different between encourage vs harten

English

Alternative forms

• incourage (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English encouragen, encoragen, from Anglo-Norman encoragier, from Old French encoragier from en- +? corage "courage". Displaced native Middle English belden, bielden (“to encourage”) (from Old English bieldan (“to encourage”)), Middle English bealden, balden (“to encourage”) (from Old English bealdian (“to encourage, make bold”)), Middle English herten (“to encourage, enhearten”) (from Old English hiertan, hyrtan (“to enhearten”)), Old English elnian (“to encourage, strengthen”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?k???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?k???d?/
• Hyphenation: en?cour?age

Verb

encourage (third-person singular simple present encourages, present participle encouraging, simple past and past participle encouraged) (transitive)

1. To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.

   I encouraged him during his race.

2. To spur on, strongly recommend.

   We encourage the use of bicycles in the town centre.

3. To foster, give help or patronage

   The royal family has always encouraged the arts in word and deed

Synonyms

• bield
• embolden

Antonyms

• becourage
• discourage

Derived terms

• encouragement
• encouraging
• encouragingly

Related terms

• courage

Translations

French

Verb

encourage

1. inflection of encourager:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. singular imperative

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h??(?)t?n/

Verb

harten (third-person singular simple present hartens, present participle hartening, simple past and past participle hartened)

1. Obsolete spelling of hearten

   • Her nourslings did with mutinous uprore / Harten against her selfe, her conquer'd spoile, / Which she had wonne from all the world afore […]

Anagrams

• Tehran, anther, arthen, nather, thenar

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: har?ten
• Rhymes: -?rt?n

Noun

harten

1. Plural form of hart

Noun

harten m or f (plural hartens or harten, diminutive hartentje n)

1. (uncountable, card games) hearts
2. a playing card of the hearts suit

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

harten

1. inflection of hart:
   1. strong genitive masculine/neuter singular
   2. weak/mixed genitive/dative all-gender singular
   3. strong/weak/mixed accusative masculine singular
   4. strong dative plural
   5. weak/mixed all-case plural

Spanish

Verb

harten

1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of hartar.
2. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of hartar.
3. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present subjunctive form of hartar.

West Frisian

Noun

harten

1. plural of hart