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3-letter words (3 found)

DEN,END,NED,

2-letter words (4 found)

DE,ED,EN,NE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

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den edn dne nde end ned

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Definitions and meaning of den

den

Translingual

Symbol

den

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Slavey. (macrolanguage)

Etymology 1

From Middle English den, from Old English denn (“den, lair (of a beast), cave; a swine-pasture, a woodland pasture for swine”), from Proto-West Germanic *dani (“threshing-floor, barn-floor”). Cognate with Scots den (“den, lair”), Middle Dutch denne (“burrow, den, cave, attic”), Dutch den (“ship's deck, threshing-floor, mountain floor”), Middle Low German denne, danne (“threshing-floor, small dale”), German Tenne (“threshing-floor, barn for threshing”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛn/, enPR: dĕn
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /dɪn/, enPR: dĭn
  • Rhymes: -ɛn
  • Homophone: din (pin-pen merger)

Noun

den (plural dens)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms: lair; luster; Wiktionary appendix of animal terms, including their homes
  2. A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
  3. A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
    Synonym: family room
  4. Synonym of fort (“structure improvised from furniture, etc. for playing games.”)
  5. (UK, Scotland, obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
  6. A group of Cub Scouts of the same age who work on projects together.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

den (third-person singular simple present dens, present participle denning, simple past and past participle denned)

  1. (reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
  2. (intransitive, zoology) Of an animal, to use as a den; to take up residence in.

Etymology 2

From Old French denier, from Latin denarius.

Noun

den

  1. Abbreviation of denier (a unit of weight)

Etymology 3

Noun

den (plural dens)

  1. (Northumbria, chiefly in place names) Alternative form of dene.

Etymology 4

Adverb

den (not comparable)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of then, representing AAVE, Bermuda English.

See also

  • good-den

Anagrams

  • -end, DNE, End, NDE, NED, Ned, edn., end, end-, ned

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch den.

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /dɛn/

Noun

den (plural denne)

  1. pine (tree)

Akan

Pronunciation

  • Tone: LL

Adjective

den

  1. (Twi) hard
    nsa yɛ den ― the hand is hard

Related terms

(Nouns)

  • denhyɛ

(Adverbs)

  • denneennen

(Adjectives)

  • dennen

References

Bambara

Noun

den

  1. child
  2. fruit

Derived terms

(Sense 1)

  • denkɛ
  • denkundi
  • denkura
  • denmarayɔrɔ
  • denmisɛn
  • denmuso
  • denso

Verb

den (intransitive)

  1. to bear fruit

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *dün, from Proto-Celtic *gdonyos (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰom-yo- (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdẽːn/

Noun

den m

  1. human being
  2. person, man
  3. husband

Catalan

Verb

den

  1. inflection of dar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Cimbrian

Pronoun

den

  1. inflection of dèar:
    1. accusative singular masculine
    2. dative plural

Determiner

den

  1. inflection of dèar:
    1. accusative singular masculine
    2. dative plural

See also

Further reading

  • “den” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish den, from Proto-Brythonic *dün, from Proto-Celtic *gdonyos (“human, person”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰom-yo- (“earthling, human”), a derivation of *dʰéǵʰōm (“earth”).

Pronunciation

  • (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key): [dɛːn]
  • (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): [deːn]

Noun

den m (plural tus)

  1. man
  2. person

Mutation

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdɛn]
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Czech den, from Proto-Slavic *dьnь (“day”).

Noun

den m inan or (archaic or literary) m anim (related adjective denní)

  1. day (24 hours, usually from midnight to midnight)
    jednoho dne ― one day, someday
    po několika dnech ― after a few days
    za pár dní ― in a couple of days
    Jednoho dne tě chytí. ― They're gonna catch you one day.
  2. daytime (time between sunrise and sunset)
  3. (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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

den

  1. genitive plural of dno

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

den

  1. genitive plural of dna

Further reading

  • den in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • den in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • den in Internetová jazyková příručka

Anagrams

  • dne

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þann, the accusative form of sá, from Proto-Germanic *sa (“that”), from Proto-Indo-European *só (“this, that”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛnˀ/, [ˈd̥ɛnˀ], [d̥ɛn], [d̥n̩], [pm̩]

Article

den c (neuter det, plural de)

  1. (definite) the (used before an adjective preceding a noun)
    bilen - the car; den røde bil - the red car

See also

  • -en

Pronoun

den c (neuter det, plural de)

