Noun: seña
Gender: f
Hyphenation: se‧ña
| Singular f | seña |
| Plural f | señes |
Sample Sentences
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Eso ye mala seña (That is a bad sign)
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L'aire ye seña de que va llover (The wind is a sign that is going to rain)
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Pon-y una seña pa yo saber cuálo ye (Make a symbol on it so I'll know which is which)
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Pon-y bien les señes na carta pa que nun se pierda (Write the address correctly so he'll not get lost)
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LIN: Dami les señes.
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TUXA: Si debes d'acordate... (LIN: Give me the address.
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TUXA: But you should remember...) [1912, José García Peláez, El Diañu los Microbios:]
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Al cabu de tres interrogatorios saquémos-yos a los sos vecinos les señes onde daquella taben viviendo (After three interrogations we got the address of where he was then living from his neighbours.) [1992, Adolfo Camilo Díaz, Psicokiller:]
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Hasta se tienen publicaos llibros nos que se cita con nomes y apellíos (les señes de casa paezme que nun tán) a los «axentes del flamenquismu» n’Asturies. (They have even published various books in which they cite, with first and second names (I think their houses' adresses aren't there) the "agents of flamenquism" in Asturias.) [2005, Beatriz R. Viado, “Colorinos”, in Les Noticies, number 421:]
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Ties de dar una seña de la que lu encargues (You have to pay up-front when you order it)
Nouns inflected like seña
serena,
secura,
semeya,
semana,
sencia,
sandía,
sombra,
sirena,
sierra,
siella,
abondancia,
xungla,
xostra,
costiella,
xirafa,
belleya,
xastra,
xabola,
ambulancia,
llambedura, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Leonese senna, from Latin signa. Compare Mirandese seinha. See: Latin Nouns '
signa'.
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