seiner
Meaning
-
his (substantival possessive)
Frequency
Dialects
Fribourg
synere
Fribourg
synrer
Zürich
sinerer
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈzaɪ̯nɐ/
Etymology
See sein (“his”)
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- (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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- (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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sein
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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
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Sentences
Stephen Dorff lebte nach seiner Geburt für kurze Zeit ⌚ in Atlanta.
⌚
Stephen Dorff lived in Atlanta for a short time after his birth.