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sie

/saɪ/

sie verb: to sink; fall; drop.

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. (dialectal, intransitive) To drop, as water; trickle.
  4. (transitive) To sift.
  5. (dialectal, transitive) To strain, as milk; filter.

Noun

sie (plural sies)

  1. A drop.

Pronoun

IPA/siː/

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

  1. (gender-neutral, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she
    • 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

Forms of sie

Verb
third-person singular presentsies
present participlesying
past participlesied
pastsied
alternative formsigh
alternative formsey
alternative formsye
Noun
pluralsies
Pronoun
accusativesir
adjective possessivehir
noun possessivehirs
reflexivehirself
alternative formshi

Origin of sie

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”).

Words that rhyme with sie

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Questions about sie

What does sie mean?
Sie means to sink; fall; drop.
What part of speech is sie?
Sie can be a verb, a noun or a pronoun.
How do you pronounce sie?
Sie is pronounced /saɪ/.
What is the past tense of sie?
The past tense of sie is sied.

Words near sie in the dictionary

  1. sidths
  2. Siduri
  3. Sidwell
  4. Sidwells
  5. sidwillite
  6. sie
  7. Sieben
  8. Siebenaler
  9. Siebenalers
  10. siebenbein
  11. siebenbeins

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