seinen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 青年 (seinen).

Noun

seinen (plural seinen)

  1. A kind of manga written for an older male audience, generally 18-30 years old.

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

From sein.

Pronunciation

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Verb

seinen

  1. to signal

Inflection

Inflection of seinen (weak)
infinitive seinen
past singular seinde
past participle geseind
infinitive seinen
gerund seinen n
verbal noun —
present tense past tense
1st person singular sein seinde
2nd person sing. (jij) seint seinde
2nd person sing. (u) seint seinde
2nd person sing. (gij) seint seinde
3rd person singular seint seinde
plural seinen seinden
subjunctive sing.1 seine seinde
subjunctive plur.1 seinen seinden
imperative sing. sein
imperative plur.1 seint
participles seinend geseind
1) Archaic.

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈzaɪ̯nən/, [ˈzaɪ̯nən], [ˈzaɪ̯nn̩] (standard)
  • IPA(key): /zaɪ̯n/ (common, colloquial)
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  • Homophone: sein (nonstandard)

Pronoun

seinen

  1. dative plural of sein
  2. accusative masculine singular of sein

Usage notes

  • In colloquial spoken German, the masculine nominative forms mein, dein, kein, etc may not be distinguished from the accusative forms meinen, deinen, keinen etc in adjectival use. The distinction is maintained in substantival use, i.e. without a following noun.

Japanese

Romanization

seinen

  1. Rōmaji transcription of せいねん
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