danser
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch danser, from Middle Dutch danser. Equivalent to dans + -er.
NounEdit
danser (plural dansers)
DanishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- dandser (obsolete)
NounEdit
danser c (singular definite danseren, plural indefinite dansere)
- a dancer
DeclensionEdit
Related termsEdit
VerbEdit
danser
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch danser. Equivalent to dansen + -er.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
danser m (plural dansers, diminutive dansertje n, feminine danseres)
- dancer, person who dances
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Afrikaans: danser
AnagramsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle French danser, from Old French dancer, dancier (“to dance”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *dansōn (“to draw, pull, stretch (oneself), gesture”), a variant of *dinsan. Displaced Old French baller, from Latin ballare (“to dance”). Cognate with Old High German dansōn (“to draw, pull”), Old Dutch þinsan (“to move, tear”), Old High German dinsan (“to draw out”), Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌽𐍃𐌰𐌽 (þinsan, “to drag, draw, pull”), Old English þennan, þenian (“to stretch, stretch out, spread out, extend”). Related to thin
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
danser
- (transitive, intransitive) to dance
ConjugationEdit
| infinitive | simple | danser | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
| present participle or gerund1 | simple | dansant /dɑ̃.sɑ̃/ | |||||
| compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
| past participle | dansé /dɑ̃.se/ | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | danse /dɑ̃s/ |
danses /dɑ̃s/ |
danse /dɑ̃s/ |
dansons /dɑ̃.sɔ̃/ |
dansez /dɑ̃.se/ |
dansent /dɑ̃s/ |
| imperfect | dansais /dɑ̃.sɛ/ |
dansais /dɑ̃.sɛ/ |
dansait /dɑ̃.sɛ/ |
dansions /dɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
dansiez /dɑ̃.sje/ |
dansaient /dɑ̃.sɛ/ | |
| past historic2 | dansai /dɑ̃.se/ |
dansas /dɑ̃.sa/ |
dansa /dɑ̃.sa/ |
dansâmes /dɑ̃.sam/ |
dansâtes /dɑ̃.sat/ |
dansèrent /dɑ̃.sɛʁ/ | |
| future | danserai /dɑ̃.sʁe/ |
danseras /dɑ̃.sʁa/ |
dansera /dɑ̃.sʁa/ |
danserons /dɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ |
danserez /dɑ̃.sʁe/ |
danseront /dɑ̃.sʁɔ̃/ | |
| conditional | danserais /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
danserais /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
danserait /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/ |
danserions /dɑ̃.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
danseriez /dɑ̃.sə.ʁje/ |
danseraient /dɑ̃.sʁɛ/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
| (simple tenses) |
present | danse /dɑ̃s/ |
danses /dɑ̃s/ |
danse /dɑ̃s/ |
dansions /dɑ̃.sjɔ̃/ |
dansiez /dɑ̃.sje/ |
dansent /dɑ̃s/ |
| imperfect2 | dansasse /dɑ̃.sas/ |
dansasses /dɑ̃.sas/ |
dansât /dɑ̃.sa/ |
dansassions /dɑ̃.sa.sjɔ̃/ |
dansassiez /dɑ̃.sa.sje/ |
dansassent /dɑ̃.sas/ | |
| (compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
| pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | danse /dɑ̃s/ |
— | dansons /dɑ̃.sɔ̃/ |
dansez /dɑ̃.se/ |
— | |
| compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
| 1 The French gerund is only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
| 2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “danser” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
AnagramsEdit
NormanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French dancer, dancier (“to dance”), from Frankish *dansōn (“to draw, pull, stretch (oneself), gesture”), from Proto-Germanic *þansōną, from *þinsaną (“to draw, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch, pull”).
PronunciationEdit
Audio (Jersey) (file)
VerbEdit
danser (gerund dans'sie)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
danser m (definite singular danseren, indefinite plural dansere, definite plural danserne)
- a dancer
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
danser m
- indefinite plural of dans
Etymology 3Edit
VerbEdit
danser
ReferencesEdit
- “danser” in The Bokmål Dictionary.