth century scholar w:Christiaen van Heule|Christiaen van Heule, to make Dutch look more like Latin. In practice almost everybody has trouble remembering when to use the one or the other, since this distinction is not made in any other person. Thus it is common to hear sentences like:
Hij heeft hun verraden. (�He betrayed them.�)
Ze zijn met hun uitgegaan. (�They went out with them.�)

The inverse is also common:
Ik heb het hen gegeven. (�I gave it to them.�)

In written texts, care is usually taken to make �correct� use of them. To circumvent this problem, often the nominative case is used for both, although doing so is not generally accepted.
Hij heeft ze verraden.
Ze zijn met ze uitgegaan.
Ik heb het ze gegeven.

The use of hun for the nominative case, however, is more locally restrained and still generally considered wrong.

For more information, see w:nl:Hen of hun|the article in the Dutch Wikipedia.

Related terms
zij, ze
hen

Category:Dutch pronouns

Hungarian

Adjective
hun

1. Hunnish

Category:Hungarian adjectives

Korean

Noun
ko-noun|rr|hangeul�|hanja�|hidx=��

1. Teaching, instruction, guidance.
2. The meaning of a Hanja (Chinese character).

Derived terms
eumhun

Antonyms
eum

Category:Korean nouns

Malay

Noun
hun

1. A unit of weight equal to one hundredth of a tahil.

Category:Malay nouns

Mandarin

Pinyin syllable
hun

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, hūn, hún, h�n, or hùn.

Usage notes
English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Category:Mandarin pinyin

Tetum

Noun
hun

1. bottom or base
2. beginning
3. origin

Category:Tetum nouns

da:hun
el:hun
fr:hun
id:hun
it:hun
ku:hun
nl:hun
pl:hun
pt:hun
sl:hun
fi:hun
sv:hun
te:hun
vi:hun
tr:hun

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