du

Noun

 * 1) name

Determiner

 * 1) all

Pronoun

 * 1) thou, you

Noun

 * 1) a kind of bird

Noun

 * 1) household

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) you

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) black
 * 2) swollen
 * 3) starved

Noun

 * 1) yew

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, archaic 🇨🇬 (modern dialectal ).

Pronoun

 * 1)  you

Inflection
Sette Comuni:

Luserna:

Etymology
From, from , from.

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) thou, you

Etymology 2
From, from , from , cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) be good
 * 2) be fit

Particle

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

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  ; thou

Usage notes

 * Du was already falling out of general use in early modern Dutch. It was still relatively common in the oblique cases, in vocatives or close to vocative appositions and when indicating contempt.
 * The corresponding verbal ending was . The present form of was, for  the present forms  and  were in use. When the nominative directly followed the verb, contraction usually occurred: -stu; bistu, hebstu.

Inflection

 * Nominative:, ,
 * Oblique: ,
 * Possessive: ,

Etymology
From, from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) you singular, thou

Etymology
From, from.

Numeral

 * 1) two (2)

Etymology
From, equivalent to.

Contraction

 * 1)  of the

Etymology
. The expected modern form would be *deau, but it underwent stronger contraction. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Usage notes

 * Only used before nouns (or nominalized forms of other parts of speech, most often adjectives) that begin with consonants; before vowel-initial words, the form is used, e.g., as seen above,.

Usage notes

 * The partitive article is used with uncountable nouns instead of the indefinite article (which is only used with countable nouns). English and most other European languages do not use any article in such cases.
 * Like the indefinite article, the partitive article becomes simple with grammatical objects in negated sentences:
 * After the actual preposition, the partitive article is deleted. So one can never say or.

Noun

 * 1) man

Etymology
From, , , from (akin to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬), itself from , from , from.

Pronunciation



 * After the second person singular verb ending, the is generally lost when the pronoun is unstressed. Thus  is pronounced  even in purposefully enunciated speech.
 * In colloquial speech, chiefly of northern and central Germany, the can be lost after any preceding coronal. Thus  may be pronounced  or.
 * After the second person singular verb ending, the is generally lost when the pronoun is unstressed. Thus  is pronounced  even in purposefully enunciated speech.
 * In colloquial speech, chiefly of northern and central Germany, the can be lost after any preceding coronal. Thus  may be pronounced  or.

Pronoun

 * 1) you (singular familiar), thou

Usage notes

 * Du is the informal second person pronoun. In formal speech, the third person plural Sie (always capitalised) is used instead.
 * A general rule of thumb is that du is used to address one's friends, relatives, and those under about 16 years of age. Du is always used to address children and non-human beings.
 * Usage also depends on the setting: two unacquainted, middle-aged persons are likely to use du when they meet at social gatherings, but much less so when they happen on each other in the street. People under 30 often use du among each other, but they still use Sie when one of them is at work, e.g. in a shop (some cafés and most pubs are an exception).
 * There is also a great deal of (often subtle) regional variation throughout the German-speaking world.

Alternative forms

 * ''(Benin)

Etymology
From. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬

Verb

 * 1) to eat
 * 2) to bite
 * 3) to win
 * 1) to win

Etymology
From and  (akin to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬), itself from, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) thou, you

Etymology
From, from , , , ultimately from.

Numeral

 * 1) two (2)

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1) to do

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1) two (2)

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬. Cognate to 🇨🇬.

Numeral

 * 1) two (2)

Etymology
From and, inflected forms of.

Etymology
From.

Pronoun

 * 1) second-person singular, informal, nominative: you, thou

Etymology
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) thou, you singular, informal

Usage notes
This pronoun began to be replaced by in formal address during the Middle Dutch period, and eventually fell out of use altogether.

Descendants

 * Dutch:, ,

Etymology
, from, from , whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and ultimately from.

Pronoun

 * 1)  you

Etymology
From, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) thou, you second person singular nominative

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, archaic 🇨🇬 (modern dialectal ).

Pronoun

 * 1) you

Verb

 * 1)  to sink

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) duke

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to
 * 2)  to

Etymology
From (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬/🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Numeral

 * 1) two (2)

Etymology
From, from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) thou, you (second person, singular)

Etymology
From, from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) you, thou (second person, singular)

Verb

 * 1) to boil
 * 2) to brew
 * 1) to brew

Verb

 * 1)  to fall

Verb

 * 1) to shake

Noun

 * 1) bird

Contraction

 * 1) contraction of de + le (of the)

Etymology
From, from , whence also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and ultimately from. Perhaps the earliest attestation of the pronoun is the inscription on the Bülach fibula, which may show already differentiated from other Germanic languages’ þu.

Pronoun

 * 1) thou, you
 * 2) * 6th-7th century, inscription on the Bülach fibula:
 * "goh"

- ᚠᚱᛁᚠᚱᛁᛞᛁᛚ / ᛞᚢ / ... frifridil / du /

Usage notes
Some speakers of Old High German appear to have contrasted the "polite" singular (plural forms) with the regular, informal singular (singular forms), as in New High German (Modern German) Sie versus du. This distinction is however not well-attested, and may have been regional, genre-dependent, or only in Late Old High German.

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Pronoun

 * 1) you, thou

Pronoun

 * 1) those

Pronoun
(oblique )


 * 1) you (singular)

Etymology
From.

Numeral

 * 1) two

Etymology
From, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) thou, you

Usage notes

 * du is at times omitted when used with a verb.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to do

Noun

 * 1) deed, action
 * 2)  dance performance

Alternative forms




Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Pronoun

 * 1) you
 * 2) thou
 * 1) thou
 * 1) thou

Usage notes
While is the traditionally familiar mode of address, it is since the early '70s the standard in almost all circumstances, possibly capitalized in formal communications. This was the result of the so-called .

Recently, use of the second-person plural pronoun as a less familiar (and thus more formal) pronoun has appeared to some extent, but mainly amongst shopkeepers towards customers.

The same pronoun has also been used historically as a formal way of address, but its use has (in particular in Sweden, not so much in Swedish-speaking parts of Finland) been restricted to addressing people of lower social status, whereby a plethora of different constructions were employed as to avoid the issue of pronouns whatsoever. See also the article about T-V distinction in Wikipedia.

Pronoun

 * 1) his/her

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬

Numeral

 * 1) two

Etymology
Both characters below depict a single etymology. also has a less common reading, now seen only in.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Adjective

 * 1) black

Adjective

 * 1) smooth

Verb

 * 1) to scramble for, to compete

Usage notes

 * du before a direct object

Verb

 * 1)  to run, to sprint

Verb

 * 1)  to bleed

Etymology 4
Cognate with 🇨🇬

Verb

 * 1) to be black, to be dark