dans
EnglishEdit
NounEdit
dans
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
Audio (file)
NounEdit
dans (plural danse)
VerbEdit
dans (present dans, present participle dans, past participle gedans)
CornishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
dans m (plural dens)
ReferencesEdit
- Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
- 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.31)
DanishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- dands (obsolete)
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
dans c (singular definite dansen, plural indefinite danse)
- a dance
InflectionEdit
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “dans” in Den Danske Ordbog
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle Dutch dans, from Old French danse or a deverbal from dansen.
NounEdit
dans m (plural dansen, diminutive dansje n)
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
dans
FaroeseEdit
NounEdit
dans m
FrenchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French denz, from Late Latin dē intus, from Latin dē + intus, meaning "from inside" or "from within".
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /dɑ̃/, (before a vowel) /dɑ̃.z‿/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɑ̃
- Homophones: dam, dams, dent, dents
PrepositionEdit
dans
- (literally, figurative) in, inside (enclosed in a physical space, a group, a state)
- vieillir dans la misère ― to grow old in poverty
- être dans l'infanterie ― to be in the infantry
- avoir quelque chose dans la bouche ― to have something in the mouth
- dans les circonstances d'une pandémie ― under the circumstances of a pandemic
- Il habite dans le quartier le plus riche de Paris. ― He lives in the richest district of Paris.
- Il nage comme un poisson dans l'eau. ― He swims like a fish in the water.
- 1837, Viardot, Louis, chapter 1, in L'Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra:
- Dans une bourgade de la Manche, dont je ne veux pas me rappeler le nom, vivait, il n'y a pas longtemps, un hidalgo […]
- In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not want to remember, lived, not long ago, an hidalgo […]
- (Should we delete(+) this sense?) in, into (from outside, to inside)
- mettre l'argent dans la poche ― to put money into one's pocket
- Bienvenue dans le meilleur bar de tout Paris.
- Welcome to the best bar in all of Paris.
- in, within (a longer period of time)
- Je serai prêt dans une heure. ― I'll be ready in one hour.
- Il arrivera dans trois jours. ― He will arrive in three days.
- (with respect to time) during
- dans un temps donné ― during a given time
- dans ma jeunesse ― in my youth
- out of, from
- boire dans une tasse ― to drink from a cup
- Il prend le beurre dans le réfrigérateur. ― He takes the butter out of the fridge.
- (metonymically) in; in the works of
- le marxisme dans Sartre ― Marxism in the works of Sartre
- (colloquial) Used in dans les (“about, around”)
- dans les trentes kilos ― about thirty kilos
- dans les dix euros ― about ten euros
See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See dan.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
dans m
Further readingEdit
- “dans”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Haitian CreoleEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
dans
IcelandicEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
dans m (genitive singular dans, nominative plural dansar)
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
Present active participle of dō.
PronunciationEdit
ParticipleEdit
dāns (genitive dantis); third-declension one-termination participle
DeclensionEdit
Third-declension participle.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | dāns | dantēs | dantia | ||
Genitive | dantis | dantium | |||
Dative | dantī | dantibus | |||
Accusative | dantem | dāns | dantēs dantīs |
dantia | |
Ablative | dante dantī1 |
dantibus | |||
Vocative | dāns | dantēs | dantia |
1When used purely as an adjective.
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Late Latin dē intus (“from inside, from within”). Cognate with French dans.
PrepositionEdit
dans
- (Guernsey, Jersey) in
- 2013 March 1, Geraint Jennings, “Mar martello”, in The Town Crier[2], page 20:
- Dans les clios étout nou vait des tracteurs et des machinnes tandi qu'lé travas du fèrmyi r'prend san rhythme coumme tréjous.
- In the fields tractors and machines can be seen too as farm work picks up again as always.
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old French dance; and Old Norse dans.
NounEdit
dans m (definite singular dansen, indefinite plural danser, definite plural dansene)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
dans
- imperative of danse
ReferencesEdit
- “dans” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French dance; and Old Norse dans.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
dans m (definite singular dansen, indefinite plural dansar, definite plural dansane)
- a dance
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
VerbEdit
dans
- imperative of dansa
Further readingEdit
- “dans” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
dans n (plural dansuri)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) dans | dansul | (niște) dansuri | dansurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) dans | dansului | (unor) dansuri | dansurilor |
vocative | dansule | dansurilor |
Alternative formsEdit
Related termsEdit
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
audio (file)
NounEdit
dans c
DeclensionEdit
Declension of dans | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | dans | dansen | danser | danserna |
Genitive | dans | dansens | dansers | dansernas |
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- dans in Svensk ordbok.
- dans in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)
AnagramsEdit
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ottoman Turkish دانس (dans), from French danse. First attested in 1869.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
dans (definite accusative dansı, plural danslar)
- dance (movements to music)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | dans | |
Definite accusative | dansı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | dans | danslar |
Definite accusative | dansı | dansları |
Dative | dansa | danslara |
Locative | dansta | danslarda |
Ablative | danstan | danslardan |
Genitive | dansın | dansların |