different between demand vs demander

English

Alternative forms

• demaund, demaunde (obsolete)

Etymology

From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin d?mand?, d?mand?re.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??m??nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??mænd/, /d??mænd/
• Rhymes: -??nd, -ænd
• Hyphenation: de?mand

Noun

demand (countable and uncountable, plural demands)

1. The desire to purchase goods and services.
2. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
3. A forceful claim for something.
4. A requirement.

5. An urgent request.

6. An order.
7. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.

Usage notes

One can also make demands on someone.

• See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of demand collocated with these words.

Synonyms

• (a requirement): imposition

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

demand (third-person singular simple present demands, present participle demanding, simple past and past participle demanded)

1. To request forcefully.

2. To claim a right to something.

3. To ask forcefully for information.

4. To require of someone.

5. (law) To issue a summons to court.

Synonyms

• call for

• insist
• (ask strongly): frain

Translations

Anagrams

• Dedman, Madden, damned, madden, manded

English

Alternative forms

• demaunder (obsolete)

Etymology

demand +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

demander (plural demanders)

1. One who demands

Anagrams

• damneder, mandered, redemand, remanded

French

Etymology

From Middle French demander, from Old French demander, from Latin demand?re, present active infinitive of demand?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.m??.de/

Verb

demander

1. (intransitive, followed by à) to ask (a person)

   J'ai demandé à la lune et le soleil ne le sait pas. — I asked the moon and the sun doesn't know about it. (from J'ai demandé à la lune by Indochine)

2. (transitive) to request
3. (reflexive) to wonder

Conjugation

Derived terms

• demande
• demander la lune
• demander la parole
• demandeur
• partir sans demander son reste

Related terms

• commander
• mander

See also

• poser

Further reading

• “demander” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

d?mander

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of d?mand?

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French demander.

Verb

demander

1. to ask

Conjugation

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants

• French: demander

Old French

Etymology

From Latin demand?re, present active infinitive of demand?.

Verb

demander

1. to ask

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Descendants

• English: to demand
• Middle French: demander
  • French: demander
• Norman: d'màndaïr (Guernsey), d'mander (Jersey)