das Leute
noun · /ˈlɔʏ̯tə/ ·Etymology
From Middle High German liute, from Old High German liuti, also liudi, from Proto-West Germanic *liud(i), from Proto-Germanic *liudīz (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lewdʰ- (“man, people”). Compare Dutch lieden, luden, luiden, Old Norse lýðir (“people”) (whence Icelandic lýður), Old Saxon liudi, Old English lēode (“people”), English lede (“people”), Gothic *𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌸𐍃 (*liuþs), Polish ludzie, Serbo-Croatian ljȗdi, Slovene ljudjẹ̑, Bulgarian люде (ljude), Russian люди (ljudi). More at leod and Proto-Slavic *ľudьje.
Translation
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people (several individual persons, a group of people in general, esp. of one kind or another), folk (folks), peeps (slang), guys (boys and/or girls)
plural, plural-only
Gleich den andern Tag schicketen wir zween Leute mit der Post fort:
Note: The work also has masculine zween Theile, zween Zoll, zween Beobachter, feminine zwo oder drey Linien, zwo neue Wahrheiten, neuter zwey Stücke, zwey kleine Glasfenster.
Declension
| Case | Plural |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Leute |
| Accusative | Leute |
| Dative | Leuten |
| Genitive | Leute |