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dere

Pronunciation: /ˈdeːrə/

“dere” is a Norwegian Bokmål word. Its meaning in English:

pronoun

  1. you (second-person plural subject and object pronoun)

Etymology

Principally from eastern dialectal Norwegian der, dere, object form of de (/di, de/, “you”). This latter is from Middle Norwegian ther, *thi, from Old Norse þér, *þīʀ, þit, themselves from ér, īʀ, it (see these) with initial þ- by rebracketing of the conjugational suffix -ið of preceding verbs. By analogy, the same onset was given to the object form yðr, iðr, yielding *þyðr, *þiðr, whence the…

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