si

1. (international standards)ISO 639-1language code forSinhalese.

• ti

FromMiddle Englishsi(“seventh degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”),Italiansi in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the initials ofLatinSāncte Iohannēs(“Saint John (the Baptist)”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymnUt queant laxis by Paulus Deacon; thus, also aninitialism ofSāncte Iohannēs.

• IPA^(key):/siː/

• Audio(US):

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• Rhymes:-iː
• Homophones:C,cee,sea,see

si (pluralsis)

1. (music) A syllable used insolfège to represent the seventh note of amajor scale.

• si liao

• 'is,I's,IS,Is,i's,is,is-,is.

Varying reconstructions. Oreldescends it fromProto-Albanian*tšei,^[1] Matzinger fromProto-Albanian*čī.^[2] Ultimately from instrumentalProto-Indo-European*kwi-h₁. CompareLatinqui(“how, why”),Old Englishhwȳ,hwī(“why”). An interrogative and relative pronoun, especially in connection with a preposition.

• IPA^(key):[si]

si

1. how; in what way; in what state

   Si janë shokët e tu? ―How are your friends?

2. like,as

   Si e dini, nuk kemi filluar ende.

   As you know, we've not yet begun.

• qysh

FromOld High Germansiu, fromProto-Germanic*sī. Cognate withGermansie(“she; it”),Gothic𐍃𐌹(si),Old Englishsēo.

si f

1. she
2. it (for referents of the feminine grammatical gender)

FromOld High Germansie m pl,sio f pl,siu n pl. Cognate withGermansie,Dutchzij.

si pl

1. they

FromMiddle High Germansein,sīn, fromOld High Germansīn, fromProto-Germanic*sīnaz. Cognate withGermansein,Dutchzijn,West Frisiansyn,Icelandicsinn.

• siin

si

1. his

Inflected forms include:

FromMiddle High Germansīn, fromOld High Germansīn. Cognate withGermansein,Dutchzijn,Low Germansien.

• sii,siin,sinh,ŝchi

si

1. (Gressoney) tobe

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013)Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

FromLatinsi.

si

1. if

FromProto-Bahnaric*ciː, fromProto-Mon-Khmer*ciiʔ(“louse”); cognate withVietnamesechí,chấy.

• IPA^(key):/siː/

si

1. louse

FromEnglishsee.

si

1. tosee

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007),Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 315–316.

CompareChamorrosi,Indonesiansi,Malaysi, andTagalogsi.

• IPA^(key):/si/ [si]

si (pluralsina)

1. direct marker placed before names or terms of address of people

   Nagdalagansi Juan. ―Juan ran.

   Dinara nindasi Tatay sa ospital. ―They brought Father to the hospital.

2. direct marker placed before an adjective used to refer to a person with those distinct characteristics

   Yaon nasi Taba. ―Fatso is here.

3. (Naga)direct marker placed before common nouns

   Synonym:su

   Kinua ko nasi pakete. ―I already got the package

• IPA^(key):(Central,Balearic,Valencia)[si]
• Homophone:sí
• Rhymes:-i

FromOld Catalansi, fromLatinsi(“if”).

si

1. if

• si bé
• si de cas
• si doncs no
• si més no
• si no
• si per cas
• si et plau
• si us plau

FromLatinSancteIohannes(“Saint John”) in thehymn for St. John the Baptist.

si m (pluralsis)

1. (music)si(seventh note of a diatonic scale)

FromOld Catalansi~sin, fromLatinsĭnus.

si m (pluralsins)

1. cavity,depression
2. (anatomy)sinus
3. (figuratively)uterus
4. front portion of thebreast
5. (figuratively)heart
6. estuary,bay

• si d'Abraham m

FromLatinsĭbī.

si

1. himself,herself,itself
2. oneself
3. themselves
4. each other

• Si is the stressed (or "strong", or "tonic") form of the reflexive pronounes. As such, it is used after prepositions.

