sinn

See also: Sinn and sinni

Faroese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sɪnː]
    Rhymes: -ɪnː

Noun

sinn n (genitive singular sins, plural sinn)

  1. time, times
    á sinni ― once (before); another time
    á hesum sinni ― this time, now
    ikki á hvørjum sinni ― not every time, seldom
    á síðsta sinni ― for the last time
    ikki enn á sinni ― not yet

Declension

n9 Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sinn sinnið sinn sinnini
Accusative sinn sinnið sinn sinnini
Dative sinni sinninum sinnum sinnunum
Genitive sins sinsins sinna sinnanna

German

Verb

sinn

  1. Imperative singular of sinnen.

Icelandic

Noun

sinn n (genitive singular sinns, no plural)

  1. time

Derived terms

Determiner

sinn m (feminine sín, neuter sitt)

  1. Third-person reflexive possessive determiner: his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own)
    • Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)
      Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.
      When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.
    • 1928, Krummavísa (“Raven Song”, on the Icelandic Wikisource) by Jón Ásgeirsson
      Krummi krunkar úti,
      kallar á nafna sinn:
      „Ég fann höfud af hrúti
      hrygg og gæruskinn.“
      Komdu nú og kroppaðu með mér,
      krummi nafni minn.
      Krummi croaks outside,
      calling his namesake:
      “I found the head of a ram,
      backbone and sheepskin.”
      Come now and peck with me,
      Krummi, my namesake.”

Declension

Possessive pronouns (eignarfornöfn)
singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative sinn sín sitt sínir sínar sín
accusative sinn sína sitt sína sínar sín
dative sínum sinni sínu sínum sínum sínum
genitive síns sinnar síns sinna sinna sinna

Derived terms

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish sinni.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃɪn̠ʲ/, /ʃɪnʲ/

Pronoun

sinn (emphatic form sinne)

  1. we, us (disjunctive)
  2. (nonstandard) we (conjunctive)

Usage notes

  • Not used as a conjunctive pronoun in the standard language; instead, synthetic verb forms or analytic forms with muid are used in the first person plural. Found with analytic verb forms in colloquial usage in some dialects. Use as a disjunctive pronoun is fully standard.

See also

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German sīn (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be, exist”). Cognate with German sein, Dutch zijn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zin/
    • Rhymes: -in

Verb

sinn (third-person singular present ass, preterite war or wor, past participle gewiescht, past subjunctive wier or wär, auxiliary verb sinn)

  1. to be

Conjugation

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German sin; compare German Sinn, Sinne.

Noun

sinn n (definite singular sinnet, indefinite plural sinn, definite plural sinna or sinnene)

  1. mind

Derived terms

See also

References

  • “sinn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “sinn” in The Ordnett Dictionary

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German sin

Noun

sinn n (definite singular sinnet, indefinite plural sinn, definite plural sinna)

  1. mind

Derived terms

References

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sīnaz.

Possessive pronoun

sinn

  1. (third person reflexive possessive determiner) his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own)

Declension

References

  • sinn in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish sinni.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃiɲ/

Pronoun

sinn

  1. we
  2. us
    Thèid sinn dhan bhanca a-màireach; chì sibh sinn ann.
    We’ll go to the bank tomorrow; you'll see us there.

Derived terms

See also

Westrobothnian

Verb

sinn (preterite sinnä)

  1. (intransitive) consider, contemplate, think
    Han sinnä långä stånnä på di
    He contemplated for a long while.

Noun

sinn (definite sinnä)

  1. fierce temperament, headstrongness
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