sein
Meaning
-
- (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
Dialects
Zürich
sii
Zürich
si
St. Gallen
sii
Bern
sy
Zug
sii
Bern
si
Aargau
sii
Lucerne
si
Aargau
si
Zürich
sie
Appenzell Innerrhoden
sie
Bern
sii
Basel-Landschaft
syy
Graubünden
si
Basel-Landschaft
si
St. Gallen
si
Appenzell Innerrhoden
si
Basel-Stadt
syy
Aargau
sy
Graubünden
sii
Basel-Landschaft
sii
Obwalden
sii
St. Gallen
isch
Schaffhausen
si
Schwyz
sii
Solothurn
sy
Solothurn
ssi
Solothurn
si
Solothurn
sii
Thurgau
si
Thurgau
sii
Valais
sii
Appenzell Innerrhoden
see
Appenzell Innerrhoden
sii
Basel-Landschaft
sy
Basel-Stadt
sii
Basel-Stadt
sy
Fribourg
sy
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
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
-
- (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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