• de si mateix
• en si
• entre si
• fora de si
• per a si
• per si mateix
• tornar en si

• sí

• sei,sein(Moselle Franconian)

FromMiddle High Germansīn.

• IPA^(key):/ziː/,/zi/
• Homophone:sie

si (masculinesengeorsinge,feminine and pluralsengorsing)

1. (Ripuarian)his,its(third-person masculine and neuter possessive)

   Wo hät e dannsi Jlas henjestallt? ―Where did he puthis glass?

• The formseng/sing is used for the neuter when strongly stressed:Dat essing Jlas!(“That'shis glass!”) Contrariwise, the formsi may be used for the masculine and feminine when unstressed, chiefly with words for relatives:si Papp (“his father”, but less common thansenge Papp).

CompareBikol Centralsi,Indonesiansi, andMalaysi.

si

1. Subject marker for personal names

• IPA^(key):/si/,[si]

Inherited fromSpanishsí.

si

1. yes

Inherited fromSpanishsi(“if”).

si

1. if

• zi(Sette Comuni)

FromMiddle High Germansi(e), fromOld High Germansiu, fromProto-West Germanic*sī, fromProto-Germanic*sī, nominative singular feminine of*iz. Cognate withGermansie.

si

1. (Luserna)she,it

• “si” inCimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

si m (pluralsiow)

1. hiss,buzz

• edhen si(“hummingbird”)

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

si

1. (transitive) tofancy

• sians(“notion, whim”)

Inherited fromProto-Slavic*si.

• IPA^(key):[ˈsɪ]

• Audio:

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si (reflexive)

1. cliticdative ofsebe:

   tooneself

   tomyself

   toyourself

   Poslužsi. ―Serve yourself.

   tohimself

   toherself

   toitself

   toourselves

   toyourselves

   tothemselves

   Synonym:(stressed)sobě

• “si”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “si”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989

FromLatinsex.

si

1. six

FromOld Norsesía(“to sieve, filter”).

• IPA^(key):/siː/,[siːˀ]
• Rhymes:-i
• Rhymes:-iː

si c (singular definitesien,plural indefinitesier)

1. sieve
2. strainer
3. colander

si (imperativesi,infinitiveatsi,present tensesier,past tensesiede,perfect tenseharsiet)

1. sieve
2. strain
3. sift

• IPA^(key):/si/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation:si
• Rhymes:-i

si m orf (pluralsi's,diminutivesietje n)

1. musical note;ti

• is

FromItaliansi,Frenchsoi,Spanishse,Latinse, plus thei of personal pronouns.

• IPA^(key):/si/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-i
• Hyphenation: si

si (reflexive,accusativesin,possessivesia)

1. himself,herself,itself,themselves,oneself

The reflexive pronounsi is only used to refer to the third person (In English:he/she/it/they) not the first or second person (In English:I/we/you). When the subject of a sentence is first or second person, the same pronoun is repeated (with the accusative ending-n added if needed) instead of usingsi. (E.g. "they washthemselves" isili lavassin, but "I washmyself" ismi lavasmin, instead of *mi lavas sin.)

si

1. toescape

FromOld Galician-Portuguesese, fromLatinsī(“if”).

si

1. if(used to introduce a condition or choice)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar,Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 1: Lengua Española:

     Isi “a patria do homi é sua lengua”, cumu idía Albert Camus, o que está claru é que a lengua está mui por encima de fronteiras, serras, rius i maris, de situaciós pulíticas i sociu-económicas, de lazus religiosus e inclusu familiaris.

     Andif “a man’s homeland is his language”, as Albert Camus said, what is clear is that language is above borders, mountain ranges, rivers and seas, above political and socio-economic situations, of religious and even family ties.

si

1. Alternative form ofse
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar,Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme I, Chapter 2: Númerus?:

     As lenguas, idiomas, dialectus o falas tenin un-as funciós mui claras desde o principiu dos siglu isi hai contabilizaus en o mundu un-as 8.000 lenguas, ca un-a con sua importancia numérica relativa, a nossa fala é un tesoiru mais entre elas.

