Sentence examples for det from inspiring English sources

The word "the" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a particular thing or group, such as an object that is already known, or to introduce a new term. For example, "The dog barked" or "The Amazon rainforest is home to a variety of plants and animals."

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det

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Diethyltryptamine

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In Danish, it is det er mig ("it is me"), using the accusative pronoun, not det er jeg ("it is I").

Jan Kjærstad's breakthrough novel Homo Falsus; eller, det perfekte mord (1984; "Homo Falsus; or, The Perfect Murder") exhibited postmodern features; his three-part "biography" of a fictional television celebrity, Jonas Wergeland, demonstrated how a skillful application of postmodernist strategies could lead to an exciting, multidimensional portrait of not just an individual but an entire epoch.

The prose Derovre fra Grænsen (1877; "From Over the Border") and the verse fairy tale Prinsessen og det Halve Kongerige (1878; "The Princess and Half the Kingdom"), demonstrated a patriotic and romantic trend that brought him into conflict with the Brandes group.

Her feature film debut in Till det som är vackert (Pure, 2009) resulted in a Guldbagge Award for best actress.

His first books were the sea poems Rundt Kap det Gode Haab (1922; Around the Cape of Good Hope), influenced by Rudyard Kipling, and the novel Skibet gaar videre (1924; The Ship Sails On), which deals realistically with the sailor's life.

The manifesto of new ideas was an essay published in 1890 in the periodical Samtiden ("The Present Age") by Knut Hamsun, "Fra det ubevidste sjæleliv" ("From the Unconscious Life of the Mind"), which demanded attention to what was individual and idiosyncratic rather than typical.

Two years later there appeared the Undersøgelse om det gamle Nordiske eller Islandske Sprogs Oprindelse (Investigation of the Origin of the Old Norse or Icelandic Language), by the Danish philologist Rasmus Rask, completed in 1814.

(5) A definite article is indicated by a form before the adjective and a suffix after the noun ("double definite"), except in Icelandic and Danish (e.g., in Norwegian and Swedish det store [stora] huset 'the big house,' both det and -et in huset mean 'the,' in Danish the suffix -et is not used: det store hus).

Ethnic estrangement in sitcom-inspired depictions of social relations was a technique successfully used in first novels by the ethnic Pole Zbigniew Kuklartz in Hjälp jag heter Zbigniew and Iranian-born Marjaneh Bakhtiari in Kalla det vad fan du vill.

Speaking at the time, Det Insp Tommy Crombie, drugs co-ordinator at the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland, warned: "PMMA and other harmful substances could be present in many illicit drugs including powders, products sold as legal highs and ecstasy tablets in all sorts of colours and with all sorts of logos.

Det Sgt Jon Saxby said: "These sentences reflect the seriousness of these offences – organised, professional thieves who stole lorries and lorry loads to sell on.

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