  1. (demonstrative) that, the
  2. (personal) it

See also

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dan, danne, denne (“pine tree”), from Old Dutch *danna, from Proto-West Germanic *dannā (“pine tree”). Cognate with German Tanne.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛn/
  • Hyphenation: den
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

den m (plural dennen, diminutive dennetje n)

  1. pine, pine tree
    Synonyms: dennenboom, pijnboom
    Hypernym: naaldboom
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch den.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛn/, /dən/
  • Hyphenation: den
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Article

den (definite)

  1. (archaic) Dative masculine, neuter, and plural of the definite article.
    Nederland in den goeden ouden tijd. — The Netherlands in the good old days.
    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
  2. (archaic) Accusative singular masculine of the definite article.
  3. (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 was pronounced with a schwa, /dən/.
Inflection


Derived terms
  • op den duur

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /deːn/ (stressed)
  • IPA(key): /den/, /dən/ (unstressed)
  • Homophone: dehn
  • Rhymes: -eːn

Article

den (definite)

  1. inflection of der (“the”):
    1. accusative masculine singular
    2. dative plural

Declension

Pronoun

den

  1. that; whom; accusative masculine singular of der

Irish

Alternative forms

  • de’n (superseded)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʲɛnˠ/, /dʲənˠ/
  • (Connemara, Aran Islands) IPA(key): /ɡənˠ/

Contraction

den

  1. 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

Japanese

Romanization

den

  1. Rōmaji transcription of でん

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /den/, [dən]

Determiner

den m

  1. unstressed form of deen

Declension

Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /den/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /dɪn/
  • Rhymes: -den, -en

Pronoun

den (Jawi spelling دين)

  1. I, me, my

See also

  • aku
  • saya

Mandarin

Romanization

den

  1. Nonstandard spelling of dēn.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of dèn.

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.

Messapic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ghen. Related to Proto-Albanian *džana (“voice”) and Albanian zë (“voice”).

Noun

den

  1. voice

References

Middle Dutch

Article

den

  1. inflection of die:
    1. masculine accusative/dative singular
    2. neuter dative singular
    3. dative plural

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English denn, from Proto-West Germanic *dani. Forms with a final vowel are probably generalised datives.

Alternative forms

  • denne

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛn/, /ˈdɛn(ə)/

Noun

den (plural dennes)

  1. A cave or cavern.
  2. A chamber of residence:
    1. A den (animal lair)
    2. A refuge; a shelter.
  3. A catacomb (subterranean grave)
  4. (anatomy) A cavity; a division.
Descendants
  • English: den
  • Scots: den
References
  • “den, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman deen and continental Old French deien, from Latin decānus.

Alternative forms

  • deen, deene, dene, deyne, doien, dyen

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛːn/

Noun

den (plural denes)

  1. A dean (ecclesiastical official)
  2. A leader of a group of ten.
  3. An officer of a guild.
  4. (rare, by extension) A leader of a group.
Descendants
  • English: dean
References
  • “dēn, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Noun

den

  1. Alternative form of dene

Etymology 4

Noun

den

  1. Alternative form of deyne

Etymology 5

Noun

den

  1. Alternative form of dynne

Minangkabau

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛn/
  • Rhymes: -den, -en

Pronoun

den

  1. I, me, my; first person singular (informal use; in dialogue with the same age person or with those who are younger)

See also

  • ambo
  • awak

Mokilese

Noun

den

  1. behavior

Inflection


Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (stressed) /ˈdɛn/, (unstressed) /dən/

Pronoun

den (genitive dens)

  1. it; third person singular, masculine/feminine gender. Nominative, accusative or dative.

Pronoun

den m or f

  1. (demonstrative pronoun) that

Article

den m or f

  1. The; only used if there is an adjective in front of the noun.
    bilen: the car → den røde bilen: the red car

Related terms

  • det
  • de
  • dem

Anagrams

  • end, ned

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þann, þenn, masculine accusative singular of sá, from Proto-Germanic *sa, from Proto-Indo-European *só.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛnː/

Determiner

den m or f (neuter singular det, plural dei)

  1. (demonstrative determiner) that

Derived terms

  • den og den

Article

den m or f (neuter singular det, plural dei)

  1. the; only used if there is an adjective or numeral to the noun

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

Pronoun

den

  1. (demonstrative pronoun) that one

References

  • “den” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
  • “den”, in Norsk Ordbok: ordbok over det norske folkemålet og det nynorske skriftmålet, Oslo: Samlaget, 1950-2016
  • “den” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dьnь.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈdɛn/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈdɛn/

Noun

den m inan

  1. day; daytime (period between sunrise and sundown)
  2. day (24 hour period)
  3. (often in the plural) day (unspecified period, particularly in the past)
  4. (in the plural) days (life)
  5. (religion) day; holiday
  6. (religion) day; doomsday

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: den

References

  • Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “den”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese dentro and Spanish dentro and Kabuverdianu dentu.

