dus

dus

1. second-person singular present indicative of dur

• IPA^(key): [ˈdus]

dus

1. second-person singular imperative of dusit

From the pronoun du, under the influence of the obsolete verb duse (“to address informally”), which was borrowed from German duzen.

• IPA^(key): [ˈd̥us]

dus (uninflected)

1. (largely historical) in a relationship that would warrant use of the informal du, as opposed to the formal De
2. (by extension) familiar with
   • 2016, Gustav Wied, Livsens ondskab, Lindhardt og Ringhof, →ISBN:

     Men Landbruget? spurgte Degnen, der jo havde været Dus med Vorherre i femogtyve Aar, baade Hellig og Søgn og derfor tog ham med forholdsvis Ro

     But the farming? the deacon asked, who, as is known, has been intimate with our lord in twenty-five years, on the holidays as on the everydays, and who therefore took him with relative calm

   • 2016, Lars Daneskov, Far på færde, Politikens Forlag, →ISBN:

     Jeg kender mænd, der i perioder har kunnet samtlige tilbud i TV-Shop udenad og været dus med hovedpersonerne i enhver australsk sitcom sendt på en kabelkanal om natten.

     I know men who, in periods, have known all offers in TV-Shop by rote and been highly familiar with the protagonists in each Australian sitcom sent on a cable-channel in the night.

   • 1982, Det Danske bogmarked:

     De fleste af vore seriøse forlag er eller har været mere end dus med begrebet.

     Most of our serious publishers are or have been more than familiar with the concept.

   • 2011, Jesper Kaae, Gratis CMS med Joomla (2. udg), Libris Media A/S, →ISBN, page 81:

     Og faktisk skal du også helst være dus med et billedredigeringsprogram som f. eks. Photoshop.

     And in fact, you should, preferably, be familiar with an image editor like Photoshop.

The formal De is all but abandoned outside of certain very impersonal contexts, and using du is never rude.

dus

1. in the phrase drikke dus, "to introduce an informal relationship".

• Des

From Middle Dutch dos, dus, from Old Dutch thus, from Proto-West Germanic *þus.

• IPA^(key): /dʏs/

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• Hyphenation: dus
• Rhymes: -ʏs

dus

1. so, therefore, thus, ergo

Dus is an unusual adverb in that it does not trigger mandatory inversion when it is placed at the front of a clause, instead inversion is optional: dus zij is beter and dus is zij beter are both correct as fronted variants of zij is dus beter.

• Afrikaans: dus
• → Indonesian: dus
• → Sranan Tongo: dùs
  • → Caribbean Javanese: dhes

From Old Galician-Portuguese dos, equivalent to de (“of”) +‎ us (masculine plural definite article).

• dos (Mañegu)

dus m pl (singular du, feminine da, feminine plural das)

1. (Lagarteiru, Valverdeñu) of the

dus f (masculine dois)

1. (Lagarteiru) Apocopic form of dúas (“two”)

• In Lagarteiru, this apocopic form is used in place of dúas when preceding a feminine plural noun as part of a noun phrase.

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN
• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎, 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /dy/

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dus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of devoir

dus m pl

1. masculine plural of dû

• sud

• du's

• IPA^(key): /duːs/
• Hyphenation: dus

dus

1. Contraction of du es.
   • 1843, Brothers Grimm, “Der Froschkönig oder der eiserne Heinrich”, in Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Band 1‎, 5th edition, pages 3–4:

     „Königstochter, jüngste, mach mir auf, weißt du nicht was gestern du zu mir gesagt bei dem kühlen Brunnenwasser? Königstochter, jüngste, mach mir auf.“ Da sagte der König „hast dus versprochen, so mußt dus auch halten; geh nur und mach ihm auf.“

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Portuguese dois. Cognate with Kabuverdianu dos.

dus

1. two (2)

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʊs]
• Hyphenation: dus

From Dutch doos (“box”). Doublet of dosis.

dus (first-person possessive dusku, second-person possessive dusmu, third-person possessive dusnya)

1. box.

   Synonym: kardus

• dos: nonstandard Indonesian, standard Malay

From Dutch dus (“thus”).

dus

1. (colloquial) thus, so.

   Synonym: jadi

From Dutch douche (“shower”).

dus (first-person possessive dusku, second-person possessive dusmu, third-person possessive dusnya)

1. (colloquial) shower, a device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.

• “dus” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

dus

1. Romanization of ꦢꦸꦱ꧀

dus

1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of dusēt
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of dusēt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of dusēt

From Old Dutch thus, from Proto-Germanic *þus.

dus

1. thus, in this way
2. therefore

• dos

• aldus

• Dutch: dus
• Limburgish: dös

• “dus”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “dus”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

dus

1. tree

dus

1. first-person singular preterite of d'ver

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtuːs/

dūs

1. locative of don

From du (“you (singular)”), influenced by dus (Etymology 2).

dus (singular and plural dus)

1. having sufficient lack of formal distance (of interpersonal relationships)
   1. (originally) Being on terms where one may address each other with the 2nd person pronoun du, as opposed to the historically more formal De.
   2. Familiar, intimate
   3. Informal

• dis

dus m

1. inflection of duc:
   1. oblique plural
   2. nominative singular

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ziuq (“bathe”), from Proto-Austronesian *diRus (“bathe”). Doublet of dyus.

• IPA^(key): /dus/

dus

1. bath

• > Javanese: ꦢꦸꦱ꧀ (dus) (inherited)

• "dus" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Past participle of duce.

• IPA^(key): [dus]

dus n (uncountable)

1. departure

dus m or n (feminine singular dusă, masculine plural duși, feminine and neuter plural duse)

1. someone who has left and will not come back
2. dead
3. absent-minded
4. crazy

dus (past participle of duce)

1. past participle of duce

• duos (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin duōs, masculine accusative of duo.

dus m (feminine duas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) two

Only Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, and Sutsilvan have a separate feminine form; in Surmiran, dus is epicene.