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Define:De

Relatit: də

Translingual eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae French

de

.

Symbol eedit

De

  1. (radio slang) frae (operator), this is (operator)

English eedit

Alternative forms eedit

  • dee (Northumbria)

Verb eedit

De (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle dein, simple past did, past participle dyun)

  1. (Northumbria) Tae dae.

References eedit

  • The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, ISBN 0946928118
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4[2]
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165

Anagrams eedit

Asturian eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Laitin dē.

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o, frae

Usage notes eedit

  • The preposeetion
    de
    contracts tae
    d'
    afore a wird beginnin wi a vowel or
    h-
    :
    d'Asturies
    ,
    d'hermanu
    .

Derived terms eedit

Catalan eedit

Etymology 1 eedit

Noun eedit

  1. REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/ca-noun
  1. The Laitin letter D (lawercase d).

Etymology 2 eedit

Frae Laitin dē.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /də/

Preposition eedit

De (afore vowel or h d')

  1. o, frae

Dalmatian eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Laitin

dē

.

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o

Related terms eedit

Danish eedit

Pronunciation eedit

  • /di/

Pronoun eedit

De (personal pronoun)

  1. thay

See also eedit

Danish personal pronouns
Number Person Inflection Nominative Accusative Possessive Reflexive Reflexive possessive
Singular First common jeg mig min
neuter mit
plural mine
Seicont common du dig din
neuter dit
plural dine
formal De Dem Deres
Third masculine han ham hans sig sin
feminine hun hende hendes
common den den dens
neuter det det dets sit
plural sine
Plural First — vi os vores
common vor
neuter vort
plural vore
Seicont – I jer jeres
formal De Dem Deres
Third – de dem deres sig

Dutch eedit

Etymology eedit

An unstressed variety o Middle Dutch

die

. See

die

for mair information.

Pronunciation eedit

Article eedit

De

  1. the (definite airticle, masculine an feminine gender)
    De man — “The man”
    De vrouw — “The woman”
    Het boek — “The beuk”
    De boeken — “The beuks”
    De oude man en de zee.
    The Old Man and the Sea.

Usage notes eedit

  • Placed afore masculine an feminine nouns an plural nouns o aw genders, indicatin a specific person or thing instead o a general case.

See also eedit

Derived terms eedit

Descendants eedit

Anagrams eedit

Esperanto eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Laitin

de

, French

de

, Spainish

de

.

Preposition eedit

De


  1. frae
    Mi ne aĉetas ion ajn de ĉi tiu vendejo!
    I daena buy onything at aw frae this store!
  2. posessed bi
    La aŭto de Davido estas nigra.
    David's caur is black.
  3. duin, written or componed bi
    Ĉu vi havas esperantan tradukon de Drakulo de Bram Stoker?
    Dae ye hae an Esperanto translation o Dracula bi Bram Stoker?
    La viro estis mordita de hundo.
    The man wis bitten bi a dug.


Noun eedit

De

  1. The name o the Laitin-script letter D/d.

Fala eedit

Etymology eedit

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de

, frae Laitin dē (“of; from”).

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o
    • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Chapter 1: Lengua Española:
      Español falan millós de persoas.
      Millions of people speak Spanish.

Usage notes eedit

Contractions:

French eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Laitin dē.

