idee

From Middle Dutch idee, borrowed from Middle French idee, from Old French idee, from Latin idea (“a (Platonic) idea; archetype”), from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”), related to French idée.

• IPA^(key): /iˈdeː/, [iˈdeː]

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• Hyphenation: idee
• Rhymes: -eː

idee n (plural ideeën, diminutive ideetje n)

1. idea

idee n or f (plural ideeën)

1. (philosophy) idea, notion

   Synonym: begrip

This word is normally considered to be a neuter noun (het idee), but it can be considered feminine (de idee) for a philosophical or abstract idea.

• → Caribbean Javanese: idhé
• → Indonesian: ide

• (Dutch) Taaladvies
• (Dutch) OnzeTaal

From French idée, from Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa).

• IPA^(key): /iˈd̥eː/, [iˈd̥eː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation: idee

idee (genitive idee, partitive ideed)

1. idea (a sudden inventive thought or intention to do something)
2. concept (essential principle, main idea)

Declension of idee (ÕS type 26i/idee, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		idee	ideed
accusative	nom.
	gen.	idee
genitive			ideede
partitive		ideed	ideid ideesid
illative		ideesse	ideedesse ideisse
inessive		idees	ideedes ideis
elative		ideest	ideedest ideist
allative		ideele	ideedele ideile
adessive		ideel	ideedel ideil
ablative		ideelt	ideedelt ideilt
translative		ideeks	ideedeks ideiks
terminative		ideeni	ideedeni
essive		ideena	ideedena
abessive		ideeta	ideedeta
comitative		ideega	ideedega

• idee in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “idee”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Borrowed from Latin idea.

idee f

1. idea

• IPA^(key): /iˈdɛ.e/
• Rhymes: -ɛe
• Hyphenation: i‧dè‧e

idee f

1. plural of idea

• -eide

Borrowed from French idée, German Idee, from Latin idea, from Ancient Greek ἰδέα (idéa, “notion, pattern”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”).

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idee f (plural idei)

1. idea

• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

idee

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