Define:Du
Alemannic German eedit
Pronunciation eedit
- /du/
Pronoun eedit
Du
Declension eedit
nominative | accusative | dative | possessive | ||
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1st person seengular | ich, i | mich, mi | mir, mer | miin | |
2nt person seengular | familiar | du | dich | dir | diin |
polite | Si | Ine, Ene | Ire | ||
3rd person seengular | m | er | in | im | siin |
f | si | ire | |||
n | es | im | siin | ||
1st person plural | mir | öis | öise | ||
2nt person plural | ir | öi | öie | ||
3rd person plural | si | ine, ene | ire |
Amanab eedit
Noun eedit
Du
- a kynd o bird
Breton eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Proto-Brythonic *duβ, frae Proto-Celtic *dubus, frae Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.
Pronunciation eedit
- /ˈdyː/
Adjective eedit
Du
Noun eedit
Du m
Mutation eedit
Cornish eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Proto-Brythonic *duβ, frae Proto-Celtic *dubus, frae Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.
Pronunciation eedit
- (Revived Middle Cornish) [dyː]
- (Revived Late Cornish) [diˑʊ]
Adjective eedit
Du
Mutation eedit
Dens eedit
Etymology 1 eedit
Frae Old Danish thu, frae Auld Norse þú, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“you”).
Pronunciation eedit
- /du/
Pronoon eedit
Du (objective dig)
See an aa eedit
Number | Person | Inflection | Nominative | Accusative | Possessive | Reflexive | Reflexive possessive |
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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 |
Etymology 2 eedit
Frae Old Danish dughæ, frae Auld Norse duga.
Pronunciation eedit
- /duː/
Verb eedit
Du (imperative du, present dur or duer, past duede, past participle duet)
Dena'ina eedit
Particle eedit
Du
- interrogative paurticle (placed at the end o the sentence tae mak a quaisten)
Dutch eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Middle Dutch du, frae Old Dutch thū, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronoun eedit
Du
Elfdalian eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Auld Norse þú, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Cognate wi Swadish du.
Pronoun eedit
Du
Esperanto eedit
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Cardinal : Du Ordinal : dua Adverbial : due Multiplier : duobla Fractional : duona | ||
Etymology eedit
Frae Laitin duo, frae Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
Pronunciation eedit
Numeral eedit
Du
Derived terms eedit
French eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Auld French del.
Pronunciation eedit
- REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/homophones
Contraction eedit
Du
- Contraction o de + le (o the)
- Contraction o de + le;
- REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/non-gloss definition
Uisage notes eedit
- The partitive airticle signifies "some", but it eften is nae translatit in Inglis, Dutch, or German.
Gaikundi eedit
Noun eedit
Du
Forder readin eedit
German eedit
Alternative forms eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Old High German du (akin tae Old Saxon thu an Inglis thou), itsel frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation eedit
- (standard, generally) /duː/
- audio (help·info)
- (deprecatit uise o
|lang=
parameter) Rhymes: -uː
- (colloquially in unstressed position) /də/
- In colloquial speech in Germany, the /d/ can assimilate tae a precedin coronal whan the wird is unstressed. This ayeweys happens efter the seicont person seengular verb endin, except in purposefully enunciatit speech.
Pronoun eedit
Du
Uissage notes eedit
- Du is the informal seicont person pronoon. In polite leid, the third person plural Sie (ayeweys caipitalised) is uised.
- As a semplifee'd rule ane can say that du is uised amang friends, relatives, an young fowk up tae 25~30 years. Du is ayeweys uised tae address childer up tae 14~16 years, as weel as gods, ainimals, an ither craiturs.
- Uissage an aa depends a lot on the settin in which fowk meet: twa unacquaintit, middle-aged persons are quite likely tae uise du whan thay meet, for example, in a pub, but much less sae whan thay meet in the street.
- Uissage varies in different pairts o the German-speakin warld. For example, strangers mey cry ilk ither du mair readily in Berlin nor in Munich.
