sein

Betekenis

1. (copulative,irregular) to be
2. (impersonal,irregular) to feel (to experience a condition)
3. (impersonal,irregular) to feel like, to be in the mood for
4. (auxiliary,irregular) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs
5. (intransitive,irregular) to exist; there to be; to be alive
6. (colloquial,intransitive,irregular) to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.)
7. (childish,intransitive,irregular) to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag

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Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/zaɪ̯n/

Etymologie

Inherited from Middle High German sîn, from Old High German sīn (“to be”) (suppleted with Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”) and *beuną (“to be, exist, become”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be, exist”). Cognate with Dutch zijn (“to be”), Low German sien. More at sooth.

Cognate met Nederlands

zijn

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er

(personal) he.
(personal) it (when the grammatical gender of the object/article/thing/animal etc., being referred to, is masculine (der)).
(personal) she (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a female person, is masculine (der)).
(alt-of,alternative,archaic,personal) Alternative spelling of Er (you (polite))

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es

1. (accusative,neuter,nominative,personal,pronoun,singular,third-person) nominative and accusative neuter third-person singular personal pronoun
2. (neuter) Impersonal pronoun used to refer to statements, activities, the environment etc., or as a placeholder/dummy pronoun — it