sinnig
See also: -sinnig
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈzɪnɪç/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /ˈzɪnɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
Audio (file) Audio (file) - Hyphenation: sin‧nig
Adjective
sinnig (strong nominative masculine singular sinniger, comparative sinniger, superlative am sinnigsten)
- meaningful
- Synonyms: sinnvoll, sinnreich
- (dialectal, Northern Germany) careful
- Synonyms: vorsichtig, bedächtig
- c. 1916, Gorch Fock [pseudonym; Johann Kinau], “Letzer Wunsch”, in Eberhard von Mantey, editor, Auf See unbesiegt, published 1922, page 290:
- Steuermann, ein Bibelwort! / Junge, nimm dien Mütze mol af, / Und dann sinnig öber Bord…
- Skipper, say something from the Bible / Boy, take your cap off for a bit / And then slowly over board…
- (dated) pensive
- Synonym: nachdenklich
- 1818, Otto Heinrich von Loeben, Lindaraja’s Gefangenschaft und Befreiung:
- Lindaraja, sprich, was blickst du / Traurig und auch sinnig ahnend / In das Wasser, seinen Weg sich / Hin zu nahem Schlosse bahnend?
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Declension
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