dever

Galician

Verb

dever (first-person singular present devo, first-person singular preterite devim or devi, past participle devido, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of deber

Conjugation

References

• “dever” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish , from Latin debeo, debere.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deˈver/

Verb

dever (Latin spelling)

1. to have to
2. should
3. must
   • 2020 January 29, Metin Delevi, “El 27 de Enero es el dia de memoria de las viktimas del Nazismo, del Olokosto…”, in Şalom‎:

     Devemos de akodrar i azer akodrar de este kavzo, ke se finalizo kon 11 milyones de viktimas entre eyos 6 milyones de djudios, para luchar kontra el antisemitizmo i el rasizmo.

     We must remember and make others remember this event that ended with 11 million victims, among them 6 million Jews, to fight antisemitism and racism.

Noun

dever m (Latin spelling)

1. duty
   • 2020 January 29, Metin Delevi, “El 27 de Enero es el dia de memoria de las viktimas del Nazismo, del Olokosto…”, in Şalom‎:

     Ija de imigrantes djudios rusos ke aviyan sufriyido del aborresimyento i del antisemitizmo, se sintyo ke el aktivizmo sovre este sujeto era su dever.

     The daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants who had suffered from hatred and from antisemitism, she felt that activism on this subject was her duty.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛˈvɛɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɛɾ

Noun

dever f (Arabic spelling دەۊەر)

1. place, spot
2. region, area

See also

• dews
• der

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “dever”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 143

Occitan

Alternative forms

• deure

Etymology

From Old Occitan , from Latin dēbēre, present active infinitive of dēbeō (“I owe”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn)

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Verb

dever

1. (Gascony, Provençal, Limousin, Vivaro-alpine) to have to
2. to owe

Conjugation

    Lengadocian (Central Occitan)

		simple			compound
infinitive		dever			aver degut
gerund		devent			use gerund of aver + past participle
past participle		degut			—
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		ieu	tu	el	nosautres	vosautres	eles
	present	devi	deves	deu	devèm	devètz	devon
	imperfect	deviái	deviás	deviá	deviam	deviatz	devián
	preterite	deguèri	deguères	deguèt	deguèrem	deguèretz	deguèron
	future	deurai	deuràs	deurà	deurem	deuretz	deuràn
	conditional	deuriái	deuriás	deuriá	deuriam	deuriatz	deurián
	conditional 2nd form1	{{{49}}}	{{{50}}}	{{{51}}}	{{{52}}}	{{{53}}}	{{{54}}}
compound tenses	present perfect	use the present tense of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect tense of aver + past participle
	past anterior	use the preterite tense of aver + past participle
	future perfect	use the future tense of aver + past participle
	conditional perfect	use the conditional tense of aver + past participle
subjunctive		que ieu	que tu	que el	que nosautres	que vosautres	que eles
	present	dega	degas	dega	degam	degatz	degan
	imperfect	deguèsse	deguèsses	deguèsse	deguèssem	deguèssetz	deguèsson
compound tenses	past	use the present subjunctive of aver + past participle
	pluperfect	use the imperfect subjunctive of aver + past participle
imperative		—	tu	—	nosautres	vosautres	—
			deu		degam	devètz	1Now chiefly obsolete, still in use in some Limousin and Vivaro-Alpin dialects

Noun

dever m (plural devers)

1. duty, obligation

   Synonym: obligacion

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dēbēre (“to owe, to must”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deˈβeɾ/
• Rhymes: -eɾ

Verb

dever

1. (transitive, intransitive) must; to have to

Descendants

• Fala: debel
• Galician: deber
• Portuguese: dever

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "dever"

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese dever, from Latin dēbēre (“to owe”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: de‧ver

Verb

dever (first-person singular present devo, first-person singular preterite devi, past participle devido)

1. should (indicates that an action is considered by the speaker to be obligatory)
2. ought (indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate.)
3. will likely (indicates that the subject of the sentence is likely to execute the sentence predicate.)

   Deve chover.

   (It looks like) it's going to rain.

4. owe (to be in debt.)

Conjugation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dever.

Descendants

• → Makalero: deue (“debt, to borrow”)

Etymology 2

Nominalization of Etymology 1.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: de‧ver

Noun

dever m (plural deveres)

1. duty (that which one is morally or legally obligated to do)
2. (in the plural, dated) homework

   Synonyms: trabalho de casa, TPC

   Já fizeste os teus deveres?

   Have you done your homework yet?

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dever.

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دور (devir), from Arabic دَوْر (dawr).

Noun

dever n (uncountable)

1. total sales

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Bulgarian девер (dever), from Proto-Slavic *dě̀verь.

Noun

dever m (plural deveri)

1. (regional) in the country, a boy who welcomes the guests and serves them dishes at traditional weddings and also leads the wedding processional; (through extension) a person accompanying the bride

   Synonym: vornicel

Declension

Alternative forms

• diavor, deavur, gheaver

References

• dever in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• djȅver (Ijekavian)
• dȉver (Ikavian)
• đȅver (Montenegro)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *děverь, from Proto-Indo-European *dayh₂wḗr. Compare Russian деверь (deverʹ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dêver/
• Hyphenation: de‧ver

Noun

dȅver m (Cyrillic spelling де̏вер)

1. brother-in-law (one's husband's brother)

Declension

Spanish

Verb

dever (first-person singular present devo, first-person singular preterite deví, past participle devido)

1. Obsolete spelling of deber

Conjugation