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2016, Gustav Wied, Livsens ondskab, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:
Men Landbruget? spurgte Degnen, der jo havde været Dus med Vorherre i femogtyve Aar, baade Hellig og Søgn og derfor tog ham med forholdsvis Ro
But the farming? the deacon asked, who, as is known, has been intimate with our lord in twenty-five years, on the holidays as on the everydays, and who therefore took him with relative calm
2016, Lars Daneskov, Far på færde, Politikens Forlag, →ISBN:
Jeg kender mænd, der i perioder har kunnet samtlige tilbud i TV-Shop udenad og været dus med hovedpersonerne i enhver australsk sitcom sendt på en kabelkanal om natten.
I know men who, in periods, have known all offers in TV-Shop by rote and been highly familiar with the protagonists in each Australian sitcom sent on a cable-channel in the night.
1982, Det Danske bogmarked:
De fleste af vore seriøse forlag er eller har været mere end dus med begrebet.
Most of our serious publishers are or have been more than familiar with the concept.
2011, Jesper Kaae, Gratis CMS med Joomla (2. udg), Libris Media A/S, →ISBN, page 81:
Og faktisk skal du også helst være dus med et billedredigeringsprogram som f. eks. Photoshop.
And in fact, you should, preferably, be familiar with an image editor like Photoshop.
Usage notes
The formal De is all but abandoned outside of certain very impersonal contexts, and using du is never rude.
Adverb
dus
in the phrase drikke dus, "to introduce an informal relationship".
Dus is an unusual adverb in that it does not trigger mandatory inversion when it is placed at the front of a clause, instead inversion is optional: dus zij is beter and dus is zij beter are both correct as fronted variants of zij is dus beter.
1843, Brothers Grimm, “Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich”, in Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Band 1, 5th edition, pages 3–4:
„Königstochter, jüngste, mach mir auf, weißt du nicht was gestern du zu mir gesagt bei dem kühlen Brunnenwasser? Königstochter, jüngste, mach mir auf.“ Da sagte der König „hast dus versprochen, so mußt dus auch halten; geh nur und mach ihm auf.“