De
See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"
English edit
Etymology edit
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Proper noun edit
De
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
Derived from the third-person plural pronoun de. Calque of German Sie.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
De (second-person singular nominative, accusative Dem, genitive Deres)
Usage notes edit
- Usage of De in Danish has gotten increasingly more rare after the 1970s (with du often being used in place of De), but De still appears occasionally from time to time (such as in Danish-language translations from other languages).
See also edit
Danish personal pronouns
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
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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 |
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Pronoun edit
De
Old Irish edit
Proper noun edit
De
- Alternative spelling of Dé
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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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. |