See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"

Galician

Verb

  1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Mandarin

Romanization

  1. nonstandard spelling of dê̄

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deː/
  • Rhymes: -eː

Etymology 1

See dayik.

Noun

 f

  1. mom

Etymology 2

Compare of Northern dialects, from *de wey (inflected form of *weyîn "to will"), doublet of divê (should), from vîn (to will). Compare da (would) of the Behdini dialect from *de weya and Zazaki do (will), a Kurmanji borrowing.

Verb

  1. (auxiliary) will
    Le ur b myne, ez dy uerem te hel dem
    Stay there, I will come pick you up
    Uy dy chima eua b guhta?
    Why would she say that?
Usage notes
  • becomes more prevalent as the dialects move northwards. In colloquial speech mostly gets shortened to -ê- (Ez dy b chem > Ez'y b chem | I will go > I'll go).
  • If comes before the subject, it denotes that something is planned or bound to happen, similar to English going to.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation:

Etymology 1

Noun

 m (plural dês)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

  1. inflection of dar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

See also

Sicilian

Preposition

  1. contraction of di li (of the)

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *-teː.

Noun

(classifier con) • (, )

  1. goat

Adjective

  1. (colloquial, vulgar) lewd; lascivious

Etymology 2

By analogy with đê.

Noun

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.
Usage notes

The letters D and d take this name if they are treated as alphabetic letters used to represent phonemes (/z/, /j/)

Synonyms