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Chibcha * Finnish * German * Hunsrik * Ingrian * Iu Mien * Karelian * Kven * Meankieli * Middle Dutch * Middle High German * Middle Low German * Old English * Old Saxon * Pennsylvania German * Plautdietsch * Polish * Romanian * Silesian * Venetan
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Translingual

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Symbol

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sie

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Simaa.

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English sien, from Old English sigan ("to sink, descend"), from Proto-Germanic *sigana, *sihwana ("to strain, drop"), from Proto-Indo-European *seykw- ("to pour, strain"). Cognate with Dutch zijgen ("to filter"), German seihen ("to strain, sieve"), Icelandic siga ("to lower").

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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sie (third-person singular simple present sies, present participle sying, simple past and past participle sied)

  1. (intransitive) To sink; fall; drop.
  2. (intransitive) To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
  3. (intransitive, dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
  4. (transitive) To sift.
  5. (transitive, dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.

Noun

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sie (plural sies)

  1. A drop.
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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sie (third person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, accusative sir, possessive adjective hir, possessive noun hirs, reflexive hirself)

  1. (rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she
    • 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):
      If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, [...]
    • 2010 September 16, Jessica Freely, Amaranth and Ash[1], La Vergne: Lightning Source, -ISBN, page 101:
      "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
    • 2011 May 19, Ken Wickham, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant[2], CreateSpace, -ISBN, page 7:
      Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.
    • 2011 August 16, Petra Kuppers, Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape[3], New York: Palgrave Macmillan, -ISBN, -LCCN, LCC PN1590.H36 K87 2011, page 18:
      When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie offered me this language, 'sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'
Alternative forms
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Synonyms
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Anagrams

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Chibcha

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Noun

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sie

  1. water

References

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  • Comparative Chibchan Phonology (1981)

Finnish

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Etymology

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Dialectal variant of sina (through sia); see it and its etymon, Proto-Finnic *cina, for more.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /'sie/, ['sie]
  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Syllabification(key): sie
  • Hyphenation(key): sie

Pronoun

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sie (stem siu-) (dialectal)

  1. (personal) you (second-person singular personal pronoun)

Usage notes

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  • The siu- stem is used in eastern Finland, not in Lapland.

Synonyms

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  • sina (standard Finnish; see it for full list)

Anagrams

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German

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Alternative forms

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  • se, -se (enclitic; colloquial)

Pronunciation

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  • (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA(key): /z@/

Etymology 1

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From Middle High German siu, si, from Old High German siu, si, from Proto-West Germanic *si(j)u, *si, from Proto-Germanic *si (see Proto-Germanic *iz). Cognate with Gothic (si) and Old English seo ("that one (f.)").

Pronoun

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sie f

  1. she
    Ist sie noch krank? (
    Audio:(file)
    )
    Is she still sick?
    Das ist meine Katze. Sie heisst Lili. (
    Audio:(file)
    )
    This is my cat. Her name is Lili.
    Ich suche Vanessa. Hast du sie gesehen? (
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    )
    I'm looking for Vanessa. Have you seen her?
  2. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine [die])
    Scheint die Sonne noch? Nein, sie ist schon untergegangen. (
    Audio:(file)
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    Is the sun still shining? No, it has already gone down.
    Ich suche meine Brieftasche. Hast du sie gesehen? (
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    )
    I'm looking for my wallet. Have you seen it?
  3. he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine [die])
    Die Geisel Richard Meier versuchte, sich zu befreien, aber sie schaffte es nicht.
    The hostage Richard Meier tried to break free, but he didn't succeed.
    Die Wache Michael Muller beschadigte ihr Gewehr, wofur ihr Vorgesetzter sie bestrafte.
    The guardsman Michael Muller damaged his rifle, and his supervisor punished him for that.
Declension
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  • The genitive case ihrer is more and more rarely used in modern German.
  • While the genitive of personal pronouns does express ownership, it must not be confused with possessive pronouns. While possessive pronouns such as ihr are put in front of the noun they relate to and follow the inflection rules of adjectives, the genitive form of personal pronouns has only one form, which is not further inflected. Additionally, personal pronouns in the genitive can be put after the word they relate to.

Etymology 2

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From Middle High German sie, si (neuter siu), from Old High German sie (masculine plural), sio (feminine plural), siu (neuter plural).

