sein

sein (plural seins)

1. Archaic spelling of seine.

• EINs, NIEs, Nies, SINE, sien, sine, snie

From Proto-Basque *seni.

sein

1. child

• Rhymes: -ɛi̯n
• IPA^(key): /sɛi̯n/

• sein (NL)

  (file)

From Old French seigne, a northern variant of signe, from Latin signum.[1] Doublet of zegen.

sein n (plural seinen, diminutive seintje n)

1. signal

   Synonym: signaal

See the etymology of the main entry.

sein

1. first-person singular present indicative of seinen
2. imperative of seinen

• Ines, nies

From Proto-Finnic *saina, borrowed from a Baltic language, compare Latvian siena. Finnish seinä is of the same origin.

sein (genitive seina, partitive seina)

1. wall

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Hyphenation: sein
• Rhymes: -ein
• IPA^(key): /ˈsei̯n/, [ˈs̠e̞i̯n]

sein

1. Genitive singular form of sei.
2. Instructive plural form of sei.

sein

1. Instructive plural form of see.

• -isen, ensi, ensi-, ines, sine

From Old French sein, inherited from Latin sinus, ultimately of Proto-Indo-European origin. Doublet of sinus. Compare Italian seno, Romanian sân, Romansch sain, Portuguese seio, Spanish seno.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃/

• sein

  (file)

• Homophones: sain, sains, saint, saints, seing, seings, seins

sein m (plural seins)

1. (anatomy) breast

   sur votre jeune sein laissez rouler ma tête - let my head roll on your young breast

2. (literary) womb

   elle a porté cet enfant dans son sein - she carried this child in her womb

3. bosom

   au sein de la famille - in the bosom of the family

   le sein du Père - the bosom of the Father

• (breast): poitrine, (Quebec, slang) boule, (slang) nichon, nibard, nib, (informal) tété, lolo, néné, robert, (France, informal) gougoutte

• au sein de

• “sein” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• Inès, nies, niés, sien

• seyn (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /zaɪ̯n/

• (file)

• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n
• Homophone: seinen (according to a common pronunciation of this form)

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn (“to be”) (suppleted with Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”) and *beuną (“to be, exist, become”)), from Proto-Indo-European *es-, *h₁es- (“to be, exist”). Cognate with Dutch zijn (“to be”), Low German ween, sien, Old English sēon (“to be”). More at sooth.

sein (irregular, third-person singular simple present ist, past tense war, past participle gewesen, past subjunctive wäre, auxiliary sein)

1. (with a predicate adjective or predicate nominative) to be

   Das ist schön. ― That is beautiful.

   Das ist ein Auto. ― That is a car.

2. (with a predicate adjective and an indirect object) to feel (to experience a certain condition)

   Mir ist kalt. ― I feel cold. (literally, “To me is cold.”)

   Mir ist übel. ― I feel sick.

   Mir ist schwindelig. ― I feel dizzy.

   Mir ist wohl. ― I feel well.

3. (auxiliary) forms the present perfect and past perfect tense of certain intransitive verbs

   Er ist alt geworden. ― He has become old.

4. (intransitive) to exist; there to be; to be alive

   (a common proverb) Was nicht ist, kann noch werden.

   That which does not exist now, may come into existence.

   Wenn ich nicht mehr bin, erbst du das Haus.

   When I am no more, you'll inherit the house.

5. (intransitive, colloquial) to have the next turn (in a game, in a queue, etc.)

   Du bist. ― It’s your turn.

   Du bist nach mir. ― Your turn is after mine.

6. (intransitive, childish) to be "it"; to be the tagger in a game of tag

   Du bist! ― You're it!

   Ich bin nicht mehr. ― I'm not it anymore.

Alternative forms:

• Past participle: gewest (obsolete; poetical)
• Second-person plural preterite indicative: waret (older; poetical)
• Second-person singular subjunctive II: wärst
• Second-person plural subjunctive II: wärt

The subjunctive I (first and third person) and indicative (first person only) forms are also used as imperatives.

• Seien wir mal ehrlich./Sind wir mal ehrlich. ― Let’s be honest.
• (second-person formal) Seien Sie mal ehrlich. ― Be honest!

• da sein
• weg sein

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his own, her own, its own, their own”) (a reflexive possessive), from genetive of Proto-Indo-European *swé with denominative suffix Proto-Indo-European *-nós, equivalent to the genitive form of Proto-Germanic *se-. Cognate with Low German sien (“his, its”), Dutch zijn (“his, its”), Danish sin (“his, her, its, their”), Old English sīn (“his, its”).

sein

1. his
2. its (agreeing with a neuter or masculine noun)
3. one's

   Man muss seinem Herzen folgen.

   One must follow one’s heart.

When used as a pronoun, the nominative masculine takes the form seiner, and the nominative/accusative neuter takes the form seines or seins.

• mein Vater und seiner ― my father and his
• mein Kind und sein(e)s ― my child and his

Nominatives of the possessive pronouns:

• eins

sein

1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽

From Dutch sein (“signal”).

• IPA^(key): /seɪ̯n/
• Hyphenation: séin

sein

1. signal

• “sein” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

sein

1. Alternative form of seien

From Old Norse seinn

sein (neuter singular seint, definite singular and plural seine, comparative seinere, indefinite superlative seinest, definite superlative seineste)

1. alternative form of sen

• “sein” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse seinn.

• IPA^(key): /sæɪn/ (example of pronunciation)

sein (masculine and feminine sein, neuter seint, definite singular and plural seine, comparative seinare, indefinite superlative seinast, definite superlative seinaste)

1. slow
2. late (arriving after expected time)
3. late (near the end of a period of time)

• “sein” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

sein m (oblique plural seinz, nominative singular seinz, nominative plural sein)

1. breast (anatomy)

• (Rumantsch Grischun) sain
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) sagn

From Latin sinus (compare French sein, Italian seno, Romanian sân, Spanish seno).

sein m

1. (Sursilvan, anatomy) breast (of a woman)

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Surmiran) pèz
• (Sutsilvan) péz
• (Puter, Vallader) pet

From Proto-Finnic *saina. Related to Finnish seinä.

sein

1. wall

sein n (plural seinen, diminutive seintsje)

1. signal

• “sein (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

• sain

From Old Norse seinn, from Proto-Germanic *sainaz, *sainijaz.

• IPA^(key): /séɪ̯ːn/ (example of pronunciation)

  Rhymes: -éɪ̯ːn

sein

1. well late; arriving late; sluggish, tardy