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Mies

Mies

See also: mies, míes, and mīes

Dutch

Proper noun

Mies f

  1. A female given name. A pet form of Maria.

mies

mies

See also: Mies, míes, and mīes

Finnish

Noun

mies

  1. man (adult male human being)
  2. husband (married man)

Declension

Inflection of mies (Kotus type 42/mies, no gradation)
nominative mies miehet
genitive miehen miesten
miehien
partitive miestä miehiä
illative mieheen miehiin
singular plural
nominative mies miehet
accusative nom. mies miehet
gen. miehen
genitive miehen miesten
miehien
partitive miestä miehiä
inessive miehessä miehissä
elative miehestä miehistä
illative mieheen miehiin
adessive miehellä miehillä
ablative mieheltä miehiltä
allative miehelle miehille
essive miehenä miehinä
translative mieheksi miehiksi
instructive miehin
abessive miehettä miehittä
comitative miehineen

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French

Noun

mies f

  1. plural of mie

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /miːs/
  • Rhymes: -iːs

Adjective

mies (comparative mieser, superlative am miesesten)

  1. (usually somewhat jocularly) mean, wretched; as, ein mieser Kater (a horrible hang-over), ein mieser Kerl (a mean guy).
  2. appalling, poor
    miese Qualität = poor quality
    mieses Wetter = bad weather

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Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *mees.

Noun

mies (genitive miehen, partitive miesty)

  1. man

Old Catalan

Etymology

From Latin meās.

Adjective

mies

  1. feminine plural of meu

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin messem, singular accusative of messis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmjes]

Noun

mies f (plural miesses)

  1. a harvest of grain
    • c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 61v. col. 1.
      Todos / los iudios q́ eran foydos por / todas tierras uinierò agodolias / e eſtidieró en la tra e cogieró / ſus mieſſes eſus. Vendimias
      All the Jews that had been made to flee across the land came to Gedaliah and settled the land and harvested their grains and grapes for wine.

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Portuguese

Verb

mies

  1. Second-person singular (tu) present subjunctive of miar
  2. Second-person singular (tu) negative imperative of miar

Spanish

Etymology 1

From Old Spanish mies, from Latin messem, singular accusative of messis (harvest).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mjes]

Noun

mies f (plural mieses)

  1. cereal seed (for making bread)
  2. seed, grain harvest time

Etymology 2

From mees

Verb

mies

  1. (nonstandard) Informal second-person singular () present subjunctive form of mear. (standard form is mees)