Pronoun

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sie pl

  1. they; them
Usage notes
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  • In the colloquial speech of some areas, this pronoun is used only enclitically after a verb, as an ending /z@/. E.g. hamse, konnse. Stressed instances are replaced with the demonstrative pronoun die. This reflects a similar development for es/das.
  • While the genitive of personal pronouns does express ownership, it must not be confused with possessive pronouns. While possessive pronouns such as ihr are put in front of the noun they relate to and follow the inflection rules of adjectives, the genitive form of a personal pronoun has only one form, which is not further inflected. Additionally, personal pronouns in the genitive can be put after the word they relate to.
Declension
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Etymology 3

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Pronoun

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sie

  1. misspelling of Sie

Further reading

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  • "sie" in Duden online
  • "sie" in Digitales Worterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Anagrams

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Hunsrik

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Alternative forms

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  • sii (Wiesemann spelling system)

Etymology 1

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From Old High German siu; cognate with Gothic (si) and Old English seo ("that one (f.)").

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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sie

  1. she
Inflection
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Hunsrik personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative
proclitic enclitic stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
singular 1st person ich
eich 		-ich mich
meich 		meer mer
m'r
2nd person
(informal) 		du
dau/Dau 		-du, -de
-Dau, -De 		dich
deich/Deich 		deer der
d'r/D'r
3rd
person 		m er; dar -er ihn en ihm em
f sie; die -se sie / ihns se eer
ehr 		re
n es; das
et, 't 		's es
et
-et, -'t 		ihm em
plural 1st person meer mer uns
uhs
2nd person deer
Ehr, Dehr 		der eich
Auch
3rd person sie; die -se sie se denne

Etymology 2

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From Old High German sie (masculine plural), sio (feminine plural), siu (neuter plural).

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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sie

  1. they
Inflection
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Hunsrik personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative
proclitic enclitic stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
singular 1st person ich
eich 		-ich mich
meich 		meer mer
m'r
2nd person
(informal) 		du
dau/Dau 		-du, -de
-Dau, -De 		dich
deich/Deich 		deer der
d'r/D'r
3rd
person 		m er; dar -er ihn en ihm em
f sie; die -se sie / ihns se eer
ehr 		re
n es; das
et, 't 		's es
et
-et, -'t 		ihm em
plural 1st person meer mer uns
uhs
2nd person deer
Ehr, Dehr 		der eich
Auch
3rd person sie; die -se sie se denne

Further reading

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  • Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), "sie", in Dicionario Hunsriqueano Riograndense-Portugues, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

Ingrian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *sidek, equivalent to sittoa ("to bind") + -e. Cognates include Finnish side and Estonian side.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sie

  1. bond; tie
  2. bandage

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Declension of sie (type 6/lahe, t- gradation, gemination)
singular plural
nominative sie sitteet
genitive sitteen sittein
partitive sietta sitteita
illative sitteesse sitteisse
inessive sittees sitteis
elative sitteest sitteist
allative sitteelle sitteille
adessive sitteel sitteil
ablative sitteelt sitteilt
translative sitteeks sitteiks
essive sitteenna, sitteen sitteinna, sittein
exessive1) sitteent sitteint
1) obsolete
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -ka? to the genitive.

References

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  • Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 523

Iu Mien

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Etymology

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From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tshje ("hungry"). Cognate with White Hmong tshaib and Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] xib.

Adjective

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sie

  1. hungry

Karelian

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Pronoun

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sie

  1. superseded spelling of sie

References

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  • P. M. Zaykov (1999), Grammatika Karel'skogo iazyka (fonetika i morfologiia) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], -ISBN, page 58

Kven

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Etymology

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From Finnish sina, from Proto-Finnic *cina, from Proto-Uralic *tina.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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sie

  1. thou, you (singular)

Declension

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Declension of sie
singular plural
nominative sie tet
genitive sinun teidan, tean
partitive sinnuu, sinua teita
accusative sinun teidat, teat
illative sinhuun teihin
inessive sinussa teissa
elative sinusta teista
allative sinule, sinulet,
sulle, sullet 		teile, teilet
adessive sinula, sulla teila
ablative sinulta, sulta teilta
translative sinuna teina
essive sinuksi teiksi
abessive sinutta teitta

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Kven personal pronouns
first second third anim third anim or inan
singular mie sie han se
plural met tet het net

References

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  • Eira Soderholm (2017), Kvensk grammatikk[4], Tromso: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, -ISBN, page 276

Meankieli

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Etymology

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Inherited from Finnish sina.

Pronunciation

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sie (plural tet)

  1. you (second-person singular personal pronoun)

Inflection

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Inflection of sie
Singular Plural
Nominative sie tet
Accusative sinut, sinun teat, tean
Genitive sinun tean
Partitive sinua teita
Inessive sinussa teissa
Elative sinusta teista
Illative sinhuun teihin
Adessive sulla teila
Ablative sulta teilta
Allative sulle teile
Essive sinuna teina
Translative sinuksi teiksi

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Meankieli personal pronouns
first second third
singular mie sie haan, se
plural met tet het, net

Middle Dutch

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Pronunciation

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sie

  1. alternative form of si (both feminine singular and all plural)

Middle High German

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Etymology 1

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Old High German sie (masculine plural), sio (feminine plural).

