dè

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dè

1. certainly

   Synonym: dɛ́

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ/
• Homophone: deh
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: dè

dè

1. (also poetic) Obsolete form of deve, third-person singular present indicative of dovere

• ed, ed.

• de — nonstandard

dè (de⁴, Zhuyin ㄉㄜˋ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嘚

dè m (invariable)

1. day
   • 1920, Olindo Guerrini, edited by Zanichelli, Sonetti romagnoli, published 1967:

     Donca aví da savé che un dé a Bulogna andè in butega da un barbir, zett zett, cun una cherta ch'a i' aveva scrett

     And so you have to know that on day I went to a barber's shop, quietly, with a paper that I've written

• dé (superseded)
• gu dè (emphatic)

• (Lewis, Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /d̪̊eː/^[1][2]
• (Uist, Barra) IPA^(key): /d̥ʒeː/^[3][4]

Clipping of ciod è (older caidhe, caide, goidé) from Old Irish cote (“what is the nature of?, of what kind is?”),^[5][6] synchronically analyzable as ciod + e, compare Irish caidé.

dè

1. what

   Dè tha thu ag iarraidh? ― What do you want? (literally, “What are you at wanting?”)

   Chan eil cuimhn' aice dè thuirt e. ― She doesn't remember what he said.

• If followed by the future tense, the relative future tense is used.

  Dè a bhios sibh a' dèanamh? ― What will you do?

• An emphatic form gu dè is sometimes used.

• ge be dè
• dè na

dè?

1. huh? pardon? what?
2. Used to form tag questions in informal speech.

   Thàinig iad feasgar, dè? ― They came in the afternoon, didn't they?

dè m

1. genitive singular of dia

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 提/堤/隄 (“to guard against”, SV: đề).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɛ˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jɛ˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jɛ˨˩]

dè • (提, 𠽮, 咦, 移)

1. to stint (on); to economise
2. to take care over; to spare
3. to foresee; to foreknow; to expect