senti

See also: sentí, sentì, and senti-

English

Etymology 1

Shortened from sentimental.

Adjective

senti (comparative more senti, superlative most senti)

1. (India, Pakistan, Philippines) Sentimental, emotional.

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥

Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm

Proto-Italic *kəntom

Latin centum

Old French centbor.

Middle English cent

English centbor.

Swahili sentibor.

English senti

Borrowed from Swahili senti, borrowed from English cent.

Noun

senti (plural senti)

1. A coin, one hundredth of a Tanzanian shilling.

Etymology 3

Noun

senti

1. plural of sent (subdivision of Estonian currency)

Anagrams

• Tiens, set in, Tines, tsien, Tsien, Ts'ien, nites, set-in, snite, tsine, Stein, neist, -stein, inset, sient, stein, tines

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈse̞n.ti]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈsen.ti]

Verb

senti

1. inflection of sentir:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Chavacano

Etymology

Inherited from Spanish sentir (“to feel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /senˈti/ [sen.ˈti]
• Hyphenation: sen‧ti

Verb

sentí

1. to feel

Conjugation

Verb conjugation for senti

	Zamboanga City	Cavite
tense	senti
past	ya senti
present	ta senti
future	ay senti; senti; el senti; (rural/archaic) ey senti	di senti
gerund	sintiendo	?
past participle	sentido
infinitive	senti
manner	sentida
reciprocal	sentihan
reciprocal past	ya man sentihan; ya'n sentihan
reciprocal present	ta man sentihan; ta'n sentihan
reciprocal future	ay man sentihan; man sentihan; el man sentihan; (rural/archaic) ey man sentihan
reciprocal infinitive	man sentihan

Esperanto

Etymology

From French sentir and Italian sentire, from Latin sentiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsenti/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Audio 3:

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• Rhymes: -enti
• Syllabification: sen‧ti

Verb

senti (present sentas, past sentis, future sentos, conditional sentus, volitive sentu)

1. (transitive) to feel, perceive

   Ŝi sentis malbone hieraŭ, sed ŝi sentas pli bone hodiaŭ.

   She was feeling badly yesterday, but she is feeling better today.

Conjugation

Conjugation of senti

		present		past		future
		singular	plural	singular	plural	singular	plural
tense		sentas		sentis		sentos
active participle		sentanta	sentantaj	sentinta	sentintaj	sentonta	sentontaj
	acc.	sentantan	sentantajn	sentintan	sentintajn	sentontan	sentontajn
passive participle		sentata	sentataj	sentita	sentitaj	sentota	sentotaj
	acc.	sentatan	sentatajn	sentitan	sentitajn	sentotan	sentotajn
nominal active participle		sentanto	sentantoj	sentinto	sentintoj	sentonto	sentontoj
	acc.	sentanton	sentantojn	sentinton	sentintojn	sentonton	sentontojn
nominal passive participle		sentato	sentatoj	sentito	sentitoj	sentoto	sentotoj
	acc.	sentaton	sentatojn	sentiton	sentitojn	sentoton	sentotojn
adverbial active participle		sentante		sentinte		sentonte
adverbial passive participle		sentate		sentite		sentote
		infinitive	senti	imperative	sentu	conditional	sentus

Derived terms

• antaŭsenti (“to have a premonition”)
• sentema (“sensitive”)

Related terms

• sento (“a feeling”)
• farti (“to fare, feel”)

Descendants

• Ido: sentar

Further reading

• “senti”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “senti”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Estonian

Noun

senti

1. partitive singular of sent

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.ti/

• Audio (France (Brétigny-sur-Orge)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Participle

senti (feminine sentie, masculine plural sentis, feminine plural senties)

1. past participle of sentir

Further reading

• “senti”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• teins, tiens

Galician

Verb

senti

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of sentir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.ti/
• Rhymes: -ɛnti
• Hyphenation: sèn‧ti

Verb

senti

1. inflection of sentire:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
   3. third-person singular past historic

Anagrams

• tinse

Latin

Verb

sentī

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sentiō

Lithuanian

Etymology

From sẽnas (“old”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲæ̂ːnʲtʲɪ/

Verb

sénti (third-person present tense sénsta, third-person past tense sẽno)

1. (intransitive) to grow old

   Antonym: jaunėti

2. (intransitive) to become overdue
3. (intransitive) to expire

Conjugation

Conjugation of senti

		singular vienaskaita				plural daugiskaita
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
		aš	tu	jis/ji		mes	jūs	jie/jos
indicative tiesioginė nuosaka	present esamasis laikas	sénstu	sénsti	sénsta		sénstame sénstam	sénstate sénstat	sénsta
	past būtasis kartinis laikas	senaũ	senai̇̃	sẽno		sẽnome sẽnom	sẽnote sẽnot	sẽno
	past frequentative būtasis dažninis laikas	séndavau	séndavai	séndavo		séndavome séndavom	séndavote séndavot	séndavo
	future būsimasis laikas	sénsiu	sénsi	señs		sénsime sénsim	sénsite sénsit	señs
subjunctive tariamoji nuosaka		sénčiau	séntum	séntų		séntumėme séntumėm séntume	séntumėte séntumėt	séntų
imperative liepiamoji nuosaka		—	sénk sénki	tesénsta		sénkime sénkim	sénkite sénkit	tesénsta

Participles of senti

adjectival active passive present sénstąs sénstantis sénstomas past sẽnęs séntas past frequentative séndavęs — future sénsiąs sénsiantis sénsimas participle of necessity — séntinas adverbial special (pusdalyvis) séndamas half-participle (padalyviai) present sénstant past sẽnus past frequentative séndavus future sénsiant manner of action (būdinys) sénte séntinai

Derived terms

• apsenti
• išsenti
• įsenti
• nusenti
• pasenti
• persenti
• prasenti
• prisenti
• susenti
• užsenti

Further reading

• “senti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2026

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

From French sentir (“to feel”), compare Haitian Creole santi.

Verb

senti

1. to feel

References

• Alcée Fortier, Louisiana Folktales

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sentir, from Latin sentiō, sentīre.

Verb

senti

1. (Jersey) to feel

Derived terms

• senti lé bouchon (“to like a drink”)

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀲𑁂𑀦𑁆𑀢𑀺 (Brahmi script)
• सेन्ति (Devanagari script)
• সেন্তি (Bengali script)
• සෙන‍්ති (Sinhalese script)
• သေန္တိ or သေၼ္တိ or သေၼ်တိ (Burmese script)
• เสนฺติ or เสนติ (Thai script)
• ᩈᩮᨶ᩠ᨲᩥ (Tai Tham script)
• ເສນ຺ຕິ or ເສນຕິ (Lao script)
• សេន្តិ (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄬𑄚𑄴𑄖𑄨 (Chakma script)

Verb

senti

1. third-person plural present active of seti (“to sleep”)

Adjective

senti

1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural neuter of sent, which is present active participle of seti (“to sleep”)
2. vocative singular feminine of sent, which is present active participle of seti (“to sleep”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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Verb

senti

1. inflection of sentir:
   1. first-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Swahili

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥

Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm

Proto-Italic *kəntom

Latin centum

Old French centbor.

Middle English cent

English centbor.

Swahili senti

Borrowed from English cent.

Pronunciation

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.ti/

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

senti class IX (plural senti class X)

1. cent (one-hundredth of a dollar or decimal shilling)