hem

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hem"

English

Etymology 1

A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia)

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĕm, IPA^(key): /hɛm/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /hɪm/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛm
• Homophone: him (pin–pen merger)

Interjection

hem

1. Used to fill in the gap of a pause with a vocalized sound.

Noun

hem (plural hems)

1. An utterance or sound of the voice like "hem", often indicative of hesitation or doubt, sometimes used to call attention.
   • January 8, 1712', John Dryden, The Spectator No. 269

     his morning hems

Verb

hem (third-person singular simple present hems, present participle hemming, simple past and past participle hemmed)

1. To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking.
   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     Hem, and stroke thy beard.

Derived terms

• hem and haw/hem and hah
• hem up

 

Translations

to make a sound like "hem"

• Bulgarian: хъмкам (hǎmkam)
• Cebuano: igham
• Finnish: hymistä
• Hungarian: hümmög (hu)
• Icelandic: humma
• Russian: хмыкнуть (ru) pf (xmyknutʹ)

See also

• ahem
• haw

Etymology 2

From Middle English hem, hemm, in turn from Old English hem, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-West Germanic *hammjan. Related to Middle High German hemmen (“to hem in”), Old Norse hemja (“to hem in, restrain”); outside of Germanic, to Armenian քամել (kʻamel, “to press, wring”), Russian ком (kom, “lump”).

The verb is from Middle English hemmen, from Old English hemman, from Proto-Germanic *hamjaną, or alternatively derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• enPR: hĕm, IPA^(key): /hɛm/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /hɪm/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛm
• Homophone: him (pin–pen merger)

Noun

A stitched hem

Drawing of a sheet metal hem

hem (plural hems)

2. (sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.
3. A rim or margin of something.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

     Entombed upon the very hem o' th' sea

4. In sheet metal design, a rim or edge folded back on itself to create a smooth edge and to increase strength or rigidity.

Derived terms

• hem-line
• kiss someone's hem
• kiss the hem of someone's garment
• touch someone's hem
• touch the hem of someone's garment
• touch the hem of someone's robe

 

Translations

border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together

• Arabic: هُدُب m (hudub), هُدْب m (hudb), حَاشِيَة f (ḥāšiya)
• Bulgarian: подгъв m (podgǎv), ръб (bg) m (rǎb)
• Catalan: vora (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 褶邊／褶边 (zip³ bin¹)

  Mandarin: 貼邊／贴边 (zh) (tiēbiān)

• Cimbrian: dantza (of a skirt)
• Czech: lem (cs) m, obruba f
• Dutch: zoom (nl)
• Egyptian: (npnpt f)
• Esperanto: orlo (eo)
• Finnish: päärme (fi), palle (fi), palte (fi)
• French: ourlet (fr) m
• Galician: basta (gl) f, bastilla f, rodo (gl) m, xareta f, vaíña (gl) f, alorza f, ganduxo m, falso (gl) m
• German: Saum (de) m
• Greek: στρίφωμα (el) n (strífoma)

  Ancient: κράσπεδον n (kráspedon), λῶμα n (lôma), ὄα f (óa)

• Hungarian: szegély (hu)
• Icelandic: faldur (is) m, brydding (is) f
• Ingrian: päärme
• Italian: orlo (it) m
• Japanese: 裾 (ja) (すそ, suso)
• Maori: kurupatu (decorated), remu, whiringa
• Norman: ouôlet m (Jersey), ouôlîn m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fald m

• Old English: fæs n, fnæs n, fnæd n
• Pashto: لمن (ps) f (lamən)
• Persian: سجاف (fa) (sejâf), فرآویز (far-âviz)
• Polish: obrębek m, obszycie n
• Portuguese: bainha (pt) f
• Russian: ободо́к (ru) m (obodók), кайма́ (ru) f (kajmá), (подши́тый) край (ru) m (kraj), кро́мка (ru) f (krómka), подгибка (ru) f (podgibka)
• Sanskrit: दशा (sa) f (daśā)
• Scottish Gaelic: fàitheam m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ру̑б m, по̀руб m

  Roman: rȗb (sh) m, pòrub (sh) m

• Slovak: lem m, obruba f
• Spanish: dobladillo (es) m, bastilla f, hilván m, repulgo (es) m
• Swedish: fåll (sv)
• Tagalog: lilip
• Yakan: kikim

rim or margin

• Bulgarian: край (bg) m (kraj), ръб (bg) m (rǎb)
• Czech: obruba f
• Dutch: marge (nl)
• Finnish: ääri (fi), reuna (fi), lieve (fi)
• French: marge (fr) f
• Galician: bordo (gl) m, marxe (gl) f, beira (gl) f
• German: Rand (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: κράσπεδον n (kráspedon)