     The tongues, languages or regional variants have some very clear functions since the beginning of the centuries and some 8,000 languages have been accounted for in the world, each with its relative numerical importance, Fala is yet another treasure among them.

• IPA^(key):/si/

• Audio:

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• Homophones:ci,scie,scient,scies

FromOld Frenchse, fromLatinsi(“if”).

si

1. if,whether

   Je me demandesi elle sera seule. ―I wonderif she'll be alone.

   Je veux savoirsi tu viendras ou non. ―I want to knowif you're coming or not.

2. if(assuming that)

   Si j’avais ses pouvoirs, je créerais un monde où le mal n’existe pas. ―If I had his power, I'd create a world where evil didn't exist.

   Si tu n’avais pas appelé, je serais morte. ―If you hadn't called, I'd be dead.

3. even if
4. although,while

Elided precedingil orils, resulting in the contracted formss’il ands’ils.

FromOld Frenchsi, fromLatinsic(“so, thus”).Doublet ofsic.

si

1. yes(used to contradict a negative statement)

   Synonym:(archaic)si fait

   Tu ne m’aimes pas, n’est-ce pas ? —Si !

   You don’t like me, do you? —Yes, I do!

   Moi, je n’ai rien fait ! —Si !

   I didn't do anything! —Yes, you did!

The positive particle usage is uncommon in Québec, where most speakers useoui instead.

si

1. so,such(intensifier)

   J’étaissi fatigué ces jours-ci que je n’avais pas le courage de vous écrire.

   I wasso tired those days that I didn't have the energy to write to you.

   Cela n’aurait pas été unesi bonne idée.

   That wouldn't have beensuch a good idea.

2. (si + adjective/adverb + que ...)however(to whatever extent or degree)

   Synonyms:aussi,tout,quelque

   Si bavard qu’il soit, il ne dit rien de stupide.

   However talkative he may be, he doesn't say anything stupid.

   • 2017, Luc Brisson,Platon:

     Mais un législateur qui aurait un tant soit peu de worth,si infime soit elle, quand bien même il n’en irait pas comme l’argument vient de le démontrer, n’aurait-il pas commis en cette occasion, plus qu’en n’importe quelle autre circonstance où il aurait eu l’audace de mentir aux jeunes gens dans l’intérêt du bien, son plus utile mensonge, celui capable de faire que tous, non pas de force mais de leur plein gré, se conduisent de façon entièrement juste ?

     But a legislator who would have the slightest bit of valour,however tiny it may be, even if it were not as the argument has just demonstrated, would he not have committed on this occasion, more than in any other circumstance where he would have had the audacity to lie to young people in the interest of the good, his most useful lie, the one capable of making everyone, not by force but of their own accord, behave in an entirely just fashion?

• In the sensehowever, the verb is usually in the subjunctive.
• Theque is sometimes replaced by an inverted-subject construction with a subjunctive verbal element and nominal, usually a personal pronoun.

  si heureuse soit-elle ―however happy she may be

  si faible paraisse-t-il ―however weak he may seem

si m (pluralsi)

1. (music)si, the note 'B'

• si majeur

• “si”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

FromLatinse.

si (third person)

1. (reflexive pronoun)himself,herself

• lui
• jê

• IPA^(key):/ˈsi/[ˈs̺i]
• Rhymes:-i
• Hyphenation:si

FromLatinsīc.

si

1. yes

   Antonym:non

FromLatinsē,ablative andaccusative pronoun form.

si (accusativese,dativese)

1. himself,herself,itself
2. themselves

The pronounsi is used exclusively as the object of a preposition; no nominative form exists.

(Thisetymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at theEtymology scriptorium.)

si m (pluralsis)

1. (music)si(musical note)
2. (music)B (the musical note or key)

si

1. Romanization of𐍃𐌹

FromPortuguesese. Cognate withKabuverdianusi.

si

1. if

FromFrenchsi.

• IPA^(key):/si/

si

1. if

FromProto-Austronesian*si.

