sebe
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A sebe
Bambara
Noun
sèbé
Czech
Pronunciation
Pronoun
sebe
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Czech personal pronouns
Further reading
- sebe in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Galician
Etymology
From Latin saepem (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ip- (“to cram, fence”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sebe f (plural sebes)
- hedge, fence
- Synonym: tapaxe
- 1316, Miguel Romaní Martinez, editor, La colección diplomática de Santa María de Oseira, volume 2, Santiago: Tórculo Edicións, page 32:
- acharon no herdamento desa grana de Lamas estaquas chantadas et divisoes feytas et sebes deribadas
- they found, in the lands of that farm of Lamas, grounded stakes and divisions and overthrown hedges
Derived terms
- sebeiro (“hedge”)
References
- “sebe” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “sebe” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “sebe” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “sebe” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Hungarian
Etymology
seb (“wound, injury”) + -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)
Pronunciation
Noun
sebe
- third-person singular single-possession possessive of seb
Declension
| Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| nominative | sebe | — |
| accusative | sebét | — |
| dative | sebének | — |
| instrumental | sebével | — |
| causal-final | sebéért | — |
| translative | sebévé | — |
| terminative | sebéig | — |
| essive-formal | sebeként | — |
| essive-modal | — | — |
| inessive | sebében | — |
| superessive | sebén | — |
| adessive | sebénél | — |
| illative | sebébe | — |
| sublative | sebére | — |
| allative | sebéhez | — |
| elative | sebéből | — |
| delative | sebéről | — |
| ablative | sebétől | — |
| non-attributive possessive - singular |
sebéé | — |
| non-attributive possessive - plural |
sebééi | — |
Narragansett
Noun
sebe inan
- Alternative form of séip (“river”)
- 1769, Ezra Stiles, Notes on Narragansett Indian Vocabulary, Yale University Beinecke Library, Local record 1769.09.06.00, OID 11413743, pages 2 (24):
- River Sepe or Sebe
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
- William Cowan (1973) “Narragansett 126 years after”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 39, number 1, →ISSN, page 10
- James Hammond Trumbull (1903) “sépu, séip, seep”, in Natick Dictionary, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 148
Portuguese
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: se‧be
Noun
sebe f (plural sebes)
- hedge (thicket of bushes planted in a row)
- Synonyms: barda, cerca viva
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Pronoun
sȅbe (Cyrillic spelling се̏бе)
- oneself (reflexive pronoun)
Declension
Declension of sebe
Slovak
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sebě.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
sebe
- (reflexive personal) replaces the dative of a personal pronoun when the subject is of the same person as the dative object; roughly comparable with to oneself or for oneself
- Synonym: si
- Kupujem si topánky. ― I am buying "me" shoes.
- Komu kupuješ topánky? Sebe. ― Whom/Who are you buying the shoes for? Myself.
Further reading
- “sebe”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024