Sentences with German verb siezen

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Present

  • Oma siezt Opa und vice versa. 
    English Grandma addresses Grandpa with you, and vice versa.
  • Tom siezt seine Eltern. 
    English Tom addresses his parents formally.
  • Opa siezt Oma und umgekehrt. 
    English Grandpa addresses Grandma by her first name and vice versa.
  • Duzt man sich oder siezt man sich? 
    English Do you use 'du' or 'Sie'?
  • Maria siezt ihre Eltern. 
    English Maria is formal when she talks with her parents.
  • Johannes duzt mich und siezt meine Frau. 
    English Johannes addresses me informally and addresses my wife formally.
  • Es ist überhaupt erstaunlich vornehm bei uns, jeder hält den andern für seinen Burschen, siezt ihn und gibt ihm Aufträge. 
    English It is really astonishingly noble among us, everyone considers the other as their boy, addresses him formally and gives him tasks.

Imperfect

  • Der Mitarbeiter an der Kasse siezte die Dame, die sich darüber aufregte, weil sie sich dadurch alt fühlte. 
    English The employee at the cash register addressed the lady formally, which upset her because it made her feel old.
  • Johannes hat mit mir verständlich auf Ungarisch gesprochen, wobei er mich abwechselnd duzte und siezte . 
    English Johannes spoke with me understandably in Hungarian, alternating between using 'tu' and 'Sie'.
  • Es war die Zeit, als sich die Jugend an der Universität noch siezte , als Studenten Anzüge und Krawatten trugen und ihre Kommilitoninnen Kleider mit weißen Kragen oder Perlenketten. 
    English It was the time when the youth at the university still addressed each other formally, when students wore suits and ties and their female classmates wore dresses with white collars or pearl necklaces.

Present Subj.

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Imperf. Subj.

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Imperative

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Infinitive

  • Soll ich Sie duzen oder siezen ? 
    English Should I call you "thou" or "you"?
  • Soll ich dich siezen oder soll ich Sie duzen? 
    English Should I address you with the familiar or polite form of "you"?

Participle

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Indicative

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  • Oma siezt Opa und vice versa. 
    English Grandma addresses Grandpa with you, and vice versa.
  • Wir siezen uns. 
    English We address each other as "vous".
  • Tom siezt seine Eltern. 
    English Tom addresses his parents formally.
  • Opa siezt Oma und umgekehrt. 
    English Grandpa addresses Grandma by her first name and vice versa.
  • Duzt man sich oder siezt man sich? 
    English Do you use 'du' or 'Sie'?
  • Der Mitarbeiter an der Kasse siezte die Dame, die sich darüber aufregte, weil sie sich dadurch alt fühlte. 
    English The employee at the cash register addressed the lady formally, which upset her because it made her feel old.
  • Maria siezt ihre Eltern. 
    English Maria is formal when she talks with her parents.
  • Johannes duzt mich und siezt meine Frau. 
    English Johannes addresses me informally and addresses my wife formally.
  • Johannes hat mit mir verständlich auf Ungarisch gesprochen, wobei er mich abwechselnd duzte und siezte . 
    English Johannes spoke with me understandably in Hungarian, alternating between using 'tu' and 'Sie'.
  • Wir siezen anfangs die anderen Eltern an der Schule unserer Töchter und denken, das sei selbstverständlich. 
    English At first, we address the other parents at our daughters' school with 'you' and think that it is obvious.
  • Es ist überhaupt erstaunlich vornehm bei uns, jeder hält den andern für seinen Burschen, siezt ihn und gibt ihm Aufträge. 
    English It is really astonishingly noble among us, everyone considers the other as their boy, addresses him formally and gives him tasks.
  • Es war die Zeit, als sich die Jugend an der Universität noch siezte , als Studenten Anzüge und Krawatten trugen und ihre Kommilitoninnen Kleider mit weißen Kragen oder Perlenketten. 
    English It was the time when the youth at the university still addressed each other formally, when students wore suits and ties and their female classmates wore dresses with white collars or pearl necklaces.