• IPA^(key):/ˈsi/[ˈsi]
• Rhymes:-i
• Syllabification:si

si (Hanunoo spellingᜰᜲ)

1. a form preposed to personal names

   Si Gawid ―Gawid

   Sintaysi Luyon?

   Who is Luyon?

   Kang manoksi manayti.

   My bird the manayti (small bird)

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953)Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press,→OCLC,page244

si

1. woman

• Bill Palmer,The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area (→ISBN, 2017), page 531, table 95,Comparative basic vocabulary in Lakes Plain Languages

Borrowed from Italiansì, Spanishsí.

• IPA^(key):/si/

si

1. (archaic)yes

   Synonym:yes

   Antonym:no

• Progreso I (in Ido),1908–1909, page10

• IPA^(key):/si/

• Audio(Indonesia):

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FromProto-Austronesian*si. CompareBikol Centralsi,Chamorrosi, andMalaysi,Tagalogsi.

si

1. definite article used before the names of those with whom the speaker and interlocutor is intimate or familiar with

   Tiada satupun yang berani padasi Tigor pemberani. ―No one dared to opposethe brave Tigor.

   Kukatakan padasi Yopi kecil, janganlah marah ―I said tolittle Yopi, don't angry.

   Kudengar bahwasi Tuti besar sedang sakit ―I hear thatbig Tuti is ill.

2. definite article used before a noun referring to a particular person with a particular characteristic

   Si penjual jamu itu cantik sekali. ―That jamu seller is very pretty.

   Dia tertawa dengansi orang asing itu. ―She was laughing withthe foreigner.

   Si pemuda itu tersenyum lebar lalu pergi. ―The young man smiled broadly then left.

3. definite article used before a nickname, typically for a subject whose well-known attributes are referred to by an adjective

   Namanyasi Putih ―The name isWhitey.

   Si Gendut ―The Fatso

   Si Goblok ―The Old Muttonhead

4. definite article used before animals

   si kucing ―the cat

si

1. (law enforcement)aphetic form ofseksi(“section”)

Unadapted borrowing fromJapanese市(し)(shi,“city”). Romanised according modifiedKunrei-shiki romanization.

si

1. (historical, 1942-1945)Synonym ofkota(“city”)

• “si” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

si

1. yes

FromLatinse(“him-, her-, it-, themselves”,reflexive third-person pronoun). Cognate withSpanishse andPortuguesese andsi.

• -si(enclitic)

• IPA^(key):/si/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-i
• Hyphenation:si

si

1. (reflexive pronoun)oneself,himself,herself,itself,themselves

   Il tuo gattosi lava sul mio letto. ―Your cat cleanshimself/itself on my bed.

   La tua gattasi lava sul mio letto. ―Your cat cleansherself on my bed.

   Marcosi è rotto il braccio. ―Marco has brokenhis arm.

2. (reciprocal pronoun)each other,one another

   Carlo e Laurasi amano. ―Carlo and Laura loveeach other.

3. (indefinite)one,you,we,they,people

   In Italiasi pranza intorno all'una. ―In Italythey eat lunch around 13.

   In Italiasi tende ad andare a letto tardi. ―In Italy,people tend to go to bed late.

   Si dice che Maria volesse uccidere Giovanni. ―It is said that Maria wanted to kill Giovanni.

   Da questa finestrasi vede la banca. ―From this window,one can see the bank.

4. (si passivante)Used to form thepassive voice of a verb;it

   Si vende latte. /Vendesi latte. ―Milk for sale.

   Nonsi accettano carte di credito. ―Credit cards are not accepted.

5. (dialectal, notablyRome)reflexive and reciprocal first person pronoun, where Standard Italian usesci

   Se semo fatti sei chilometria fette.(Ci siamo fatti sei chilometria piedi.)

   We walked for six kilometers.

   Volemose bene.(Vogliamoci bene.)

   Let's love each other.

   Se lasmezzamo?(Ce la dividiamo?)

   Do you want to split?

   • 1483, Matteo Maria Boiardo,Orlando Innamorato, I, XVIII, lines37–39:

     Ambose poseremo in questo prato
     e domatina, come il giorno pare,
     ritornaremo insieme a battagliare.

     We will both lay down in this meadow
     and tomorrow morning, when the day appears,
     together we will go back to fight.

• Whensi is part of an infinitive, it can be placed before it as a separate word, but more often it is attached to the end. In this case, the final -e of the infinitive is dropped, or, in the case of infinitives ending in -rre, the final -re is dropped. Examples:amar(e) +si =amarsi;ridur(re) +si =ridursi.
• Often translated using the passive voice in English when used as indefinite personal pronoun:

  Si dice che[…] ―It is said that[…]

• Verb +si is often translated asbecome orget + [past participle] in English.
• In cases wheresi(indefinite pronoun) andsi(reflexive pronoun) follow each other, the firstsi is replaced withci:

  Ci si lava. ―One washes oneself.

  (instead of:*Si si lava.)

• Becomesse when followed by a third-person direct object clitic (lo,la,li,le, orne).

• IPA^(key):/ˈsi/,/ˈsi/^*
• Rhymes:-i
• Hyphenation:sì

si

1. (music)si(musical note B)

• sì
• ci

• si inLuciano Canepari,Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

Derived fromEnglishsee.

• IPA^(key):/si/

si

1. tosee

   Mi wuda laiksi im tu.

   I'd like tosee him too.

si

1. (Used withya) Here is; here are.

   Si Janya.

   Here is John.

   Si yu buk-demya.

   Here are your books.

• si at majstro.com

si

1. Thekatakana syllableスィ(si) inHepburn-like romanization.

• IPA^(key):/si/

FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*səj(“to die”). Cognate withTibetanཤི(shi),Chinese死 (OC*hljiʔ).^[1]

si

1. (Kamnyu,intransitive) todie

FromProto-Sino-Tibetan*siŋ ~ *sik(“tree; wood; firewood”). Cognate withTibetanཤིང(shing,“tree”),Chinese薪 (OC*siŋ, “firewood”),Tangut𗝠(*sji¹,“tree”).^[2][3]

si

1. (Kamnyu)tree
2. (Kamnyu)wood

• Guillaume Jacques,Argument Demotion in Japhug Rgyalrong (2012)
• Guillaume Jacques (2021)A grammar of Japhug‎^[2], Berlin: Language Science Press,→ISBN

FromPortuguesese.

si

1. if

FromPortuguesesim.

si

1. yes

• sis

• (Standard Kankanaey)IPA^(key):/si/[si̞]
  • IPA^(key):(parts of Bauko, Sabangan, & Tadian)/hi/[hi̞]
• Rhymes:-i
• Syllabification:si

si

1. oblique argument, specifically a commonnominalindefinite marker

• (oblique arguments)sin,si,sis,ed,en,en da

• Janet L. Allen (2014)Kankanaey: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis‎^[3] (overall work in English),→ISBN, page128

• IPA^(key):/sʰi˩/

si

1. wildcow

• K. E. Herr (2011)The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎^[4], Payap University, page50

si

1. water

• Roger Blench, Mark Post,(De)classifying Arunachal languages: Reconstructing the evidence (2011)

fromFrenchscie(“saw”)

si

1. saw(tool)

FromLatinsē.

si

1. (possessive)his,her,hers,its,their

• Audio(Spain):

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Inherited fromOld Spanishsi(“if”).

si (Hebrew spellingסי)^[1]

1. if (supposing that)

Inherited fromOld Spanishsi(“oneself”).

si (Hebrew spellingסי)^[1]

1. oneself;herself;itself;himself;themselves(form ofse used after prepositions)

Inherited fromOld Spanishsi(“yea”).

si (Hebrew spellingסי)^[1]

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

   Antonym:no

• sei(standard in Republican spelling)
• se(Merovingian)

FromProto-Italic*sei(“so, thus”) used in parataxis, likely via the meaning "in this" as the locative singular ofProto-Indo-European*só(“this, that”); this older meaning is preserved inLatinsīc as well as in the oathsī dīs placet, cf. Englishso help me God. Related to Old Englishsē(“he, that”).

