dein

• deein

dein

1. present participle of de

• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “dein”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

• Iden, Dine, Edin, Diné, 'dine, iDEN, nide, enid, Enid, dine, Nied, IndE, deni, Nide

• IPA^(key): /ˈdei̯n/, [ˈde̞i̯n]
• Rhymes: -ein
• Hyphenation^(key): dein

dein

1. instructive plural of dee

• nide

• Dein (determiner)

From Middle High German dīn, from Old High German dīn. Akin to Old Saxon thīn, English thine, thy.

• IPA^(key): /daɪ̯n/

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• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n
• Homophone: deinen (according to a common pronunciation of this form)

dein

1. (archaic) genitive singular of du
   • 19th century, Nikolaus Lenau, Schilflieder, no. 3:

     Auf geheimem Waldespfade
     Schleich ich gern im Abendschein
     An das öde Schilfgestade,
     Mädchen, und gedenke dein!

     Upon private forest path[s]
     I yearnly slink in evenshine
     unto the lonely reeden bank,
     Maiden, and think of thee!

   • 1912, “Der Brief des Paulus an Philemon”, in Luther-Bibel 1912, verse 4:

     Ich danke meinem Gott und gedenke dein allezeit in meinem Gebet[.]

     I thank my God and think of thee always in my prayer[.]

dein m (feminine deine, neuter dein, plural deine)

1. thy, your (esp. to friends, relatives, children, etc.).

Declension of dein
	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
nominative	dein	deine	dein	deine
genitive	deines	deiner	deines	deiner
dative	deinem	deiner	deinem	deinen
accusative	deinen	deine	dein	deine

When used as a pronoun, the nominative masculine takes the form deiner, and the nominative/accusative neuter takes the form deines or deins.

• mein Vater und deiner – my father and yours
• Das ist mein Fahrrad. Das andere ist dein(e)s. – This is my bike. The other one is yours.

• Ihr (“your”) (addressing formally or politely one or more persons)

dein

1. nominative/accusative neuter singular of dein

• Neid

From Middle High German dīn, from Old High German dīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz.

• IPA^(key): /taɪ̯n/
• Rhymes: -aɪ̯n
• Hyphenation: dein

dein

1. thy, your

   Dein Hund un dein Katz. ― Your dog and your cat.

   Gebb das deiner Mutter. ― Give this to your mother.

¹Form used when the plural of the noun is the same as the singular

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “dein”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 33

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʲɪnʲ]

dein (present analytic deineann, future analytic déanfaidh, verbal noun déanamh, past participle déanta)

1. Munster form of déan

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dein”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Preconsonantal variant, with apocope of the final syllable.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /dei̯n/, [d̪ɛi̯n]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈde.in/, [ˈd̪ɛːin]
• Note: monosyllabic, except one apparent instance in Terentianus Maurus^[1] and occasionally in Late and Medieval Latin.

dein (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of deinde

• “dein”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “dein”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

dein (verbal noun deiney)

1. to molest

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
dein	ghein	nein
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.