den
den - Translingual
Symbol
den
- (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Slavey.
den - English
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɛn/
- (pin–pen merger) IPA: /dɪn/
- Homophone: din (pin-pen merger)
Noun
den (plural dens)
- A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
- a den of robbers
- Daniel was put into the lions’ den.
- Synonyms: lair; Wiktionary appendix of animal terms, including their homes
- A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
- a den of vice
- an opium den; a gambling den
- A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
- Synonym: family room
- Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”)
- Our little girls love using bedsheets and other stuff around the house to make dens in the living room and pretending they're on adventures.
- (UK, Scotland, obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
- A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
den (third-person singular simple present dens, present participle denning, simple past and past participle denned)
Noun
den
- Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight)
Noun
den (plural dens)
- (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.
Adverb
den (not comparable)
- Pronunciation spelling of then, representing AAVE, Bermuda English.
Anagrams
den - Afrikaans
Pronunciation
IPA: /dɛn/
Noun
den (plural denne)
- pine (tree)
den - Akan
Pronunciation
- Tone: LL
Adjective
den
Related terms
(Nouns)
- denhyɛ
(Adverbs)
- denneennen
(Adjectives)
den - Bambara
Noun
den
Derived terms
(Sense 1)
Verb
den (intransitive)
- to bear fruit
den - Breton
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdẽːn/
Noun
den m
den - Cimbrian
Pronoun
den
- inflection of dèar:
- accusative singular masculine
- dative plural
Determiner
den
- inflection of dèar:
- accusative singular masculine
- dative plural
den - Cornish
Pronunciation
- (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA: [dɛːn]
- (Revived Late Cornish) IPA: [deːn]
Noun
den m (plural tus)
Mutation
den - Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈdɛn]
Noun
den m inan or (archaic or literary) m anim
- day (24 hours, usually from midnight to midnight)
- daytime (time between sunrise and sunset)
- (astronomy) day (rotational period of a body orbiting a star)
- Den na Merkuru trvá téměř 59 pozemských dní. ― A day on Mercury lasts almost 59 terrestrial days.
Declension
when animate:
Derived terms
Noun
den
- genitive plural of dno
Noun
den
- genitive plural of dna
Anagrams
den - Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɛnˀ/, [ˈd̥ɛnˀ], [d̥ɛn], [d̥n̩], [pm̩]
Article
- (definite) the (used before an adjective preceding a noun)
- bilen - the car; den røde bil - the red car
Pronoun
den - Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɛn/
- Hyphenation: den
Noun
den m (plural dennen, diminutive dennetje n)
Synonyms
- (pine tree): dennenboom, naaldboom, pijnboom
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɛn/, /dən/
- Hyphenation: den
Article
den (definite)
- (archaic) Dative masculine, neuter, and plural of the definite article.
- Nederland in den goeden ouden tijd. — The Netherlands in the days of yore.
- De baron gaf den koetsier een wenk en het rijtuig rolde heen. — The baron gave the coachman a sign and the carriage rode away. (from the story Gaston von Frankrijk by J.J.A. Goeverneur)
- In den beginne schiep God den hemel en de aarde — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth
- (archaic) Accusative singular masculine of the definite article.
- (Southern, dialectal) Masculine singular of the definite article, alternative form of de.
Usage notes
- The distinction of the dative case, which had long been frail and without any basis in actual speech, widely fell out of use over the course of the 19th century. The use of den for the masculine object case, however, remained usual in the written language until the spelling reform of 1947. Since then only de is generally used in standard Dutch. Den survives in idiomatic expressions, including surnames (e.g. Van den Berg).
- In Flemish, Brabantian, and Limburgish dialects and vernaculars, den is still widely used with masculine nouns, but without any case distinction. Often den is used before vowels and certain consonants, while de is used before other consonants.
- The now common pronunciation /dɛn/ is a spelling pronunciation. Before the word became archaic—and still in those lects where it is not archaic—it has been pronounced with a schwa, /dən/.
Inflection
Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural | |
Nominative | de | de | het | de |
---|---|---|---|---|
Genitive | des | der | des | der |
Dative | den | der | den | den |
Accusative | den | de | het | de |
Derived terms
den - German
Pronunciation
- IPA: /deːn/ (stressed)
- IPA: /den/, /dən/ (unstressed)
- Homophone: dehn
Article
den (definite)
Declension
German definite articles | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Plural | |
Nominative | der | die | das | die |
Genitive | des | der | des | der |
Dative | dem | der | dem | den |
Accusative | den | die | das | die |
Pronoun
den
den - Irish
Alternative forms
- de’n (superseded)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dʲɛnˠ/, /dʲənˠ/
- (Connemara, Aran Islands) IPA: /ɡənˠ/
Contraction
den
- Contraction of de an.
- Bhris mé den chrann é. ― I broke it off the tree.
- Fuair sé bás den ocras. ― He died of hunger.
Usage notes
This contraction is obligatory, i.e. *de an never appears uncontracted. It triggers lenition of a following consonant other than d, s, or t.
