seit

See also: Seit and šeit

Finnish

Noun

seit

nominative plural of sei

Anagrams

-itse, esti, etsi, itse, itse-, ties

German

Etymology

From Middle High German sīt, from Old High German sīd, from Proto-Germanic *sīþaz, *sinþaz. Akin to Old Saxon sīd. Compare obsolete English sith.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /zaɪ̯t/
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Homophone: seid

Conjunction

seit

since
- 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Aus dem Lande der Ostseeritter, in Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun., page 106:
  Vierzig mal 365 Tage und dazu noch die Schalttage waren verstrichen, seit Dorothee unter den Apfelbäumen Burkahnens über ihr Leben entschieden hatte.
  Forty times 365 days and in addition the leap days had passed since Dorothee had decided her future life under the apple trees of Burkahnen.

Usage notes

Seit is often construed with the present tense in clauses defining the age a person was when something began: seit ich klein bin (“since I was little”), seit ich ein Kind bin (“since I was a child”). This use of the present tense is somewhat peculiar but mirrors the present tense in the main clause: Ich tanze schon, seit ich klein bin. (“I’ve danced since I was little.”) The past tense is equally possible and common, however (thus: seit ich klein war).
The present tense for still continuing states, as in seit ich hier arbeite (“since I’ve been working here”), is not anomalous but according to the general rules.

Preposition

seit (+ dative)

since
for

Middle Dutch

Verb

seit

third-person singular present indicative of seggen

Romansch

Alternative forms

(Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) said
(Sutsilvan) set
(Surmiran) seid

Etymology

From Latin sitis, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰgʷʰítis (“perishing, decrease”).

Noun

seit f

(Sursilvan) thirst