dare
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English [edit]
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)
- (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
- I wouldn't dare argue with my boss.
- (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
- I dare you to kiss that girl.
- (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]
Translations [edit]
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Noun [edit]
dare (plural dares)
Translations [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
Old English darian.
Verb [edit]
dare (third-person singular simple present dares, present participle daring, simple past and past participle dared)
- (obsolete) To stare stupidly or vacantly; to gaze as though amazed or terrified. [13th-16th c.]
- (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.’
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:
Etymology 3 [edit]
Noun [edit]
dare (plural dares)
- 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.
- 1766, Richard Brookes, The art of angling, rock and sea-fishing
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
Italian [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin dare, present active infinitive of dō, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
dare
- (transitive) To give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else.
- (transitive) To yield, to bear, to give, to produce, to return.
Conjugation [edit]
| 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:
- da' + ci → dacci
- da' + gli → dagli
- da' + gli + la → dagliela
- da' + gli + le → dagliele
- da' + gli + li → daglieli
- da' + gli + lo → daglielo
- da' + le → dalle
- da' + mi → dammi
Derived terms [edit]
Noun [edit]
dare m (plural dari)
Anagrams [edit]
Japanese [edit]
Romanization [edit]
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- See だれ
Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
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