sie

(intransitive) To fall, as in a swoon; faint.

(intransitive, dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.

(transitive, dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.

en-verb

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

sies (present singular third-person)
sying (participle present)
sied (participle past)
sied (past)

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


sie

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

1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, “punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):

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

2010 September 16, Jessica Freely, Amaranth and Ash, La Vergne: Lightning Source, →ISBN, page 101:

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 May 19, Ken Wickham, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant, CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 7:

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.'

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:

(rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she

head

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

en-pron

sir (accusative)
hir (adjective possessive)
hirs (noun possessive)
hirself (reflexive)


sie

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

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


sie

Ist sie noch krank? (

Das ist meine Katze. Sie heißt Lili. (

Ich suche Vanessa. Hast du sie gesehen? (

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

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

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

Ich suche meine Brieftasche. Hast du sie gesehen? (

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

it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, 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.

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

ich (first-person nominative personal pronoun singular)
du (nominative personal pronoun singular)
-e (nominative personal pronoun singular)
er (masculine nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
sie (feminine nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
-se (feminine nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
es (neuter nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
wir (first-person nominative personal plural pronoun)
ihr (nominative personal plural pronoun)
sie (nominative personal plural pronoun third-person)
-se (nominative personal plural pronoun third-person)
Sie (nominative personal pronoun)
Ihr (nominative personal pronoun)
meiner (first-person genitive personal pronoun singular)
mein (first-person genitive personal pronoun singular)
deiner (genitive personal pronoun singular)
dein (genitive personal pronoun singular)
seiner (genitive masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
sein (genitive masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
ihrer (feminine genitive personal pronoun singular third-person)
seiner (genitive neuter personal pronoun singular third-person)
sein (genitive neuter personal pronoun singular third-person)
unser (first-person genitive personal plural pronoun)
euer (genitive personal plural pronoun)
ihrer (genitive personal plural pronoun third-person)
Ihrer (genitive personal pronoun)
Euer (genitive personal pronoun)
mir (dative first-person personal pronoun singular)
dir (dative personal pronoun singular)
ihm (dative masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
ihr (dative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person)
ihm (dative neuter personal pronoun singular third-person)
uns (dative first-person personal plural pronoun)
euch (dative personal plural pronoun)
ihnen (dative personal plural pronoun third-person)
Ihnen (dative personal pronoun)
Euch (dative personal pronoun)
mich (accusative first-person personal pronoun singular)
dich (accusative personal pronoun singular)
ihn (accusative masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
sie (accusative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person)
-se (accusative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person)
es (accusative neuter personal pronoun singular third-person)
uns (accusative first-person personal plural pronoun)
euch (accusative personal plural pronoun)
sie (accusative personal plural pronoun third-person)
-se (accusative personal plural pronoun third-person)
Sie (accusative personal pronoun)
Euch (accusative personal pronoun)

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 (“that one (f.)”).


sie

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


sie

ich (first-person nominative personal proclitic pronoun singular)
eich (first-person nominative personal proclitic pronoun singular)
-ich (enclitic first-person nominative personal pronoun singular)
mich (accusative first-person personal pronoun singular stressed unstressed)
meich (accusative first-person personal pronoun singular stressed unstressed)
meer (dative first-person personal pronoun singular stressed)
mer (dative first-person personal pronoun singular unstressed)
m'r (dative first-person personal pronoun singular unstressed)
du (informal nominative personal proclitic pronoun second-person singular)
dau (informal nominative personal proclitic pronoun second-person singular)
Dau (informal nominative personal proclitic pronoun second-person singular)
-du (enclitic informal nominative personal pronoun second-person singular)
-de (enclitic informal nominative personal pronoun second-person singular)
-Dau (enclitic informal nominative personal pronoun second-person singular)
-De (enclitic informal nominative personal pronoun second-person singular)
dich (accusative informal personal pronoun second-person singular stressed unstressed)
deich (accusative informal personal pronoun second-person singular stressed unstressed)
Deich (accusative informal personal pronoun second-person singular stressed unstressed)
deer (dative informal personal pronoun second-person singular stressed)
d'r (dative informal personal pronoun second-person singular unstressed)
D'r (dative informal personal pronoun second-person singular unstressed)
er (masculine nominative personal proclitic pronoun singular third-person)
där (masculine nominative personal proclitic pronoun singular third-person)
-er (enclitic masculine nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
ihn (accusative masculine personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
en (accusative masculine personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
ihm (dative masculine personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
em (dative masculine personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
sie (feminine nominative personal proclitic pronoun singular third-person)
-se (enclitic feminine nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
sie (accusative feminine personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
ihns (accusative feminine personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
se (accusative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
eer (dative feminine personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
ehr (dative feminine personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
re (dative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
es (neuter nominative personal proclitic pronoun singular third-person)
et (neuter nominative personal proclitic pronoun singular third-person)
't (neuter nominative personal proclitic pronoun singular third-person)
's (enclitic neuter nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
es (accusative neuter personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
et (accusative neuter personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
-et (accusative neuter personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
-'t (accusative neuter personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
ihm (dative neuter personal pronoun singular stressed third-person)
em (dative neuter personal pronoun singular third-person unstressed)
meer (first-person nominative personal plural proclitic pronoun)
mer (enclitic first-person nominative personal plural pronoun)
uns (accusative dative first-person personal plural pronoun stressed unstressed)
uhs (accusative dative first-person personal plural pronoun stressed unstressed)
deer (nominative personal plural proclitic pronoun second-person)
Ehr (nominative personal plural proclitic pronoun second-person)
Dehr (nominative personal plural proclitic pronoun second-person)
eich (accusative dative personal plural pronoun second-person stressed unstressed)
Auch (accusative dative personal plural pronoun second-person stressed unstressed)
sie (nominative personal plural proclitic pronoun third-person)
-se (enclitic nominative personal plural pronoun third-person)
sie (accusative personal plural pronoun stressed third-person)
se (accusative personal plural pronoun third-person unstressed)
denne (dative personal plural pronoun stressed third-person unstressed)

