häntä — meaning in English

English meaning

• him pron The object form of "he" — used for a male person or animal already mentioned.
• queue noun A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, served in the order they arrived.
• stern adjective Serious and strict in manner; harsh or severe.
• tail noun The flexible appendage extending from the rear of an animal's body.
• them pron The objective form of "they" — used for people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition.

Senses

häntä is used for these senses in English:

• caudal (zoology) Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
• him With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
• ogonek (orthography) A hook-shaped diacritical mark ⟨◌̨⟩ attached underneath a vowel, typically to indicate nasalization, as in Ąą, Ęę, Įį, Ǫǫ or Ųų.
• queue (heraldry) An animal's tail. [from 16th c.]
• stern The tail of an animal; now used only of the tail of a dog.
• tail The rear structure of an aircraft, the empennage.
• tail (chiefly, in the plural) The side of a coin not bearing the head; normally the side on which the monetary value of the coin is indicated; the reverse.
• them (in the singular, occasionally, proscribed) A single person, previously mentioned, whose gender is unknown, irrelevant, or (since 21st c.) non-binary.

queue — full definition

1. noun A line of people or vehicles waiting their turn, served in the order they arrived.
2. noun In computing, a data structure that holds items to be processed in order, usually first-in-first-out.
3. verb To line up and wait for a turn.
4. verb To add an item to a waiting list or processing order.

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