dare

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English [edit]

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Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Old English durran, from Proto-Germanic *durzaną, from Proto-Indo-European. Cognate with Ancient Greek θαρσεῖν, Lithuanian drįsti.

Verb [edit]

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

  1. (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
    I wouldn't dare 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?
    • The Century
      To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.
Usage notes [edit]
  • Dare is a semi-modal verb. The speaker can choose whether to use the auxiliary "to" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go" and "I dare not go" are both correct. Similarly "Dare you go?" and "Do you dare (to) go?" are both correct.
  • 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".
  • 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 is durst, however modern English usage prefers dared.
Derived terms [edit]
terms derived from dare (verb)
Translations [edit]
to have courage
to defy or challenge
to brave or face up to
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Noun [edit]

dare (plural dares)

  1. A challenge to prove courage.
Translations [edit]
a challenge

Etymology 2 [edit]

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. [13th-16th c.]
  2. (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear. [13th-16th c.]
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:
      ‘Sir, here bene knyghtes com of kyngis blod that woll nat longe droupe and dare within thys wallys.’

Etymology 3 [edit]

Noun [edit]

dare (plural dares)

  1. A small fish, the dace.
    • 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Anagrams [edit]

Crimean Tatar [edit]

Noun [edit]

dare

  1. (music) tambourine

Italian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin dare, present active infinitive of dō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

dare

  1. (transitive) To give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else.
  2. (transitive) To yield, to bear, to give, to produce, to return.

Conjugation [edit]

    Conjugation of dare
infinitive dare
auxiliary verb avere gerund dando
present participle dante past participle dato
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei noi voi essi/esse
present do dai dà diamo date danno
imperfect davo davi dava davamo davate davano
past historic diedi, detti desti diede, dette demmo deste diedero, dettero
future darò darai darà daremo darete daranno
conditional io tu lui/lei noi voi essi/esse
present darei daresti darebbe daremmo dareste darebbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei che noi che voi che essi/che esse
present dia dia dia diamo diate diano
imperfect dessi dessi desse dessimo deste dessero
imperative - tu lui/lei noi voi essi/esse
dà, dai, da' dia diamo date diano

Usage notes [edit]

The imperative forms of the second-person singular are compounded with pronouns as follows:

Derived terms [edit]

derived terms

Noun [edit]

dare m (plural dari)

  1. debit

Anagrams [edit]

Japanese [edit]

Romanization [edit]

dare

  1. See だれ

Latin [edit]

Verb [edit]

dare

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