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sein

Meaning

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

Pronounced as (IPA)

/zaɪ̯n/

Cognate with Dutch

Dutch

zijn

👨

er

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

es

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

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Sentences

Von freiwillig kann nicht
🚫

die Rede sein .

There can be no talk of voluntary.

Es ist schon krass , wenn man
1️⃣

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
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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.

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