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Subjunctive

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Conditional (würde)

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Imperative

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Translations

Translation of German siezen


German siezen
English address formally, address formally with 'Sie', formal address, use formal address
Russian обращаться на вы, быть на вы, обратиться на вы, обращаться на Вы
Spanish tratar de usted, hablar de usted, tratarse de usted, tutear
French vouvoyer, se vouvoyer
Turkish resmi hitap
Portuguese tratar por você, tratar formalmente, tratar por Senhor, tratar por senhor, tratar por senhora, tratar-se por senhor, tratar-se por senhora
Italian dare del lei, darsi del lei, rivolgersi formalmente
Romanian se adresa cu formalitate, se adresa cu politețe
Hungarian magáz, magázni
Polish formalnie zwracać się
Greek ευγενική προσφώνηση
Dutch beleefd aanspreken, formeel aanspreken, u aanspreken, uittrekken
Czech vykat, vykání
Swedish nia, tala artigt, tilltala formellt
Danish høflighedsform, tiltale høfligt
Japanese 敬称で呼ぶ, 敬称を使う
Catalan tractar de vostè
Finnish teititellä, teitittely
Norwegian tiltale høflig
Basque politeki hitz egin, zurekin hitz egin
Serbian obraćati se sa poštovanjem
Macedonian обраќање со Вие
Slovenian vikanje
Slowakisch oslovovať formálne, vykanie
Bosnian oslovljavati
Croatian oslovljavati
Ukrainian ввічливо звертатися, використовувати ви, звертатися на Ви
Bulgarian обращение на Вие, учтиво обръщение
Belorussian уважлівае зварот
Indonesian berbicara secara formal, menyapa secara formal
Vietnamese dùng kính ngữ, xưng hô trang trọng
Uzbek rasmiy murojaat qilish, rasmiy murojaat qilmoq
Hindi आदरपूर्वक संबोधित करना, औपचारिक रूप से संबोधित करना
Chinese 正式称呼, 用敬语称呼某人
Thai เรียกด้วยความเคารพ, เรียกอย่างสุภาพ
Korean 존대하다, 존댓말로 부르다
Azerbaijani rəsmi şəkildə müraciət etmək
Georgian ფორმალურად მივმართო, ფორმალურად მიმართვა
Bengali ফরমালি সম্বোধন করা, সম্মানজনক ভাবে সম্বোধন করা
Albanian adresoj zyrtarisht, të adresohet zyrtarisht
Marathi आदरपूर्वक संबोधित करणे, संबोधित करणे
Nepali आदरपूर्वक सम्बोधित गर्नु, औपचारिक रूपमा सम्बोधन गर्नु
Telugu ఆపచారికంగా మాట్లాడటం, గౌరవంతో పలకడం
Latvian formāli uzrunāt
Tamil உயர்தர முறையில் பேசுதல், மரியாதையாக அழைக்குதல்
Estonian formaalselt kellegi poole pöörduma, formaalset kõnet kasutama
Armenian հարգանքով դիմել, պաշտոնապես դիմել
Kurdish bi rûmet re axaftin, fermî kirin
Hebrewלְכַבֵּד، לכנות בנימוס
Arabicخاطب بصيغة الاحترام
Persianشخصی با احترام خطاب کردن، شخصی را با احترام خطاب کردن، شما خطاب کردن
Urduآپ کہنا، ادب سے مخاطب کرنا

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Meanings and synonyms of siezen

  • [Sprache] eine Person oder eine Gruppe in der Höflichkeitsform anreden, Ggs duzen

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* Sentences from the Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org) are freely available under the license CC BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.de). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 33742, 1558, 72981, 75793, 26795, 23671, 10054, 9197, 267833, 28183

* Sentences by Tatoeba (tatoeba.org) are freely available under the CC BY 2.0 FR (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/fr/). Some of them were changed. The authors of the sentences can be looked up via: 11352322, 5295558, 11352317, 609387, 6171457, 7957013, 3711288, 7957004, 10319546, 2832668, 1349987

* Synonyms come partly from OpenThesaurus (openthesaurus.de) and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) license: siezen

* Definitions come partly from Wiktionary (de.wiktionary.org)> and may have been changed afterwards. They are freely available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) license: 33742

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