Pronunciation eedit

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o (expresses belangin)
    • 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
      Dans une bourgade de la Manche, dont je ne veux pas me rappeler le nom, vivait, il n’y a pas longtemps, un hidalgo ....
      In a veelage o La Mancha, whose name I dae nae want tae remember, lived, nae lang ago, an hidalgo ....
    Paris est la capitale de la France.
    Paris is the caipital o Fraunce.
    En 1905, les églises devinrent la propriété de l'État.
    In 1905, kirks acame the property o the state.
  2. 's (uised tae express property or association)
    Œuvres de Fermat
    Fermat’s Wirks
    Elle est la femme de mon ami.
    She's ma friend's wife.
    le voisin de Gabriel
    Gabriel's neighbor
  3. frae (uised tae indicate origin)
    Elle vient de (la) France.
    She comes frae Fraunce.
    Êtes-vous de (la) Suisse ?
    Are ye frae Swisserland?
    Ce fromage vient d'Espagne.
    This cheese is frae Spain.
    C'est de l'ouest de la France.
    It's frae the wast o Fraunce.
    Le train va de Paris à Bordeaux.
    The train gangs frae Paris tae Bordeaux.
  4. o (indicates an amoont)
    5 kilos de pommes.
    5 kilograms o aiples.
    Un verre de vin
    A glass o wine
    Une portion de frites
    A portion o fries
  5. uised attributively, eften translatit intae Inglish as a compoond wird
    Un jus de pomme
    An aiple juice
    Un verre de vin
    A glass o wine
    Une boîte de nuit
    A nicht club
    Un chien de garde
    A guard dug
    Une voiture de sport
    A sports caur
    Un stade de football
    A fitbaa stadium
  6. frae (uised tae indicate the stairt o a time or range)
    De 9:00 à 11:00 je ne serai pas libre.
    Frae 9 tae 11 I won't be free.
    Je travaille de huit heures à midi.
    un groupe de cinq à huit personnes
    a group o [frae] five tae aicht fowk
  7. uised efter certain verbs afore an infinitive, eften translatin intae Inglis as a gerund or an infinitive
    J'ai arrêté de fumer.
    I stopped smokin.
    Il continue de m'embêter.
    He keeps annoyin me.
    Elle m'a dit de venir.
    She tauld me tae come.
    Nous vous proposons de venir.
    We suggest ye tae come.
  8. bi
    Boire trois tasses par jour réduirait de 20% les risques de contracter une maladie.
    Drinkin three glasses a day would reduce the risk o catchin an illness bi 20%.

Usage notes eedit

Afore a wird beginnin wi a vowel soond,

de

elides tae

d’

. Afore the airticle

le

, it contracts wi the airticle intae

du

, as shawn in the example above. Afore the airticle

les

, it contracts wi the airticle intae

des

.

Le Songe d’une nuit d’été — “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (Leeterally, “The Dream o ane nicht o summer”)
La queue du chien — “The dug’s tail”
Index des auteurs — “Index o the authors”

Article eedit

De

  1. (indefinite) some; ony (in quaistiens or negatives)
    Je voudrais de la viande.
    I'd lik some meat.
    Est-ce qu'il y a de la bonne musique ?
    Is thare ony guid muisic?
    Nous cherchons du lait.
    We're leuking for some milk.
  2. (negative) a, an, ony
    Elle n'a pas de mère.
    She haesna got a mither.
    Il n'a pas de crayon.
    He haesna got a pencil.
    Je n'ai pas de temps.
    I havena got ony time.

Usage notes eedit

In the positive, de is uisually uised wi a definite airticle, as in the examples. In the negative, wioot an airticle.

Derived terms eedit

Anagrams eedit

Galician eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Laitin dē.

Pronunciation eedit

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o, frae

Usage notes eedit

The preposeetion de contracts tae d- afore airticles, afore third-person tonic pronouns, an before the determiners

algún

an

outro

.

Derived terms eedit

Haitian Creole eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae French

Numeral eedit

De

  1. twa

Hungarian eedit

Pronunciation eedit

Adverb eedit

De (nae comparable)

  1. hou!, very much
    De szép ez a ház! - Oh, hou beautiful that hoose is!

Synonyms eedit

Conjunction eedit

De

  1. but
  2. (oh) yes!, surely! (uised as a positive contradiction tae a negative statement)
    Nem voltál itt! - De ott voltam. - Ye weren't here! - Yes I wis thare!

Derived terms eedit

In expressions

See also eedit

Ido eedit

Preposition eedit

De

  1. frae (nae tae be confused wi di)
  2. o (comprisin, containin, or made frae)

Interlingua eedit

Preposition eedit

De

  1. frae
  2. syne
  3. o
  4. wi
  5. bi means o
  6. tae
  7. for

Irish eedit

Pronunciation eedit

  • [dʲɛ]
  • (Connemara an the Aran Islands) [ɡə]

Preposition eedit

De (triggers lenition; uised anly afore consonant soonds)

  1. frae
  2. o

Inflection eedit

Person Normal Emphatic
1st person sing. díom díomsa
2t person sing. díot díotsa
3d sing. masc. de desean
3d sing. fem. di dise
1st person pl. dínn dínne
2t person pl. díbh díbhse
3d person pl. díobh díobhsan

Derived terms eedit

  • dá (“o his/her/thair”)
  • dár (“o oor”)
  • den (“o the”)

Related terms eedit

  • d’ (uised afore a vowel soond)

Italian eedit

Contraction eedit

De

  1. apocopic furm o del
    Michael Radford è il regista de "Il postino". — "Michael Radford is the director of "Il Postino".

