sen

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sen"

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Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Senufo.

Symbol

sen

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nanerigé Sénoufo.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nanerigé Sénoufo terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛn/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛn

Etymology 1

From a syncopation of Middle English selven, selfen, variants of selfe, self. More at self.

Noun

sen

1. (Yorkshire, East Midlands) Self.

   "Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ivver tha does owt fer nowt, mek sure tha does it fer thi sen."

Derived terms

• mi sen, mysen
• thee sen, thysen
• yoursen, yersen

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 銭(せん) (sen).

Noun

sen (plural sens or sen)

1. A unit of Japanese currency, worth one hundredth of a yen.
2. A coin of this value.
   • 2013, Charles F. C. Ladd, Jr., Around the World at Seventeen, page 70:

     Before leaving the Kyndam I had bought in exchange what I thought to be enough yens and sens to see me through.

Etymology 3

From Indonesian sen, from Dutch cent, from Old French cent (“hundred”). See further etymology at cent.

Noun

sen (plural sens or sen)

1. A unit of Indonesian currency, worth one hundredth of a rupiah.

Etymology 4

From Malay sen, from English cent. See further etymology at cent.

Noun

sen (plural sens or sen)

1. A unit of Malaysian currency, worth one hundredth of a ringgit.
2. A coin of this value.

Etymology 5

From Thai เส้น (sên).

Noun

sen (uncountable)

1. A unit of length equal 20 wa, 40 meters.

See also

• sen high

Anagrams

• ENS, ESN, Ens., NES, SNe, ens

Abenaki

Noun

sen (inanimate, plural senal)

1. stone, rock

   senika

   there are a lot of rocks

Basque

Noun

sen ?

1. mind

See also

• adimen
• buru
• gogo

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *sen (“thou”), compare Turkish sen (“you”).

Pronoun

sen

1. you

Declension

Declension of Crimean Tatar personal pronouns

	singular				plural
	1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
nominative	men	sen	o		biz	siz	olar
accusative	meni	seni	onı		bizni	sizni	olarnı
dative	maña	saña	oña		bizge	sizge	olarǧa
locative	mende	sende	onda		bizde	sizde	olarda
ablative	menden	senden	ondan		bizden	sizden	olardan
genitive	menim	seniñ	onıñ		bizim	siziñ	olarnıñ

References

• “sen”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛn]
• Hyphenation: sen
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Czech sen, from Proto-Slavic *sъ̀nъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *súpnas, from Proto-Indo-European *supnós.

Noun

sen m inan

1. dream

   Měl jsem o tobě sen. ― I had a dream about you.

   To by mě ani ve snu nenapadlo. ― I wouldn't even dream of that.

   Bylo to jako ze sna. ― It was totally out of a dream.

   Polovinu času tráví ve snách. ― He lives in a dream half the time.

Declension

Declension of sen (hard masculine inanimate reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	sen	sny
genitive	snu, sna	snů
dative	snu	snům
accusative	sen	sny
vocative	sne	sny
locative	snu	snech, snách
instrumental	snem	sny

The form sna is usually only used after the preposition ze (ze sna) and the form snách is usually only used after the preposition ve (ve snách).

Related terms

• bezesný
• snít
• snový

See also

• vidina f

Further reading

• “sen”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sen”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “sen”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

sen

1. genitive plural of seno (“hay”)

Anagrams

• nes

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse seinn (“late”), from Proto-Germanic *sainaz, *sainijaz, cognate with Old English sǣne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈseˀn]

Adjective

sen (neuter sent, plural and definite singular attributive sene)

1. late (proximate in time)
2. belated, tardy
3. slow

Inflection

Inflection of sen

	positive	comparative	superlative
indefinite common singular	sen	senere	senest2
indefinite neuter singular	sent	senere	senest2
plural	sene	senere	senest2
definite attributive1	sene	senere	seneste

¹ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
² The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin sine. Compare Spanish sin, Italian senza, Portuguese sem and Galician sen.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /sen/
• Rhymes: -en
• Hyphenation: sen

Preposition

sen

1. without

Derived terms

• sen- (“without, -less”)

Fala

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese sem, itself probably from Old Occitan sen (“judgement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsen/
• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification: sen

Noun

sen f (plural senis)

1. (anatomy) temple

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsen/, [ˈs̠e̞n]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -en
• Syllabification^(key): sen
• Hyphenation^(key): sen

Pronoun

sen

1. genitive/accusative singular of se

   Elokuva oli muuten hyvä, mutta sen loppu oli hämäävä.

   The film was otherwise good, but its ending was confusing.

   Voisitko tehdä sen?

   Could you do it, please?

   Mitä enemmän, sen parempi.

   The more the better.

   Sen parempaa ei olekaan.

   There is nothing better than it.

Further reading

• “sen”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 December 2023

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin sine.

Pronoun

sen (ORB, broad)

1. without

References

• sans in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• sen in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Friulian

Etymology 1

From Latin sinus.

Noun

sen m (plural sens)

1. (anatomy) bosom, breast

See also

• pet

Etymology 2

Noun

sen f

1. want, need, desire