Bavarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]Sie
- you (formal)
Usage notes
[edit]In Bavarian the formal pronoun Sie is used less often than in Standard German. It can be used in both singular and plural, but it's even less common in the plural.
Sie was mostly used towards strangers, especially those who don't speak Bavarian, as they would consider the Bavarian usage of du as rude, however it becomes more common by the influence of Standard German.
See also
[edit]nominative | accusative | dative | |||||
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stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | stressed | unstressed | ||
1st person singular | i | — | mi | — | mia (mir) | ma | |
2nd person singular (informal) |
du | — | di | — | dia (dir) | da | |
2nd person singular (formal) |
Sie | — | Eahna | — | Eahna | — | |
3rd person singular | m | er | a | eahm | 'n | eahm | 'n |
n | es, des | 's | des | 's | |||
f | se, de | 's | se | 's | ihr | — | |
1st person plural | mia (mir) | ma | uns | — | uns | — | |
2nd person plural | eß, ihr | — | enk, eich | — | enk, eich | — | |
3rd person plural | se | 's | eahna | — | eahna | — |
Central Franconian
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old High German *sīda, northern variant of sīta, from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Sie f (plural Sijje)
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- -se, Se (colloquial, rare spelling)
Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]Sie
- you (polite; singular and plural)
- Was möchten Sie, Frau Wagner?
- What would you like to have, Mrs. Wagner?
Usage notes
[edit]- The German Sie expresses distance in the relation between two persons. It is not perfectly correct to say that it expresses respect. Sie has never been used to address gods and saints. Towards parents it was only briefly used during the 18th century by some of the upper classes. (In both of these cases, however, Ihr was formerly possible alongside du.) Even royal highnesses used to be addressed as du, albeit not personally but in songs and poems (compare the famous "Heil dir im Siegerkranz").
- Sie is identical in form to the third person plural pronoun sie (“they”) and takes the same verb form. The "polite" Sie is distinguished in writing by capitalization. The only form which is not capitalized is the reflexive sich. When addressing a person with Sie, one generally needs to replace the third person plural pronoun with the demonstrative die ("those ones") to avoid confusion: Wissen Sie, was die zu mir gesagt haben? − “Do you know what they said to me?”
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | singular and plural | |||||||
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1st person | 2nd person familiar1 |
3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person familiar1 |
3rd person | 2nd person polite/formal | |||
m | f | n | |||||||
nominative | ich | du -e2 |
er | sie -se2 |
es | wir | ihr | sie -se2 |
Sie Ihr3 |
genitive | meiner mein3 |
deiner dein3 |
seiner sein3 |
ihrer | seiner sein3 |
unser | euer | ihrer | Ihrer Euer3 |
dative | mir | dir | ihm | ihr | ihm | uns | euch | ihnen | Ihnen Euch3 |
accusative | mich | dich | ihn | sie -se2 |
es | uns | euch | sie -se2 |
Sie Euch3 |
1These forms are sometimes capitalized, especially in letters. 2enclitic, colloquial 3archaic
- The genitive case Ihrer is more and more rarely used in modern German.
- The genitive case Ihrer does not express ownership, so it must not be confused with the possessive pronoun Ihr, which is declined by gender, singular/plural and case.
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[edit]Pennsylvania German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]Sie
- you (polite)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | ||||||||
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1st person | 2nd person familiar |
2nd person polite/formal |
3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
m | f | n | |||||||
nominative | ich | du de1 |
dihr der1 Sie |
er | sie se1 |
es | mir mer1 |
dihr der1 |
sie |
dative | mir mer1 |
dir der1 |
eich Ihne Ne1 |
ihm em1 |
ihre re1 |
ihm em1 |
uns | eich | ihne ne1 |
accusative | mich | dich | eich Sie |
ihn en1 |
sie se1 |
es | sie |
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