hin

there

adverb particle HIN Common

Also means

away

Usage Note

hin marks motion away from the speaker (toward a goal), the mirror of her which marks motion toward the speaker. It fuses into many separable verbs (hingehen, hinfahren) and the pair lives in the idiom hin und her ('back and forth'); colloquially etwas ist hin means it is broken.

Examples

"Wir gehen zum Markt hin."

Natural Translation

We're going over to the market.

Literal Translation

We go to-the market there.

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