dê

dê

1. (reintegrationist norm) inflection of dar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

dê

1. Nonstandard spelling of dê̄.

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

• IPA^(key): /deː/
• Rhymes: -eː

See dayik.

dê f

1. mom

Compare wê of Northern dialects, from *de wey (inflected form of *weyîn "to will"), doublet of divê (“should”), from vîn (“to will”). Compare da (“would”) of the Behdini dialect from *de weya and Zazaki do (“will”), a Kurmanji borrowing.

dê

1. (auxiliary) will

   Le ur b myne, ez dy uerem te hel dem

   Stay there, I will come pick you up

   Uy dy chima eua b guhta?

   Why would 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).
• If dê comes before the subject, it denotes that something is planned or bound to happen, similar to English going to.

• Rhymes: -e
• Hyphenation: dê

dê m (plural dês)

1. dee (name of the Latin letter D, d)

dê

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

dê

1. Contraction of di li (“of the”).

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ze˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jej˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jej˧˧]
• Homophone: giê

From Proto-Vietic *-teː.

(classifier con) dê • (移, 羝)

1. goat

dê

1. (colloquial, vulgar) lewd; lascivious

By analogy with đê.

dê

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.

The letters D and d take this name if they are treated as alphabetic letters used to represent phonemes (/z/, /j/)

• dờ
• đê; đờ