No. 719 in Slovenian
de
The Slovenian word "de" is a conjunction used to express purpose or to link clauses, similar to "that" in English.
In a sentence
V šoli smo se učili pesem 'De te fabula narratur'.
At school, we learned the poem 'De te fabula narratur'.
Here, 'de' is part of a Latin phrase meaning 'about' or 'concerning'.
Moja babica vedno pravi, da de ne smeš zamuditi priložnosti za smeh.
My grandmother always says that you should not miss an opportunity to laugh.
In this case, 'de' is a dialectal or colloquial simplification of 'da' or 'dati', often used in informal speech.
V remskorado de ljudje naredila skupaj.
In the council, people took actions together.
'De' could be a form derived from historical or regional linguistic influences, sometimes found in traditional or older texts.
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