hie
German, adverb
hie is spelled H-I-E (3 letters) and appears 1.7 times per million words in written German, the 27,669th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hie is a German adverb meaning “alternative form of hier (“here”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, hieß is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of heißen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “hier, an diesem Ort, in diesem Fall, in dieser Zeit”.
What does hie mean in English?
adverb
- 1
datedalternative form of hier (“here”)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of heißen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. hier, an diesem Ort, in diesem Fall, in dieser Zeit 2. hier
prefix: 1. süddeutsch, österreichisch, sonst veraltet, eine Nebenform vonhier, hier
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hie
- hier variant
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is hie in German?
hie appears 1.7 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).