De
See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"
English
Etymology 1
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 德 (dé, “virtue, manliness”).
Pronunciation
- enPR: dǔ
Proper noun
De
- (historical) A former prefecture of imperial China around Dezhou in northwestern Shandong.
Alternative forms
- Te, Tê
Translations
Translations
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Etymology 2
From Bengali [Term?].
Proper noun
De
- A surname from India
Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Derived from the third-person plural pronoun de. Calque of German Sie.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d̥i]
Pronoun
De (second-person singular nominative, accusative Dem, genitive Deres)
Usage notes
- 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
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 (uncommon) | De | Dem | Deres | ||||
| Third | masculine (person) | han | ham | hans | |||
| feminine (person) | hun | hende | hendes | ||||
| common (noun) | den | dens | |||||
| neuter (noun) | det | dets | |||||
| indefinite | man | en | ens | ||||
| 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
Pronoun
De
Old Irish
Proper noun
De
- alternative spelling of Dé
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| De | De pronounced with /ðʲ-/ |
nDe |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.