déjà vu

• deja vu

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

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

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déjà vu (uncountable)

1. The subjective, unexpected feeling of having experienced something before, especially when that is not the case.
2. Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated.

   Have I done this before? Talk about déjà vu.

• promnesia

• jamais vu
• presque vu
• déjà vu all over again

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.

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

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déjà vu n (plural déjà vu's)

1. déjà vu

• déjà vu on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• IPA^(key): /de.ʒa vy/

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déjà vu m (plural déjà vu)

1. Alternative form of déjà-vu

• deja vu (alternative spelling)

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

déjà vu n

1. déjà vu

• vu “déjà vu” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• deja vu (alternative spelling)

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

déjà vu n

1. déjà vu

• vu “déjà vu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• deja vu

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà-vu.

• IPA^(key): /dɛ.ʐaˈvi/
• Rhymes: -avi

déjà vu n (indeclinable)

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

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

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

déjà vu m (uncountable)

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

• deja vu

déjà vu c

1. déjà vu

   ha/få (en) déjà vu(-upplevelse)

   have/get (a) déjà vu (experience)

Uninflected.

• déjà vu in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• déjà vu in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)