deja vu

Wikipedia

See also déjà vu, and déjà-vu

English

Alternative forms

• déjà vu
• déjà-vu

Etymology

French. From déjà, “already”, + vu, “seen”, past participle of voir, “to see”

Pronunciation

dé·jà vu

• enPR: dā"zhä vo͞o', IPA: /ˌdeɪʒɑː ˈvuː/, SAMPA: /%deIZA: "vu:/
• enPR: dEI-zha voo

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Noun

deja vu (plural deja vus)

1. A feeling of having previously experienced something, especially when that is not the case.

   Have I done this before? Talk about déjà vu.

Translations

Something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before

Chinese: Mandarin: 似曾相識 (cmn), 似曾相识 (cmn) (sìcéngxiāngshí), 即視感 (cmn) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: deja-vu Filipino: muling nangyari Finnish: déjà-vu (fi) French: déjà-vu (fr) German: Déjà-vu-Erlebnis n. (1)

Greek: προμνησία (el) (promnisía), ντεζά βυ (el) (dejá vu) Hebrew: דז'ה וו (dezha vu) Icelandic: déjà vu Japanese: 既視感 (ja) (kishikan) Polish: déjà vu Russian: (indeclinable) дежавю (ru) (dežavjú) n. Spanish: déjà vu m.