sein

Meaning

Verb

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

Det

1. his
2. its (agreeing with a masculine or neuter noun)
3. (informal) its (agreeing with a masculine or neuter noun)
4. one's

Pron

1. (archaic,form-of,genitive) genitive of er
2. (archaic,form-of,genitive) genitive of es

Pronounced as (IPA)

/zaɪ̯n/

Etymology

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.

Sentences

Von freiwillig kann nicht die Rede sein .

There can be no talk of voluntary.

Es ist schon krass , wenn man überlegt , wie unterschiedlich Geschwister sein können .

It's crazy when you consider how different siblings can be.

Sie scheint irgendwie verstimmt zu sein .

She seems out of tune somehow.

Auch sein Sohn Josef wurde politisch tätig .

His son Josef also became politically active.

Schallplattenaufnahmen mit ihm wurden kaum gemacht , so dass sein Name heute wenig bekannt ist .

Recordings with him were hardly made, so that his name is little known today.

Wir müssen produzieren , um wettbewerbsfähig zu sein .

We must create in order to compete.

Zehn Jahre später verkaufte er sein Land an seinen Sohn , Elias Hadley.

Ten years later he sold it to his son, Elias Hadley.

Alfred Rosenberg und sein Kreis lehnten ihn ab .

Alfred Rosenberg and his circle rejected him.