• Maori: tapa, taku
• Pashto: لمن (ps) f (lamən)
• Russian: край (ru) m (kraj)
• Sanskrit: दशा (sa) f (daśā)
• Spanish: borde (es) m, margen (es) m

Verb

hem (third-person singular simple present hems, present participle hemming, simple past and past participle hemmed)

2. (sewing, intransitive) To make a hem.
3. (transitive) To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something.
4. (transitive) To shut in, enclose, confine; to surround something or someone in a confining way.

   A small yard hemmed about by a tall hedge.

   • 1862, John Williamson Palmer, Stonewall Jackson's Way :

     He’s in the saddle now. Fall in! Steady, the whole brigade! Hill’s at the ford, cut off — we’ll win his way out, ball and blade! What matter if our shoes are worn? What matter if our feet are torn? “Quick step! We’re with him before the morn!” That’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.”
     The sun’s bright lances rout the mists of morning, and by George! Here’s Longstreet struggling in the lists, hemmed in an ugly gorge. Pope and his Yankees, whipped before, “Bay’nets and grape!” hear Stonewall roar; “Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby’s score!” in “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.

Derived terms

• hem in
• hemmer

 

Translations

to make a hem

• Bulgarian: подгъвам (bg) (podgǎvam), поръбвам (bg) (porǎbvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 縫邊／缝边 (féngbiān)

• Finnish: päärmätä (fi), paltata
• French: ourler (fr)
• German: säumen (de)
• Hungarian: szeg (hu)
• Icelandic: falda
• Russian: подшива́ть (ru) impf (podšivátʹ), подши́ть (ru) pf (podšítʹ)

to put hem on an article of clothing

• Bulgarian: подгъвам (bg) (podgǎvam)
• Dutch: zomen (nl)
• Finnish: päärmätä (fi), paltata
• French: ourler (fr)
• German: säumen (de)
• Icelandic: falda
• Ido: bordizar (io)
• Ingrian: päärmätä
• Norman: toussôter (Jersey)
• Portuguese: embainhar (pt), bainhar
• Russian: подшива́ть (ru) impf (podšivátʹ), подши́ть (ru) pf (podšítʹ), обшива́ть (ru) impf (obšivátʹ), обши́ть (ru) pf (obšítʹ)
• Spanish: repulgar (es)

to surround something or someone in a confining way

• Czech: lemovat
• Dutch: omzomen (nl), inperken (nl)
• Finnish: ympäröidä (fi)
• German: einengen (de)
• Maori: pākaka, pākorokoro, awhe
• Portuguese: cercar (pt)
• Russian: окаймля́ть (ru) impf (okajmljátʹ), окайми́ть (ru) pf (okajmítʹ)

Etymology 3

From Middle English hem, from Old English heom (“them”, dative), originally a dative plural form but in Middle English coming to serve as an accusative plural as well. More at 'em.

Pronoun

hem

1. Obsolete form of 'em.
   • 1481, William Caxton, The Historie of Reynart the Foxe:

     And wente to the kinge and to the queene, and said to hem with a glad cheer.

   • 1485, William Caxton, Paris and Vienne:

     For eyther of hem mayntened.

   • 1591, John Florio, Second Frutes to be gathered of twelve trees, of diverse but delightful tastes to the tongues of Italian and English:

     ‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “May. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC:

     Tho to the greene wood they speeden hem all.

   • 1598, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man in His Humour. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Except we make hem such.

   • 1605 August (first performance), Geo[rge] Chapman, Ben Ionson, Ioh[n] Marston, Eastward Hoe. […], London: […] [George Eld] for William Aspley, published September 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     They go forth on Holydays and gather hem by the seashore.

Further reading

• “hem”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “hem”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “hem”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Meh, meh, ehm

Bislama

Alternative forms

• em

Etymology

From English him. Cognate with Tok Pisin em.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhem/
• Hyphenation: hem

Pronoun

hem

1. he, she, it; him, her

See also

Bislama personal pronouns

		singular	dual	trial	plural
1st person	exclusive	mi	mitufala	mitrifala	mifala
	inclusive	—	yumitu, yumitufala	yumitrifala	yumi
2nd person		yu	yutufala	yutrifala	yufala
3rd person	neutral	hem, em	tufala	trifala	ol1), olgeta
	collective	—	tugeta	trigeta	—
1) Used only as an object of a preposition or a verb. *) Some speakers may not distinguish various plurality categories, using only one or two plural pronouns. **) The collective pronouns specify that the action is performed by all subjects together, rather than on their own.