Usage notes eedit

De

is uised whaur

del

,

della

, etc, would ordinarily be uised, but cannae be acause the airticle is pairt o the teetle o a film, beuk, etc.

See also eedit

Anagrams eedit

Japanese eedit

Romanization eedit

De

  1. See で
  2. See デ

Jersey Dutch eedit

Etymology eedit

Cognate tae Dutch

.

Article eedit

De

  1. the
    • 1912, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsche taal— en letterkunde, volumes 31-32, page 309:
      De v'lôrene zön
      The prodigal (literally "lost") son

Ladin eedit

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o, frae

Ladino eedit

Preposition eedit

De (Laitin spellin)

  1. o, frae

Latin eedit

Etymology 1 eedit

Frae Etruscan. Etruscan names o staps wur the stap follaed bi /eː/[1].

Pronunciation eedit

Noun eedit

dē (indeclinable)

  1. The name o the letter D.
Coordinate terms eedit

References eedit

  1. ↑ (2012) The Unicode Consortium, The Unicode Standard: Version 6.1 – Core Specification. ISBN 978-1-936213-02-3, page 468; citing: (1985) Geoffrey Sampson, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-1254-9.
  • Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32: "Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū—each, again, with a long vowel sound."

Etymology 2 eedit

Perhaps frae

ded

(compare Oscan

dat

), auld ablative o pronom. stem

; an the suffixes, auld case-forms, -dam, -dem, -dum, -do wi the locative -de.

Pronunciation eedit

Preposition eedit

dē (uised wi an ablative)

  1. o, concernin, aboot
    De rebus mathematicis.
    Concernin mathematical things.
    • 1772-1778 Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ by Finnur Jónsson, chapter one (Google books)
      De introductione religionis Christianæ in Islandiam.
      O the introduction o Christianity tae Iceland.
  2. frae, away frae, doun frae, oot o (in general tae indicate the person or place frae which ony thing is taken, etc., wi verbs o takin away, deprivin, demandin, requestin, inquirin, buyin; as capere, sumere, emere, quaerere, discere, trahere, etc., an thair compoonds).
    Emere de aliquo.
    Tar buy frae someane.
    Aliquid mercari de aliquo.
    Tae buy something frae someane.
    De aliquo quaerere, quid, etc., C
    Tae search for someane. (?)
    Saepe hoc audivi de patre.
    De mausoleo exaudita vox est.
    Ut sibi liceret discere id de me.
    (so wi petere, o place) De vicino terra petita solo.
    (so o persons (late Laitin)) Peto de te.
    Animam de corpore mitto.
    Aliquo quom jam sucus de corpore cessit.
    Civitati persuasit, ut de finibus suis cum omnibus copiis exirent.
    Decedere de provincia.
    De vita decedere.
    Exire de vita. (compare excedere e vita)
    De' triclinio, de cubiculo exire.
    Hamum de cubiculo ut e navicula jacere.
    De castris procedere.
    Brassica de capite et de oculis omnia (mala) deducet.
    De digito anulum detraho.
    Frae the finger I pull the ring.
    De matris complexu aliquem avellere atque abstrahere.
    Nomen suum de tabula sustulit.
    Ferrum de manibus extorsimus.
    Juris utilitas vel a peritis vel de libris depromi potest.
    ...decido de lecto praeceps.
    De muro se deicere.
    De sella exsilire.
    Nec ex equo vel de muro etc., hostem destinare.
    De caelo aliquid demittere.
  3. tae depart, widraw frae
    De altera parte agri Sequanos decedere juberet.
Usage notes eedit
  • De
    denotes the gangin oot, departur, removal, or separatin o an object frae ony fixed pynt (it occupies a middle place atween
    which denotes a mere freemit departur, an
    which signifies frae the interior o a thing. Hence verbs compoondit wi
    de
    are constructit nae anly wi
    de
    , but quite as frequently wi
    ab
    an
    ex
    ; an, on the ither hand, those compoondit wi
    ab
    an
    ex
    eften hae the
    terminus a quo
    indicatit bi
    de
    ).
Derived terms eedit
Descendants eedit
  • Aragonese: de
  • Asturian: de
  • Aromanian: di
  • Catalan: de
  • Corsican: di
  • Dalmatian: de
  • Esperanto: de
  • French: de
  • Friulian: di
  • Galician: de
  • Ido: de
  • Interlingua: de
  • Italian: di
  • Neapolitan: 'e
  • Occitan: de
  • Portuguese: de
  • Romanian: de
  • Romansch: da
  • Sicilian: di
  • Spanish: de

Lojban eedit

Cmavo eedit

De

  1. (pro-sumti) someane/something that exists #2
    ro da poi plini la solri ku'o de poi mluni zo'u da se mluni de
    For every planet x orbitin aroond the Sun, there exists a muin y such that x is orbit bi y.
    ro da poi plini la solri cu se mluni de poi mluni [1]
    Every planet orbitin aroond the Sun haes an orbitin muin.