Related terms
Basic form | Contracted with | Copular forms | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
an (“the sg”) | na (“the pl”) | mo (“my”) | do (“your”) | a (“his, her, their; which (present)”) | ár (“our”) | ar (“which (past)”) | (before consonant) | (present/future before vowel) | (past/conditional before vowel) | |
de (“from”) | den | de na desna* | de mo dem* | de do ded*, det* | dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
do (“to, for”) | don | do na dosna* | do mo dom* | do do dod*, dot* | dá | dár | dar | darb | darbh | |
faoi (“under, about”) | faoin | faoi na | faoi mo | faoi do | faoina | faoinár | faoinar | faoinarb | faoinarbh | |
i (“in”) | sa, san | sna | i mo im* | i do id*, it* | ina | inár | inar | inarb | inarbh | |
le (“with”) | leis an | leis na | le mo lem* | le do led*, let* | lena | lenár | lenar | lenarb | lenarbh | |
ó (“from, since”) | ón | ó na ósna* | ó mo óm* | ó do ód*, ót* | óna | ónár | ónar | ónarb | ónarbh | |
trí (“through”) | tríd an | trí na | trí mo | trí do | trína | trínár | trínar | trínarb | trínarbh | |
*Dialectal. |
den - Japanese
Romanization
den
den - Luxembourgish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /den/, [dən]
Determiner
den m
- unstressed form of deen
Declension
Luxembourgish definite articles | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | plural | |
nom./acc. | deen (den) | déi (d') | dat (d') | déi (d') |
dat. | deem (dem) | där (der) | deem (dem) | deen (den) |
gen. | der |
den - Malay
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA: /den/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA: /dɪn/
Pronoun
den (Jawi spelling دين)
den - Mandarin
Romanization
den
Usage notes
- 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.
den - Messapic
Noun
den
den - Middle Dutch
Article
den
- inflection of die:
- masculine accusative/dative singular
- neuter dative singular
- dative plural
den - Middle English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɛn/, /ˈdɛn(ə)/
Noun
den (plural dennes)
- A cave or cavern.
- A chamber of residence:
- A catacomb (subterranean grave)
- (anatomy) A cavity; a division.
Descendants
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɛːn/
Noun
den (plural denes)
- A dean (ecclesiastical official)
- A leader of a group of ten.
- A officer of a guild.
- (rare, by extension) A leader of a group].
Descendants
- English: dean
Noun
den
- Alternative form of dene
Noun
den
- Alternative form of deyne
Noun
den
- Alternative form of dynne
den - Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA: (stressed) /ˈdɛn/, (unstressed) /dən/
Pronoun
den (genitive dens)
- it; third person singular, masculine/feminine gender. Nominative, accusative or dative.
Pronoun
den m or f
- (demonstrative pronoun) that
Article
den m or f
Related terms
Anagrams
den - Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɛnː/
Determiner
den m or f (neuter singular det, plural dei)
- (demonstrative determiner) that
- Eg vil ha den bilen.
- I want that car.
Derived terms
Article
den m or f (neuter singular det, plural dei)
- the; only used if there is an adjective or numeral to the noun
- Han køyrde den raude bilen.
- He drove the red car.
Usage notes
- Usually put preceding the noun. In some rare cases of poetry, the article may come after the noun.
- The noun is nearly always in its definite form. Exceptions include fixed expressions and poetry. Attributive adjectives are always in their definite forms.
- May be omitted when used with the determiner same, used with an ordinal number, or an adjective denotes an inherent or natural attribute of the thing. Omission occurs more frequently, colloquially, in certain dialects.
- same tingen ― [the] same thing
- fyrste kvelden ― [the] first night
- svarte natta ― [the] dark night
Declension
Derived terms
- den dag
- den eldre
- den enkelte
- den gong
- den siste til å
- den vonde
- den yngre
Pronoun
den
- (demonstrative pronoun) that one
- Eg vil ha den.
- I want that one.
den - Papiamentu
Preposition
den
den - Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɛn/
- Syllabification: den
Noun
den n
- genitive plural of dno
den - Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈden/ [ˈd̪ẽn]
- Syllabification: den
Verb
den
- inflection of dar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative
den - Sranan Tongo
Alternative forms
- dem (archaic)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /den/
Pronoun
den
Determiner
den
- their (possessive pronoun)
Article
den
- the (plural definite article)
den - Swedish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA: /dɛnː/
Pronoun
den c
Declension
Number | Person | Type | Nominative | Oblique | Possessive | ||
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common | neuter | plural | |||||
singular | first | — | jag | mig, mej3 | min | mitt | mina |
second | — | du | dig, dej3 | din | ditt | dina | |
third | masculine (person) | han | honom, han2, en5 | hans | |||
feminine (person) | hon | henne, na5 | hennes | ||||
gender-neutral (person)1 | hen | hen, henom7 | hens | ||||
common (noun) | den | den | dess | ||||
neuter (noun) | det | det | dess | ||||
indefinite | man or en4 | en | ens | ||||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina | ||
plural | first | — | vi | oss | vår, våran2 | vårt, vårat2 | våra |
second | — | ni | er | er, eran2, ers6 | ert, erat2 | era | |
archaic | I | eder | eder, eders6 | edert | edra | ||
third | — | de, dom3 | dem, dom3 | deras | |||
reflexive | — | sig, sej3 | sin | sitt | sina |
Article
den c (definite)
- (before an adjective preceding a noun) the
- den röda bilen ― the red car
Related terms
Anagrams
den - Zhuang
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA: /teːn˧˥/
- Tone numbers: den5
- Hyphenation: den
Noun
den (1957–1982 spelling den)