Inflection eedit
nominative | accusative | genitive | dative | possessive | ||
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1st person seengular | ich | mich | meiner († mein) |
mir | mein | |
2nt person seengular (familiar)1 | du | dich | deiner († dein) |
dir | dein | |
3rd person seengular | m | er | ihn | seiner († sein) |
ihm | sein |
f | sie | ihrer | ihr | |||
n | es | seiner († sein) |
ihm | sein | ||
1st person plural | wir | uns | unser | uns | unser | |
2nt person plural (familiar)1 | ihr | euch | euer | euch | euer | |
3rd person plural | sie | ihrer | ihnen | ihr | ||
polite address | naiturally: 2nt person sg. or pl.; grammatically: 3rd person pl. |
Sie | Ihrer | Ihnen | Ihr |
1Eften caipitalised, especially in letters
Derived terms eedit
Further reading eedit
- Du in Duden online
Gothic eedit
Romanization eedit
Du
- Romanization o 𐌳𐌿
Hunsrik eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Old High German du (akin tae Old Saxon thu an Inglis thou), itsel frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation eedit
- /tuː/
Pronoun eedit
Du
Inflection eedit
nominative | accusative | dative | ||||
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Proclitic | Enclitic | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | |
1st person singular | ich | -ich | mich | meer | mer | |
2nt person seengular (informal) |
du | -du, -de | dich | deer | der | |
3rd person singular (m) | er, där | -er | ihn | en | ihm | em |
3rd person singular (f) | sie, die | -se | sie / ihns | se | eer | re |
3rd person seengular (n) | es, das | 's | es | ihm | em | |
1st person plural | meer | mer | uns | uns | ||
2nt person plural | deer | der | eich | eich | ||
3rd person plural | sie, die | -se | sie | se | denne |
Forder readin eedit
Ido eedit
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Cardinal : Du Ordinal : duesma Adverbial : dufoye Multiplier : duopla Fractional : duima | ||
Ido Wikipedia article on Du |
Etymology eedit
Frae Esperanto du, frae French deux, Spainish dos, Italian due, ultimately frae Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.
Numeral eedit
Du
Interlingue eedit
Numeral eedit
Du
Kurdish eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Proto-Iranian *duu̯a (compare Persie دو (do), Pashto دوه (dwa), Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬎𐬀 (duua)), frae Proto-Indo-Iranian (compare Sanskrit द्व (dvá), Marathi दोन (don), Hindi दो (do)/Urdu دو (do), Punjabi ਦੋ (dō)), frae Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ (compare Russian два (dva), Lithuanian du, Greek δύο (dýo), Spainish dos, Inglis two, Scots twa).
Numeral eedit
Du
Ligurian eedit
Pronunciation eedit
- /du/
Contraction eedit
Du
Uissage notes eedit
- The pairtitive airticle signifies "some", but it eften is nae translatit in Inglis, Scots, Dutch, or German.
Lithuanie eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Proto-Baltic *duwō, frae Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Compare Latvian divi. Cognate tae Laitin duo.
Numeral eedit
Du m (feminine dvi)
Declension eedit
Lojban eedit
Etymology eedit
Derived frae dunli.
Pronunciation eedit
- /ˈdu/
Cmavo eedit
- (identity selbri) x1 equals x2, x3, x4, ...
- li pa su'i vo du li mu
- one plus four equals five
See also eedit
Lawer Sorbian eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Proto-Slavic *jьdǫ (first-person seengular) an *jьdǫtь (third-person plural), inflectit forms o *jьti.
Pronunciation eedit
- /du/
Verb eedit
Du
- REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/inflection of
- REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/inflection of
Synonyms eedit
- (first-person seengular): źom
Luxembourgish eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Proto-Germanic *þū.
Pronunciation eedit
- /duː/
Pronoun eedit
Du
Declension eedit
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | |||||
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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
Du
- Nonstaundart spellin o dū.
