zijne
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Dutch sine. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]zijne (personal plural zijnen)
- non-attributive form of zijn (English: his)
- Normally used in conjunction with the definite article de or het, depending on the gender of what is being referred to.
- Die auto is de zijne. ― That car is his one. or That car is his.
- Dat huis is het zijne. ― That house is his one. or That house is his.
- Dat is de/het zijne. ― That is his one. or That is his.
- Normally used in conjunction with the definite article de or het, depending on the gender of what is being referred to.
Declension
[edit]subject | object | possessive | reflexive | genitive5 | |||||
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singular | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | full | unstr. | pred. | ||
1st person | ik | 'k1 | mij | me | mijn | m'n1 | mijne | me | mijner, mijns |
2nd person | jij | je | jou | je | jouw | je | jouwe | je | jouwer, jouws |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u, zich7 | uwer, uws |
3rd person masculine | hij | ie1 | hem | 'm1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
3rd person feminine | zij | ze | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | haar | h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 | hare | zich | harer, haars |
3rd person neuter | het | 't1 | het | 't1 | zijn | z'n1 | zijne | zich | zijner, zijns |
plural | |||||||||
1st person | wij | we | ons | – | ons, onze2 | – | onze | ons | onzer, onzes |
2nd person | jullie | je | jullie | je | jullie | je | – | je | – |
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 | gij | ge | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u | uwer, uws |
2nd person formal | u | – | u | – | uw | – | uwe | u, zich7 | uwer, uws |
3rd person | zij | ze | hen3, hun4 | ze | hun | – | hunne | zich | hunner, huns |
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective. 3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative). 5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions. 6) To differentiate from the singular gij, gelle (object form elle) and variants are commonly used colloquially in Belgium. Archaic forms are gijlieden and gijlui ("you people"). |
7) Zich is preferred if the reflexive pronoun immediately follows the subject pronoun u, e.g. Meldt u zich aan! 'Log in!', and if the subject pronoun u is used with a verb form that is identical with the third person singular but different from the informal second person singular, e.g. U heeft zich aangemeld. 'You have logged in.' Only u can be used in an imperative if the subject pronoun is not overt, e.g. Meld u aan! 'Log in!', where u is the reflexive pronoun. Otherwise, both u and zich are equally possible, e.g. U meldt u/zich aan. 'You log in.' |
Determiner
[edit]zijne
- (archaic or dialectal) Inflected form of zijn
- 1982, Van Kooten en De Bie (lyrics and music), “Het Wijnjaar Nul”, in Mooie Meneren. De vijfde langspeelpaat van het Simplisties Verbond:
- Jezus reed niet in een auto rond / Had geen motor onder Zijne kont / Dat zou trouwens onverantwoord zijn / Want 's avonds dronk hij liters tafelwijn
- Jesus didn't drive around in a car / Didn't have a motorbike under His behind / That would be irresponsible anyway / Because he drank litres of table wine at night
- Used for plurals in archaic literary style.
- Dat zijn zijne vrienden. (contemporary Dutch: Dat zijn zijn vrienden.) ― These are his friends.
- Used for masculine singulars in Flemish and Brabantian dialects.
- Dat is zijne stoel. (standard Dutch: Dat is zijn stoel.) ― That's his chair.
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