dû

See also: Appendix:Variations of "du"

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dy/

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Noun

dû m (plural dus)

1. what is owed, what is due, money's worth

Participle

dû (feminine due, masculine plural dus, feminine plural dues)

1. past participle of devoir

   Elle a dû rentrer chez elle en marchant. ― She had to walk home.

   Tu aurais dû me dire que tu ne savais pas nager.^[1] ― You should have told me that you can't swim.

References

1. Tatoeba No. 6383324

Further reading

• “dû”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

Etymology

From Latin dūrus, from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *drew-. Compare French dur.

Adjective

dû m

1. (Jersey) hard

Derived terms

• duthement

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *duHmáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰuHmás, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”). Compare Persian دود (dud).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uː

Noun

dû m

1. smoke

Related terms

• dûkêl

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• di lu (unconctraced, aulic, now rare)

• dô, rô, 'ô (prevalent in eastern dialects)
• du, do, ro, 'o, o (eye dialect)

• dù, dò, ò (hypercorrected)
• d'o, d'u (misspelled)

Etymology

From the Univerbation of di (“of, from”, preposition) +‎ u (“the”, masculine singular definite article). Doublet of di lu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [duː] (standard)
• IPA^(key): [dɔː] (dialectal)
• IPA^(key): [ɾɔː] (rhotacized dialects)

Preposition

dû

1. Contraction of di u (“of the”).

   A fera dû luni.

   The Monday market (lit. the market [of the] monday).

Inflection

Sicilian definite prepositional articles
	Masculine singular definite article	Feminine singular definite article	Masculine and feminine plural definite article
	u/lu	a/la	i/li
a	ô (older also: a lu)	â (older also: a la)	ê (older also: a li)
di	dû (older also: di lu)	dâ (older also: di la)	dî (older also: di li)
cu	cû (older also: cu lu)	câ (older also: cu la)	chî (older also: cu li)
pi	pû (older also: pi lu)	pâ (older also: pi la)	pî (older also: pi li)
nna	nnô (older also: nna lu)	nnâ (older also: nna la)	nnê (older also: nna li)
nni	nnû (older also: nni lu)	nnâ (older also: nni la)	nnî (older also: nni li)

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /də/

Pronoun

dû

1. (Wood) Alternative form of do

Inflection

Number	Person		Nominative	Objective		Possessive
				Normal	Reflexive	Determiner	Pronoun
Singular	First		ik	my	mysels	myn	mines
	Second	Informal	do/dû1	dy	dysels	dyn	dines
		Formal	jo	jo	josels	jo	jowes
	Third	Masculine	hy	him	himsels	syn	sines
		Feminine	sy/hja1	har	harsels	har	harres
		Neuter	it	it	himsels	syn	sines
Plural	First		wy	ús	ússels	ús	uzes
	Second		jim(me)	jim(me)	jimsels/jinsels	jim(me)	jimmes
	Third		sy/hja1	har(ren)	harsels	har(ren)	harres
1. Now mostly archaic and unused

West Frisian personal pronouns

Zazaki

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *duHmáh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰuHmás, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuh₂mós (“smoke”). Cognate with Persian دود (dud).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʉ]
• Hyphenation: dû

Noun

dû m

1. smoke