heden
See also: -heden
Danish
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch heden, also hude, huden, from Old Dutch hiudo, a contraction of the instrumental phrase *hiu dago (“on this day”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiu dagu, from Proto-Germanic *hinō dagō (*hiz + *dagaz). The appearance of the vowel -e- is unusual, the expected form in modern Dutch would be *huide(n), compare huidig.
Cognate with Old Saxon hiudu, hūdigu, German heute, West Frisian hjoed, Old English hēodæg.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɦeː.də(n)/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: he‧den
- Rhymes: -eːdən
Noun
heden n (uncountable)
- the present
- We moeten in het heden leven, niet in het verleden.
- We must live in the present, not in the past.
Derived terms
- hedendaags
- hedendag
- hedenmeer
- hedenmorgen
- hedennacht
- hedenochtend
- tot heden
- tot op heden
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hadinaz, *hidanaz (compare *hōdaz (“hood”)), cognate with Old Norse héðinn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxe.den/, [ˈhe.den]
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish heþin, from Old Norse heiðinn.
Declension
| Inflection of heden | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | heden | mer heden | mest heden |
| Neuter singular | hedet | mer hedet | mest hedet |
| Plural | hedna | mer hedna | mest hedna |
| Masculine plural3 | hedne | mer hedna | mest hedna |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | hedne | mer hedne | mest hedne |
| All | hedna | mer hedna | mest hedna |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic | |||
Anagrams
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