English

Verb

1. To have the courage to do something.
2. To defy or challenge someone to do something.
3. To take a risk.

Grammar Note

• Dare is a semi-modal verb. The speaker can choose whether to use the auxiliary "do" when forming negative and interrogative sentences. For example, "I don't dare (to) go" and "I dare not go" are both correct. Similarly "Dare you go?" and "Do you dare (to) go?" are both correct.
• In negative and interrogative sentences where "do" is not used, the third-person singular form of the verb is "dare" and not "dares": "Dare he go? He dare not go."
• Colloquially, "dare not" can be contracted to "daren't".
• Durst is the archaic 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 .

Translations

to have courage

to defy or challenge

to take a risk

Noun

1. A challenge to prove courage.

Translations

a challenge

Italian

Verb

dare transitive

1. To give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else.

Related terms

• data

Conjugation

Cognate translations

• French: donner
• Interlingua: dar
• Portuguese: dar
• Spanish: dar

Latin

Verb

(dō, dare, dedī, datum)

1. To give.

Conjugation

First conjugation (1).

1 = datus / data / datum
2 = datī / datae / data

Derivatives

Latin

• addo
• dativus
• dator
• datum
• datus
• edo
• indo
• perdo
• prodo
• reddo

English

• affidavit
• authoridate
• condite
• dation
• datum, data
• edit
• perdition
• render
• satisdation
• tradit