# déjà vu
## English
### Alternative forms

* deja vu

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: dā'-zhä-vo͞oʹ, IPA: /ˌdeɪ.ʒɑː ˈvuː/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

déjà vu (usually uncountable, plural déjà vus)
* 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.
* Loosely or humorously, anything one has done before or is being repeated.
    Have I done this before? Talk about déjà vu.

#### Synonyms

* promnesia

#### Derived terms

* DjVu

#### Related terms

* jamais vu
* presque vu
* déjà vu all over again

#### Translations
### Verb

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

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

déjà vu n (plural déjà vu's)
* déjà vu

### Further reading

* déjà vu on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{nl}$

## French
### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

déjà vu m (plural déjà vu)
* Alternative form of déjà-vu

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* deja vu (alternative spelling)

### Etymology

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

### Noun

déjà vu n
* déjà vu

### References

* “déjà vu” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* deja vu (alternative spelling)

### Etymology

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

### Noun

déjà vu n
* déjà vu

### References

* “déjà vu” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Polish
### Alternative forms

* deja vu

### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà-vu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dɛ.ʐaˈvi/
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

### Noun

déjà vu n (indeclinable)
* déjà vu (something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before)

### Further reading

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

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French déjà vu.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /de.ʒaˈvu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɛ.ʒaˈvu/
* (Portugal) IPA: /dɛ.ʒaˈvu/
** (Northern Portugal) IPA: /dɛ.ʒaˈbu/ [dɛ.ʒaˈβu]

### Noun

déjà vu m (uncountable)
* déjà vu (something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before)

## Swedish
### Alternative forms

* deja vu

### Noun

déjà vu c
* déjà vu
    ha/få (en) déjà vu(-upplevelse)have/get (a) déjà vu (experience)

#### Usage notes

Uninflected.

### References

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