Sie
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Central Franconian[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Old High German *sīda, northern variant of sīta, from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sie f (plural Sijje)
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Etymology[edit]
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Pronoun[edit]
Sie
- you (polite; singular and plural)
- Was möchten Sie, Frau Wagner?
- What would you like to have, Mrs. Wagner?
Usage notes[edit]
- The German Sie expresses distance in the relation between two persons. It is not perfectly correct to say that it expresses respect. Sie has never been used to address gods and saints. Towards parents it was only briefly used during the 18th century by some of the upper classes. (In both of these cases, however, Ihr was formerly possible alongside du.) Even royal highnesses used to be addressed as du, albeit not personally but in songs and poems (compare the famous "Heil dir im Siegerkranz").
- Sie is identical in form to the third person plural pronoun sie (“they”) and takes the same verb form. The "polite" Sie is distinguished in writing by capitalization. The only form which is not capitalized is the reflexive sich. When addressing a person with Sie, one generally needs to replace the third person plural pronoun with the demonstrative die ("those ones") to avoid confusion: Wissen Sie, was die zu mir gesagt haben? − “Do you know what they said to me?”
Declension[edit]
German personal pronouns
nominative | accusative | genitive | dative | possessive | ||
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1st person singular | ich4 | mich | meiner mein3 |
mir | mein | |
2nd person singular (familiar)1 | du (-e) |
dich | deiner dein3 |
dir | dein | |
2nd person singular (polite)6 | m verbs conjugated according to 3rd person sg. er |
er | ihn | seiner sein3 |
ihm | sein |
3rd person singular | m | er | ihn | seiner sein3 |
ihm | sein |
f | sie se5, -se5 |
ihrer | ihr | |||
n | es | seiner sein3 |
ihm | sein | ||
1st person plural | wir4 (mir) |
uns | unser | uns | unser | |
2nd person sg. or pl. (elevated2) |
verbs conjugated according to 2nd person pl. ihr |
Ihr | Euch | Euer | Euch | Euer |
2nd person plural (familiar)1 | ihr | euch | euer | euch | euer | |
2nd person sg. or pl. (polite)7 |
verbs conjugated according to 3rd person pl. sie |
Sie | Ihrer | Ihnen | Ihr | |
3rd person plural | sie | ihrer | ihnen | ihr |
- The genitive case Ihrer is more and more rarely used in modern German.
- The genitive case Ihrer does not express ownership, so it must not be confused with the possessive pronoun Ihr, which is declined by gender, singular/plural and case.
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Sie
Declension[edit]
Declension of Sie
Nominative | Accusative | Dative | |
---|---|---|---|
1st - Singular | ich | mich | mir mer (unstressed) |
2nd - Singular | du de (unstressed) |
dich | dir der (unstressed) |
3rd - Singular Masculine | er | ihn en (unstressed) |
ihm em (unstressed) |
3rd - Singular Feminine | sie se (unstressed) |
sie se (unstressed) |
ihre re (unstressed) |
3rd - Singular Neuter | es | es | ihm em (unstressed) |
1st - Plural | mir mer (unstressed) |
uns | uns |
2nd - Plural | dihr der (unstressed) |
eich | eich |
3rd - Plural | sie | sie | ihne ne (unstressed) |
2nd - Polite | Sie | Sie | Ihne Ne (unstressed) |
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