De

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"

English

Etymology

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Proper noun

De

  1. A surname from India of Bengali origin.

Anagrams

Danish

Etymology

Derived from the third-person plural pronoun de. Calque of German Sie.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

De (second-person singular nominative, accusative Dem, genitive Deres)

  1. (personal, formal) The formal counterpart to du, you.

Usage notes

  • Usage of De in Danish has gotten increasingly more rare after the 1970s (with du often being used in place of De), but De still appears occasionally from time to time (such as in Danish-language translations from other languages).

See also

Danish personal pronouns
Number Person Type Nominative Oblique Possessive
common neuter plural
Singular First – jeg mig min mit mine
Second modern / informal du dig din dit dine
formal De Dem Deres
Third masculine (person) han ham hans
feminine (person) hun hende hendes
common(noun) den dens
neuter(noun) det dets
reflexive – sig sin sit sine
Plural First modern vi os vores
archaic / formal vor vort vore
Second – I jer jeres
Third – de dem deres
reflexive – sig

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronoun

De

  1. (rare) polite form of du and dere

Old Irish

Proper noun

De

  1. Alternative spelling of Dé

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
De De
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		nDe
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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