- Nonstaundart spellin o dú.
- Nonstaundart spellin o dǔ.
- Nonstaundart spellin o dù.
Uissage notes eedit
- REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/U:cmn:toneless
Middle Dutch eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Old Dutch thū, frae Proto-Germanic *þū.
Pronunciation eedit
- /dyː/
- (Limburg) /duː/
Pronoun eedit
Du
- thoo, ye (seengular, informal)
- REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/synonyms
Uissage notes eedit
This pronoon begoud tae be replaced bi gi in formal address during the Middle Dutch period, an eventually fell oot o uise awthegither.
Inflection eedit
Descendants eedit
- Limburgish: doe
Further reading eedit
Middle Low German eedit
Pronunciation eedit
- /duː/
Etymology eedit
Frae Old Saxon thū, frae Proto-Germanic *þū.
Pronoun eedit
dû
Declension eedit
nominative | accusative | dative | genitive | ||
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1st person seengular | ik (ek) | mî (mê, mik, mek) | mîn (mîner) | ||
2nt person seengular | dû | dî (dê, dik, dek) | dîn (dîner) | ||
3rd person seengular | |||||
m | hê (hî, hie) | ēne, en (ȫne, ȫn) | ēme, em (ȫme, en) | sîn (sîner) | |
n | it (et) | ||||
f | sê (sî, sie, sü̂) | ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer) | |||
1st person plural | wî (wê, wie) | uns (ûs, ös, ü̂sik) | unser (ûser) | ||
2nt person plural | gî (jê, î) | jû (jûwe, û, jük, gik) | jûwer (ûwer) | ||
3rd person plural | sê (sî, sie) | em, öm, jüm (en) | ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer) | ||
For an explanation o the forms in brackets see here. |
Descendants eedit
Norman eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Laitin dux, ducem.
Noun eedit
Du m
Related terms eedit
North Frisian eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Proto-Germanic *dōną. Cognates include Mooring North Frisian düünj an Wast Frisian dwaan.
Verb eedit
Du
- (Föhr-Amrum) tae dae
- (Föhr-Amrum) tae gie
Conjugation eedit
infinitive I | du | |
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infinitive II | tu duen | |
past pairteeciple | den | |
imperative seengular | du | |
imperative plural | du'em | |
present | past | |
1st-person seengular | ik du | ik ded, diad |
2nt-person seengular | dü deest | dü dedst, diadst |
3rd-person seengular | hi/hat/at dee | hi/hat/at ded, diad |
1st-person dual | wat du | wat ded, diad |
2nd-person dual | jat du | jat ded, diad |
1st-person plural | wi du | wi ded, diad |
2nt-person plural | jam du | jam ded, diad |
3rd-person plural | jo du | jo ded, diad |
perfect | pluperfect | |
1st-person seengular | ik haa den | ik hed den |
2nt-person seengular | dü heest den | dü hedst den |
3rd-person seengular | hi/hat/at hee den | hi/hat/at hed den |
1st-person dual | wat haa den | wat hed den |
2nt-person dual | jat haa den | jat hed den |
1st-person plural | wi haa den | wi hed den |
2nt-person plural | jam haa den | jam hed den |
3rd-person plural | jo haa den | jo hed den |
futur (skel) | futur (wel) | |
1st-person seengular | ik skal du | ik wal du |
2nt-person seengular | dü skääl du | dü wääl du |
3rd-person seengular | hi/hat/at skal du | hi/hat/at wal du |
1st-person dual | wat skel du | wat wel du |
2nt-person dual | jat skel du | jat wel du |
1st-person plural | wi skel du | wi wel du |
2nt-person plural | jam skel du | jam wel du |
3rd-person plural | jo skel du | jo wel du |
Northren Sami eedit
Pronoun eedit
Du
- REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/inflection of
Norse Bokmål eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Auld Norse þú, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation eedit
- /dʉː/
Pronoun eedit
Du (objective case deg)
References eedit
- “Du” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
See also eedit
Nominative | Objective case | Genitive/Possessive pronoun | |
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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 |
Norse Nynorsk eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Auld Norse þú, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation eedit
- /dʉː/ (exemple o pronunciation)
Pronoon eedit
Du (objective case deg)
References eedit
- “Du” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
See also eedit
Nominative | Objective case | Genitive/Possessive pronoun | |
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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. |
Novial eedit
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Cardinal : Du Ordinal : duesmi | ||
Numeral eedit
Du
Auld French eedit
Alternative forms eedit
Contraction eedit
Du
Auld Heich German eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Proto-Germanic *þū, whance an aa Old English þu, Auld Norse þú, an ultimately frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂. Perhaps the earliest attestation o the pronoon is the inscription on the Bülach fibula, which mey shaw ᛞᚢ (du) awready differentiatit frae ither Germanic leids’ þu.
