dê
- (reintegrationist norm) inflection ofdar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
dê
- nonstandard spelling ofdê̄
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Seedayik.
dê f
- mom
Comparewê of Northern dialects, from*de wey (inflected form of*weyîn "to will"), doublet ofdivê(“should”), fromvîn(“to will”). Compareda(“would”) of the Behdini dialect from*de weya andZazakido(“will”), a Kurmanji borrowing.
dê
- (auxiliary)will
Le ur b myne, ezdy uerem te hel dem- Stay there, Iwill come pick you up
Uydy chima eua b guhta?- Whywould she say that?
- 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).
- Ifdê comes before the subject, it denotes that something is planned or bound to happen, similar toEnglishgoing to.
dê m (pluraldês)
- The name of theLatin-script letterD/d.
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
dê
- inflection ofdar:
- first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
- third-personsingularimperative
- (Latin-script letter names)letra;á,bê,cê,dê,é /ê,efe /fê,gê /guê,agá,i,jota /ji,cá /capa,ele /lê,eme /mê,ene /nê,ó /ô,pê,quê,erre /rê,esse,tê,u,vê,dáblio /dâblio /duplo vê,xis,ípsilon /i grego,zê
dê
- contraction ofdili(“of the”)
FromProto-Vietic*-teː.
(classifiercon) dê• (移,羝)
- goat
dê
- (colloquial, vulgar)lewd;lascivious
By analogy withđê.
dê
- The name of theLatin-script letterD/d.
The lettersD andd take this name if they are treated as alphabetic letters used to represent phonemes (/z/, /j/)