Usage notes eedit

Multiple occurrences o

de

in logically connectit sentences refer tae the same thing.

Related terms eedit

See also eedit

References eedit

  1. ↑ John Woldemar Cowan, The Lojban Reference Grammar, §16.5: Dropping the prenex.

Low German eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Old Saxon.

Pronunciation eedit

  • /dɛɪ̯/

Article eedit

De (genitive der, dative den, accusative de, definite airticle)

  1. the

Usage notes eedit

  • This is the anly plural airticle an lik Inglis 'the' is uised for nouns o every gender an class. Indefinite nouns in plural are uised wioot airticle, again as in Inglis.

Article eedit

De f (genitive der, dative der, accusative de, definite airticle)

  1. the
    • De Fru gat hen. (The woman walks [lit. goes] thare.)

Article eedit

De m (genitive des, dative dęme, accusative denne, definite airticle)

  1. the
    • De Mann gat hen. (The man walks [lit. goes] thare.)

Usage notes eedit

  • Dative or accusative are sometimes cried 'object case'. However, maist (if nae aw) dialects hae nae biggit a proper Objective case.
  • Dem (frae Middle Law German 'deme') can be foond as 'den' as well due tae interchyngeability o m an n in Middle Law German.

Pronoun eedit

De m (accusative den)

  1. (relative) which, that
    • De Mann, de dår güng. (The man, which walked thare.)
    • De Mann, den wi hüert häbben. (The man, which we hired.)

Usage notes eedit

  • The uise as a relative pronoun mihct nae be present in aw dialects.

Pronoun eedit

De f (accusative de)

  1. (relative) which, that
    • De Fru, de wi hüert hębben. (The woman, which we hae hired.)

Usage notes eedit

  • The uise as a relative pronoun micht nae be present in aw dialects.

Luxembourgish eedit

Pronoun eedit

De

  1. unstressed form o du

Declension eedit

Luxembourgish personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative reflexive
str. unstr. str. unstr. str. unstr.
1st person singular ech — mech — mir mer mech
2nt person singular
(informal) 		du de dech — dir der dech
2nt person singular
(formal) 		Dir — Iech — Iech — Iech
3rd person singular (m) hien en en — him em sech
3rd person singular (f) si / hatt se / et si / hatt se / et hir / him — / em sech
3rd person singular (n) et 't et 't him em sech
1st person plural mir mer eis / ons — eis / ons — eis / ons
2nt person plural dir der iech — iech — iech
3rd person plural si — si — hinnen – sech

Mandarin eedit

Romanization eedit

De

  1. See 的
  2. See 地
  3. See 得

Romanization eedit

De

  1. Nonstaundart spellin o dē.
  2. Nonstaundart spellin o dé.

Usage notes eedit

  1. REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/U:cmn:toneless

Mauritian Creole eedit

Mauritian Creole cardinal numbers
 <  1 2 3  > 
    Cardinal : De
    Ordinal : deziem
    Adverbial : ledoub

Etymology eedit

Frae French

deux

.

Numeral eedit

De

  1. (cardinal) twa

Derived terms eedit

Middle French eedit

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o
  2. frae

Norwegian Bokmål eedit

Pronunciation eedit

Pronoun eedit

De (accusative dem, genitive deres)

  1. thay
  2. those

See also eedit

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål
Nominative Objective case Genitive/Possessive pronoun
Singular
First person jeg meg min m
Second person du deg din m
Third person m han han/ham hans
Third person f hun henne hennes
Third person n det det dets
Third person, nonhuman m/f den den dens
Plural
First person vi oss vår m
Seicont person dere dere deres
Third person de dem deres

Norwegian Nynorsk eedit

Etymology 1 eedit

Frae Auld Norse

þér

,

ér

an

þit

,

it

.

