dare

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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɛə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɛ(ə)ɹ/
• Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
• Homophones: dear, deer (both cheer–chair merger)

Etymology 1

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”).

Verb

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).
2. (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something).
3. (transitive) To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to.
4. (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
5. (archaic, transitive) To drive larks to the ground by scaring them (for instance, with mirrors or hawks) so they can be caught in nets.

Usage notes

• 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

Translations

See also

• Appendix:English modal verbs

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• dairous
• dareful

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English daren, from Old English darian.

Verb

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. [16^thc.]
2. (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear. [16^thc.]

Etymology 3

Noun

dare (plural dares)

1. A small fish, the dace

References

Anagrams

• 'eard, Dear, Rade, Read, Reda, ared, dear, rade, read

Crimean Tatar

Noun

dare

1. (music) tambourine

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdarɛ]

Noun

dare

1. vocative singular of dar

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /daʁ/

Interjection

dare

1. quick

Related terms

• dare-dare

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.re/
• Rhymes: -are
• Hyphenation: dà‧re

Verb

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 [with del] [with al]

   il bue che dà del cornuto all'asino ― the pot calling the kettle black (literally, “the ox calling the donkey horned”)

   dare del tu ― to thou

4. (transitive, vulgar, slang) chiefly in the form darla: acquiesce to a sexual intercourse

Usage notes

• It is customary to write a grave accent on some forms of the indicative present, to distinguish them from homographs:
  • compulsory dò (I give), contrasting with do (C musical note)
  • rarely dài (you give), contrasting with dai (from the)
  • compulsory dà (he/she/it gives), contrasting with da (from)
  • rarely dànno (they give), contrasting with danno (damage)
• The imperative forms of the second-person singular are compounded with pronouns as follows:
  • da' + ci → dacci
    • ... + lo → daccelo
    • ... + la → dacceli
    • ... + le → daccele
    • ... + ne → daccene
  • da' + gli → dagli
  • da' + gli/le + la → dagliela
  • da' + gli/le + le → dagliele
  • da' + gli/le + li → daglieli
  • da' + gli/le + lo → daglielo
  • da' + gli/le + ne → dagliene
  • da' + le → dalle
  • da' + mi → dammi
    • ... + lo → dammelo
    • ... + la → dammeli
    • ... + le → dammele
    • ... + ne → dammene

Conjugation

Including lesser-used forms:

Derived terms

Noun

dare m (plural dari)

1. debit

Anagrams

• arde, rade, reda

Japanese

Romanization

dare

1. Rōmaji transcription of だれ

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈda.re/, [ˈd̪ärɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈda.re/, [ˈd̪äːre]

Verb

dare

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

Leonese

Etymology

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

Verb

dare

1. to give

References

• AEDLL

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

dare ? (plural dares)

1. (continental Normandy, anatomy) belly, stomach

Synonyms

• ventre (Jersey, Guernsey), vãtr (Sark)

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɑ.re/

Noun

dare

1. inflection of daru:
   1. nominative plural
   2. accusative singular/plural
   3. genitive/dative singular

Romanian

Etymology

From da +‎ -re.

Noun

dare f (plural dări)

1. giving
2. tax

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

dare (Cyrillic spelling даре)

1. vocative singular of dȃr

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdare]

Noun

dare m

1. locative singular of dar

Venetan

Etymology

From Latin dare.

Verb

dare

1. to give

References

• [2]

West Makian

Etymology

May be related to Ternate doro.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪a.re/

Verb

dare

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

Conjugation

References

• James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary‎^[3], Pacific linguistics

Zazaki

Pronunciation

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

Noun

dare

1. tree