
REGIONAL NOTE Traditionally, hey was just an exclamation. Sometimes it expressed delight, sometimes a warning. Nowadays we find it used for emphasis as well, especially in the expression but hey. It is also a greeting. It is a short, colloquial version of How are you? and thus close kin to the informal salutation hi, which it seems to be replacing in many situations. Until recently, this greeting had a distinctly Southern flavor. The national survey conducted in the 1960s by the Dictionary of American Regional English found hey as a greeting restricted chiefly to Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas. The friendly hey has since spread throughout the United States.
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Dansk (Danish)
int. - hej, hvad!
Nederlands (Dutch)
hé!, Jij daar!
Français (French)
int. - hé, hola (excl) (pour attirer l'attention), hein ? (de scepticisme)
Português (Portuguese)
int. - Eh!, Ei!, Eia!
Español (Spanish)
int. - ¡eh!, ¡oye!
Svenska (Swedish)
int. - åh!, nej men!, vad!, hallå!, hej!
中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
嗨, 喂
中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
int. - 嗨, 喂
한국어 (Korean)
int. - 어이!, 아이고!, 이런!
日本語 (Japanese)
int. - おい, やあ, わーい
العربيه (Arabic)
(نداء) هاي ! هتاف للفت الانتباه أو للتساؤل أو التعجب
עברית (Hebrew)
int. - קריאה שמטרתה לעורר שימת-לב, הלו, היי, קריאה המבטאת גיל, הפתעה, שאלה, התלהבות ועוד
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