Hey

//heɪ//

Synonyms for "hey" (71 found)

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Closest matches (15)

Strong matches (21)

Related words (35)

Phrase(2 words)
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Related terms

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derived

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Translations

243 translations across 45 languages.

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Ancient Greek

4 entries
  • αὕτη intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • οὗτος intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ἄγε intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ἄγετε intj (exclamation to get attention)

Arabic

4 entries
  • اسمع intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • بقولك ايه intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • هيه intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • هَلَا intj (informal greeting)

Armenian

4 entries
  • էյ intj (protest or reprimand)
  • հեյ intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • հեյ intj (protest or reprimand)
  • հեյ intj (informal greeting)

Asturian

1 entries
  • ei intj (informal greeting)

Belarusian

2 entries
  • гэй intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • эй intj (exclamation to get attention)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • хей intj (exclamation to get attention)

Catalan

4 entries
  • eh intj (request for repetition or explanation)
  • ei intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ei intj (informal greeting)
  • ep intj (exclamation to get attention)

Chinese Cantonese

1 entries
  • 喂 intj (exclamation to get attention)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 哎 intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • 喂 intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • 嗨 intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • 嗨 intj (informal greeting)

Czech

2 entries
  • hej intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hele intj (exclamation to get attention)

Danish

4 entries
  • hallo intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hallo intj (protest or reprimand)
  • hej intj (informal greeting)
  • hej noun (country dancing figure)

Dutch

4 entries
  • hela intj (protest or reprimand)
  • ho intj (protest or reprimand)
  • hoi intj (informal greeting)
  • hola intj (protest or reprimand)

Esperanto

3 entries
  • he intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hej intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hej intj (informal greeting)

Estonian

4 entries
  • hei intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hei intj (protest or reprimand)
  • ohoh intj (expression of surprise)
  • ohoo intj (expression of surprise)

Finnish

4 entries
  • hei intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hei intj (protest or reprimand)
  • hei intj (informal greeting)
  • hei intj (request for repetition or explanation)

French

4 entries
  • coucou intj (informal greeting)
  • holà intj (expression of surprise)
  • hé intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hé intj (protest or reprimand)

Galician

3 entries
  • eh intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ei intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • oi intj (exclamation to get attention)

German

2 entries
  • Hallo intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ey intj (protest or reprimand)

Hindi

4 entries
  • अजी intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • अरे intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • रे intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • हे intj (exclamation to get attention)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • figyelj intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • figyu intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hahó intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hahó intj (informal greeting)

Irish

3 entries
  • hé intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hóigh intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hóigh intj (informal greeting)

Italian

3 entries
  • ehi intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ehi intj (protest or reprimand)
  • ou intj (exclamation to get attention)

Japanese

4 entries
  • おい intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • おい intj (protest or reprimand)
  • ねえ intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • オラ intj (expression of surprise)

Kapampangan

4 entries
  • na intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • na intj (protest or reprimand)
  • na intj (informal greeting)
  • na intj (request for repetition or explanation)

Korean

3 entries
  • 야 intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • 어이 intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • 이봐 intj (exclamation to get attention)

Latgalian

2 entries
  • dzie intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • klaus intj (exclamation to get attention)

Latin

4 entries
  • eho intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • eho intj (informal greeting)
  • heus intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • jo intj (meaningless beat marker, filler syllable)

Latvian

2 entries
  • eu intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • klau intj (exclamation to get attention)

Louisiana Creole

2 entries
  • hé intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hé intj (informal greeting)

Malay

1 entries
  • hei intj (exclamation to get attention)

Mongolian

1 entries
  • хөөе intj (exclamation to get attention)

Māori

2 entries
  • hā intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ētē intj (exclamation to get attention)

Occitan

1 entries
  • èp intj (exclamation to get attention)

Persian

2 entries
  • هلا intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • هی intj (exclamation to get attention)

Polish

4 entries
  • e intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ej intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ej intj (protest or reprimand)
  • ejże intj (protest or reprimand)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • e aí intj (informal greeting)
  • ei intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ei intj (protest or reprimand)
  • epa intj (protest or reprimand)

Romanian

2 entries
  • hei intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hop intj (expression of surprise)

Russian

4 entries
  • ку-ку intj (informal greeting)
  • о intj (informal greeting)
  • ого́ intj (expression of surprise)
  • ого́ intj (expression of surprise)

Scottish Gaelic

3 entries
  • haoidh intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hòigh intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hòigh intj (informal greeting)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • hej intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • хеј intj (exclamation to get attention)

Spanish

4 entries
  • eh intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • eh intj (protest or reprimand)
  • eh intj (expression of surprise)
  • eh intj (informal greeting)

Swedish

4 entries
  • du intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • du intj (protest or reprimand)
  • hallå intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • hallå intj (protest or reprimand)

Tagalog

4 entries
  • a intj (expression of surprise)
  • ah intj (expression of surprise)
  • ei intj (informal greeting)
  • ei intj (request for repetition or explanation)

Ukrainian

2 entries
  • гей intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ей intj (exclamation to get attention)

Vietnamese

4 entries
  • này intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ê intj (exclamation to get attention)
  • ê intj (protest or reprimand)
  • ơi intj (exclamation to get attention)

Sample sentences

18 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Hey, I may have no money, but I still have my pride.

Source: tatoeba (1629)

Hey, look, a three-headed monkey!

Source: tatoeba (1839)

Hey, what happened?

Source: tatoeba (25304)

Hey, Bob. Where do you have your car washed?

Source: tatoeba (30311)

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