different between dare vs durst

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?(?)?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English durren, from Old English durran, from Proto-Germanic *durzan? (“to dare”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?ed?órse (“to dare”), reduplicated stative of the root *d?ers- (“to be bold, to dare”), an *-s- extension of *d?er- (“to hold, support”). Cognate with Low German dören, Dutch durven, Sanskrit ????? (dadhár?a), but also with Ancient Greek ?????? (thrasús), Albanian nder, Lithuanian dr?sti, Russian ???????? (derzát?).

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To have enough courage (to do something).
   • 1832, Thomas Macaulay, Parliamentary Reform

     Why then did not the ministers use their new law? Because they durst not, because they could not.

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

   Will you dare death to reach your goal?

   • 1886, Clarence King, article in The Century

     To wrest it from barbarism, to dare its solitudes.

4. (transitive) To terrify; to daunt.
   • c.1609 , Beaumont and Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (playwright), "The Maid's Tragedy", [Act IV, Scene I]:

     For I have done those follies, those mad mischiefs, Would dare a woman.

5. (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.

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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)

1. A challenge to prove courage.
2. The quality of daring; venturesomeness; boldness.
3. Defiance; challenge.

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)

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.

Anagrams

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

Crimean Tatar

Noun

dare

1. (music) tambourine

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dar?]

Noun

dare

1. vocative singular of dar

Italian

Etymology

From Latin dare, present active infinitive of d?, from Proto-Italic *did?, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh?ti, from the root *deh?- (“give”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da.re/
• Rhymes: -are

Verb

dàre (first-person singular present (with following syntactic gemination) dò or (with written accent, with following syntactic gemination) dò, first-person singular past historic dièdi or dètti, past participle dàto, first-person singular present subjunctive dìa, first-person singular imperfect subjunctive déssi, second-person singular imperative dai or da' or (with written accent, with following syntactic gemination) dà, auxiliary avere) (transitive)

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

Usage notes

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

• da' + ci ? dacci
• da' + gli ? dagli
• da' + gli/le + la ? dagliela
• da' + gli/le + le ? dagliele
• da' + gli/le + li ? daglieli
• da' + gli/le + lo ? daglielo
• da' + le ? dalle
• da' + mi ? dammi

Conjugation

Derived terms

Noun

dare m (plural dari)

1. debit

Anagrams

• arde
• rade

Japanese

Romanization

dare

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?da.re/, [?d?ä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?da.re/, [?d?????]

Verb

dare

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

Leonese

Etymology

From Latin dare, present active infinitive of d?, from Proto-Italic *did?, from Proto-Indo-European *dédeh?ti, from the root *deh?- (“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)

Romanian

Etymology

da +? -re

Noun

dare f (plural d?ri)

1. giving

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

dare (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. vocative singular of dar

Slovak

Noun

dare

1. locative singular of dar

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d????/
• Hyphenation: da?re

Noun

dare f

1. tree

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?st/
• Rhymes: -??(?)st

Verb

durst

1. (archaic, literary) simple past tense of dare
   • Traditional rhyme

     Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail; the best man among them durst not touch her tail.

   • 1595, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream Act 2, Scene 2, lines 82-83

     Pretty soul! She durst not lie / Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy.

   • 1634, John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen Act 3, Scene 2

     That thou durst, Arcite!

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book I, line 49

     Who durst defy th' omnipotent to arms.

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 6, Monk Samson

     Coming home, therefore, I sat me down secretly under the Shrine of St. Edmund, fearing lest our Lord Abbot should seize and imprison me, though I had done no mischief; nor was there a monk who durst speak to me, nor a laic who durst bring me food except by stealth.

   • 1883: Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

     Captain Smollett, the squire, and Dr. Livesey were talking together on the quarter-deck, and, anxious as I was to tell them my story, I durst not interrupt them openly.

   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad, XXX, lines 1-2:

     Others, I am not the first,

     Have willed more mischief than they durst

Usage notes

• The second-person singular (thou being the subject) no longer adds -est (as it did in Early Modern English).

Derived terms

• durstn't/dursn't/dursen't

Anagrams

• turds