English Online Dictionary. What means dare? What does dare mean?
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɛə(ɹ)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dɛ(ə)ɹ/
- Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
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)
- (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
- (transitive) To defy or challenge (someone to do something)
- (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?
- (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
- (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
- 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 exists 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 1830s, 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)
- A challenge to prove courage.
- The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
- Defiance; challenge.
- (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, from Old English darian.
Verb
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. [16thc.]
- (obsolete) To lie or crouch down in fear. [16thc.]
Etymology 3
Noun
dare (plural dares)
- A small fish, the dace
References
Anagrams
- 'eard, Dear, Rade, Read, Reda, ared, dear, rade, read
Crimean Tatar
Noun
dare
- (music) tambourine
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdarɛ]
Noun
dare
- vocative singular of dar
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daʁ/
Interjection
dare
- quick
Related terms
- dare-dare
Italian
Etymology
From Latin dāre, 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)
- to give (to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else)
- to yield, to bear, to produce, to return
- (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
Usage notes
- The imperative forms of the second-person singular are compounded with pronouns as follows:
- dà + ci → dacci
- dà + gli → dagli
- dà + gli/le + la → dagliela
- dà + gli/le + le → dagliele
- dà + gli/le + li → daglieli
- dà + gli/le + lo → daglielo
- dà + le → dalle
- dà + mi → dammi
Conjugation
Including lesser-used forms:
Derived terms
Noun
dare m (plural dari)
- debit
Anagrams
- arde, rade, reda
Japanese
Romanization
dare
- Rōmaji transcription of だれ
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈda.re/, [ˈd̪ärɛ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈda.re/, [ˈd̪äːre]
Verb
dare
- inflection of dō:
- present active infinitive
- second-person singular present passive imperative
Leonese
Etymology
From Latin dare, present active infinitive of dō, from Proto-Italic *didō, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh₃ti, from the root *deh₃- (“give”).
Verb
dare
- 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)
- (continental Normandy, anatomy) belly, stomach
Synonyms
- ventre (Jersey, Guernsey), vãtr (Sark)
Romanian
Etymology
da + -re
Noun
dare f (plural dări)
- giving
- tax
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
dȃr (Cyrillic spelling да̑р)
- vocative singular of dȃr
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈdare]
Noun
dare m
- locative singular of dar
Venetian
Etymology
From Latin dare.
Verb
dare
- to give
References
- [1]
West Makian
Etymology
May be related to Ternate doro.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈd̪a.re/
Verb
dare
- (transitive) to fall (from a height)
Conjugation
References
- James Collins (1982) Further Notes Towards a West Makian Vocabulary[2], Pacific linguistics
Zazaki
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɑˈɾə/
- Hyphenation: da‧re
Noun
dare
- tree