sí

See also: Appendix:Variations of "si"

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin sīc.

Particle

sí

  1. yes (word used to indicate agreement or acceptance)

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin sīc.

Pronunciation

Particle

sí

  1. yes (affirmation; commonly used to respond affirmatively to a question)

Adverb

sí

  1. The opposite of 'not'.
    No parles català? — Sí parlo català!
    Do you not speak Catalan? — I do speak Catalan!

Usage notes

  • Sí is used to add positive emphasis to the verb, much like the auxiliary do in affirmative sentences in English. It generally contrasts with a previous no, and is placed in the same location within the sentence. This is a usage the word shares with Spanish.

Antonyms

See also

Faroese

Verb

sí

  1. imperative of síggja: behold

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃiː]
  • Audio(file)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Schi (“ski”).

Noun

sí (plural sík)

  1. ski
Declension
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative sí sík
accusative sít síket
dative sínek síknek
instrumental sível síkkel
causal-final síért síkért
translative sívé síkké
terminative síig síkig
essive-formal síként síkként
essive-modal — —
inessive síben síkben
superessive sín síken
adessive sínél síknél
illative síbe síkbe
sublative síre síkre
allative síhez síkhez
elative síből síkből
delative síről síkről
ablative sítől síktől
Possessive forms of sí
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. sím síjeim
2nd person sing. síd síjeid
3rd person sing. síje síjei
1st person plural sínk síjeink
2nd person plural sítek síjeitek
3rd person plural síjük síjeik
Derived terms

(Compound words):

Etymology 2

An onomatopoeia (sound imitation)

Verb

sí

  1. (obsolete) howl, cry, whiz

Conjugation

Derived terms

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /siː/
  • Rhymes: -iː

Adverb

sí

  1. Used only in set phrases

Derived terms

  • sí og æ (“always, permanently, continually”)

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃiː/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish side, from Old Irish síd (“fairy mound”).

Alternative forms

  • sidhe (superseded)
  • síodh (superseded)

Noun

sí m (genitive singular sí, nominative plural síthe)

  1. fairy mound, tumulus
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish sí, from Proto-Celtic *sī, from Proto-Indo-European *sih₂.

Pronoun

sí (emphatic form sise, conjunctive)

  1. she
  2. it (referring to a feminine noun)
See also

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sí shí
after an, tsí		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Mandarin

Romanization

sí (Zhuyin ㄙˊ)

  1. Pinyin transcription of 𦔌
  2. Pinyin transcription of 𧬊

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʲiː/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *sī (compare Welsh hi), from a blend of Proto-Indo-European *só (“this”) + *íh₂.

Pronoun

sí

  1. she
    Sí fri gábud condon·fóir.
    May she protect us against danger.
  2. it (referring to a feminine noun)
    Is sí thol Dée.
    It is God's will.
Descendants
  • Irish: sí
  • Manx: ee
  • Scottish Gaelic: i

Etymology 2

See síi.

Pronoun

sí

  1. Alternative spelling of síi

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsi/
  • Homophone: si
  • Rhymes: -i

Etymology 1

From Latin sīc (est).

Particle

sí

  1. yes, affirmation. Commonly used to respond affirmatively to a question.
Usage notes

As an affirmation, this term has in Spanish a usage that is not usually explicitly translated into English, since it could sound like a pleonasm, being that "positively", "affirmatively", and always related to a negation (explicit or not):

  • Él sí puede, yo no
    He (positively) can, I cannot.
    Esto sí es una fiesta.
    This sure is a party. / This is what I call a party.
    No sabemos si es sostenible, pero lo que sí sabemos es que funciona muy bien.
    We don't know if it's sustainable, but what we do know is that it works very well.
Synonyms
Antonyms
  • no
  • nel (colloquial, Mexico)
Derived terms

Noun

sí m (plural síes)

  1. yes; aye, ay; approbation, acceptance
    Ganaron los síes.
    The ayes have it.

Etymology 2

From Latin sibi.

Pronoun

sí

  1. himself, herself, itself, themselves, yourself, yourselves (form of se used after prepositions)
    para sí ― for himself/herself/itself/themselves/yourself/yourselves
See also

See also

Tai Dam

Tai Dam cardinal numbers
 <  3 4 5  > 
    Cardinal : sí

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *siːᴮ (“four”), from Middle Chinese 四 (MC siɪH, “four”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-ləj (“four”). Cognate with Lü ᦉᦲᧈ (ṡii1), Shan သီႇ (sìi), Thai สี่ (sìi), Zhuang seiq.

Numeral

sí

  1. four
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