dê

See also: Appendix:Variations of "de"

Galician

Verb

dê

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Mandarin

Romanization

dê

1. nonstandard spelling of dê̄

Usage notes

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deː/
• Rhymes: -eː

Etymology 1

See dayik.

Noun

dê f

1. mom

Etymology 2

Compare wê of Northern dialects, from *de wey (inflected form of *weyîn "to will"), doublet of divê (“should”), from vîn (“to will”). Compare da (“would”) of the Behdini dialect from *de weya and Zazaki do (“will”), a Kurmanji borrowing.

Verb

dê

1. (auxiliary) will

   Li wir bimîne, ez dê werim te bigirim

   Stay there, I will come pick you up

   Wê dê çima ew bigota?

   Why would she say that?

Usage notes

• wê becomes more prevalent as the dialects move northwards. In colloquial speech mostly gets shortened to -ê- (Ez dy b chem > Ez'y b chem | I will go > I'll go).
• If dê comes before the subject, it denotes that something is planned or bound to happen, similar to English going to.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈde/, (nonstandard, verb) /ˈdɛ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈde/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: dê

Etymology 1

Noun

dê m (plural dês)

1. The name of the Latin script letter D/d.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dê

1. inflection of dar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; á, bê, cê, dê, é, efe, gê / guê, agá, i, jota, cá / capa, ele, eme, ene, ó, pê, quê, erre, esse, tê, u, vê, dáblio, xis, ípsilon, zê

Further reading

• “dê”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “dê”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Sicilian

Preposition

dê

1. contraction of di +‎ li, literally “of the”

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ze˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jej˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jej˧˧]
• Homophone: giê

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *-teː.

Noun

dê • (移, 羝) (classifier con)

1. goat

Adjective

dê

1. (colloquial, vulgar) lewd; lascivious

Derived terms

• dê già (dirty old man)

Etymology 2

By analogy with đê.

Noun

dê

1. The name of the Latin script letter D/d.

Usage notes

The letters D and d take this name if they are treated as alphabetic letters used to represent phonemes (/z/, /j/)

Synonyms

• dờ
• đê; đờ