sunt

See also: sûnt, sünt, and šunt

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sunt/, [s̠ʊn̪t̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sunt/, [sun̪t̪]

Verb

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

Etymology

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

Verb

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

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

Mutation

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

Adjective

sunt

1. neuter singular of sunn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

sunt

1. neuter singular of sunn

Old French

Alternative forms

• sont

Verb

sunt

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

Old Irish

Adverb

sunt

1. Alternative spelling of sund

Romanian

Alternative forms

• sînt, sânt

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /sunt/, /sɨnt/

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Verb

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

• 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

• îs

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Verb

sunt

1. plural indicative present of weze

References

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

Swedish

Adjective

sunt

1. indefinite neuter singular of sund

Anagrams

• snut