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English

Etymology 1

Middle English from Old Norse deyja

Pronunciation

Verb (usually intransitive)

Past tense and participle: died; Present participle: dying

  1. To stop living. To turn dead. To undergo death.

Translations

  • Breton: mervel radical marv-
  • Chinese Characters:
  • Chinese: (sǐ)
  • Czech: umřít
  • Dutch: doodgaan, sterven
  • Esperanto: morti
  • Finnish: kuolla
  • French: mourir
  • Frisian: deagean, ferstjerre, stjerre
  • German: sterben
  • Guaraní: mano/e'õ (t-)
  • Hebrew: למות
  • Interlingua: morir
  • Italian: morire
  • Japanese: 死ぬ (しぬ; shinu)
  • Korean: 죽다 (jukda)
  • Latin: mori
  • Portuguese: morrer
  • Polish: umierać imperf, umrzeć perf
  • Russian: умереть
  • Slovak: umrieť, skonať, pominúť sa,
  • Spanish: morir
  • Swedish: dö, (dog, dött)
  • Tupinambá: manõ/e'õ (t-)


Etymology 2

Middle English from Old French

Pronunciation

Noun

Plural: dice

  1. The cubical part of a pedestal, a plinth
    Translations
    • Dutch: voet, plint
    • Interlingua: plyntho, socculo
    • Portuguese: plinto m, soclo m, soco m
  2. A polyhedron, usually a cube, with numbers or symbols on each side and used in games of chance
    Translations
    • Breton: diñs m -où pl
    • Chinese: 骰子 (shaizi)
    • Dutch: dobbelsteen, teerling (old)
    • Finnish: noppa, arpakuutio
    • French: dé m
    • Frisian: dobbelstien
    • German: Würfel
    • Hebrew: קוביה
    • Interlingua: dato
    • Italian: dado m
    • Japanese: 賽子, 骰子 (さいころ)
    • Polish: kość f, kostka f
    • Portuguese: dado m
    • Spanish: dado m
    • Swedish: tärning

Plural: dies

  1. A device for cutting into a specified shape
    Translations
    • Dutch: mal, matrijs, vorm
    • Finnish: muotti, stanssi
  2. An embossed device used in stamping coins and medals
    Translations
    • Dutch: stempel
    • Finnish: leimasin
    • Interlingua: cuneo
    • Portuguese: cunho m

Dutch

/di:/

  1. demonstrative pronoun, masculine or feminine referring to a thing or a person, farther away: that, him, her (cp. deze, and dat/dit).
  2. demonstrative adjective, referring to a thing or a person: that, which, who.

Usage note: a preceding comma may alter the meaning of a clause starting with a demonstrative adjective.

De jonge vrouw, die de schoen past, zal ik huwen vs. De jonge vrouw die de schoen past, zal ik huwen: the young woman, whom the shoe (incidentally) fits, I will marry, vs. the (first) young woman whom the shoe fits I will marry.

Examples

  1. die boom: that tree; die jongen; that boy.

Translations

Relative pronoun

Examples

  1. Ik ken iemand die dat kan: I know somebody who can do that.

Translations


German

Adjective

die

  1. The definite article, used with plural or feminine singular nouns, the.

Relative pronoun

  1. In a subordinate clause, indicates a person or thing referenced in the main clause. Used with plural or feminine singular referents.
    Ich kenne eine Frau, die dass kann: I know a woman who can do that.

Translations


Latin

Noun

  1. Ablative singular of dies meaning day.

Expressions

  1. Sine die: Without a day

pl:die

mlingks

мне /mn'e/ (me) и Мане

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The noun "die" has three senses: The verb "die" has eleven senses:

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