References

• Terry Crowley (2004) Bislama Reference Grammar, Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi press, →ISBN, page 46

Catalan

Verb

hem

1. first-person plural present indicative of haver

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hem, from Old Dutch himo, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛm/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: hem
• Rhymes: -ɛm
• Homophone: Hem

Pronoun

hem

1. (personal) Third-person singular, masculine, objective: him

   Stuur dat maar naar hem. ― Send that to him.

2. (personal) The tagger in a game of tag: it

Declension

Dutch personal pronouns

	subject		object		possessive			reflexive	genitive5
singular	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	pred.
1st person	ik	'k1	mij	me	mijn	m'n1	mijne	me	mijner, mijns
2nd person	jij	je	jou	je	jouw	je	jouwe	je	jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer, uws
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich	uwer, uws
3rd person masculine	hij	ie1	hem	'm1	zijn	z'n1	zijne	zich	zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine	zij	ze	haar	h'r1, 'r1, d'r1	haar	h'r1, 'r1, d'r1	hare	zich	harer, haars
3rd person neuter	het	't1	het	't1	zijn	z'n1	zijne	zich	zijner, zijns
plural
1st person	wij	we	ons	–	ons, onze2	–	onze	ons	onzer, onzes
2nd person	jullie	je	jullie	je	jullie	je	–	je	–
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u	uwer, uws
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich	uwer, uws
3rd person	zij	ze	hen3, hun4	ze	hun	–	hunne	zich	hunner, huns
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).				5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, gelle (object form elle) and variants are commonly used colloquially in Belgium. Archaic forms are gijlieden and gijlui ("you people").

Descendants

• Javindo: gem
• Jersey Dutch: häm
• Negerhollands: em, am, an, ham, him, hem
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: ahm, am

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛm/

• Audio:

  (file)

Interjection

hem

1. interjection expressing doubt and/or hesitation

Further reading

• “hem”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Gagauz

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish هم, from Persian هم

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hem/

Conjunction

hem

1. and
2. (as hem... hem...) both... and...

   hem o hem bän

   both him and I

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛm]
• Hyphenation: hem
• Rhymes: -ɛm

Noun

hem (plural hemek)

1. (biochemistry) heme (component of hemoglobin)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	hem	hemek
accusative	hemet	hemeket
dative	hemnek	hemeknek
instrumental	hemmel	hemekkel
causal-final	hemért	hemekért
translative	hemmé	hemekké
terminative	hemig	hemekig
essive-formal	hemként	hemekként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	hemben	hemekben
superessive	hemen	hemeken
adessive	hemnél	hemeknél
illative	hembe	hemekbe
sublative	hemre	hemekre
allative	hemhez	hemekhez
elative	hemből	hemekből
delative	hemről	hemekről
ablative	hemtől	hemektől
non-attributive possessive - singular	hemé	hemeké
non-attributive possessive - plural	heméi	hemekéi

Possessive forms of hem
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hemem	hemjeim
2nd person sing.	hemed	hemjeid
3rd person sing.	hemje	hemjei
1st person plural	hemünk	hemjeink
2nd person plural	hemetek	hemjeitek
3rd person plural	hemjük	hemjeik

Derived terms

• hemmolekula
• hemoxigenáz
• hemszintézis

 

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hem, related to eimr (“vapor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛːm/
• Rhymes: -ɛːm

Noun

hem n (genitive singular hems, nominative plural hem)

1. thin layer of ice

   Synonym: skæni

Declension

Declension of hem (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hem	hemið	hem	hemin
accusative	hem	hemið	hem	hemin
dative	hemi	heminu	hemum	hemunum
genitive	hems	hemsins	hema	hemanna

Verb

hem (weak)

1. first-person singular present indicative of hemja
2. second-person singular imperative of hemja

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch hemd, from Middle Dutch hemde, hemede, from Old Dutch *hemithi, from Proto-Germanic *hamiþiją.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛm]
• Hyphenation: hèm

Noun

hèm (first-person possessive hemku, second-person possessive hemmu, third-person possessive hemnya)

1. shirt, an article of clothing that is worn on the upper part of the body, and often has sleeves, either long or short, that cover the arms.

   Synonym: kemeja

Etymology 2

From English heme.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɛm]
• Hyphenation: hèm

Noun

hèm (first-person possessive hemku, second-person possessive hemmu, third-person possessive hemnya)

1. (biochemistry) heme: the component of hemoglobin (and other hemoproteins) responsible for binding oxygen.

Etymology 3

A sound uttered in imitation of clearing the throat (onomatopoeia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhəm]
• Hyphenation: hêm

Interjection

hêm

1. Used to express furious, etc.

Further reading

• “hem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /hem/, [hɛ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /em/, [ɛm]

Interjection

hem

1. eh?, well well! (expressing surprise)

Related terms

• ehem

 

References

• “hem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch himo, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

Pronoun

hem

1. accusative/dative of hi
2. dative of het

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch hin, from Proto-Germanic *himaz.

Pronoun

hem

1. accusative/dative of si (“they”)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English heom, from Proto-Germanic *himaz, masculine and neuter dative plural of *hiz. Compare þem.

Pronoun

hem (nominative he)

2. Third-person plural accusative pronoun: them
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9–11.

     And smale foweles maken melodye, / That slepen al the nyght with open eye- / (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);

     And many little birds make melody / That sleep through all the night with open eye / (So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)

   • 1407, The Testimony of William Thorpe, pages 40–41:

     And with alle these men I was ofte homli and I comownede with hem long tyme and fele, and so bifore alle othir men I chees wilfulli to be enformed bi hem and of hem, and speciali of Wiclef himsilf, as of the moost vertuous and goodlich wise man that I herde of owhere either knew.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 1539, Murdoch Nisbet, The New Testament:

     He prayis hem to lyue releg[ious] lyff[is] and to luk waraly for the cummyng of the lord.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (reflexive) themselves

Alternative forms

• heme, hemme, heom, heon, hoem, hom, home, huem, hum, ham, hame, him, hym, em, am, ȝam

Descendants

• English: 'em, hem
• Fingallian: a'me
• Yola: aam

See also

Middle English personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive	possessive
singular	1st-person		I, ich, ik	me		min mi1	min
	2nd-person		þou	þe		þin þi1	þin
	3rd-person	m	he	him hine2	him	his	his hisen
		f	sche, heo	hire heo	hire		hire hires, hiren
		n	hit		hit him2	his, hit	—
dual3	1st-person		wit	unk		unker
	2nd-person		ȝit	inc		inker
plural	1st-person		we	us, ous		oure	oure oures, ouren
	2nd-person4		ye	yow		your	your youres, youren
	3rd-person	inh.	he	hem he2	hem	here	here heres, heren
		bor.	þei	þem, þeim		þeir	þeir þeires, þeiren

¹Used preconsonantally or before h.
²Early or dialectal.
³Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
⁴Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

References

• “hem, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Old English hem. See English hem for more.

Noun

hem

1. hem (edge of cloth or garment)
2. edge, boundary

Alternative forms

• heme, hemme, hemn, hemne

Descendants

• English: hem
• Scots: hem, heme

References

• “hem, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hem

1. Alternative form of him (“him”)

Northern Kurdish

Conjunction

hem

1. and

See also

• herwiha
• û

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

hem

1. imperative of hemme

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Noun

hēm ?

1. home, house
2. hamlet

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: hêem, heim
  • Dutch: heem, heim (possibly from German), -em, -hem, -gem (in placenames)
    • Afrikaans: heim
  • Limburgish: heim

Further reading

• “hēm”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xem/, [hem]

Noun

hem m

1. hem, border

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “hem”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈheːm/, [ˈhɛːm]

Noun

hēm m

1. Alternative form of hām

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

Pijin

Alternative forms

• hemi

Etymology

From English him.

Pronoun

hem

1. he/she/it (third-person singular pronoun)
   • 1988, Geoffrey Miles White, Bikfala faet: olketa Solomon Aelanda rimembarem Wol Wo Tu‎^[2], page 75:

     Bihaen hemi finisim skul blong hem, hemi go minista long sios long ples blong hem long 'Areo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

See also

Pijin personal pronouns

			singular	dual	trial	plural
1st person			mi	mitufala (exclusive) iumitufala (inclusive)	mitrifala (exclusive) iumitrifala (inclusive)	mifala (exclusive) iumifala, iumi (inclusive)
2nd person			iu	iutufala	iutrifala	iufala
3rd person			hem	tufala	trifala	ol/olketa

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ẽj̃

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈẽj̃/ [ˈẽɪ̯̃]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈɐ̃j̃/

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃j̃
• Hyphenation: hem

Interjection

hem

1. Alternative form of hein

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French hème.

