English

Abbreviation

Sen

1. Senator

Anagrams

• ens, ESN, NES, SNe

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

sen ‎(plural sens or sen)

1. A unit of Japanese currency, worth one hundredth of a yen.
2. A coin of this value.
   • 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 2

Noun

sen

1. (Yorkshire) self

   "Hear all, see all, say nowt. Ate all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ever tha does anythin for nowt, mek sure tha does it for tha sen."

Derived terms

• mi sen myself
• thysen thyself

Anagrams

• ens, ESN, NES, SNe

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

Pronoun

sen ‎(plural siz, possessive adjective seniñ)

1. you

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sъnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *su(o)pnum, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, *súpnos ‎(“dream”), which both are derived from Proto-Indo-European *swep-.

Noun

sen m

1. dream

Declension

Related terms

• snít
• bezesný
• snový

See also

• vidina f

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse seinn ‎(“late”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːn/, [seːˀn]

Adjective

sen

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

Inflection

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin sine.

Pronunciation

Preposition

sen

1. without

Derived terms

• sen- ‎(“without, -less”)

Finnish

Etymology

The genitive and genitive-looking accusative singular of the demonstrative pronoun se.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsen/
• Hyphenation: sen
• Rhymes: en, ken

Pronoun

sen

1. Genitive singular form of se.
2. (demonstrative) it (accusative; direct object)

   Voisitko tehdä sen?

   Could you please do it?

3. (demonstrative) its (genitive)

   Tuo rotta on varsinainen kiusankappale! Joudun keräämään sen jätöksiä kuistiltani joka aamu.

   That rat is really a nuisance! I have to gather its poopoo from my veranda every morning.

Inflection

• See se.

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

Galician

Etymology

From Latin sine.

Preposition

sen

1. without

Antonyms

• en

Indonesian

Noun

sen

1. cent

Japanese

Romanization

sen

1. rōmaji reading of せん

Latvian

Adverb

sen

1. long ago, for a long time; adverbial form of sens

   tas noticis sen‎ ― it happened long ago

   viņš jau sen dzīvo Rīgā‎ ― he has lived in Riga for a long time

Lojban

Rafsi

sen

1. rafsi of senpi.

Mandarin

Romanization

sen

1. Nonstandard spelling of sēn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of sěn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse seinn

Alternative forms

• sein (Nynorsk also)

Adjective

sen ‎(neuter singular sent, definite singular and plural sene, comparative senere, indefinite superlative senest, definite superlative seneste)

1. late

Derived terms

• sensommer

References

• “sen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Novial

Determiner

sen

1. his own; her own; its own; their own

Related terms

• len

Old French

Noun

sen m ‎(oblique plural sens, nominative singular sens, nominative plural sen)

1. Alternative form of sens

Old Provençal

Noun

sen m ‎(oblique plural sens, nominative singular sens, nominative plural sen)

1. direction; orientation
2. sense; ability to reason

References

• (fr)(de) sinnō- in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (Walther von Wartburg, 2002)

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sъnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *su(o)pnum, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos, *súpnos ‎(“dream”), which both are derived from Proto-Indo-European *swep-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [s̪ɛ̃n̪]

Noun

sen m inan

1. dream
2. sleep

Declension

Derived terms

• senny
• senność
• śnić
• sen zimowy

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) si
• (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) se
• (Puter, Vallader) sü

Adverb

sen

1. (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) up, upward, upwards

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sъnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *su(o)pnum, from Proto-Indo-European *súpnos ‎(“dream”), which is derived from Proto-Indo-European *swep-.

Noun

sen m ‎(genitive singular sna, nominative plural sny, declension pattern of dub)

1. dream

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Abbreviation of seno ‎(“sine”).

Symbol

sen

1. (mathematics) A symbol of the trigonometric function sine.

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /seːn/ (adjective)
• IPA^(key): /sɛn/ (adverb)

Adjective

sen

1. late

   en sen kväll

   a late evening

   Jag är redan sen till ett möte

   I’m already late for a meeting

Declension

See also

• tack för senast

Etymology 2

From sedan, from Old Swedish siþan, from Old Norse síðan.

Adverb

sen

1. later, after that; contracted form of sedan

   Först gjorde vi si, och sen gjorde vi så

   First we did like this, and then we did like that

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰾𐰤 ‎(sen, “you”) (both singular and plural), from Proto-Turkic *sẹ- ‎(“thou”), possibly from Proto-Altaic *si ‎(“thou”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): sɛn

Pronoun

sen

1. you (singular, informal)

Declension

• It is one of the two words that have irregular dative case declension. (The other word is ben and also "biz" has irregular genitive case declension.)

See also

References

• Starostin, Sergei; Dybo, Anna; Mudrak, Oleg (2003) Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill: “*sẹ-”

Turkmen

Etymology

From Old Turkic 𐰾𐰤 ‎(sen), from Proto-Turkic *sẹ- ‎(“thou”), possibly from Proto-Altaic *si ‎(“thou”).

Pronoun

sen

1. (personal) you (singular, informal)

Declension

See also

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 蓮 (“lotus”; SV: liên).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [s̪ɛn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂɛŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ʂɛŋ˧˥]

Noun

sen

1. lotus

Derived terms

• hoa sen
• tắm hoa sen
• vòi hoa sen
• vòi sen

Welsh

Verb

sen

1. Contraction of basen.