sier
German, determiner/ziːɐ̯/
sier is spelled S-I-E-R (4 letters) and appears about once in every 18 million words in written German, the 238,212th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sier is a German determiner meaning “their (singular); a third person, singular, possessive determiner referring to a nonbinary person or person of unspecified gender” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does sier mean in English?
pronoun
- 1
nonstandardrarethey (singular); a third person, singular, personal pronoun referring to a nonbinary person or person of unspecified gender
Sascha verwirrte Menschen sehr oft, weil sier sich weder als Frau noch als Mann zu erkennen gab.
determiner
- 1
nonstandardraretheir (singular); a third person, singular, possessive determiner referring to a nonbinary person or person of unspecified gender
Das ist das Haus sierer Mutter!
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
pronoun: 1. Personalpronomen der 3. Person Singular zur Bezugnahme auf eine nichtbinäre Person (insbesondere im queeren Milieu und in (Übersetzungen von) Science-Fiction- und Fantasy-Romanen)
pronoun: 1. Possessivpronomen der 3. Person Singular, wenn die besitzende Person nichtbinär ist (insbesondere im queeren Milieu und in (Übersetzungen von) Science-Fiction- und Fantasy-Romanen)
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 sier
- sierer genitive
- sieser genitive
- siem dative
- sihm dative
- ihrm dative
- sien accusative
- sihn accusative
- sies masculine nominative singular
- siere feminine nominative singular
- siese feminine nominative singular
- sieres genitive masculine singular
- sieses genitive masculine singular
- sierem dative masculine singular
- siesem dative masculine singular
- sieren dative plural
- siesen dative plural
- sihr
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce sier?
- standard /ziːɐ̯/
- [ziːɐ̯]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to sier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is sier in German?
sier appears about once in every 18 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).