sein
Meaning
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- (copulative,irregular) to be
- (impersonal,irregular) to feel (to experience a condition)
- (impersonal,irregular) to feel like, to be in the mood for
- (auxiliary,irregular) forms the present perfect and past perfect tenses of certain intransitive verbs
- (intransitive,irregular) to exist; there to be; to be alive
- (colloquial,intransitive,irregular) to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.)
- (childish,intransitive,irregular) to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag
Concepts
Synonyms
sich befinden
vorhanden sein
sich zeigen
wert sein
sich erweisen
figurieren
das seine
noch erhalten sein
wesen
Bedeutung haben
als etwas vorstellen müssen
Jahre auf dem Buckel haben
Jahre zählen
Jahre jung sein
Jahre alt sein
Lenze zählen
in der Rolle auf der Bühne stehen
auftreten als
auftreten in der Rolle
in der Rolle zu sehen sein
zu sehen sein als
gleichzusetzen sein
bilden die mittlere Proportionale von
aufgekratzt
erledigen
Frequency
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.
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))
es
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- (accusative,neuter,nominative,personal,pronoun,singular,third-person) nominative and accusative neuter third-person singular personal pronoun
- (neuter) Impersonal pronoun used to refer to statements, activities, the environment etc., or as a placeholder/dummy pronoun — it
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