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SE

German, noun/zə/

SE is spelled S-E (2 letters) and appears 30 times per million words in written German, the 2,772nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). SE is a German masculine noun meaning “abbreviation of Softwareentwickler” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does SE mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineabbreviation of Softwareentwickler

noun

  1. 1

    neuterabbreviation of Seminar

pronoun

as -se
  1. 1

    colloquialContraction of sie or Sie after a verb.

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

pronoun: 1. Sie

suffix: 1. sie, Sie

The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.

Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of SE

  • se variant

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce SE?

  • /zə/
  • [zɛ]
  • [zə]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is SE in German?

SE appears 30 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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