déjà vu

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

English

Alternative forms

• deja vu

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

Pronunciation

• enPR: dā'-zhä-vo͞oʹ, IPA^(key): /ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/

• Audio (UK)

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• Audio (US)

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Noun

déjà vu (uncountable)

1. The subjective, unexpected feeling of having experienced something before, especially when that is not the case.
2. Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated.

   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)

  Hijazi Arabic: ديجافو‎ m (dējāfū), ديجاڤو‎ m (dējāvū)

• Chinese:

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

• Danish: deja-vu (da)
• Dutch: déjà vu (nl)
• Esperanto: deĵavuo
• Finnish: déjà-vu (fi), entiselämys (fi)
• French: déjà-vu (fr)
• Galician: xa visto
• German: Déjà-vu-Erlebnis (de) n
• Greek: προμνησία (el) (promnisía), ντεζά βυ (el) (dezá vy)
• 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: 데자뷔 (dejabwi), 기시감(旣視感) (gisigam)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: déjà vu (no)

  Nynorsk: déjà vu

• Occitan: dejà vist m
• Persian: دژاوو‎ (dežâvu)
• Polish: déjà vu (pl) n
• Portuguese: déjà vu (pt) m
• Russian: дежавю́ (ru) n (dežavjú)
• Spanish: déjà vu (es) m
• Swedish: déjà vu (sv), deja 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.

Synonyms

• promnesia

Related terms

• jamais vu
• presque vu
• déjà vu all over again

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ʒa vy/

• Audio (France)

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Noun

déjà vu m (plural déjà vu)

1. Alternative form of déjà-vu

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• deja vu (alternative spelling)

Etymology

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

Noun

déjà vu n

1. déjà vu

References

• vu “déjà vu” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• deja vu (alternative spelling)

Etymology

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

Noun

déjà vu n

1. déjà vu

References

• vu “déjà vu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà-vu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛ.ʐaˈvi/
• Rhymes: -avi

Noun

déjà vu n (indeclinable)

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

Further reading

• déjà vu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• déjà vu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.ʒaˈvu/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɛ.ʒaˈvu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɛ.ʒaˈvu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɛ.ʒaˈbu/ [dɛ.ʒaˈβu]

Noun

déjà vu m (uncountable)

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

Swedish

Alternative forms

• deja vu

Noun

déjà vu c

1. déjà vu

   ha/få (en) déjà vu(-upplevelse)

   have/get (a) déjà vu (experience)

Usage notes

Uninflected.

References

• déjà vu in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• déjà vu in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)