sieben
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German
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| Cardinal: sieben Ordinal: siebte Sequence adverb: siebtens Ordinal abbreviation: 7. Adverbial: siebenmal Adverbial abbreviation: 7-mal Multiplier: siebenfach Multiplier abbreviation: 7-fach Fractional: Siebtel Polygon: Siebeneck Polygon abbreviation: 7-Eck Polygonal adjective: siebeneckig Polygonal adjective abbreviation: 7-eckig | ||
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Etymology 1
From Middle High German siben, from Old High German sibun, from Proto-West Germanic *sebun, from Proto-Germanic *sebun, from earlier Proto-Germanic *sebunt, from Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥.
Compare Dutch zeven, English seven.
Pronunciation
Numeral
sieben
- (cardinal number) seven (numerical value represented by the Arabic numeral 7; or describing a set with seven elements)
Coordinate terms
German cardinal numbers from 0 to 99
German cardinal numbers from 100 onward
- 100: hundert, einhundert
- 103: tausend, eintausend
- 104: zehntausend (Myriade)
- 106: Million (tausendmaltausend, tausendtausend)
- 109: Milliarde
- 1012: Billion
- 1015: Billiarde
- 1018: Trillion
- 1021: Trilliarde
- 1024: Quadrillion
- 1027: Quadrilliarde
- 1030: Quintillion
- 1033: Quintilliarde
- 1036: Sextillion
- 1039: Sextilliarde
- 1042: Septillion
- 1045: Septilliarde
- 1048: Oktillion
- 1051: Oktilliarde
- 1054: Nonillion
- 1057: Nonilliarde
- 1060: Dezillion
- 1063: Dezilliarde
- 1066: Undezillion
- 1069: Undezilliarde
- 1072: Duodezillion
- 1075: Duodezilliarde
- 1078: Tredezillion
- 1081: Tredezilliarde
- 1084: Quattuordezillion
- 1087: Quattuordezilliarde
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- 10100: Googol
…
- 10120: Vigintillion
- 10123: Vigintilliarde
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Derived terms
- Sieben, Siebeneck
- siebenfach, siebenköpfig, siebenmal, siebenseitig, siebenstellig
- siebenminütig, siebenstündig, siebentägig
- siebenwöchig, siebenmonatig, siebenjährig
- siebenmonatlich, siebenjährlich
- siebte, siebente, siebtens, siebentens
- Siebtel, siebter
- siebzehn, siebzig
- Siebensitzer, Jahrsiebt
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Middle High German siben or sieben, likely from Old High German sib (“a sieve”). By surface analysis, Sieb + -en.
Pronunciation
Verb
sieben (weak, third-person singular present siebt, past tense siebte, past participle gesiebt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to sift; to sieve
Conjugation
| infinitive | sieben | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present participle | siebend | ||||
| past participle | gesiebt | ||||
| auxiliary | haben | ||||
| indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| present | ich siebe | wir sieben | i | ich siebe | wir sieben |
| du siebst | ihr siebt | du siebest | ihr siebet | ||
| er siebt | sie sieben | er siebe | sie sieben | ||
| preterite | ich siebte | wir siebten | ii | ich siebte1 | wir siebten1 |
| du siebtest | ihr siebtet | du siebtest1 | ihr siebtet1 | ||
| er siebte | sie siebten | er siebte1 | sie siebten1 | ||
| imperative | sieb (du) siebe (du) |
siebt (ihr) | |||
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “sieben (number)” in Duden online
- “sieben (verb)” in Duden online
- “sieben” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “sieben” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
sieben on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
