sunt

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See also: sûnt, sünt, and šunt

Latin

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Etymology

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From Proto-Italic *sent, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁sénti.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sunt

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of sum
    Mārcus et Lūcius sunt nautae.
    Marcus and Lucius are sailors.
    Sunt iuvenēs.
    They are young.
    Sunt silvae in prōvinciā.
    There are forests in the province.

Manx

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Etymology

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From Middle English sounden, from Old French sonder, from sonde (sounding line) of Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sundą.

Verb

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sunt (verbal noun suntal or sunteil, past participle suntit)

  1. (nautical) to sound, fathom, chart by sounding

Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sunt hunt
after "yn", tunt
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Adjective

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sunt

  1. neuter singular of sunn

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Adjective

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sunt

  1. neuter singular of sunn

Old French

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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sunt

  1. (Anglo-Norman) third-person plural present indicative of estre

Old Irish

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Adverb

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sunt

  1. Alternative spelling of sund

Romanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin sum (I am) and sunt (they are). For sense 1, compare Romansch sunt, sont (I am) (attested in Reams, Zuoz, Bivio, Sils), Lombard sonto (I am) and Emilian sonto (I am) (attested in Legenda di San Petronio, 15th century, Bologna).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sunt/, /sɨnt/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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sunt

  1. first-person singular present indicative of fi
    Sunt un bărbat.
    I'm a man.
    Sunt un băiat de șapte ani.
    I'm a seven-year-old boy. (literally, I'm a boy of seven years.)
  2. third-person plural present indicative of fi
    Ei sunt bărbați.
    They are men.

Usage notes

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  • This word was spelled sînt until the 1993 spelling reform (which also changed sîntem to suntem and sînteți to sunteți). Indeed, the sînt spelling remains common in Moldova and is still used by some in Romania (especially among the older generation). It was also spelled sânt before the 1953 spelling reform.

Synonyms

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Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian send, from Proto-West Germanic *sindi, from Proto-Germanic *sindi. Cognates include North Frisian san and German sind.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /sʊnt/
  • Hyphenation: sunt

Verb

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sunt

  1. plural indicative present of weze

References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “weze”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Swedish

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Adjective

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sunt

  1. indefinite neuter singular of sund

Anagrams

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