sebe

See also: SEbE, sebe-, себе, себе-, and ṣebe

Bambara

Noun

sèbé

1. African fan palm, Borassus aethiopum

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛbɛ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛbɛ

Pronoun

sebe

1. (genitive, accusative, reflexive) oneself
   1. myself
   2. yourself
   3. himself
   4. herself
   5. itself
   6. ourselves
   7. yourselves
   8. themselves

Declension

Declension of sebe (pronoun)

	stressed	clitic
nominative	—
genitive	sebe	sebe
dative	sobě	si
accusative	sebe	se
vocative	—
locative	sobě
instrumental	sebou

Derived terms

Czech terms prefixed with sebe-

sebedůvěra

sebehodnocení

sebechvála

sebejistý

sebeklam

sebekontrola

sebekritika

sebeláska

sebelítost

sebelítostivý

sebeobětování

sebeobrana

sebeobraz

sebeodhalení

sebeovládání

sebepřijetí

sebereference

sebestředný

sebeukájení

sebeurčení

sebeúcta

sebevědomí

sebevědomý

sebevrah

sebevražda

sebevztažný

sebezapření

sebezáchova

• řešit sám sebe

Related terms

Czech personal pronouns

		singular	plural
1st person		já	my
2nd person	familiar	ty	vy
	polite	vy
3rd person	m	on	oni1
	f	ona	ony
	n	ono	ona
reflexive		sebe, se (clitic)

¹ animate referents only, for inanimate ones ony is used.

Further reading

• “sebe”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Galician

Etymology

From Latin saepem (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂ip- (“to cram, fence”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈseβe̝/

Noun

sebe f (plural sebes)

1. 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 [new] divisions and overthrown hedges

Derived terms

• sebeiro (“hedge”)

References

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “sebe”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “sebe”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “sebe”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “sebe”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Hungarian

Etymology

seb (“wound, injury”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɛbɛ]
• Hyphenation: se‧be

Noun

sebe

1. 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

1. 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

Inherited from Latin saepem.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.bi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.bi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.be/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛ.bɨ/ [ˈsɛ.βɨ]

• Hyphenation: se‧be

Noun

sebe f (plural sebes)

1. hedge (thicket of bushes planted in a row)

   Synonyms: barda, cerca viva

Further reading

• “sebe”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “sebe”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sêbe/
• Hyphenation: se‧be

Pronoun

sȅbe ? (Cyrillic spelling се̏бе)

1. oneself (reflexive pronoun)
   1. myself
   2. yourself
   3. himself
   4. herself
   5. itself
   6. ourselves
   7. yourselves
   8. themselves

Declension

Declension of sebe

	singular	plural
nominative	—	—
genitive	sȅbe, se	sȅbe
dative	sȅbi, si	sȅbi
accusative	sȅbe, se	sȅbe
vocative	—	—
locative	sȅbi	sȅbi
instrumental	sȍbōm	sȍbom

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sebě.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛbɛ/

Pronoun

sebe

1. dative/locative of seba

   Kupujem si topánky. ― I am buying me shoes.

   Komu kupuješ topánky? Sebe. ― Whom are you buying 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, 2003–2025