Preposition

den

  1. in
  2. inside
  3. below

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German den.

Article

den m (definite)

  1. accusative masculine singular of der (“the”)

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛn/
  • Rhymes: -ɛn
  • Syllabification: den

Noun

den n

  1. genitive plural of dno

Russenorsk

Alternative forms

  • dein, денъ (den)

Etymology

Inherited from Norwegian Nynorsk den or its northern dialectal palatalized form.

Pronunciation

Unknown. Possible examples:

  • IPA(key): /dɛnː/ (Norwegian accent)
  • IPA(key): /dɛɲː/ (palatalized, Northen Norwegian, attested as dein)

The Russian spelling денъ indicates no palatalization. The letter "е" in non-Russian words may have two different ways of pronunciation (as /je/ or /e/). The variant closest to Norwegian pronunciation would be /e/:

  • IPA(key): [den], /dɛn/

Pronoun

den

  1. this, that

Usage notes

The pronoun has no conjugated forms, in difference from Norwegian, which conjugates this pronoun after gender and number (e. g. det), which are absent in Russenorsk.

Synonyms

  • etta

Derived terms

  • den dag

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈden/ [ˈd̪ẽn]
  • Rhymes: -en
  • Syllabification: den

Verb

den

  1. inflection of dar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Sranan Tongo

Alternative forms

  • dem (archaic)

Etymology

From English them.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /den/

Pronoun

den

  1. they
  2. them

Determiner

den

  1. their (possessive pronoun)

Article

den

  1. the (plural definite article)

Swedish

Alternative forms

  • then, dhen (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Swedish þæn, accusative of sā(r), from Old Norse sá, from Proto-Germanic *sa, from Proto-Indo-European *só.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛnː/

Pronoun

den c

  1. it (for common gender nouns)
  2. that (for common gender nouns)
    1. the one, that one (for common gender nouns)
  3. he, she, whoever, "the one"

Declension

Article

den c (definite)

  1. the (when an adjective is used with a common gender noun in the definite – det is used for neuter gender nouns, and de for plural nouns, regardless of gender)
    1. the ... one (when the noun is implied, which is an idiomatic construction)

Usage notes

"The [adjective] [noun]" is expressed as "den/det/de (common gender, neuter gender, and plural, respectively) [adjective inflected for definite] [noun inflected for definite]." For example, "smaskig" (yummy) and "hamburgare" (hamburger – common gender) turns into "den smaskiga hamburgaren" (the yummy-definite hamburger-definite), "röd" (red) and "hus" (house – neuter gender) turns into "det röda huset" (the red-definite house-definite), and "snabb" (fast) and "bilar" (cars) turns into "de snabba bilarna" (the fast-definite cars-definite). "Den/det/de" is not optional, except often being left out in proper nouns and other lexicalized noun phrases with an adjective that are in the definite (giving "smaskiga hamburgaren" something of a "pub name" feel) – see de for examples.

The definite form of an adjective is identical to the plural form except optionally having "-e" instead of "-a" in the singular for nouns whose natural gender is masculine. For example, "lång" (tall) and "man" (man) turns into either "den långe mannen" or "den långa mannen," while "lång" (tall) and "kvinna" (woman) can only be expressed as "den långa kvinnan." Present participles – like in "den sjungande kvinnan" (the singing woman) and "de simmande fiskarna" (the swimming fishes) – do not inflect, and stay the same in indefinite, definite, singular, and plural noun phrases.

The construction above is called "double definiteness," since it can be considered redundant. It also occurs in Norwegian and Faroese, but not in Danish, where "the red house" is "det røde hus."

Related terms

  • det
  • det här
  • det där
  • den här
  • den där
  • dessa
  • de
  • dem

References

  • den in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • den in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • den in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

  • ned

Zhuang

Etymology

From Mandarin 電／电 (diàn).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /teːn˧˥/
  • Tone numbers: den5
  • Hyphenation: den

Noun

den (1957–1982 spelling den)

  1. electricity

Source: wiktionary.org