sie

Alternative forms

• sigh
• sey, sye (Scotland)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /saɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Verb

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.

Noun

sie (plural sies)

1. A drop.

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

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, 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, 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, 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.'

Usage notes

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

Synonyms

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

Pronoun

sie f

1. she

   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. Her name is Lili.

   Ich suche Vanessa. Hast du sie gesehen? (

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   I'm looking for Vanessa. Have you seen her?

2. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine [die])

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

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   Is the sun still shining? No, it has already gone down.

   Ich suche meine Brieftasche. Hast du sie gesehen? (

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   I'm looking for my wallet. Have you seen it?

3. he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine [die])

   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.

   The guardsman Michael Müller damaged his rifle, and his supervisor punished him for that.

Pronoun

sie pl

1. they; them

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siː/

Pronoun

sie

1. she

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siː/

Pronoun

sie

1. they

Declension

Declension

See also

Alternative forms

• sî, si

Pronoun

sie m pl or f pl

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

Pronoun

sie

1. accusative feminine of siu

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: se

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siː/

Pronoun

sie f

1. she, her

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siː/

Pronoun

sie

1. they, them

Derived terms

• sieși

Related terms

• își (unstressed form)

Declension

Alternative forms

• siebie