Pronoun eedit

De (accusative dykk, genitive dykkar)

  1. ye (seicont-person plural)
Synonyms eedit

See also eedit

    Personal pronouns in Nynorsk
Nominative Objective case Genitive/Possessive pronoun
Singular
First person eg meg min m
Seicont person du deg din m
Third person m han han, honom3 hans
Third person f ho ho, henne hennar, hennes4
Third person n det, dat1 det, dat1 dess 2
Plural
First person me, vi oss vår m
Seicont person de, dokker dykk, dokker dykkar, dokkar, deires4
Third person dei dei, deim3 deira
Notes
1Never part o offeecial Nynorsk/Landsmål. Primarily uised afore Landsmål received an offeecial written norm.
2Rare or leeterary
3Na langer pairt o the offeecial written norm. Nou primarily uised in Høgnorsk texts.
4Na langer pairt o the offeecial written norm. These non-tradeetional furms wur addit tae the norm tae either approach the the Samnorsk ideal or certain dialects.

Etymology 2 eedit

Frae French, Laitin.

Preposition eedit

De

  1. uised in set expressions (such as de jure); translates tae "frae" an "o"

References eedit

Occitan eedit

Etymology eedit

Inherited frae Laitin de.

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o
  2. frae

Old French eedit

Etymology eedit

Laitin dē

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o
  2. frae

Old Portuguese eedit

Alternative forms eedit

  • d- (elidit furm when follaed bi a wird which begins wi a vowel)
  • D- (elidit furm when follaed bi a capitalised wird which begins wi a vowel)

Etymology eedit

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Pronunciation eedit

  • /de/

Preposition eedit

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  1. o

Descendants eedit

  • Fala: de
  • Galician: de
  • Portuguese: de

Old Provençal eedit

Etymology eedit

Laitin dē

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o
  2. frae

Portuguese eedit

Alternative forms eedit

Etymology eedit

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, frae Laitin dē (“o”).

Pronunciation eedit

  • (Portugal) /dɨ/
  • (Brazil) /d͡ʒɪ/
    • (Sooth Brazil) /de/
    • (Nordestino) /di/
  1. REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/homophones

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o
    • Template:RQ:Harry Potter
      O protesto de Hermione foi abafado por uma risadinha alta.
      Hermione's objection wis interruptit bi a loud little laugh.
    Os amigos dele. - His friends. (lit. The friends o his)
    De que é feito? - What is this made of? (lit. O whit is made this?)
  2. 's, possession suffix
    A casa de alguém - Someone's house.
  3. frae
    De onde você é? - Where are you from?
  4. bi the means o, bi
    Eu sempre vou trabalhar de ônibus. - I always gang tae wirk bi bus.
  5. as, "dressed as"
    Na festa, ele estava de bruxo - At the pairty, he wis dressed as a wizard.
    Homens de Preto - Men in Black
  6. -long, indicatin time duration
    Um filme de duas horas. - A twa oor-long movie.
  7. A compound word connector, eften nae translatit intae Inglis
    Fone de ouvido - Heidphone (lit. Phone "o" ear)
    Acampamento de verão - Simmer camp

Usage notes eedit

Uised in the follaein contractions:

Romanian eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Laitin dē.

Preposition eedit

De (+accusative)

  1. frae
    Casa mea nu este departe de aici. - “Ma hoose is nae far frae here.”
  2. o
    o ceașcă de ceai - “a cup of tea”
    un profesor de matematică - “a professor o mathematics”
  3. bi
    o carte scrisă de Marin Preda. - “a beuk written bi Marin Preda“

Romansch eedit

Alternative forms eedit

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter, Vallader) di
  • (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) gi

Etymology eedit

Frae Laitin
diēs
.

Noun eedit

De m (plural Des)

  1. (Surmiran) day

Scottish Gaelic eedit

Alternative forms eedit

Pronunciation eedit

  • [d̊ʲe]

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o, aff

Derived terms eedit

  • bhàrr - doun frae, frae aff
  • The follaein preposeetional pronouns:
Combinin

pronoun

Preposeetional

pronoun

Preposeetional

pronoun (emphatic)

mi dhion dhiomsa
tu dhiot dhiotsa
e dheth dhethsan
i dhith dhithse
sinn dhinn dhinne
sibh dhibh dhibhse
iad dhiubh dhiubhsan

Serbo-Croatian eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Proto-Slavic *kъdě, *kъde, frae Proto-Indo-European *kwu-dhē.

