sie

sie

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Simaa.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Simaa terms

From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (“to sink, descend”), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).

• sigh
• sey, sye (Scotland)

• IPA^(key): /saɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -aɪ
• Homophones: sigh, sai, psi, xi, scye, Si, Sy, Cy

sie (third-person singular simple present sies, present participle sying, simple past and past participle sied)

1. (intransitive) To sink; fall; drop.
2. (intransitive) To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
3. (intransitive, dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
4. (transitive) To sift.
5. (transitive, dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.

sie (plural sies)

1. A drop.

• sile

• IPA^(key): /siː/
• Homophones: c, cee, sea, see

sie (third person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, accusative sir, possessive adjective hir, possessive noun hirs, reflexive hirself)

1. (rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she
   • 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, “punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):

     If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]

   • 2010 September 16, Jessica Freely, Amaranth and Ash‎^[1], La Vergne: Lightning Source, →ISBN, page 101:

     "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.

   • 2011 May 19, Ken Wickham, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant‎^[2], CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 7:

     Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.

   • 2011 August 16, Petra Kuppers, Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape‎^[3], New York: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PN1590.H36 K87 2011, page 18:

     When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie offered me this language, 'sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'

• shi

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

• -ies, -ise, EIS, EIs, ESI, I'se, ISE, ies, sei

sie

1. water

• Comparative Chibchan Phonology (1981)

Dialectal variant of sinä (through siä); see it and its etymon, Proto-Finnic *cinä, for more.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsie̯/, [ˈs̠ie̞̯]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification^(key): sie
• Hyphenation^(key): sie

sie (stem siu-) (dialectal)

1. (personal) you (second-person singular personal pronoun)

• The siu- stem is used in eastern Finland, not in Lapland.

• sinä (standard Finnish; see it for full list)

• eis, esi-, ies, sei

• se, -se (enclitic; colloquial)

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ziː/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -iː

• (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA^(key): /zə/

From Middle High German siu, si, from Old High German siu, si, from Proto-West Germanic *si(j)u, *sī, from Proto-Germanic *sī (see Proto-Germanic *iz). Cognate with Gothic 𐍃𐌹 (si) and Old English sēo f (“that one”).

sie f

1. she; her

   Ist sie noch krank?

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   Is she still sick?

   Das ist meine Katze. Sie heißt Lili.

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   This is my cat. She's called Lili.

   Ich suche Vanessa. Hast du sie gesehen?

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   I am looking for Vanessa. Have you seen her?

2. it (with grammatically feminine antecedents, i.e. those for which the article die is used)

   Scheint die Sonne noch? Nein, sie ist schon untergegangen.

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   Is the sun still shining? No, it (literally “she”) has already gone down.

   Ich suche meine Brieftasche. Hast jemand von euch sie gesehen?

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   I'm looking for my wallet; has any of you seen it (literally “her”)?

3. (formal, pedantic or strictly) he (when a grammatically feminine word is used to refer to a person, regardless of their sex)

   Die Geisel Richard Meier versuchte, sich zu befreien, aber sie schaffte es nicht.

   The hostage, Richard Meier, tried to break free, but he didn’t succeed.

   Die Wache Michael Müller beschädigte ihr Gewehr, wofür ihr Vorgesetzter sie bestrafte.

   Michael Müller the watchman damaged his rifle, wherefor his overseer punished him.

• Words such as Geisel (“hostage”) and Wache (“guard, guardsman, watcher, watchman”) are feminine nouns, which in German simply means that they require a different set of words to be used with them (namely specific articles and pronouns, such as die and sie), while in other languages they might also require their ending to be changed (to -a or -e, for example).
• Grammatical gender therefore means mostly abstract word-categorization, although it may also often reflect, where applicable, the natural gender of a subject (hence the names "masculine" and "feminine").
• Normative grammar in gendered languages prescribes that pronouns be used which agree to the grammatical gender of the word, not to the sex or gender of the living being (such as a cat or a male hostage/watchman) to which it refers; though colloquial usage often leans towards natural-gender agreement for the most part.

• The genitive case ihrer is more and more rarely used in modern German.
• While the genitive of personal pronouns does express ownership, it must not be confused with possessive pronouns. While possessive pronouns such as ihr are put in front of the noun they relate to and follow the inflection rules of adjectives, the genitive form of personal pronouns has only one form, which is not further inflected. Additionally, personal pronouns in the genitive can be put after the word they relate to.

