Words similar to sein

Example sentences for: sein

How can you use “sein” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

I was all the more annoyed because I knew where the new meaning came from: from German, from the phrase im Bilde sein . Some German (or Swiss, or Austrian) settler in America had wrongly translated his native expression into English, the unsupecting Americans had taken it over, and now we had it round our necks, while the original, genuine English expression had received the kiss of death.
German speakers are of course far less likely to use this from in English, for in their own language they have no alternative to can : Es kann sein, Es konnte regnen . They will therefore tend to use can forms even where they are not idiomatic in English.
jenseits von Gut und Böse sein
The phrase jemandem / fiir jemanden böhmische Dörfer / ein böhmisches Dorf sein could be translated as to appear incomprehensible, inexplicable, or strange.