се

Serbo-Croatian

/se/

pronoun
Definitions
  • oneself (clitic form of reflexive pronoun)
  • (by extension) Used to convey the meaning of the English passive voice in the third person where the impersonal subject does the verb unto itself

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sę.

Origin

Proto-Slavic

*sę

Gloss

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

  • się Polish
  • *sę Proto-Slavic
  • se Czech
  • se Serbo-Croatian
  • се Bulgarian
  • се Macedonian
  • sa Slovak
  • se Slovene
  • сѧ Church Slavic, Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavonic, Old Slavonic, Old Bulgarian
  • сѧ Old East Slavic
  • se Lower Sorbian