From Middle High German sie, si (neuter siu), from Old High German sie (masculine plural), sio (feminine plural), siu (neuter plural).

sie pl

1. they; them

• In the colloquial speech of some areas, this pronoun is used only enclitically after a verb, as an ending /zə/. E.g. hamse, könnse. Stressed instances are replaced with the demonstrative pronoun die. This reflects a similar development for es/das.
• While the genitive of personal pronouns does express ownership, it must not be confused with possessive pronouns. While possessive pronouns such as ihr are put in front of the noun they relate to and follow the inflection rules of adjectives, the genitive form of a personal pronoun has only one form, which is not further inflected. Additionally, personal pronouns in the genitive can be put after the word they relate to.

sie

1. misspelling of Sie

• “sie” in Duden online
• “sie”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[4] (in German)

• sei
• Eis

• sii (Wiesemann spelling system)

From Old High German siu; cognate with Gothic 𐍃𐌹 (si) and Old English sēo (“that one (f.)”).

• IPA^(key): /siː/

sie

1. she

From Old High German sie (masculine plural), sio (feminine plural), siu (neuter plural).

• IPA^(key): /siː/

sie

1. they

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “sie”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

From Proto-Finnic *sidek, equivalent to sittoa (“to bind”) +‎ -e. Cognates include Finnish side and Estonian side.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsie/, [ˈs̠ie̞ˑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsie/, [ˈʃie̞ˑ]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Hyphenation: si‧e

sie

1. bond; tie
2. bandage

Declension of sie (type 6/lähe, t- gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	sie	sitteet
genitive	sitteen	sittein
partitive	siettä	sitteitä
illative	sitteesse	sitteisse
inessive	sittees	sitteis
elative	sitteest	sitteist
allative	sitteelle	sitteille
adessive	sitteel	sitteil
ablative	sitteelt	sitteilt
translative	sitteeks	sitteiks
essive	sitteennä, sitteen	sitteinnä, sittein
exessive1)	sitteent	sitteint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 523

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tsʰje (“hungry”). Cognate with White Hmong tshaib and Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] xib.

sie 

1. hungry

sie

1. superseded spelling of šie

• P. M. Zaykov (1999), Грамматика Карельского языка (фонетика и морфология) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)] (in Russian), →ISBN, page 58

From Finnish sinä, from Proto-Finnic *cinä, from Proto-Uralic *tinä.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsie̯/

sie

1. thou, you (singular)

Declension of sie singular plural nominative sie tet genitive sinun teiđän, teän partitive sinnuu, sinua teitä accusative sinun teiđät, teät illative sinhuun teihin inessive sinussa teissä elative sinusta teistä allative sinule, sinulet, sulle, sullet teile, teilet adessive sinula, sulla teilä ablative sinulta, sulta teiltä translative sinuna teinä essive sinuksi teiksi abessive sinutta teittä

• Eira Söderholm (2017), Kvensk grammatikk‎^[5], Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, →ISBN, page 276

Inherited from Finnish sinä.

• IPA^(key): /sie/

sie (plural tet)

1. you (second-person singular personal pronoun)

• IPA^(key): /siə/, /si/

sie

1. alternative form of si (both feminine singular and all plural)

Old High German sie (masculine plural), sio (feminine plural).

• sî, si

sie m pl or f pl

1. nominative/accusative masculine plural of ër
2. nominative/accusative feminine plural of siu

• German: sie

sie

1. accusative feminine of siu

• Stem vowel: ê⁴
  • IPA^(key): /siə/, /siɛ/

sie

1. alternative form of sê

• sȳ, sīæ, sī, sīo, sēo, sīġ, sȳġ
• see — Northumbrian

• IPA^(key): /si͜yː/, /ˈsiː.e/
• Rhymes: -i͜yː
• Rhymes: -iː.e

sīe

1. singular present subjunctive of wesan (“to be”);
   • Laws of King Ine

     Ġif hē ealdormon sie, ðolie his sċire, būton him kyning arian wille

     If he be an alderman, he shall lose his shire, unless the King wish to forgive him.

• sia

sie m or f

1. she (accusative)
2. they

• Low German: se

Compare German sie.

• IPA^(key): /siː/

sie f

1. she, her

Compare German sie.

• IPA^(key): /siː/

sie

1. they, them

sie

1. first-person singular present of sennen

sie m inan

1. abbreviation of sierpień or sierpnia (“August”)

   Coordinate terms: sty, lut, mar, kwi, maj, cze, lip, wrz, paź, lis, gru

• sieși

Inherited from Latin sibi.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.e/

sie

1. (rare) (to) himself/herself/itself/themselves (stressed reflexive-dative form of el, ea, ei and ele)

• sieși

• își (unstressed form)

Inherited from Old Polish się.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɕɛ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Syllabification: sie

sie

1. reflexive pronoun; oneself, self
2. each other, one another

• siebie

sie

1. creates the passive voice
2. creates the impersonal voice
3. expresses that the action is done without restriction, freely

• sie in dykcjonorz.eu
• sie in silling.org

Inherited from Latin sex. Compare Italian sei.

sie

1. six