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


sie

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


sie

sie (nominative singular)
sitteet (nominative plural)
sitteen (genitive singular)
sittein (genitive plural)
siettä (partitive singular)
sitteitä (partitive plural)
sitteesse (illative singular)
sitteisse (illative plural)
sittees (inessive singular)
sitteis (inessive plural)
sitteest (elative singular)
sitteist (elative plural)
sitteelle (allative singular)
sitteille (allative plural)
sitteel (adessive singular)
sitteil (adessive plural)
sitteelt (ablative singular)
sitteilt (ablative plural)
sitteeks (singular translative)
sitteiks (plural translative)
sitteennä (essive singular)
sitteen (essive singular)
sitteinnä (essive plural)
sittein (essive plural)
sitteent (exessive singular)
sitteint (exessive plural)

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


sie

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


sie

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

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


sie

Alternative form of si (both feminine singular and all plural)


sie

nominative/accusative masculine plural of ër

nominative/accusative feminine plural of siu

ich (first-person nominative singular)
mīn (first-person genitive singular)
mir (dative first-person singular)
mich (accusative first-person singular)
du (nominative second-person singular)
dū (nominative second-person singular)
dīn (genitive second-person singular)
dir (dative second-person singular)
dich (accusative second-person singular)
ër (masculine nominative singular third-person)
CG hë (masculine nominative singular third-person)
CG hër (masculine nominative singular third-person)
sīn (genitive masculine singular third-person)
im (dative masculine singular third-person)
ime (dative masculine singular third-person)
in (accusative masculine singular third-person)
siu (feminine nominative singular third-person)
ir (feminine genitive singular third-person)
ire (feminine genitive singular third-person)
ir (dative feminine singular third-person)
ire (dative feminine singular third-person)
sie (accusative feminine singular third-person)
ëȥ (neuter nominative singular third-person)
CG iȥ (neuter nominative singular third-person)
it (neuter nominative singular third-person)
es (genitive neuter singular third-person)
im (dative neuter singular third-person)
ime (dative neuter singular third-person)
ëȥ (accusative neuter singular third-person)
CG iȥ (accusative neuter singular third-person)
it (accusative neuter singular third-person)
wir (first-person nominative plural)
unser (first-person genitive plural)
uns (dative first-person plural)
uns (accusative first-person plural)
unsich (accusative first-person plural)
ir (nominative plural second-person)
iuwer (genitive plural second-person)
iu (dative plural second-person)
iuch (dative plural second-person)
iuch (accusative plural second-person)
sie (masculine nominative plural third-person)
ir (genitive masculine plural third-person)
ire (genitive masculine plural third-person)
in (dative masculine plural third-person)
sie (accusative masculine plural third-person)
sie (feminine nominative plural third-person)
ir (feminine genitive plural third-person)
ire (feminine genitive plural third-person)
in (dative feminine plural third-person)
sie (accusative feminine plural third-person)
siu (neuter nominative plural third-person)
ir (genitive neuter plural third-person)
ire (genitive neuter plural third-person)
in (dative neuter plural third-person)
siu (accusative neuter plural third-person)

