sehet

Sehet is an archaic form of the German verb sehen, meaning to see. It is associated with older stages of the language and is most often encountered as a second-person plural imperative used to urge someone to look or behold something. In modern standard German this form has fallen out of common use and is typically found only in historical texts, religious writings, or stylistic texts that imitate older language.

Historically, sehet reflects older orthographic and grammatical patterns in which endings such as -et were common in certain verb forms. It appears in Early New High German and in various biblical or poetical passages where editors or translators aimed to reproduce a historic tone. The sense conveyed by sehet is similar to the English behold or look, functioning as an exhortation rather than a neutral description of seeing.

In contemporary German, speakers would use modern forms such as seht (you all see) or replace the sentiment with phrases like Seht mal, schaut mal, or simply Sieht mal her, depending on formality and context. Sehet is therefore primarily of interest to linguistic study, philology, or readers encountering historical or religious texts that retain archaic language.

See also: sehen, German verb conjugation, historical German orthography, biblical German.