different between deem vs afrikaans

English

Etymology

From Middle English d??men (“to judge; to criticize, condemn; to impose a penalty on, sentence; to direct, order; to believe, think, deem”), from Old English d?man (“to decide, decree, deem, determine, judge; to condemn, doom, sentence; to consider, examine, reckon, think; to prove; to compute, estimate; to declare, tell; to glorify, praise”), from Proto-Germanic *d?mijan? (“to judge, think”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?- (“to set, put”). The word is cognate with Danish dømme (“to judge”), Dutch doemen (“to condemn, foredoom”), North Frisian dema (“to judge, recognise”), Norwegian Bokmål dømme (“to judge”), Norwegian Nynorsk døma (“to judge”), Swedish döma (“to judge, sentence, condemn”). It is also related to doom.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /di?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dim/
• Rhymes: -i?m

Verb

deem (third-person singular simple present deems, present participle deeming, simple past and past participle deemed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence.

   Synonym: judge
2. (transitive, obsolete) To adjudge, to decree.

   Synonym: judge
3. (transitive, obsolete) To dispense (justice); to administer (law).

   Synonym: judge

4. (ditransitive) To hold in belief or estimation; to adjudge as a conclusion; to regard as being; to evaluate according to one's beliefs; to account.

   Synonyms: consider; see also Thesaurus:deem
5. (transitive, intransitive) To think, judge, or have or hold as an opinion; to decide or believe on consideration; to suppose.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

deem (plural deems)

1. An opinion, a judgment, a surmise.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Mede, deme, meed

Dutch

Alternative forms

• deim

Noun

deem m (plural demen, diminutive deemke n)

1. (Brabant) dumb person

Synonyms

• sukkel

References

• [1]

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German themu, demu, from Proto-Germanic *þammai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de?m/
  • Rhymes: -e?m

Determiner

deem m or n (unstressed dem)

1. dative of deen
2. dative of dat

Declension

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?de.??j/
• (Portugal, following a non-nasal sound) IPA^(key): [?ðe.??j]

Verb

deem

1. inflection of dar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Scots

Etymology

Scots form of English dame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dim/

Noun

deem (plural deems)

1. woman, dame
2. maid (especially a kitchen maid)

Catalan

Noun

afrikaans m (uncountable)

1. Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?f?i?kans/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /af?i?kans/

Related terms

• afrikaner

Danish

Noun

afrikaans n

1. Afrikaans (language)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??frik??ns/, [??frik??ns?]
• Rhymes: -?frik??ns
• Syllabification: af?ri?kaans

Noun

afrikaans

1. the Afrikaans language

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /af?ikans/

Noun

afrikaans m (uncountable)

1. Afrikaans (language)

German

Etymology

From Afrikaans Afrikaans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?af?i?ka?ns]
• Hyphenation: af?ri?kaans

Adjective

afrikaans (not comparable)

1. Afrikaans (language)

Declension

Further reading

• “afrikaans” in Duden online

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??frika?ns]
• Hyphenation: af?ri?kaans
• Rhymes: -a?ns

Noun

afrikaans

1. Afrikaans (language)

Declension

Italian

Noun

afrikaans m (uncountable)

1. Afrikaans (language)

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

afrikaans (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. the Afrikaans language

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

afrikaans (indeclinable) (uncountable)

1. Afrikaans (the language)

Polish

Etymology

From Afrikaans Afrikaans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /af.r?i?ka.ans/

Noun

afrikaans m inan (indeclinable)

1. Afrikaans (language)

Further reading

• afrikaans in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• afrikaans in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Noun

afrikaans n (uncountable)

1. Afrikaans (language)

Spanish

Noun

afrikaans m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of afrikáans

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Afrikaans.

Noun

afrikaans c

1. Afrikaans (language)

References

• afrikaans in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)