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German
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Pronoun
denen (relative or demonstrative)
- dative plural of der
- (relative): (to) whom, (to) which, that
- (demonstrative): (to) that, (to) him/her
Article
denen
- (archaic or dialectal) dative plural of der
Usage notes
- In Early Modern German, denen was not rarely used before nouns, especially in a demonstrative sense. This latter use is still found in regional speech, often when emphatic: Mit denen Idioten will ich nix zu tun haben! (“I want nothing to do with those idiots!”)
Further reading
Middle English
Verb
denen
- Alternative form of dynnen
Middle High German
Pronoun
denen
- dative plural of der
- Joseph Diemer (editor), Die Kaiserchronik nach der æltesten Handschrift des Stiftes Vorau. Aufgefunden mit einer Einleitung Anmerkungen und den Lesarten der zunæchst stehenden Hss. Theil I, Wien, 1849, p. 298, ll. 7f.:
- uon denen niwen buochen
nehan wir iuden nehain ruoche.