dass

See also daß

English

Etymology

Compare dare, darest, dast.

Verb

dass (third-person singular simple present dasses, present participle dassing, simple past and past participle dassed)

1. (archaic) To dare.
   • 1890, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Timothy's Quest, page 58:

     We all looked at one 'nother, 'n' I thought for a second somebody 'd laugh, but nobody dassed, 'n' there warn'ta sound in the room 's Aunt Beccy sot down agin' without movin' a muscle in her face.

   • 1904, Henry A. Shute, Sequil Or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First, page 8:

     Gim scrached a line in the dirt and told Will not to dass to step over it and then Will put a chip on his sholeder and told Gim not to dass to nock it off

   • 1907, Lawrence Mott, To the credit of the sea, page 72:

     "Ay, an' lost me th' ship, 'cause I'd never dassed take her wi' only twenty barrel o' bait, 'f I'd knowed th' new law. I hain't got much money, Mr. Burberry, an' there's the missils an' kiddies to house an' dress an' feed.

   • 1907, Mabel Osgood Wright, Gray lady and the birds: stories of the bird year for home and school, page 41:

     You weren't smart to refuse; you could have had a peep inside the General's house, maybe, and I don't believe she'd dassed said a word about birds on hats, with one of the company wearing 'em!

   • 1933, Sammy Lerner, theme from Popeye the Sailor:

     "If anyone dasses to risk my fist, it's Boff! and it's Wham! Understand?"

See also

• dassn't
• dast

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German

Alternative forms

• daß (old spelling)
• dat (nonstandard, colloquial, dialectal)

Etymology

Old High German daz, originally dat

Pronunciation

• IPA: /das/
• Homophone: das
• Rhymes: -as

Conjunction

dass

1. (subordinating) that, it (logical conditional)

   Ich habe gehört, dass du krank seist. – I was told that you were sick.

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Norwegian

Etymology

From German das Haus or Häuschen ("The (little) house", euphemistically omitting the main word (out)house).

Noun

dass

1. (colloquial) toilet, crapper
2. (pejorative) a jerk

   Din dass!

   You jerk!

Inflection

    Inflection of dass

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	dass	dassen	dasser	dassene
Bokmål n	dass	dasset	dass/dasser	dassa/dassene
Nynorsk m	dass	dassen	dassar	dassane
Nynorsk n	dass	dasset	dass	dassa [dassi]

Synonyms

• (toilet): do, toalett

Compounds

• utedass

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Swedish

Etymology

Contraction of German “das Haus” (the house)

Noun

dass n

1. (colloquial) a toilet, an outhouse; in particular used about toilets outdoors

Declension

Declension of dass

	singular		plural
Neuter	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dass	dasset	dass	dassen
genitive	dass	dassets	dass	dassens

Synonyms

• avträde
• hemlighus
• utedass