Polyglot Dictionary

See

/zeː/

der noun A1

der (masc.) die (fem.) das (neut.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
die Seen

Meaning

  1. lake

    Grammatical gender changes the meaning: der See is a lake, while die See means "the sea."

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Similar in other languages

French

lac

lac is the French word for the same thing — both mean "lake."

Portuguese

lago

lago is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "lake."

Practice

1 What does See mean?

2 Fill the gap: Wir schwimmen im ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches See?

nouncore-vocabulary

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