De

See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"

English

Etymology 1

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 德 (dé, “virtue, manliness”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dǔ

Proper noun

De

1. (historical) A former prefecture of imperial China around Dezhou in northwestern Shandong.

Alternative forms

• Te, Tê

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 德州 (zh) (Dézhōu)

Etymology 2

From Bengali [Term?].

Proper noun

De

1. A surname from India

Anagrams

• ed, Ed, E.D., Ed., ED, ed-, -èd, -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)

1. (personal, formal) The formal counterpart to du, you.

Usage notes

• Usage of De in Danish has gotten increasingly more rare after the 1970s (with du often being used in place of De), but De still appears occasionally from time to time (such as in Danish-language translations from other languages).

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 (uncommon)	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common (noun)	den		dens
		neuter (noun)	det		dets
		indefinite	man	en	ens
		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

1. (rare) polite form of du and dere

Old Irish

Proper noun

De

1. alternative spelling of Dé

Mutation

Mutation of De

radical	lenition	nasalization
De	De pronounced with /ðʲ-/	nDe

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.