dine
English Edit
Etymology Edit
From Middle English dynen, from Old French disner (“to dine, eat the main meal of the day”), from Vulgar Latin *disiūnāre (“to eat breakfast”), from *disieiūnāre (“to break the fast”), from Late Latin, from dis- + iēiūnō (“to fast”), from Latin ieiūnus.
Pronunciation Edit
Verb Edit
dine (third-person singular simple present dines, present participle dining, simple past and past participle dined)
- (intransitive) To eat; to eat dinner or supper.
- (transitive, obsolete) To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
- A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men.
- (transitive, obsolete) To dine upon; to have to eat.
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Translations Edit
to eat; to eat dinner or supper
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Noun Edit
dine (uncountable)
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Alemannic German Edit
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Adverb Edit
dine
- inside
- 1903, Robert Walser, Der Teich:
- I will doch go lose, was sie säge dinne.
- I just want to listen to what they're saying inside.
Danish Edit
Pronoun Edit
dine
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Danish personal pronouns
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 |
French Edit
Verb Edit
dine
- inflection of diner:
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Middle Dutch Edit
Determiner Edit
dine
- inflection of dijn:
Middle English Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Noun Edit
dine
- Alternative form of dynne
Etymology 2 Edit
Adjective Edit
dine
- Alternative form of digne
Norwegian Bokmål Edit
Etymology Edit
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Pronoun Edit
dine pl
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Personal pronouns in Bokmål
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | |||
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feminine | masculine | neuter | plural | |||||
Singular | First | – | jeg | meg | mi | min | mitt | mine |
Second | – | du | deg | di | din | ditt | dine | |
Second formal (rare) | – | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
Third | feminine (person) | hun | henne | hennes | ||||
masculine (person) | han | ham / han | hans | |||||
feminine (noun) | den | dens | ||||||
masculine (noun) | ||||||||
neuter (noun) | det | dets | ||||||
reflexive | – | – | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine | |
Plural | First | – | vi | oss | vår | vårt | våre | |
Second | – | dere | deres | |||||
Second formal (very rare) | – | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
Third | general | de | dem | deres | ||||
reflexive | – | - | seg | si | sin | sitt | sine |
References Edit
- “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk Edit
Etymology Edit
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Pronoun Edit
dine pl
References Edit
- “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pali Edit
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Alternative forms
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dine
Tagalog Edit
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dine (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈᜒ)
- Alternative form of dini
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Tagalog demonstrative pronouns
Direct (ang) | Indirect (ng) | Oblique (sa) | Locative (nasa) | Existential | Manner (gaya ng) | |
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Near speaker* | ari/are, iri/ire/idi, yari† | nari/nare, niri/nire/nidi, niyari† | dini/dine | nandini, narini, nairi/naidi, naari | ere/eri, here/heri, ayri | ganari, ganiri, garini(garni), gayari† |
Near speaker and listener* | ito | nito | dito | nandito, narito, naito** | heto, eto, ayto† | ganito, garito(garto)** |
Near listener | iyan, yaan | niyan | diyan/diyaan | nandiyan/nandiyaan, nariyan(naryan), nayan/nayaan**, naiyan‡ | hayan, ayan | ganiyan(ganyan), gay-an**, gariyan** |
Remote | iyon, yoon, yaon† | niyon, noon, niyaon† | doon | nandoon, naron/naroon**, nayon/nayoon**, nayaon‡ | hayon/hayun, ayon/ayun | ganoon, gayon, gay-on, gayoon‡,garoon‡ |
*These two series have merged in modern Tagalog. The first row is used in some dialects, the second row is used anywhere else. **These pronouns are used in some dialects. †These pronouns are not commonly used in casual speech but more prevalent in literature. ‡Rare in text. |
Turkish Edit
Noun Edit
dīne