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De
Derived from the third-person plural pronoun de. Calque of German Sie.
De (second-person singular nominative, accusative Dem, genitive Deres)
| 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 | |||||
De
De
| 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. | ||