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däin

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See also: dain, daein, dáin, and dàin

Luxembourgish

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Etymology

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From Middle High German dīn, from Old High German dīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn. Cognate with German dein, archaic English thine, West Frisian dyn, Icelandic þinn.

Pronunciation

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Determiner

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däin m or n (feminine deng, plural deng)

  1. your (singular)
    Däin Auto ass méi séier wéi mäin.
    Your car is faster than mine.

Usage notes

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  • As per the Eifel Rule, the final -n is lost when the following word begins with a consonant other than ⟨d⟩, ⟨h⟩, ⟨n⟩, ⟨t⟩, or ⟨z⟩.

See also

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Saterland Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (to do)). Cognates include German getan and Dutch gedaan.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɛɪ̯n/
  • Hyphenation: däin

Verb

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däin (inflected däine)

  1. past participle of dwo; done

Adjective

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däin (masculine däinen, feminine, plural or definite däine)

  1. done
  2. finished

References

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  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “däin”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN