dare

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See also: Dare, DARE, daré, darė, darë, dåre, and даре

English[edit]

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Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-West Germanic *durʀan, from Proto-Germanic *durzaną (“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰórse (“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *dʰers- (“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *dʰer- (“to hold, support”).

Cognates
Cognate with Low German dören, Dutch durven, German turren, Sanskrit दधर्ष (dadhárṣa), but also with Ancient Greek θρασύς (thrasús), Albanian nder, Lithuanian drįsti, Russian дерза́ть (derzátʹ).

Verb[edit]

dare (third-person singular simple present dare or dares or (archaic) dast, present participle daring, simple past and past participle dared or (archaic) durst)

  1. (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
    I wouldn't dare (to) argue with my boss.
  2. (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
    I dare you to kiss that girl.
  3. (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to
    Will you dare death to reach your goal?
    • 1886, Clarence King, The Century:
      To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
  4. (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
  5. (transitive) To catch (larks) by producing terror through the use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them.
Usage notes[edit]
  • Dare is a semimodal verb. When used as an auxiliary, the speaker can choose whether to use do-support and the auxiliary "to" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go", "I dare not go", "I didn't dare (to) go", and "I dared not go" are all correct. Similarly "Dare you go?", "Do you dare (to) go?", "Dared you go?", and "Did you dare (to) go?" are all correct. When not an auxiliary verb, it is different: "I dared him to do it." usually is not written as "I dared him do it.", and "Did you dare him to do it?" is almost never written as "Dared you him do it?"
  • In negative and interrogative sentences where "do" is not used, the third-person singular form of the verb is usually "dare" and not "dares": "Dare he go? He dare not go."
  • Colloquially, "dare not" can be contracted to "daren't". According to the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, "daren’t" is used occasionally in ordinary past time contexts (Kim daren’t tell them so I had to do it myself).
  • Rare regional forms dassn't and dasn't also exist in the present tense, and archaic forms dursn't and durstn't in the past tense.
  • The expression dare say, used almost exclusively in the first-person singular and in the present tense, means "think probable". It is also spelt daresay.
  • Historically, the simple past of dare was durst. In the first half of the 19th century it was overtaken by dared, which has been markedly more common ever since.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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See also[edit]

Noun[edit]

dare (plural dares)

  1. A challenge to prove courage.
  2. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
  3. Defiance; challenge.
  4. (games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to perform a dare set by the other players.
    When asked truth or dare, she picked dare.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English, from Old English darian.

Verb[edit]

dare (third-person singular simple present dares, present participle daring, simple past and past participle dared)

  1. (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified. [16thc.]
  2. (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear. [16thc.]

Etymology 3[edit]

Noun[edit]

dare (plural dares)

  1. A small fish, the dace[1]
    • 1766, Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing:
      The Dare is not unlike a Chub, but proportionably less; his Body is more white and flatter, and his Tail more forked.

References[edit]

  1. ^ “dare”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams[edit]

Crimean Tatar[edit]

Noun[edit]

dare

  1. (music) tambourine

Czech[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dare

  1. vocative singular of dar

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Interjection[edit]

dare

  1. quick

Related terms[edit]

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin dare, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

dàre (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) dò, first-person singular past historic dièdi or diédi or détti or (traditional) dètti, past participle dàto, first-person singular future darò, first-person singular subjunctive dìa, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive déssi, second-person singular imperative dài or dà', auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to give (to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else)
  2. to yield, to bear, to produce, to return
  3. (ditransitive) to name, to call, to refer to [+ del (object)] [+ al (object)]
    Il bue che dà del cornuto all’asino ― The ox who calls the donkey horned
  4. (transitive, vulgar, slang) chiefly in the form "darla": acquiesce to a sexual intercourse

Usage notes[edit]

Conjugation[edit]

    Conjugation of dàre (-are; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive dàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund dàndo
present participle dànte past participle dàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present dò1 dài dà1,2 diàmo dàte dànno
imperfect dàvo dàvi dàva davàmo davàte dàvano
past historic dièdi, diédi, détti, dètti3 désti diède, diéde, détte, dètte3 démmo déste dièdero, diédero, déttero, dèttero3
future darò darài darà darémo daréte darànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present darèi darésti darèbbe, darébbe darémmo daréste darèbbero, darébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present dìa dìa dìa diàmo diàte dìano
imperfect déssi déssi désse déssimo déste déssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
dài, dà' dìa diàmo dàte dìano
negative imperative non dàre non dìa non diàmo non dàte non dìano

1With syntactic gemination after the verb.
2With written accent.
3Traditional.

Including lesser-used forms:

    Conjugation of dàre (-are; irregular) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive dàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund dàndo
present participle dànte past participle dàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present dò1 dài dà1,2 diàmo dàte dànno
imperfect dàvo dàvi dàva davàmo davàte dàvano
past historic dièdi, diédi, détti, dètti4 désti diède, diéde, détte, dètte4, diè5 démmo déste dièdero, diédero, déttero, dèttero4, dièro5
future darò darài darà darémo daréte darànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present darèi darésti darèbbe, darébbe darémmo daréste darèbbero, darébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present dìa dìa dìa diàmo diàte dìano
imperfect déssi déssi désse déssimo déste déssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
dài, dà', dà1,2,3 dìa diàmo dàte dìano
negative imperative non dàre non dìa non diàmo non dàte non dìano

1With syntactic gemination after the verb.
2With written accent.
3Disused.
4Traditional.
5Poetic.

Derived terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

dare m (plural dari)

  1. debit

Anagrams[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

dare

  1. Rōmaji transcription of だれ

Latin[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

dare

  1. inflection of dō:
    1. present active infinitive
    2. second-person singular present passive imperative

Leonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin dare, present active infinitive of dō, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).

Verb[edit]

dare

  1. to give

References[edit]

Norman[edit]

Etymology[edit]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun[edit]

dare ? (plural dares)

  1. (continental Normandy, anatomy) belly, stomach

Synonyms[edit]

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From da +‎ -re.

Noun[edit]

dare f (plural dări)

  1. giving
  2. tax

Declension[edit]

Declension of dare
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (o) dare darea (niște) dări dările
genitive/dative (unei) dări dării (unor) dări dărilor
vocative dare, dareo dărilor

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Noun[edit]

dare (Cyrillic spelling даре)

  1. vocative singular of dȃr

Slovak[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

dare m

  1. locative singular of dar

Venetian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin dare.

Verb[edit]

dare

  1. to give

References[edit]

West Makian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

May be related to Ternate doro.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

dare

  1. (transitive) to fall (from a height)

Conjugation[edit]

Conjugation of dare (action verb)
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person tadare madare adare
2nd person nadare fadare
3rd person inanimate idare dadare
animate
imperative nadare, dare fadare, dare

References[edit]

  • James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎[2], Pacific linguistics

Zazaki[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /dɑˈɾə/
  • Hyphenation: da‧re

Noun[edit]

dare

  1. tree
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