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déjà vu

See also: dejavu, dejavú, deja vu, déjà-vu, and Déjà-vu

English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

Pronunciation

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  • enPR: dā'-zhä-vo͞oʹ, IPA(key): /ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/
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Noun

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déjà vu (usually uncountable, plural déjà vus)

  1. The subjective, unexpected feeling of having experienced something before, especially when that is not the case.
    • 1996, José Argüelles, “The Secret Time Sharers and the Discovery of the Pulsar Code”, in The Arcturus Probe: Tales and Reports of an Ongoing Investigation, Flagstaff, Ariz.: Light Technology Publishing, →ISBN, part one (Launching the Probe), page 11:
      Why did some déjà vus pattern or pulse at certain peak moments and not others?
    • 2005, Lynn Kurland, chapter 27, in Dreams of Stardust, New York, N.Y.: Jove Books, →ISBN, page 271:
      He had to get back. Soon. All these déjà vus were killing him.
    • 2008, Francine Prose, chapter 4, in Goldengrove: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: HarperLuxe, →ISBN, page 83:
      A few times she mentioned that she’d been having constant déjà vus. She hoped it wasn’t a symptom of a tumor or early-onset dementia.
  2. Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated.
    Have I done this before? Talk about déjà vu.

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Verb

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déjà vu (third-person singular simple present déjà vues, present participle déjà vuing, simple past and past participle déjà vued)

  1. (colloquial, intransitive) To experience déjà vu; to see (something) as though having seen it before.
    • 2008, Darren Lamere, Eerily Familiar:
      Still deja vuing, I said, “Jinx. You owe me a Coke.”
    • 2011, Neil Gaiman, American Gods (Tenth Anniversary Edition), William Morrow 2011, p. 139:
      Trees looked familiar, moments of landscape were perfectly déjà-vued.

Dutch

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

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Noun

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déjà vu n (plural déjà vu's)

  1. déjà vu

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French

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déjà vu m (plural déjà vu)

  1. Alternative form of déjà-vu

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French déjà vu, from déjà (“already”), + vu (“seen”), past participle of voir (“to see”).

Noun

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déjà vu n

  1. déjà vu

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French déjà vu, from déjà (“already”), + vu (“seen”), past participle of voir (“to see”).

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déjà vu n

  1. déjà vu

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Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia pl

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French déjà-vu.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɛ.ʐaˈvi/
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Noun

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déjà vu n (indeclinable)

  1. déjà vu (something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before)

Further reading

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  • déjà vu in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • déjà vu in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

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déjà vu m (uncountable)

  1. déjà vu (something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before)

Swedish

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déjà vu c

  1. déjà vu
    ha/få (en) déjà vu(-upplevelse)
    have/get (a) déjà vu (experience)

Usage notes

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Uninflected.

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