dein

• deein

dein

1. present participle of de

• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “dein”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

• Iden, Dine, Edin, Diné, 'dine, iDEN, nide, enid, Enid, dine, Nied, IndE, deni, Nide

• IPA^(key): /ˈdei̯n/,
• Rhymes: -ein
• Hyphenation^(key): dein

dein

1. instructive plural of dee

• nide

• Dein (determiner)

From Middle High German dīn, from Old High German dīn. Akin to Old Saxon thīn, English thine, thy.

• IPA^(key): /daɪ̯n/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n
• Homophone: deinen (according to a common pronunciation of this form)

dein

1. (archaic) genitive singular of du
   • 19th century, Nikolaus Lenau, Schilflieder, no. 3:

     Auf geheimem Waldespfade
     Schleich ich gern im Abendschein
     An das öde Schilfgestade,
     Mädchen, und gedenke dein!

     Upon private forest path
     I yearnly slink in evenshine
     unto the lonely reeden bank,
     Maiden, and think of thee!

   • 1912, “Der Brief des Paulus an Philemon”, in Luther-Bibel 1912, verse 4:

     Ich danke meinem Gott und gedenke dein allezeit in meinem Gebet[.]

     I thank my God and think of thee always in my prayer

dein m (feminine deine, neuter dein, plural deine)

1. thy, your (esp. to friends, relatives, children, etc.).

When used as a pronoun, the nominative masculine takes the form deiner, and the nominative/accusative neuter takes the form deines or deins.

• mein Vater und deiner – my father and yours
• Das ist mein Fahrrad. Das andere ist dein(e)s. – This is my bike. The other one is yours.

• Ihr (“your”) (addressing formally or politely one or more persons)

dein

1. nominative/accusative neuter singular of dein

• Neid

From Middle High German dīn, from Old High German dīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz.

• IPA^(key): /taɪ̯n/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n
• Hyphenation: dein

dein

1. thy, your

   Dein Hund un dein Katz. ― Your dog and your cat.

   Gebb das deiner Mutter. ― Give this to your mother.

¹Form used when the plural of the noun is the same as the singular

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “dein”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 33

• IPA^(key):

dein (present analytic deineann, future analytic déanfaidh, verbal noun déanamh, past participle déanta)

1. Munster form of déan

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dein”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Preconsonantal variant, with apocope of the final syllable.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /dei̯n/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.in/,
• Note: monosyllabic, except one apparent instance in Terentianus Maurus^[1] and occasionally in Late and Medieval Latin.

dein (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of deinde

• “dein”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dein”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

dein (verbal noun deiney)

1. to molest