ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sie

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /saɪ/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Sie is a verb meaning (intransitive) To sink; fall; drop.

Meaning

(intransitive) To sink; fall; drop.

More Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
  2. (intransitive, dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
  3. (transitive) To sift.
  4. (transitive, dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.
  5. (rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she

Example Sentences

"You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]
When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie offered me this language, 'sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'
Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.

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Related dictionary entries include you, them, their, theirs, those, themselves.

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