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

English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:déjà vuWikipedia

Alternative forms

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  • deja vu

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/
  • Audio (General American):(file)
  • Audio (UK):(file)
  • Audio (US):(file)

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.

Synonyms

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  • promnesia

Derived terms

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  • DjVu
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  • déjà entendu
  • jamais vu
  • presque vu

Translations

[edit] something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before
  • Arabic: دِيجَا ڤُو (deja vū) Hijazi Arabic: ديجافو m (dējāfū, dējāvū)
  • Azerbaijani: dejavü
  • Chinese: Mandarin: 既視感 / 既视感 (zh) (jìshìgǎn), 似曾相識 / 似曾相识 (zh) (sìcéngxiāngshí)
  • Danish: deja-vu (da)
  • Dutch: déjà vu (nl)
  • Esperanto: deĵavuo
  • Finnish: déjà-vu (fi), entiselämys (fi)
  • French: déjà-vu (fr)
  • Galician: xa visto
  • German: Déjà-vu-Erlebnis (de) n
  • Greek: προμνησία (el) (promnisía), ντεζά βυ (el) (ntezá vy)
  • Hebrew: דז׳ה וו (he) (deja vu)
  • Icelandic: déjà vu
  • Japanese: 既視感 (ja) (きしかん, kishikan), デジャヴュ (ja) (dejavyu), デジャヴ (ja) (dejavu), デジャブ (ja) (dejabu), デジャビュ (ja) (dejabyu)
  • Korean: 데자뷔 (dejabwi), 데자뷰 (dejabyu), 기시감(旣視感) (gisigam)
  • Norwegian: Bokmål: déjà vu (no) Nynorsk: déjà vu
  • Occitan: dejà vist m
  • Persian: دژاوو (dežâvu)
  • Polish: déjà vu (pl) n
  • Portuguese: déjà vu (pt) m
  • Russian: дежавю́ (ru) n (dežavjú)
  • Spanish: déjà vu m, dejavú m
  • Swedish: déjà vu (sv), deja vu (sv)
  • Turkish: dejavu (tr), dejavü

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.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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déjà vu n (plural déjà vu's, no diminutive)

  1. déjà vu

Further reading

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  • déjà vu on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl

French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /de.ʒa vy/
  • Audio (France):(file)

Noun

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déjà vu m (invariable)

  1. alternative form of déjà-vu

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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  • deja vu (alternative spelling)

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

References

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  • “déjà vu” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Alternative forms

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  • deja vu (alternative spelling)

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

References

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  • “déjà vu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:déjà vuWikipedia pl

Alternative forms

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  • deja vu

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.

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /de.ʒaˈvu/, /de.ʒaˈvi/
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɛ.ʒaˈvu/, /dɛ.ʒaˈvi/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /dɛ.ʒaˈvu/, /dɛ.ʒaˈvi/
    • (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /dɛ.ʒaˈbu/ [dɛ.ʒaˈβu], /dɛ.ʒaˈbi/ [dɛ.ʒaˈβi]

Noun

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déjà vu m (uncountable)

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

Further reading

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  • “déjà vu”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
  • “déjà vu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

Noun

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déjà vu m (uncountable)

  1. alternative form of dejavú

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:déjà vuWikipedia sv

Alternative forms

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  • deja vu

Noun

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déjà vu c (indeclinable)

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

References

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

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