däin

See also: dain, daein, dáin, and dàin

Luxembourgish

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /dæi̯n/, [dæˑɪ̯n]
• Rhymes: -æːɪn

Determiner

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

• 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

Luxembourgish possessive pronouns

				nominative / accusative				dative
				singular possessum			plural possessum	singular possessum			plural possessum
				m	f	n		m	f	n
singular possessor	1st person			mäin	meng	mäin	meng	mengem	menger	mengem	mengen
	2nd person	informal		däin	deng	däin	deng	dengem	denger	dengem	dengen
		formal		Ären	Är	Äert	Är	Ärem	Ärer	Ärem	Ären
	3rd person		m or n	säin	seng	säin	seng	sengem	senger	sengem	sengen
			f	hiren	hir	hiert	hir	hirem	hirer	hirem	hiren
plural possessor	1st person			eisen	eis	eist	eis	eisem	eiser	eisem	eisen
	2nd person			ären	är	äert	är	ärem	ärer	ärem	ären
	3rd person			hiren	hir	hiert	hir	hirem	hirer	hirem	hiren

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

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

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

Verb

däin (inflected däine)

1. past participle of dwo; done

Adjective

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

1. done
2. finished

References

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