sinnen

See also: Sinnen

German

Etymology

From Middle High German sinnen, from Old High German sinnan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinnan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zɪnən/, /zɪnn̩/
  • (file)

Verb

sinnen (class 3 strong, third-person singular present sinnt, past tense sann, past participle gesonnen, past subjunctive sänne or (archaic) sönne, auxiliary haben)

  1. (intransitive, formal) to think, to ponder, to cogitate
    • 1827, Heinrich Heine, Buch der Lieder [Book of Songs], Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe:
      Und fortgezaubert stand ich bald / In einem düstern, wilden Wald. / Die Bäume ragten himmelan; / Ich stand erstaunt und sann und sann.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (intransitive, formal) to direct one's thoughts to something, to plan, to intend

Conjugation

Further reading

  • sinnen” in Duden online
  • sinnen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Saterland Frisian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɪnən/

Pronoun

sinnen (feminine sienen, neuter sienen, plural sienen, attributive sin)

  1. his

See also

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “sin, sien”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Swedish

Noun

sinnen

  1. indefinite plural of sinne

West Frisian

Noun

sinnen

  1. plural of sin

Noun

sinnen

  1. plural of sinne
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