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Pronoun

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sie m pl or f pl

  1. nominative/accusative masculine plural of er
  2. nominative/accusative feminine plural of siu
Inflection
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Middle High German personal pronouns
nominative genitive dative accusative
singular first person ich min mir mich
second person du, du din dir dich
third
person 		m er
CG he(r)		 sin im(e) in
f siu ir(e) ir(e) sie
n ez
CG iz, it		 es im(e) ez
CG iz, it
plural first person wir unser uns uns, unsich
second person ir iuwer iu, iuch iuch
third
person 		m sie ir(e) in sie
f
n siu siu
The distinction of the forms siu and sie as shown above is typical of earlier Upper German texts, but was never general. The forms si and si existed additionally and all four were increasingly used without differentiation.
Descendants
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  • German: sie

Etymology 2

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Pronoun

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sie

  1. accusative feminine of siu

Middle Low German

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Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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sie

  1. alternative form of se

Old English

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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sie

  1. singular present subjunctive of wesan ("to be");
    • Laws of King Ine
      Gif he ealdormon sie, dolie his scire, buton him kyning arian wille
      If he be an alderman, he shall lose his shire, unless the King wish to forgive him.

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Alternative forms

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Pronoun

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sie m or f

  1. she (accusative)
  2. they

Declension

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Old Saxon personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive
singular 1st person ik mi, me, mik mi min
2nd person thu thi, thik thi thin
3rd
person 		m he ina imu is
f siu sia iru ira
n it it is
dual 1st person wit unk unkero, unka
2nd person git ink inker, inka
plural 1st person wi, we us, unsik us user
2nd person gi, ge eu, iu, iuu euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera
3rd
person 		m sia im iro
f sia
n siu

Descendants

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  • Low German: se

Pennsylvania German

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Etymology 1

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Compare German sie.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

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sie f

  1. she, her
Declension
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Pennsylvania German personal pronouns
Number singular plural
Person/
Gender 		1st 2nd person 3rd person 1st 2nd 3rd
familiar polite/formal m f n
nominative ich du
de1 		dihr
der1
Sie 		er sie
se1 		es mir
mer1 		dihr
der1 		sie
dative mir
mer1 		dir
der1 		eich
Ihne
Ne1 		ihm
em1 		ihre
re1 		ihm
em1 		uns eich ihne
ne1
accusative mich dich eich
Sie 		ihn
en1 		sie
se1 		es sie

1 unstressed

Etymology 2

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Compare German sie.

Pronunciation

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sie

  1. they, them
Declension
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Pennsylvania German personal pronouns
Number singular plural
Person/
Gender 		1st 2nd person 3rd person 1st 2nd 3rd
familiar polite/formal m f n
nominative ich du
de1 		dihr
der1
Sie 		er sie
se1 		es mir
mer1 		dihr
der1 		sie
dative mir
mer1 		dir
der1 		eich
Ihne
Ne1 		ihm
em1 		ihre
re1 		ihm
em1 		uns eich ihne
ne1
accusative mich dich eich
Sie 		ihn
en1 		sie
se1 		es sie

1 unstressed

Plautdietsch

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Verb

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sie

  1. first-person singular present of sennen

Polish

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Noun

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sie m inan

  1. abbreviation of sierpien or sierpnia ("August")
    Coordinate terms: sty, lut, mar, kwi, maj, cze, lip, wrz, paz, lis, gru

Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin sibi.

Pronunciation

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sie

  1. (rare) (to) himself/herself/itself/themselves (stressed reflexive-dative form of el, ea, ei and ele)

Derived terms

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  • isi (unstressed form)

Silesian

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swe
Proto-Balto-Slavic *sen
Proto-Slavic *se
Old Polish sie
Silesian sie

    Inherited from Old Polish sie.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /'ce/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -e
    • Syllabification: sie

    Pronoun

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    sie

    1. reflexive pronoun; oneself, self
    2. each other, one another

    Declension

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    Declension of sie
    singular/plural
    nominative --
    genitive sie
    dative sobie
    accusative sie
    instrumental sobom
    locative sobie

    Alternative forms

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    Particle

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    sie

    1. creates the passive voice
    2. creates the impersonal voice
    3. expresses that the action is done without restriction, freely

    Further reading

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    • sie in dykcjonorz.eu
    • sie in silling.org

    Venetan

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    Etymology

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    Inherited from Latin sex. Compare Italian sei.

    Noun

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    sie

    1. six