Noun

hem n (plural hemuri)

1. heme

Declension

	singular			plural
	+ indefinite article	+ definite article		+ indefinite article	+ definite article
nominative/accusative	(un) hem	hemul		(niște) hemuri	hemurile
genitive/dative	(unui) hem	hemului		(unor) hemuri	hemurilor
vocative	hemule			hemurilor

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse heim < heimr, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛm/

• Audio (Gotland):

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• Rhymes: -ɛm

Adverb

hem (not comparable)

1. home; to one's home

   Det är dags att gå hem. ― It is time to go home.

   Jag vill hem! ― I want to go home!

Noun

hem n

1. a home; one's dwelling place, as in a house or a more general geographical place; the abiding place of the affections.

   Farmor har städat hemmet.

   Grandma has been cleaning her home.

2. a home; an institution

   Farmor har hamnat på hemmet.

   Grandma has ended up at the care home.

Usage notes

The different senses are commonly distinguished by the use of i or på, like in the given usage examples.

Declension

Declension of hem

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	hem	hems
	definite	hemmet	hemmets
plural	indefinite	hem	hems
	definite	hemmen	hemmens

Derived terms

• barndomshem
• barnhem
• folkhem
• fosterhem
• fritidshem
• föräldrahem
• gästhem
• hemadress
• hemarbetande
• hemarbete
• hembageri
• hembakad
• hembakt
• hembesök
• hembio
• hembiträde
• hembjuda
• hembrygd
• hembryggd
• hembränd
• hembrännare
• hembränning
• hembränt
• hembud
• hemby
• hembygd
• hembyggd
• hembygge
• hembära
• hembärning
• hemdator
• hemdragande
• hemelektronik
• hemfalla
• hemflyttad
• hemflyttning
• hemforsla
• hemforsling
• hemfrakt
• hemfrakta
• hemfraktning
• hemfrid
• hemfärd
• hemföra
• hemförhållanden
• hemföring
• hemförlossning
• hemförlova
• hemförlovning
• hemförsamling
• hemförskaffa
• hemförsäkring
• hemförsäljning
• hemgift
• hemgjord
• hemgående
• hemgång
• hemgången
• hemhjälp
• hemhjälpare
• hemhörighet
• hemifrån
• hemikring
• heminredare
• heminredning
• hemkalla
• hemkallelse
• hemkallning
• hemkatalog
• hemknutar
• hemkokt
• hemkommen
• hemkommun
• hemkomst
• hemkonsulent
• hemkunskap
• hemkänsla
• hemkär
• hemkärlek
• hemköp
• hemköra
• hemkörd
• hemkörning
• hemkört
• hemlagad
• hemland
• hemlandskap
• hemlig
• hemlik
• hemliv
• hemlov
• hemlån
• hemlånad
• hemlåning
• hemlän
• hemlängtan
• hemläxa
• hemlös
• hemlöshet
• hemma
• hemman
• hemmarsch
• hemmiljö
• hemnummer
• hemom
• hemomkring
• hemort
• hempermanent
• hempermission
• hempermittera
• hempermittering
• hemresa
• hemsamarit
• hemservice
• hemsida
• hemsjukvård
• hemskicka
• hemskickning
• hemskild
• hemskillnad
• hemskydd
• hemsläpa
• hemslöjd
• hemsnickrad
• hemsocken
• hemspråk
• hemspunnen
• hemstad
• hemstickad
• hemställa
• hemställan
• hemstöpt
• hemsydd
• hemsyssla
• hemsända
• hemsändning
• hemsöka
• hemsökelse
• hemsömmerska
• hemsömnad
• hemtagning
• hemtal
• hemtam
• hemteknisk
• hemterminal
• hemtextil
• hemtextilier
• hemtjänst
• hemtrakt
• hemtransport
• hemtransportera
• hemtrevlig
• hemtrevnad
• hemundervisning
• hemuppgift
• hemvan
• hemvist
• hemvård
• hemvårdare
• hemvårdarinna
• hemväg
• hemvända
• hemvärn
• hemvävd
• hemåt
• hemåtvändande
• sjukhem
• skolhem
• soldathem
• vandrarhem
• ålderdomshem

 

Related terms

• hemma

References

• hem in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hem in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hem in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian هم (ham). Doublet of homo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæm/, /hɛm/

Adverb

hem

1. and also

Conjunction

hem … hem …

1. both … and

   Synonym: hem … hem de …

   Hem bu hem şu. ― Both this one and that one.