déjà vu

See also: dejavu, dejavú, deja vu, déjà-vu, and Déjà-vu

English

Alternative forms

• deja vu

Etymology

Borrowed from French déjà vu, from déjà (“already”), + vu (“seen”), past participle of voir (“to see”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dā"zhä vo͞o'
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/
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Noun

déjà vu (uncountable)

1. Something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before, 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

• Arabic: دِيجَا ڤُو (deja vū)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 既視感／既视感 (zh) (jìshìgǎn), 既视感 (zh) (jìshìgǎn), 似曾相識／似曾相识 (zh) (sìcéngxiāngshí), 似曾相识 (zh) (sìcéngxiāngshí)

• Danish: deja-vu (da)
• Dutch: déjà vu (nl)
• Esperanto: paramnezio
• Finnish: déjà-vu
• French: déjà-vu (fr)
• Galician: xa visto
• German: Déjà-vu-Erlebnis n
• Greek: προμνησία (el) (promnisía), ντεζά βυ (el) (ntezá vy)
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• Hebrew: דז'ה וו (he) (deja vu)
• Icelandic: déjà vu
• Japanese: 既視感 (きしかん, kishikan), デジャヴュ (dejavyu), デジャヴ (dejavu), デジャブ (dejabu), デジャビュ (dejabyu)
• Korean: 데자부 (dejabu), 기시감 (gisigam) (旣視感)
• Persian: دژاوو (dežavu)
• Polish: déjà vu
• Portuguese: déjà vu (pt) m
• Russian: дежавю́ (ru) n (dežavjú)
• Spanish: déjà vu m
• Swedish: déjà vu (sv)
• Turkish: dejavu (tr), dejavü

Verb

déjà vu (third-person singular simple present déjà vues, present participle déjà vuing, simple past and past participle déjà vued)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) To experience déjà vu; to see (something) as though having seen it before.
   • 2008, Darren Lamere, Eerily Familiar:

     Still deja vuing, I said, “Jinx. You owe me a Coke.”

   • 2011, Neil Gaiman, American Gods (Tenth Anniversary Edition), William Morrow 2011, p. 139:

     Trees looked familiar, moments of landscape were perfectly déjà-vued.

Related terms

• jamais vu
• presque vu

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ʒa vy/
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Noun

déjà vu m (plural déjà vu)

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Alternative form of déjà-vu

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Norwegian

Etymology

Borrowed from French déjà vu, from déjà (“already”), + vu (“seen”), past participle of voir (“to see”).

Noun

déjà vu

1. déjà vu

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• deja vu, dejavu

Noun

déjà vu m (plural s)

1. déjà vu (something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before)