German: sie

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


sie

ik (first-person nominative personal pronoun singular)
thū (nominative personal pronoun second-person singular)
hē (masculine nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
siu (feminine nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
it (neuter nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
mī (accusative first-person personal pronoun singular)
me (accusative first-person personal pronoun singular)
mik (accusative first-person personal pronoun singular)
thī (accusative personal pronoun second-person singular)
thik (accusative personal pronoun second-person singular)
ina (accusative masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
sia (accusative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person)
it (accusative neuter personal pronoun singular third-person)
mī (dative first-person personal pronoun singular)
thī (dative personal pronoun second-person singular)
imu (dative masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
iru (dative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person)
it (dative neuter personal pronoun singular third-person)
mīn (first-person genitive personal pronoun singular)
thīn (genitive personal pronoun second-person singular)
is (genitive masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
ira (feminine genitive personal pronoun singular third-person)
is (genitive neuter personal pronoun singular third-person)
wit (first-person nominative personal pronoun singular)
git (nominative personal pronoun second-person singular)
unk (accusative first-person personal pronoun singular)
ink (accusative personal pronoun second-person singular)
unk (dative first-person personal pronoun singular)
ink (dative personal pronoun second-person singular)
unkero (first-person genitive personal pronoun singular)
unka (first-person genitive personal pronoun singular)
inker (genitive personal pronoun second-person singular)
inka (genitive personal pronoun second-person singular)
wī (first-person nominative personal plural pronoun)
we (first-person nominative personal plural pronoun)
gī (nominative personal plural pronoun second-person)
ge (nominative personal plural pronoun second-person)
sia (masculine nominative personal plural pronoun third-person)
sia (feminine nominative personal plural pronoun third-person)
siu (neuter nominative personal plural pronoun third-person)
ūs (accusative first-person personal plural pronoun)
unsik (accusative first-person personal plural pronoun)
eu (accusative personal plural pronoun second-person)
iu (accusative personal plural pronoun second-person)
iuu (accusative personal plural pronoun second-person)
sia (accusative masculine personal plural pronoun third-person)
sia (accusative feminine personal plural pronoun third-person)
siu (accusative neuter personal plural pronoun third-person)
ūs (dative first-person personal plural pronoun)
eu (dative personal plural pronoun second-person)
iu (dative personal plural pronoun second-person)
iuu (dative personal plural pronoun second-person)
im (dative personal plural pronoun third-person)
ūser (first-person genitive personal plural pronoun)
euwar (genitive personal plural pronoun second-person)
iuwer (genitive personal plural pronoun second-person)
iuwar (genitive personal plural pronoun second-person)
iuwero (genitive personal plural pronoun second-person)
iuwera (genitive personal plural pronoun second-person)
iro (genitive personal plural pronoun third-person)

Low German: se


sie

ich (first-person nominative personal pronoun singular)
du (nominative personal pronoun singular)
de (nominative personal pronoun singular)
dihr (nominative personal pronoun singular)
Sie (nominative personal pronoun singular)
er (masculine nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
sie (feminine nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
se (feminine nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
es (neuter nominative personal pronoun singular third-person)
mir (first-person nominative personal plural pronoun)
mer (first-person nominative personal plural pronoun)
dihr (nominative personal plural pronoun second-person)
sie (nominative personal plural pronoun third-person)
mir (dative first-person personal pronoun singular)
mer (dative first-person personal pronoun singular)
dir (dative personal pronoun singular)
eich (dative personal pronoun singular)
Ihne (dative personal pronoun singular)
Ne (dative personal pronoun singular)
ihm (dative masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
em (dative masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
ihre (dative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person)
re (dative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person)
ihm (dative neuter personal pronoun singular third-person)
em (dative neuter personal pronoun singular third-person)
uns (dative first-person personal plural pronoun)
eich (dative personal plural pronoun second-person)
ihne (dative personal plural pronoun third-person)
ne (dative personal plural pronoun third-person)
mich (accusative first-person personal pronoun singular)
dich (accusative personal pronoun singular)
eich (accusative personal pronoun singular)
Sie (accusative personal pronoun singular)
ihn (accusative masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
en (accusative masculine personal pronoun singular third-person)
sie (accusative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person)
se (accusative feminine personal pronoun singular third-person)
es (accusative neuter personal pronoun singular third-person)
uns (accusative first-person personal plural pronoun)
eich (accusative personal plural pronoun second-person)
sie (accusative personal plural pronoun third-person)


sie

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


sie

sie (genitive)
sobie (dative)
sie (accusative)
sobōm (instrumental)
sobie (locative)


sie

expresses that the action is done without restriction, freely


sie

Inherited from Latin sex. Compare Italian sei.