De
See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"
English
Etymology
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Proper noun
De
- A surname from India of Bengali origin.
Anagrams
- -ed, -èd, E.D., ED, Ed, Ed., ed, ed-, ed.
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)
- (personal, formal) The formal counterpart to du, you.
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 | 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
Pronoun
De
- (rare) polite form of du and dere