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hlapčeváti to be kept (ali held) in bondage; to work as a hired man; to slave for someone
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hlébček a small loaf
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hlíniti to simulate; (čustvo itd.) to feign; to dissimulate; to make pretence (of); (jezo itd.) to pretend (to be angry), to make a show of (anger); (spanje) to pretend (to be asleep), to feign (sleep)
 hlíniti bolezen to pretend to be ill, to feign (ali to sham) illness, vojska to malinger
 hlíniti krepost to put on a pretence (ali to make a show) of virtue
 hlíniti nevednost to pretend ignorance
 hlíniti omedlevico to pretend to faint
 hlíniti bolezen, nevednost ZDA pogovorno to play possum
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hohnjáti to speak through the nose; to nasalize; to speak with a nasal twang; to snuffle
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honorírati to pay a fee for, to pay a honorarium, (redko) to fee
 honorírati menico to honour a bill (ali to honour a draft)
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hranodajálec -lka keeper of a boarding house
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hrécati (kašljati) to have a slight but frequent cough; to cough (a little)
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hrepenéti to long (po for), to crave (for), to yearn (for); to be eager (for); to pine, to languish (for); to hanker (for, after), to have a hankering (for); (nemirno, nervozno) to itch (for, after)
 hrepenel je po vestéh, novicah svoje družine he yearned for news of his family
 hrepeni po njej he is longing to see her
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hrípati to speak in a raucous voice, to speak raucously
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hropéti hrôposti to breathe with a rattle in one's throat; to wheeze
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hrúst giant; a huge man; a hulk of a man
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idiomátika jezikoslovje the study of idiom; idioms as a whole
 prevajatelj je dal tuji idiomátiki ustrezno domačo obliko the translator rendered the foreign idiom by an appropriate native form
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igráje (z lahkoto) easily; with the utmost ease; like falling off a log
 on je igráje to napravil it was child's play for him
 igráje je zmagal šport, džokej figurativno he won hands down
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imenítnik a man of rank (ali of quality)
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imobilizírati to immobilize; to bring to a dead stop; to fix; (zlomljen ud) to immobilize, to lay up
 imobiliziran sem zaradi tega izpaha (izvina) I am laid up with this sprain; pravo (premičnine) to convert into real estate, (kapital) to immobilize, to lock up, to tie up
 imobilizírati se to come to a stop; to come to a standstill
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imponíranje making a great and good impression; filling with admiration, filling with awe
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inkasírati to collect, to take (ali to make) a collection
 inkáso collection
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inserírati to advertise (za for); to insert (v in); to put an advertisement in a paper
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izbríti to reshave; to shave a second time (in the reverse direction)
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izbrítje reshaving; shaving a second time