sinyar

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from French signer.[1] By surface analysis, sinyo (“sign”) +‎ -ar.

Verb

sinyar (Hebrew spelling סינייאר)[1]

  1. (transitive) to sign (write one’s name in something)
    • 2025 January 29, Silvyo Ovadya, “Los Evenimyentos de esta semana”, in Şalom‎[1]:
      Oy en diya el Rav Yeuda Adoni es el Kaymakam Hahambaşı i es el ke va sinyar todos los dokumentos asta ke va aver eleksyones o un trokamyento ofisial.
      Today Rabbi Yeuda Adoni is the administrative rabbi and he is the one who is going to sign all of the documents until he has elections or an official change.

Conjugation

Ladino conjugation varies by dialect. The following table is a general overview.

Conjugation of sinyar (regular ending in -ar)
Infinitive Simple sinyar
Compound aver sinyado
Gerund Simple sinyando
Compound aviendo sinyado
Present Participle sinyante
Past Participle Singular Plural
Masculine sinyado sinyados
Femenine sinyada sinyadas
Person Singular Plural
First Second Third First Second Third
Indicative yo tu el/eya mozotros vozotros eyos/eyas
Present sinyo sinyas sinya sinyamos sinyásh sinyan
Imperfect sinyava sinyavas sinyava sinyávamos sinyávash sinyavan
Preterite sinyí sinyates sinyó sinyimos sinyatesh sinyaron
Future sinyaré sinyarás sinyará sinyaremos sinyarésh
sinyarásh1 		sinyarán
Subjunctive yo tu el/eya mozotros vozotros eyos/eyas
Present sinye sinyes sinye sinyemos sinyésh sinyen
Imperfect sinyara sinyaras sinyara sinyáramos sinyárash sinyaran
Conditional yo tu el/eya mozotros vozotros eyos/eyas
— sinyaría sinyarías sinyaría sinyaríamos sinyaríash sinyarían
Imperative — tu — mozotros vozotros —
Affirmative sinya sinyemos sinyá
sinyad
Negative no sinyes no sinyemos no sinyésh
  1. Future forms ending in -ash are more common in speech than in writing.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “sinyar”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola [Treasury of the Judeo-Spanish Language] (in Ladino, Hebrew, and English), Instituto Maale Adumim
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