Pronunciation eedit
- /du/
Pronoun eedit
Du
- thoo, ye (seicont-person seengular pronoon)
- 3rd-6t century, inscription on the Bülach fibula:
- ᚠᚱᛁᚠᚱᛁᛞᛁᛚ / ᛞᚢ / ...
- frifridil / du / […]
- Frifridil, you / […]
- frifridil / du / […]
- ᚠᚱᛁᚠᚱᛁᛞᛁᛚ / ᛞᚢ / ...
- 3rd-6t century, inscription on the Bülach fibula:
Descendants eedit
- German: du
See an aa eedit
- fridil (“a pet name for a male luver”)
References eedit
- Heinz Klingenberg, Runenfibel von Bülach, Kanton Zürich. Liebesinschrift aus alemannischer Frühzeit, in the Alemannisches Jahrbuch (1973/75), page 308
- Heinz Klingenberg, Die Runeninschrift aus Bülach, in Helvetia archaeologica, vollum 7 (1976), pages 116–121
- Stephan Opitz, Südgermanische Runeninschriften im älteren Futhark aus der Merowingerzeit (Freiburg im Breisgau, 1977)
Romanian eedit
Pronunciation eedit
- [du]
Verb eedit
Du
- seicont-person seengular imperative form o duce.
Swedish eedit
Alternative forms eedit
- REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/rel-top
- REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/rel-bottom
Etymology eedit
Frae Old Swedish þū, frae Auld Norse þú, frae Proto-Germanic *þū, frae Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.
Pronunciation eedit
- /dʉː/
- audio (help·info)
- (deprecatit uise o
|lang=
parameter) Rhymes: -ʉː
Pronoun eedit
Du
Declension eedit
Venetian eedit
Etymology eedit
Compare Italian due
Numeral eedit
Du m
Synonyms eedit
Vietnamese eedit
Etymology eedit
Sino-Vietnamese, frae
Pronunciation eedit
- REDIRECT Template:Wt/sco/vi-IPA
Verb eedit
Du
Derived terms eedit
Welsh eedit
Etymology eedit
Frae Proto-Brythonic *duβ, frae Proto-Celtic *dubus, frae Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-.
Pronunciation eedit
- (North Wales) /dɨː/
- (South Wales) /diː/
Adjective eedit
Du (feminine seengular Du, plural duon, equative Dued, comparative Duach, superlative Duaf)
- black
- Mae ganddo fo fwstash du.
- He haes a black mustache
See also eedit
Colours in Welsh · lliwiau (layout · text) | ||||
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coch | gwyrdd | melyn | melynwyn | gwyn |
rhudd | majenta | glaswyrdd | gwyrdd leim | pinc |
indigo | glas | oren, melyngoch | llwyd | fioled |
du | porffor | brown | asur, gwynlas | gwyrddlas |
Mutation eedit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | saft | nasal | aspirate |
Du | Ddu | Nu | unchynged |
Note: Some o thir forms mey be hypothetical. Nae ivery possible mutatit form o ivery wird actually occurs. |