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key):/ˈsiː/,[ˈs̠iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key):/ˈsi/,[ˈsiː]

sī

1. if,supposing that

   Sī versūs hōrum duōrum poētārum neglegētis, magnā parte litterārum carēbitis.

   If you neglect the verses of these two poets, you will miss a great part of literature.

   Sī vis pacem, para bellum.

   If you want peace, prepare for war.

2. whether(when a verb ofseeing ortrying is the main verb in the apodosis; or whensī is used twice correlatively)

   sī...sī ―whether...or

• si inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• si inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "si", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• si inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• si inRichard Stillwell et al., editor (1976),The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995)New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press,→ISBN
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “sī, sīc”, inEtymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN,page561

si m (invariable)

1. (music)si

FromProto-Loloish*ʃe²(“to die”), fromProto-Lolo-Burmese*səj¹(“to die”), fromProto-Sino-Tibetan*səj(“to die”).

• IPA^(key):[sz̩³³]

si 

1. (Yao'an) todie

si 

1. (Yao'an)death

• Merrifield, Judith, Merrifield, Scott (2018) “Query for si”, inYao'an Loxrlavu – English Dictionary (in Chinese), SIL International

• IPA^(key):/si/
• Rhymes:-i

Inherited fromFrenchsi(“if”).

si

1. if

Inherited fromFrenchsi(“so”).

si

1. so(intensifier)

Inherited fromFrenchsix(“six”).

si

1. six

• Precedes consonant-initial words. See usage notes atsis.

• IPA^(key):/zi/

si

1. third-person feminine singular, nominative:she

   Si ass eng ganz schéi Fra. ―She is a very beautiful woman

2. third-person feminine singular, accusative:her

   Den Hond huetsi gebass. ―The dog bither

3. third-person plural, nominative:they

   Si si ganz schéi Fraen. ―They are very beautiful women.

4. third-person plural, accusative:them

   Den Hond huetsi gebass. ―The dog bitthem

• The feminine singular is used chiefly with feminine words for things. Female persons are predominantly treated as grammatically neuter, though the feminine is not impossible. Seehatt for more.

• se

FromPortuguesese.

si

1. if(introduces a condition)

   si nunca ―otherwise (literally, “if not”)

   si sâm capaz ―if you are brave /if you dare

   si más pricisâ ―if more is needed

   si já falâ co iou ―if you had told me

   si vosôtro querê vêm ―if you (pl.) want to come

   iou vai olâsi têm ―I'm going to seeif there is any

   si têm vagar lôgo vêm ―I'll comeif I have time

• nunca-si

• https://www.macaneselibrary.org/pub/english/uipatua.htm

FromProto-Austronesian*si₁. Compare CompareBeriksi,Chamorrosi,Indonesiansi, andTagalogsi.

si

1. the(primarily used with people, rarely necessary)

   Ke mana perginyasi budak nakal yang aku jumpa di taman tadi?

   Where hasthe brat I just met in the park headed to?

2. definite particle used with adjectives to describe people

   si mati

   the dead (person)

3. a definite article used in names or nicknames

   Si Polan

   John Doe

• sang(more formal)

si (si⁵ /si⁰,Zhuyin˙ㄙ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of廁 /厕

si

1. Nonstandard spelling ofsī.
2. Nonstandard spelling ofsǐ.
3. Nonstandard spelling ofsì.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

FromFrenchsi.

• IPA^(key):/si/

si

1. if

si

1. yes(used to contradict a negative statement)

• IPA^(key):/ziː/

FromOld Dutchsia.

• sie,soe,so

si

1. she

• Dutch:zij
  • Afrikaans:sy
• Limburgish:zie

FromOld Dutchsia.

• sie

si

1. they(all genders)
   • 1249,Schepenbrief van Bochoute,Velzeke, easternFlanders:

     Si maken bekent die nu sien ende wesen selen

     They make known to those who are now and will be