Adverb eedit

  1. REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/sh-adverb
  1. (Kajkavian, Template:Context 2) whaur

Pronoun eedit

De

  1. (Kajkavian, Template:Context 2) whaur

Synonyms eedit

Spanish eedit

Pronunciation eedit

  • (efter a pause, 'l', 'm', 'n' and 'ñ') /de/
  • (elsewaur) {Wt/sco/IPA|lang=es|/ðe/|[ð̞e̞]}}

Etymology 1 eedit

Noun eedit

De f (plural Des)


  1. Name o the letter
    d
    .

Etymology 2 eedit

 
Spanish preposeetion “de” written as a ligature in caipitals
 
Haund-paintit preposeetion “DE” in the wild
Frae Laitin
de
.

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o; ’s (but uised efter the thing ained an afore the owner)
    Constitución española de 1812 — “Spainyie constitution o 1812”
    la cola del perro — “the dug’s tail”
  2. from
    Soy de España — “I’m frae Spain”
    Él murió de hambre — “He died frae hunger”
  3. uised tae construct compoond nouns (wi attributive nouns)
    campamento de verano — “simmer camp”
Usage notes eedit
As illustratit in the example abuin,
de
combines wi
el
tae furm
del
.
Derived terms eedit

Sranan Tongo eedit

Verb eedit

De

  1. Tae be.

Swedish eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Auld Norse
þeir
, frae Proto-Germanic *þai (wi noun endin -r).

Alternative forms eedit

  • (informal) dom
  • (informal, dialectal) di

Pronunciation eedit

  •  audio (help·info)
  • (Sweden) /dɔm/, (formal) /deː/, (dialectal) /diː/
  • (Finland) /diː/

Pronoun eedit

De (third-person plural nominative, dative an accusative dem, genitive deras, reflexive sig)

  1. thay

Declension eedit

Swadish personal pronouns
subject object posessive
singular full full common neuter plural
1st person jag mig min mitt mina
2nt person du dig din ditt dina
3rd person masculine han honom hans
3rd person feminine hon henne hennes
3rd person common den den dess
3rd person neuter det det dess
3rd person indefinite man en ens
3rd person reflexive — sig sin sitt sina
plural
1st person vi oss vår vårt våra
2nt person ni er er ert era
3rd person de dem deras
3rd person reflexive — sig sin sitt sina

Article eedit

De

  1. the, a definite airticle uised in the beginning o noun phrases containin attributive adjectives an nouns in the plural. This airticle is uised thegither wi the definite suffix o the noun tae indicate the definiteness o the noun phrase.
    de gröna bilarna
    the green caurs

Usage notes eedit

The same type o noun phrases wi singular nouns instead uise den (common gender) or det (neuter) for this function. Some definite noun phrase wi attributive adjectives mey skip these precedin airticles. This is the case especially for mony lexicalized noun phrases an an aa for mony noun phrases wirkin as proper names o organisations, geografical places, TV shaws, events an seemilar.

Brittiska öarna
The Breetish Isles

While the personal pronoun de haes an object furm an a genitive form, the definite airticle de is unaffectit bi the syntactic role o the noun phrase.

Tarantino eedit

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o

Tok Pisin eedit

Etymology eedit

Frae Inglis
day
.

Noun eedit

De

  1. day
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society o Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:5 (translation here):
      Tulait em i kolim “De,” na tudak em i kolim “Nait.” Nait i go pinis na moning i kamap. Em i de namba wan.

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Turkish eedit

Adverb eedit

De

  1. as well, too, an aa
Özer de sorunun cevabını biliyor - Özer an aa kens the answer o the quaistien
Berker de bizimle geliyor - Berker is comin wi us as well
Zafer de dondurma yemeyi sever - Zafer liks eatin ice cream, too.

Usage notes eedit

  • It's uised when the previous wird's last vowel is "e", "i", "ö" or "ü". Itherwise (if the wird's last vowel is "a", "ı", "o" or "u"); it acomes "da"

Synonyms eedit

Noun eedit

De

  1. The name o the Laitin-script letter D/d.

Verb eedit

De

  1. (imperative) say

Volapük eedit

Preposition eedit

De

  1. o, frae


West Frisian eedit

Etymology eedit

Compare Dutch an Law German
de
, Inglis
the
, German
der
.

Article eedit

De c

  1. the (definite airticle precedin nouns o common gender an aw plurals)

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Zulu eedit

Adjective eedit

-De?

  1. lang
  2. taw, heich

Derived terms eedit

ǃKung eedit

Noun eedit

De

  1. woman

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