different between vare vs vars

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

vare (plural vares)

1. (Britain, dialect) A weasel.

Derived terms

• vare widgeon

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish vara (“staff, wand”), Latin vara (“forked pole”)

Noun

vare (plural vares)

1. A wand or staff of authority or justice.
   • 1681-1682, John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel

     His hand a vare of justice did uphold.

Anagrams

• AVRE, Rave, Vera, aver, evar, rave, vera

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?var?]

Noun

vare

1. vocative singular of var

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?r?/, [?????]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vara f, from Proto-Germanic *war? (“attention, care”), cognate with Swedish vara, English ware, German Ware. Derived from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“cautious, aware”) (cf. Danish var).

Noun

vare c (singular definite varen, plural indefinite varer)

1. article
2. commodity
3. item
4. (in the plural) goods, merchandise, wares

Inflection

References

• “vare,1” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “Vare,3” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vari m, from Proto-Germanic *war? (“attention, care”), originally the same word as the previous one. The phrase tage vare is influenced by Middle Low German warnemen, compare German wahrnehmen (“to perceive”), Dutch waarnemen.

Noun

vare c

1. protection

   only in the expression tage vare (på/om) (“take care of, look after”)

References

• “vare,2” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “Vare,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle Low German w?ren, from Proto-Germanic *waz?n?, *wez?n? (“to stay, remain”), cognate with German währen. Derived from the verb *wesan? (“to be”) (Danish være).

Verb

vare (past tense varede, past participle varet)

1. to last, take (to have a certain duration)

Inflection

Derived terms

• vare ved
• varig

References

• “vare,3” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “vare,5” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 4

From Old Norse vara, from Proto-Germanic *war?n? (“to watch, protext”), derived from Proto-Germanic *waraz (“cautious, aware”) (cf. Danish var) Cognate with English ware (“to guard”) and German wahren (“to protect”).

Verb

vare (past tense varede, past participle varet)

1. (transitive, archaic) to warn
   • 1857, Hans Christian Andersen, At være eller ikke være, p. 160 / https://books.google.dk/books?id=kjKgDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT185

2. (transitive, archaic) to guard

   in the modern language only in the expression vare sin mund "be careful about what to say"

3. (reflexive) to be careful, beware
   • 1970, Willy-August Linnemann, Det andet Europa / https://books.google.dk/books?id=ecDYDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT155

Inflection

Derived terms

• advare
• forvare
• varsel

References

• “vare,4” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “vare,4” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

vare

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of varen

Anagrams

• rave

Estonian

Noun

vare (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. ruin (construction withered by time)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?a?.re/, [?u?ä???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?va.re/, [?v????]

Adjective

v?re

1. vocative masculine singular of v?rus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vara.

Noun

vare f or m (definite singular vara or varen, indefinite plural varer, definite plural varene)

1. an article or item (of goods)

2. a commodity
3. (in plural form) goods, merchandise, wares

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vari.

Noun

vare (indeclinable)

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Derived terms

• ta vare på

Etymology 3

From Middle Low German waren; also related to være.

Verb

vare (imperative var, present tense varer, simple past varte, past participle vart, present participle varende)

1. to last, take (last)

Derived terms

References

• “vare” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vara.

Noun

vare f (definite singular vara, indefinite plural varer, definite plural varene)

1. an article or item (of goods)
2. a commodity
3. (in plural form) goods, merchandise, wares

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse vara.

Alternative forms

• vara (a- and split infinitives)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²??(?).r?/ (example of pronunciation)

Verb

vare (present tense varar, past tense vara, past participle vara, passive infinitive varast, present participle varande, imperative var)

1. to watch, keep
2. to warn

Etymology 3

From Old Norse vari.

Noun

vare m

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Derived terms

• ta vare på

Etymology 4

Adjective

vare

1. definite singular of var
2. plural of var

References

• “vare” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• arve, Arve, erva, evar, rave, reva, vear, vera, vêra, Vera

Pali

Alternative forms

Adjective

vare

1. inflection of vara (“excellent”):
   1. masculine/neuter locative singular
   2. masculine accusative plural
   3. feminine vocative singular

Noun

vare

1. locative singular of vara (“wish”)

Verb

vare

1. first/second/third-person singular optative active of varati (“to wish”)

Portuguese

Verb

vare

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of varar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of varar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of varar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of varar

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

vare (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of variti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ba?e/, [?ba.?e]

Verb

vare

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of varar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of varar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of varar.

Swedish

Verb

vare

1. be, present tense subjunctive of vara.

Derived terms

See also

• vore

Anagrams

• Vera, evar

English

Noun

vars

1. plural of var

Anagrams

• ARVs, VRSA, ravs

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vers.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fars/

Adjective

vars (attributive varse, comparative varser, superlative varste)

1. fresh

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *varci. Cognate with Finnish varsi.

Noun

vars (genitive varre, partitive vart)

1. stalk
2. shaft

Inflection

Derived terms

• käsivars

Icelandic

Noun

vars

1. indefinite genitive singular of var

Latgalian

Noun

vars m

1. copper

Romanian

Verb

vars

1. first-person singular present indicative of v?rsa
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of v?rsa

Swedish

Etymology 1

From an older interrogative adverb hvarest (“whereto, whither”), see varest, from Old Swedish hvaris.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??rs/, [v???]
• IPA^(key): /vars/, [va?]

Adverb

vars

1. (dialectal, Northern Sweden) where

Usage notes

• Used both with motion and direction, where standard Swedish would use var and vart, respectively.

Etymology 2

Clipping of bevars, itself a contraction of (Gud) bevare oss (”may God save us”), from the present subjunctive of bevara (“to save, to keep”), and oss (“us”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vars/, [va?]

Interjection

vars

1. (colloquial) Added to an answering interjection to signify that the answer does not have full validity

Etymology 3

See main entry var.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??rs/, [v???]

Noun

vars

1. indefinite genitive plural of var
2. indefinite genitive singular of var

Etymology 4

• (relative pronoun) From Old Swedish hvars, genitive of hvar (“which, every”).
• (distributive pronoun) From a reanalysis of varsin, varsitt (“one each”) (from var +? sin, sitt) as consisting of vars + en, ett (“one”) and then expanded to further numerals, e.g. vars två (”two each”), standard Swedish två var.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (relative pronoun, distributive pronoun) /v??rs/, [v???], [v???s]
• IPA^(key): (relative pronoun) /vars/, [va?]

Pronoun

vars

1. (relative pronoun) whose (of whom)
2. (distributive pronoun, dialectal, Scania) each

Usage notes

• Not used as an interrogative pronoun, in which case vems (singular) or vilkas (plural) is used.
• The use of vars with a plural referent was earlier proscribed in favour of vilkas, but is now accepted, e.g.:

References

• vars in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vars in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Vars. Swedish Institute for Language and Folklore. 21 October 2013.

Anagrams

• arvs, sarv, svar