בײַזײַן
Appearance
Yiddish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle High German bīsīn. By surface analysis, בײַ (bay) + זײַן (zayn). Compare German Beisein, now only used as a noun.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]בײַזײַן • (bayzayn) (past participle בײַגעווען (baygeven))
- (with אויף (oyf) or בײַ (bay)) to attend, to be present, to be in attendance
- Synonyms: זײַן דערבײַ (zayn derbay), בײַוווינען (bayvoynen)
- 2006, Ethan Finkelstein, “חנה אַרענדט — דער ליכט־טורעם פֿון פּלוראַליזם [Hannah Arendt — The Lighthouse of Pluralism]”, in Forverts[1]:
- בײַזײַענדיק אויפֿן פּראָצעס, איז זי געקומען צום אויספֿיר, אַז דער הויפּט־אָרגאַניזירער פֿונעם חורבן, שטורמבאַנפֿיורער "עס־עס" אײַכמאַן, איז ווײַט נישט קיין מאָנסטער; ער איז אַ פּרימיטיווער ביוראָקראַט.
- bayzayendik oyfn protses, iz zi gekumen tsum oysfir, az der hoypt-organizirer funem khurbn, shturmbanfyurer "es-es" aykhman, iz vayt nisht keyn monster; er iz a primitiver byurokrat.
- Being present at the trial, she came to the conclusion that the main organizer of the Holocaust, Sturmbannführer "SS" Eichmann, is far from a monster; he is a primitive bureaucrat.
- (with אויף (oyf)) to sit in on
Usage notes
[edit]- Not used in the present tense.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of בײַזײַן
infinitive | בײַזײַן bayzayn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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present participle | בײַזײַענדיק bayzayendik | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
past participle | בײַגעווען baygeven | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
auxiliary | זײַן zayn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
present | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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imperative | — | — | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Composed forms
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Derived terms
[edit]- נישט בײַזײַן (nisht bayzayn, “to be absent”)
Noun
[edit]בײַזײַן • (bayzayn) n
- presence, attendance
- Synonyms: אָנוועזנהייט (onveznheyt), קעגנוואַרט (kegnvart)
Derived terms
[edit]- אין בײַזײַן (in bayzayn, “in the presence of”)
- אָן בײַזײַן (on bayzayn, “in absentia”)
- בײַזײַן־סך־הכּל (bayzayn-sakhakl, “attendance record”)
- נישט־בײַזײַן (nisht-bayzayn, “absence”)
References
[edit]- Justus van de Kamp et al., “בײַזײַן” in Jiddisch-Nederlands Woordenboek [Yiddish-Dutch Dictionary], Amsterdam: Stichting Jiddische Lexicografie, 1987-present (ongoing). [2].
- Beinfeld, Solon, Bochner, Harry (2013) “בײַזײַן”, in Comprehensive Yiddish-English Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN
- Schaechter-Viswanath, Gitl, Glasser, Paul (2016) “be present”, in Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, →ISBN