See also: Sie, się, šie, Sië, and -sie

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (to sink, descend), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (to strain, drop), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk- (to pour, strain). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (to filter), German seihen (to strain, sieve), Icelandic síga (to lower).

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /saɪ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɪ

VerbEdit

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.

NounEdit

sie (plural sies)

  1. A drop.
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

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 2011012058, 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.'
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ChibchaEdit

NounEdit

sie

  1. water

ReferencesEdit

  • Comparative Chibchan Phonology (1981)

FinnishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈsie̯/, [ˈs̠ie̞̯]
  • Rhymes: -ie
  • Syllabification(key): sie

PronounEdit

sie (stem siu-)

  1. (personal, dialectal) you (singular; in archaic English: thou).

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GermanEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • se, -se (enclitic; colloquial)

PronunciationEdit

  • (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA(key): /zə/

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle High German si, from Old High German siu, from Proto-West Germanic *sī, from Proto-Germanic *sī (see Proto-Germanic *iz). Cognate with Gothic 𐍃𐌹 (si) and Old English sēo (that one (f.)).

PronounEdit

sie f

  1. she
    Ist sie noch krank?
    Is she still sick?
    Das ist meine Katze. Sie heißt Lili.
    This is my cat. Her name is Lili.
    Ich suche Vanessa. Hast du sie gesehen?
    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.
    Is the Sun still shining? No, it has already gone down.
    Ich suche meine Brieftasche. Hast du sie gesehen?
    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 Müller beschädigte ihr Gewehr, wofür ihr Vorgesetzter sie bestrafte.
    The guardsman Michael Müller damaged his rifle, and his supervisor punished him for that.
DeclensionEdit
  • 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.
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Etymology 2Edit

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

PronounEdit

sie pl

  1. they; them
Usage notesEdit
  • In the colloquial speech of some areas, this pronoun is used only enclitically after a verb, as an ending /zə/. E.g. hamse, könnse. 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.
DeclensionEdit

Further readingEdit

  • sie” in Duden online
  • sie” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

AnagramsEdit

HunsrikEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • sii (Wiesemann spelling system)

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

sie

  1. she
InflectionEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

sie

  1. they
InflectionEdit

Further readingEdit

IngrianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

sie

  1. bond; tie
  2. bandage

DeclensionEdit

Declension of sie (type 6/lähe, t- gradation, gemination)
singular plural
nominative sie sitteet
genitive sitteen sittein
partitive siettä sitteitä
illative sitteesse sitteisse
inessive sittees sitteis
elative sitteest sitteist
allative sitteelle sitteille
adessive sitteel sitteil
ablative sitteelt sitteilt
translative sitteeks sitteiks
essive sitteennä, sitteen sitteinnä, 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 -kä? to the genitive.

ReferencesEdit

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

Iu MienEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

AdjectiveEdit

sie 

  1. hungry

KarelianEdit

PronounEdit

sie

  1. Superseded spelling of šie.

ReferencesEdit

  • P. M. Zaykov (1999) Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], →ISBN, page 58

KvenEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Finnish sinä, from Proto-Finnic *cinä, from Proto-Uralic *tinä.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

sie

  1. thou, you (singular)

DeclensionEdit

See alsoEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 276

Middle DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

sie

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

Middle Low GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

sie

  1. Alternative form of .

Old EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

sīe

  1. singular present subjunctive of wesan

Old SaxonEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronounEdit

sie m or f

  1. she (accusative)
  2. they

DeclensionEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Low German: se

Pennsylvania GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Compare German sie.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

sie

  1. she
  2. they

DeclensionEdit

RomanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin sibi.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

sie

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

Derived termsEdit

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VenetianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin sex.

NounEdit

sie

  1. six