English

Alternative forms

• deja vu

Noun

déjà vu ‎(uncountable)

1. Something which one has or suspects to have seen or experienced before, especially when that’s not the case.

   Have I done this before? Talk about déjà vu.

Translations

Verb

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.

Related terms

• jamais vu
• presque vu

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.ʒa.vy/

Noun

déjà vu m ‎(plural déjà vu)

1. Alternative form of déjà-vu

Norwegian

Etymology

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

Noun

déjà vu

1. déjà vu

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• deja vu, dejavu

Noun

déjà vu m (plural déjà vus)

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