du

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Contents 1 Amanab 1.1 Noun 2 Breton 2.1 Adjective 2.2 Noun 3 Danish 3.1 Etymology 1 3.1.1 Pronunciation 3.1.2 Pronoun 3.1.3 See also 3.2 Etymology 2 3.2.1 Pronunciation 3.2.2 Verb 4 Dena'ina 4.1 Particle 5 Esperanto 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Etymology 5.3 Cardinal number 6 French 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Contraction 6.2.1 Homophones 7 German 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Pronunciation 7.3 Pronoun 7.3.1 Inflection 8 Ido 8.1 Cardinal number 9 Kurdish 9.1 Cardinal number 10 Lithuanian 10.1 Cardinal number 10.1.1 Declension 11 Lojban 11.1 Etymology 11.2 Pronunciation 11.3 Cmavo 11.4 See also 12 Mandarin 12.1 Pinyin syllable 12.1.1 Usage notes 13 Norman 13.1 Noun 14 Norwegian 14.1 Pronoun 15 Old High German 15.1 Etymology 15.2 Pronoun 16 Romanian 16.1 Pronunciation 16.2 Verb 17 Swedish 17.1 Pronunciation 17.2 Pronoun 18 Welsh 18.1 Adjective 18.1.1 Mutation

[edit] Amanab

[edit] Noun

du

1. a kind of bird

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[edit] Breton

[edit] Adjective

du

1. black

[edit] Noun

du

1. November

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old Norse þú, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂ (“‘you’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /du/, [d̥u]

[edit] Pronoun

du (accusative and dative dig)

1. (personal) you (informal sg.)

[edit] See also

• De (formal counterpart)

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old Norse duga.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /duː/, [d̥uːˀ]

[edit] Verb

du (imperative du, present dur or duer, past duede, past participle duet)

1. be good
2. be fit

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[edit] Dena'ina

[edit] Particle

du

1. interrogative particle (placed at the end of the sentence to make a question)

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[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /du/

[edit] Etymology

Latin duo or Lithuanian du

[edit] Cardinal number

du

1. (cardinal) two

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /dy/

[edit] Contraction

du

1. contraction of de + le (of the).
2. contraction of de + le, forms the partitive article.

   The partitive article signifies "some", but it often is not translated in English, Dutch, or German.

[edit] Homophones

• dû

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[edit] German

[edit] Etymology

Old High German du, akin to Old Saxon thu and English thou.

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /du/

[edit] Pronoun

du, also Du

1. (personal) you (sg., informal, friends, relatives).

[edit] Inflection

• Nominative: du
• Accusative: dich
• Dative: dir
• Genitive: deiner

The genitive case deiner is more and more rarely used in modern German.

• The genitive case deiner does not express ownership, so one must not mix it up with the possessive pronoun dein, which is declined by gender, singular/plural and case.

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[edit] Ido

[edit] Cardinal number

du

1. (cardinal) two (2)

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[edit] Kurdish

[edit] Cardinal number

du

1. (cardinal) two (2)

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[edit] Lithuanian

[edit] Cardinal number

du m. (feminine dvi)

1. (cardinal) two (2)

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[edit] Lojban

[edit] Etymology

Derived from dunli.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈdu/

[edit] Cmavo

du

1. (identity selbri) x1 equals x2, x3, x4, ...
   • li pa su'i vo du li mu (1+4=5)

[edit] See also

• dunli

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pinyin syllable

du

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, dū, dú, dǔ, or dù.

[edit] Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Norman

[edit] Noun

du

1. duke

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[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Pronoun

du

1. you (familiar sg)

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[edit] Old High German

[edit] Etymology

Proto-Germanic *thu, whence also Old English þu, Old Norse þú

[edit] Pronoun

du

1. you (sing.)

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[edit] Romanian

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [du]

[edit] Verb

du

1. second-person singular imperative form of duce.

   Du-te acasă.

   Go home.

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Pronunciation

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• IPA: /dʉ/

[edit] Pronoun

du

1. (personal) you (familiar sg.).
2. (personal) thou.

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[edit] Welsh

[edit] Adjective

du (formal plural duon, comparative duach, superlative duaf)

1. black

   Mae ganddo fo fwstash du - He has a black mustache

[edit] Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
du	ddu	nu	unchanged