des
See also: Appendix:Variations of "des"
English
Catalan
Etymology 2
Conjugated form of dar
Cimbrian
See also
Declension of dèar | ||||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
nominative | dèar | dòi | des | dii / zòi |
accusative | den | dòi | des | dii / zòi |
dative | dèmme | dèar | dèmme | den |
References
- “des” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo
Danish
Conjunction
des
- the
- Jo større den er, des gladere bliver jeg.
- The larger it is, the gladder I shall be.
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛs/
Audio (file)
Usage notes
- Note that normally only the nominative is used. The other forms are archaic, but survive in numerous idiomatic expressions such as des huizes, des morgens (itself archaic and shortened, like similar expressions, to 's morgens in contemporary Dutch).
- The current pronunciation is a spelling pronunciation. Before the word became archaic, it was pronounced with a schwa, /dəs/.
Inflection
Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural | |
Nominative | de | de | het | de |
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Genitive | des | der | des | der |
Dative | den | der | den | den |
Accusative | den | de | het | de |
Synonyms
Conjunction
des
- the ... the (used as an intensifier to indicate the degree of an action)
- Des te vaker de mensen Willem de rug toekeren des te beter! ― The more often people turn their back at Willem the better!
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Particle
des
- the; used with ju and either pli (“more”) or malpli (“less”) to form the second half of a coordinated comparative.
- 1903, Ben Elmy, “La Lingvo de la floroj”, in The Esperantist: The Esperanto Gazette for the Spreading of the International Language, page 138,
- Ju pli ni studas la florojn, des pli ni konstatas, ke multe da ili posedas nesuspektitajn lertecojn, kiujn apud besto ni volonte nomus instinkto aŭ еĉ prudento.
- The more we study the flowers, the more we establish that many of them possess unexpected abilities, which in an animal we would willingly call instinct or even foresight.
- Ju pli mi lernas, des pli mi scias.
- The more I learn, the more I know.
- 1903, Ben Elmy, “La Lingvo de la floroj”, in The Esperantist: The Esperanto Gazette for the Spreading of the International Language, page 138,
Fiji Hindi
French
Etymology
The use as an article is a special case of the contraction.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛ/, /de/
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Article
des m pl or f pl
Further reading
- “des” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /des/
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dəs/ (generally)
- IPA(key): /dɛs/ (when stressed, which is rare)
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Article
des (definite, genitive singular)
Guinea-Bissau Creole
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Cardinal : des | ||
Etymology
From Portuguese dez. Cognates with Kabuverdianu dés.
Latin
Middle Dutch
Middle English
Old Portuguese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /des̺/
Preposition
des
- since (from a time)
- 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 188 (facsimile):
- q̇ mui de coraçon ſenpre a amou des menỹnez
- who loved her very heartily since childhood
- q̇ mui de coraçon ſenpre a amou des menỹnez
- 13th century, attributed to Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, E codex, cantiga 188 (facsimile):
Romanian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin dēnsus (“dense; frequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *dens- (“thick, dense”). Doublet of dens, a borrowing.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /des/
Adjective
des m or n (feminine singular deasă, masculine plural deși, feminine and neuter plural dese)
Declension
Antonyms
- (frequent): rar
Derived terms
Related terms
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /des/, [d̪es]
Welsh
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deːs/
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